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Official correspondence in Arabic script. The beginnings of 17 lines are preserved. Dated: probably [5]32 AH = 1137/38 CE. Also possible is 432 AH = …
תעתוק אחד
Small fragment of a state document in Arabic script. May mention 1000 or more dinars. Reused on recto for piyyuṭ. (Information in part from CUDL)
אין רשומות קשורות
Fiscal account. Contains multiple entries, each marked with nuqila, “it has been copied.” Khan dates this document to the same period as T-S Ar.40.37, which …
Recto: Decree from the 1130s. Only the closing boilerplate and a date (without the year) have survived. Reused by the India trader Abū ʿAlī Yeḥezqel …
תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד
Document in Arabic script, perhaps a state petition, beginning with "wa l-mamlūk yasʾal l-tawfīq" and mentions a wall "ṣūr"; reused for poetry in Judaeo-Arabic (see …
Iqrār (acknowledgment) made by "al-majlis al-ʿālī Qāʾidbāy al-Muʾayyad." Dating: catalogued as 512 AH but more likely 12 Shawwāl 812 AH (or 912 AH?). Potentially linked …
Order of payment. In Arabic. Dated 7 Rabīʿ II 1239 AH, which is 1823 CE. Issued by the Dīwān Anwāl li-Maṣliḥat al-Ḥarīr, an institution in …
דיון אחד
Official correspondence or state document, in Arabic script, late. Two big fragmentary lines with faded text. The first line begins as "يذكر السيد المذكور". Needs …
Six small fragments with Arabic. One of them is state related and seems to say "māl al-dīwān al-dīwān" which is probably not right.
Fragment of a state document. Ayyubid? Interesting layout. One text block begins "uḥḍira ilā al-dīwān fī . . ."; the next mentions al-Shām. Needs further …
State document or letter. In Arabic script. Four lines probably from the bottom of the document. Reused for jottings in Hebrew and Arabic. Needs examination.
Fragment from the top of a Judaeo-Arabic copy of a decree (manshūr) of the caliph al-Ḥākim bi-Amr Allāh, it seems his appointment of a certain …
Report or petition to a Fatimid caliph or vizier, opening blessings only. Dating: ca. 1100–71. Cuts off after the taqbīl clause. Addressee may be al-Afḍal …
Bifolio of official-looking accounts in Arabic script. Needs further examination.
Two petitions in Arabic script, which have been glued together. Reused for piyyuṭim on verso in a beautiful hand (one has the refrain El Melekh). …
Letter in Ottoman Turkish to the sultan that references at least three imperial officials and the transfer of a thousand qantars of gunpowder "bārūt" (l. …
IB VI, 35. Fatimid petition to al-Āmir bi-Aḥkām Allāh from a Jewish merchant, Mūsā b. Ṣadaqa, who was detained unlawfully after his return from India …
العبد المملوك
موسى بن صدقة التاجر اليهودي
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
صلوات الله وبركاته ونوامى زكواته وافضل سلامه وتحياته على مولانا
وسي…
Mūsā ibn Ṣadaqa, the Jewish merchant.
In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate.
The benedictions of God …
4 תעתוקים 2 תרגומים
State document, decree, in Arabic script. Mentions "al-tawẓīf al-dimashqī" (as in T-S H2.83 (PGPID 40839)), "suʾālī wa-khiṭābī" and "al-awqāf," possibly referring to a financial matter. …
Lower left corner of a petition.
Fiscal account, probably. Needs examination.
Recto: Official letter in Arabic script. The beginnings of four lines are preserved. Refers to the beginning of the ebbing of the Nile. The rest …
Recto: Tax receipt issued to Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb for his ḍamān on dyeing in Madīnat al-Fayyūm. Dated: 20 Rabīʿ II 404 (17 October 1013). …
Registration mark on right
2 תעתוקים 2 תרגומים דיון אחד
Receipt for the capitation tax (jizya) for the Jewish man Bū l-ʿAlāʾ b. Bū l-Faḍl al-Qazzāz (the silk trader) in Fustat. Dated: 52[.] AH = …
Fiscal accounting. Seems to regard a construction project for a government building (Dār al-Malik and maybe al-ḥujra al-saʿīda are mentioned on recto) and quantities of …
Two lines of a state document in an elegant scribal hand. Probably a Fatimid decree. Phrases: ما اجاب اليه امير المومنين . . . ووفقك …
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Verso: Small fragment of an Arabic document. State-related? Recto contains accounts in Arabic script and unidentified text in Hebrew script.
A few words from a state document (decree? fiscal register?). Specifically a number: 3[.]7, maybe 347. The text on recto is a mirror-image imprint from …
Tax receipt.
Minute fragment of a Fatimid state document, probably a decree. Only the tail of a ي or a similar letter is preserved. Reused for Hebrew …
Official-looking Arabic document, or possibly legal. Recto mentions Abū Muḥammad [...] b. ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz al-Shāhid(?). Verso mentions a sum beginning with 400 and ending with …
Official receipt for Abū [...] al-ʿAṭṭār for a payment of 5 dirhams (unclear what for). The sum is written in three different places and there …
Fragment of an official document in Arabic script, possibly official correspondence or a petition. Mentions 'my master al-Qāḍī al-Saʿīd Ṣafiyy al-Mulk." (Al-Yāzūrī had a son …
Probably a document, but could be a religious text such as a prayer. In Arabic script, in a very large (chancery?) hand. Full of fancy …
Accounts in Arabic on verso and perhaps recto. Medieval-era. Requires further examination. Likely fiscal - one of the headers is mustakhraj.
Could probably be part of a decree. Fragmentary date preserved.
Fragment of a fiscal account. Reused for various jottings and pen trials in Hebrew script. Needs examination.
Draft of Fatimid state correspondence. Addressed to the vizier ("ḥaḍrat al-wizāra") concerning either the appointment of an amir in Yemen, or written by an amir …
[ سيد]ي الاجل
ولما [[تحقق]] عرف المملوك حسن النية وجميل الراي وشريف الاصطناع
رغب الى مكارمة حضرته السامية زاد الله في جلال…
[ ] my most glorious lord
When the slave [[established]] learnt of the good intention, the kind view and the noble patronage,
he desired to sh…
3 תעתוקים 2 תרגומים
Account in Arabic script, probably fiscal based on the hand and the extravagant line spacing. The top line mentions al-jarīda al-madkhūra. L. 6 refers to …
Recto: Fragments of two lines of a state document in a chancery hand. The decree concerns the ḍamān of Ṭūr Sīnā. Verso: The page is …
Recto (secondary use): Tax receipt issued to the khuzzān of the Fayyūm tax districts against revenue delivered by Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb. Dated: 10 Ṣafar …
Petition, or official-looking letter. In Arabic script. Fragments of four lines are preserved. Mentions "the place... the slave has been there for several years... the …
Recto: State document, probably a petition or internal correspondence. In Arabic script. The writer refers to himself as "al-mamlūk"; the script is chancery-esque. Fragment (upper …
State correspondence in Arabic script. The beginnings of 13 lines are preserved. May involve a tax farm (ḍamān) and includes the dates Ṣafar 439 AH …
. . . . . .بالجري في الديوان [
اطال الله بقاك المعدية(؟) [
وكانت اخره فوقها وما ا . . [
وقطعات الجسر مضمنة(؟) . . .[
الثاني من صفر سنة تس…
תעתוק אחד דיון אחד
Main document: Petition or letter draft from Sulaymān from Banī Sarrāj "in the districts of Ṭaḥā and al-Ushmūnayn." In Arabic script. Dating: Late. The margins …
Petition draft, or most like pen trials, in Arabic script. Contains the yunhī formula. Writing exercise on recto.
Decree to a lower official commanding him to retrieve bricks and everything belonging to the government from a certain location (a ruined mosque?); and from …
Recto and verso are two different versions of petitions, in two different hands. The one on verso looks somewhat later, perhaps Ayyubid-era, and is from …
Verso (probably original use): Letter or petition in Arabic script. To a dignitary whose titles are "al-karīm al-akhaṣṣ al-awḥad al-raʾīs al-mufaḍḍal al-makhdūm zayn al-dīn sayyid …
Fiscal document, in Arabic script. Needs examination.