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Petition likely addressed to the vizier of al-Ẓāfir, al-ʿĀdil Abū l-Ḥasan ʿAlī Ibn al-Salār (r. 1149–53), regarding an iqṭāʿ worth 5500 dinars and a market …
صلوات الله وبركاته ونوامى وافضل تحياته و[سلامه]
ما اخذ لهم من طين اقطاعهم وهو ماية فدان احتوى عليها النايب
وقد خرجت الاوامر العالية باع…
... what was assigned to them as t…
תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד
Report to the caliph Al-Ẓāhir li-Iʿzāz Dīn Allāh in which a previous report is mentioned. Dating: ca. 411–27/1021–36. On verso there is an Aramaic midrash. …
The benedictions of God and his blessings, his most excellent greetings andincreasing benefact…
Very cryptic document in Arabic script. Contains phrases such as "al-aqlāmī al-mālikī al-nāṣirī," wa-l-salām," and a reference to "al-azmān." Several phrases are repeated multiple times; …
אין רשומות קשורות
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, …
Letter/petition in Arabic script. Dating: likely mid- to late 12th century, based on paleographic grounds, the mention of Abū l-Fakhr Ibn al-Rav who may be …
Writing practice or drafts of the formulae typically used in official documents with prayers for the caliph ("... al-ṭāhirīn... al-akramīn...).
Formal letter(s) in Arabic script. Only a few words from the beginning of each line are preserved. There are several distinct text blocks and at …
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 …
Official-looking receipt for Abū Saʿd. Needs examination.
State document, in Arabic script. Mentions "خلد الله" towards the end and "رسالة عالي" in the second line. Reused for an order of payment on …
Two receipts for payment of kharāj in grain (qamḥ)and beans (fūl) on one sheet of paper from 535/1140–41 (date works well with return to collection …
Verso is a faded receipt of some sort, maybe fiscal. Recto: من السوح(؟؟) للنصر(؟) الواصل من ثغر الاسكندرية حماه الله تعالى . . . . …
Likely a fiscal account. Needs examination.
Report or petition. In Arabic script. In a chancery hand, wide space between the lines. Two lines are preserved, it seems praising the grace and …
State report. Large and well preserved. Dated: 5 Muḥarram 592(?) AH = 10 December 1195 CE, if read correctly. Refers to a someone with the …
Tax receipt, Fatimid.
State document, in Arabic script. Probably a decree fragment. "محوطة بالسعادة واليمن في الاصـ". On verso there is a list of piyyutim.
State document in Arabic script. Most-likely a petition or report reused for a letter on recto. Both sides have the glyph, which signifies a basmala. …
Mamlūk-era tax (kharāj) register for the town of Minyat Khamīs. The document is probably dated 11 Jumādā l-Ākhar 706 H. Mentions names of some state …
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 …
תעתוק אחד
Fatimid petition. Dating: 422–23/1031–32. Second half of a petition to the caliph al-Ẓāhir requesting the return of a church that had been confiscated by decree …
[جميـ]ـع ما فيها من فضة ونحاس والات خشب
ورخام يساوى ذلك جملة كبيرة فنقضها
وبنا بقبضها دارا فبعضها معصرة وحوانيت
يستغلها جميع ذلك ويحص…
All the silver, copper, wooden vessels
and marble that are in it. All of this amounts to a large quantity. He broke them down
and with …
Receipt for Jamīl b. Hiba b. ʿAbbād b. ʿAlī for the ḍamān of a shop (ḥānūt). Dating: the payment is for the year 516 or …
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State document, most probably a draft, in Arabic script with scribal practice. Begins with the regular honorifics and mentions longing towards the august presence "shawq …
Small fragment with Arabic script in a chancery hand with wide spacing. Possibly a state document. A few words from the two fragmentary lines read …
Top of a tax receipt. There is a lot of text. Might be from the dossier of Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb? Needs examination.
State document(s) in Arabic script. Most likely a fiscal account because of the phrase "mablagh jārī" in v.1. However, it has the petition-like phrase "iḥsānuhu …
State document, probably a fiscal order. Mentions rāhin/dāʾin in the first line, slaves (ghilmān), and property (ʿamāʾr). Some of the names mentioned are Abū Jawhar, …
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 …
Fiscal document. Possibly a receipt or a submitting of an account. Needs examination. مبلغ . . . على . . . . المماليك المستخدمين برسم …
Fragment of a fiscal document, in Arabic script. Requires further examination.
Petition, or maybe its draft, to the Fatimid Caliph al-ʾĀmir bi Aḥkām Allah. Verso is also some form of state document in a chancery hand, …
Verso: Fragment of a state document. Only three lines are preserved. Refers to the caliph ([amīr] al-muʾminīn) and to Khumārtakīn al-Afḍalī al-Juyūshī (خمارتكين الافضلي الجيوشي). …
Official-looking note in Arabic script. Beginning "awrada al-shaykh X. . ." and ending with a date. Needs examination.
State document, a petition regarding an iqṭāʿ and the relocation of peasants. The petitioner talks about an iqṭāʿ assigned to him in a ḍayaʿa (the …
العبد يقبل الارض اما]م المقام الشريف(؟) ضاعف الله انواره و[اعلى
مناره وينهي الى . . . . . . . . . . . // . . . . . . . . . . . . . . \\ من اعم…
Tax receipt, Fatimid. Trigger: addā. One registration mark; al-ḥamdu lil-lāh ḥamd al-rāʾfa.
State document, Fatimid, probably a decree fragment, 4 lines. Begins with وعاد بنجابتهما وحسن in a dual tense suggesting that it was addressed to two …
عاد بنجابتهما وحسن
عاد بنجابتها وحسن
وله منتصبين وفيه مجدين وليتحققا
…… مسوولان عنها مطالبيـ[ن
Recto: Fiscal account, probably, or less likely commercial. Needs examination
Tax receipt from the archive of Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb. On verso there are accounts of some sort (mentioning Manṣūr b. [...]), unclear if this …
תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד דיון אחד
Small fragment of an Arabic state document.
Official-looking letter in Arabic script. 6–7 lines are preserved. Reused in the margin and on recto for Hebrew piyyuṭ. Needs examination for content.
Verso: Minute fragment of Arabic-script text, possibly a decree, but late. Requires further examination.
Fiscal account in Arabic script. One section is headed "māl al-jawālī" (revenue from the capitation tax). Reused for Hebrew jottings.
Testimony in Arabic script probably meant to accompany an investiture petition from the gaʾon Shelomo b. Yehuda to the newly appointed caliph al-Mustanṣir billāh, listing …
(Having been requested,) we, all together and each separately,
(to deliver this testimony,) namely all those writing their witness and signing
תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד 2 דיונים
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.
(3r)Tax receipt. Needs examination.
Verso (original use): Fatimid state report from a government official: "The deceased was an employee in the western caravan. He returned and lost his mind …
Fiscal register (possibly equivalent to what al-Makhzūmī and Ibn Mammātī call a rūznāmaj). Contains multiple entries, each with a date and a sum. Each entry …
Fragment of a state document, in Arabic script. Very difficult to glean much context but mentions sending something with someone "مع موصلها".