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Official report addressed to a Fatimid vizier. The addressee's titles (sayyid al-wuzarāʾ tāj al-aṣfiyāʾ qāḍī l-quḍāt dāʿī [l-duʿāt ʿalam al-majd] khalīl amīr al-muʾminīn wa-khāliṣatuhū) are …
תעתוק אחד
Verso (original use): Document in Arabic. Tax receipt? The word 'mablagh' appears a few times. There may be a year in l. 2. Needs examination. …
אין רשומות קשורות
Recto: Small fragment (2 lines) from an official report. Needs examination for content.
Petition or a report, from a group of people to al-ʿĀḍid (cf. formulae in T-S Ar.51.107). Mentions iqṭāʿāt and muqṭaʿīn, several place names, the ṣāḥib …
Fatimid state document, most likely a decree, in Arabic script. Reused for a bifolio of a larger historiographical text in Arabic, see different entry.
Fiscal document, top and bottom missing. Refers to kharāj payments for the year 437 kharājī (about five lines up from the bottom of the page); …
State document, in Arabic script. A decree fragment, more precisely. Only four fragmentary lines preserved. Seems to be in response to a plea concerning the …
Petition from Naṣir b. Bū l-Faraj, who converted to Islam (ihtadā) under (ʿalā yad) Ṣalāḥ al-Dīn(?) (but perhaps different from the actual Saladin?) in the …
Tax receipt for the capitation tax of Maʿālī b. [...] in Fustat for the year 525 AH (=1130/31 CE).
Recto (secondary use): Official receipt of some sort relating to agricultural activities in a district whose name is difficult to read. Dated: 25 Dhū l-Ḥijja …
Recto: Official letter in Arabic script. Portions of 7 lines are preserved. On verso there is an inscription in enormous Hebrew letters (אלקדר יצ...) flanked …
Tax receipt, probably. Cramped and difficult to read. Mentions [...] b. Ṣāliḥ, the ḍāmin of the dīwān.... Needs examination. On verso the beginning of a …
Bottom of a formal letter or petition in Arabic script. On verso, torn and reused for a miniature receipt. Needs examination.
Letter or official correspondence, probably Ikhshidid, in Arabic script. Mentions two officials, Abū l-Faḍāʾil and Abū Bakr ʿAlī b. Sulḥ, and other people. Also mentions …
Official-looking account in Arabic script. Mentions al-shaykh Abū Saʿd (the Tustari?) after the basmala. Needs examination.
Official correspondence in Arabic script. The beginnings of 5 lines are preserved. Mentions the term 'istikhrāj.' In the margin there are pen trials and/or endorsements, …
Recto: Fragment of an official report or possibly a legal document, notable for mentioning an amīr named Iftikhār al-Dawla Jawhar. The best-known Iftikhār al-Dawla was …
Small receipt for payment made by Abū l-Najm on behalf of 'the poor Jews' (ḍuʿafāʾ al-yahūd) for the ground rent (ḥikr) payment for Jumādā I. …
Fiscal account, probably a tax receipt, beginning with the waṣala ilā bayt al-māl al-maʿmūr, probably a receipt of delivery to the bayt al-māl. Mentions several …
Tax receipt, or possibly credit instrument? Contains an ʿalāma at the upper right, maybe, and a jahbadh signature at the bottom. Also contains the glyph, …
Possibly one line of a state document. ""al-[...] bi-waliyy wulāt al-[...] ... istiḥqāq...""
Recto: Fragment of a petition or report in Arabic script. The sender says that he sent a prior 'khidma,' then praises the addressee and/or the …
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 …
State document, in Arabic script. Five fragmented lines of what seems like a petition or an internal correspondence. Mentions land-tax (bi-kharājihi). Needs examination.
]ـن امر[
وحد كل الحد في بحصـ[
واعلم انه وان ارقد(؟) ان و[
بخراجه والرقبان(؟) الفـ[
والسلم وكتب لا[
Tax receipt, or possibly credit instrument? Contains an ʿalāma at the upper right, maybe, and a jahbadh signature at the bottom. Also contains the glyph.
Fiscal accounting, possibly. Needs examination.
Likely an official report. Mentions al-Amīr ʿAfīf al-Dawla Mutawallī al-Bāb (=Ṣāḥib al-Bāb = al-Wazīr al-Ṣaghīr = 'head chamberlain'). The document is written in a very …
Verso (probably original use): Account signed at the top by Ḥannā b. Mīkhāʾīl, probably identical with the jahbadh Yūḥannā b. Mīkhāʾil known from numerous other …
Two different state documents, in Arabic script, glued together to form one Hebrew literary document. Reused by the same Hebrew scribe as T-S NS 111.63 …
Small fragment from a state document (tax receipt?) with the ʿalāma الحمد لله الخفي لطفه.
Unidentified document in Arabic script. The ends of three lines are preserved. May be from a state report. Needs examination.
Fiscal document, or accounts in Arabic script. Contains atleast two ʿalāmas. Needs examination.
Fiscal document, in Arabic script, bottom part of the fragment. Refers to a sum of 70 dinars. The document is dated Muḥarram 487 H and …
Verso: Accounts in Arabic script, beginning with "wuṣūl", apparently state/fiscal (mainly iqṭāʿ-related), though Greek/Coptic numerals are atypical for fiscal documents. The first entry is regarding …
وصول
لمقطع المحجرة(؟) من جملة ما عليه من مال الجسور
ثلثة وثلاثين(؟).....
من جملة
من التصرف وضمان(؟) العمل
اخذ باسم ضمنا برطس من جملة…في
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: 19 Muḥarram 533 …
Document in Arabic, unclear content, left half only, with sewing holes at left, top, and diagonally across the upper left corner. Likely an official document. …
State document, in Arabic script. Heavily blurred. The left halves of 7 lines are preserved (which seem to comprise the entire document). Opens with formulaic …
Verso: tax receipt issued to Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb for his ḍamān on a dyeworks (maṣbagha) in Madīnat al-Fayyūm. Undated. The date on the receipt, …
תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד דיון אחד
State document, in Arabic script. Mentions an iqṭāʿ and kharāj. Dating: most likely Ayyubid due to the mention of "ṭawāshī", most probably meaning a military …
Verso: Petition, probably ("al-mamlūk..."). In Arabic script. Small fragment from the upper right corner. Mentions the word Ṣalāḥ, which may be part of the name …
State document, a decree from the chancery of al-Ḥāfiẓ. Probably a copy of a decree, than an original decree as it is less elegant and …
Official document in Arabic script. Apparently dealing with witnesses and legal procedure. Fragments of two lines are preserved: ... fa-asqaṭahu min al-shahāda... min shuhūd al-bilād …
Tax receipt for Ṣadaqa b. al-Ḥasan.
Official correspondence. Possibly alluding to a need for financial assistance in a district. The ends of 4 lines are preserved: هذه الناحية . . . …
Fiscal document in Arabic script. Referring to al-muqṭaʿīn, and then dīwān. Needs examination. Reused on recto for piyyuṭ.
Two lines from an official letter in Arabic script. Reused for liturgical text in Hebrew (same scribe as T-S NS 111.63?).
Mamluk-era state document in Arabic script. Dated: 675 AH = 1276/77 CE. Contains various annotations by clerks and is endorsed by both thin and thick …
State document, probably a decree, last three lines, written on the joyous occasion of ʿĪd al-Naḥr. Preserved lines read as "فاعلم هذا واعمل..وكتب في يوم …
واعلم هذا واعمل بـ[ـه وليقرّ بأيديهم بعد ثبوته في ... بحيث يثبت مثله ان شاء الله تعالى]
كتب في يوم عيد النحر السعيد [سنة …. ]
[الحمد لله…
Verso: Two fragments of a Fatimid internal memorandum dating to the period of al-Ḥāfiẓ (r. 1130-1149). The preserved text mentions "Sadd al-jusūr al-sulṭāniyya", the operation …
Receipt (for tax payment?) for a banker (al-ṣayrafī). Dated: 2 Rabīʿ I 507 AH, which is June 1113 CE (if read correctly). Needs further examination.