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תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד
Fragments of 4 lines of a Fatimid decree. Mentions the caliph (amir al-muʾminīn) and the date (but the date is missing). The blank space on …
]ـه على احدهما دا
]ده
]د ووضعت عند نقله الى صـ[
اميـ]ـر المومنين بتاريخ سـبع[
[.......................]
תעתוק אחד
Probably fiscal document(s). Needs examination.
אין רשומות קשורות
Fragment likely from the bottom of a Fatimid fiscal account, based on the appearance of the ṣalwala at the bottom (وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد …
Tax or provisional receipt. Mention of silver (waraq) and the month Jumād al-Awwāl on verso.
State document in Arabic script. Approximately 12 lines are preserved. Has at least two taqbīl clauses, mentions a "khidma", and a revenue or tax "al-mustakhraj". …
Official letter in Arabic script. The sender received a letter from ʿAlī b. Aḥmad Ibn al-Aysar delivered by the ghulām of one of the Baghdādī …
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, …
State document, petition in a chancery hand and large Arabic script. Words that are readily legible include al-Qāhira, al-Ḥāfiẓiyya, al-majlis al-sāmī al-mālikī al-sayyidī al-ajallī al-Afḍalī, …
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.
Accounting document issued by "al-qism al-awwal Qalyūbiyya," one of the 24 administrative sections of Egypt that were established in the 1820s. In Arabic script. Dated: …
Tax-related receipt. The main text section is more verbose than usual for jizya receipts, and it mentions the term jahbadh—so something to do with internal …
Recto: (1) Letter/petition in Judaeo-Arabic from Abū ʿAlī to al-Shaykh al-Makīn. Complains about al-Shaykh al-Mufaḍḍal. Nearly complete, but difficult to read because of the overlapping …
Verso contains part of a large and beautiful ḥamdala and ḥasbala, likely from the bottom of a Fatimid decree.
Report from a Fatimid official. Dated: Dhū l-Qaʿda 495 AH (August–Sept 1102) — but this reading might be incorrect. Talks about the cutting off of …
דיון אחד
Receipt for the capitation tax of Eliyya b. [...] in New Cairo and Fustat for the year 631 AH = 1233/34 CE.
The ends of three lines from an official-looking letter or document in Arabic script. Reused on recto for piyyuṭ. (Information in part from CUDL.) Reads …
Fiscal document or internal accounts. Needs examination.
Petition to a state official. In Arabic. After a taqbīl, the addressee is greeted with many titles ("al-majlis al-ʿādilī al-sayfī al-nāṣirī(?) al-kāmilī al-hādī"). The petitioner …
Verso: Draft (probably) of a petition. In Arabic script. "The slave... wishes to maintain the traditions... we wish to maintain our traditions and the traditions …
Fiscal account, probably. Likely concerning grain (mentions the prices of arādibb). Needs examination.
Official correspondence. Fragment (left side). The ends of 13 lines are preserved. Addressed to the office of the vizier (al-ḥaḍra al-sāmiya al-wazīriyya). Mentions paper (al-waraq) …
Small fragment of official correspondence. Only a few words preserved (...bi-idhn Allāh...). Reused for Hebrew text.
Fragment of a petition from a woman, in Arabic script. She complains about her poverty and the vicissitudes of fate, but it seems she has …
بعد كلمة والتعرف وكتب……………….عبده
تشتكي ياخي(؟) فيه من قلة ذات اليد وامور الزمان هي ومن معها اطال ذلك[
الله تعالى وحضرته السامية وكانت ح…
Tax receipt. Trigger: addā.
Verso: Official correspondence in Arabic script. The beginnings of 4 lines are preserved. Mentions: "...ʿan al-mulaṭṭaf al-karīm..."
Receipt for the capitation tax in Fustat of Maḥfūz b. Eliyya. Dated: 52[.] AH.
Small fragment of a state document in Arabic script, maybe a decree. Three words are preserved.
Beginning three lines of a large state document with elegant line spacing, in Arabic script. Decree. Needs examination. Reused heavily on recto and verso for …
A few words from an official Arabic document (ḥaḍratuhu... ʿuluwwahu...), apparently praises for an addressee, so from a report or petition. Reused for Hebrew literary …
Petition addressed to a lower official: وقد عطفت هده الرسالة على . . . ولمولاي السيد الاجل ادام الله علوه . . . الراي العالي …
Fiscal document. Headed with an abbreviated basmala followed by the name Bū Manṣūr Wakīl al-Dīwān. There follows a list of four names accompanied by a …
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.
Small fragment of an official-looking letter (written in huge letters). Mentions the name Makhlūf and "al-[...]ūn annahum raʾaw jamīʿ...")
State document. Petition to a Fatimid ruler in which the writer asks to be exempted from the payment of his capitation tax (of 1 + …
ويقوم بالجزية الواجبة عليه ومبلغها فى السنة دينار واحد وثلث وربع ودرهم
وفي اكثر اوقاته يتعذر عليه تغليقها الى ان يتصدق له من اليهود اهل طا…
He pays the poll tax that he is liable for, the annual amount of which is one dīnār, a third and a quarter, and one dirham.
At most times it is …
Petition, or a regular letter resembling a petition. In Arabic script. Tarjama in the right margin, but the sender's name is not clear (ʿIzār? ʿIdāl? …
Official letter/report in Arabic script. 6 lines preserved from near the beginning. (There are also a few lines legible as mirror-image imprints only, including the …
State document, in Arabic script. Most probably an internal correspondence. Mentions a Qāḍī Ḥammād b, ʿAlī and also Amīr al-Muʾminīn in l4. Reused for Hebrew …
Official correspondence. Possibly alluding to a need for financial assistance in a district. The ends of 4 lines are preserved: هذه الناحية . . . …
State document, in Arabic script. Fragment from the beginning of a petition. Dating: likely Ayyubid or Mamluk.
Recto: Petition draft in Judaeo-Arabic. Abū ʿAlī b. Abū l-[ʿIzz al-Yahūdī] kisses the ground before al-maqām al-ʿālī al-sulṭānī al-malikī al-sayfī al-ʿādilī, and reports that he …
Fiscal document. The beginnings of the first two lines are preserved. At least in part concerning the revenue from the capitation tax. "Waṣala ilā bayt …
Document in Arabic script. Dating: likely ca. 13th century Ayyubid. An official account of some sort, probably related to state produce, "مما يتحصل من الغلات …
Verso (primary use): end of a petition containing a raʾy clause mentioning istikhrāj (extraction of taxes).
State document, Fatimid period. Letter of a Fatimid dāʿī addressed to a chief qāḍī to congratulate him on a new honor the caliph had bestowed …
وكبت عداه عند اتّصال الخبر الينا أعلمنا سائر الأولياء بما جدّده الله تعالى عنده من جميل
رأى مولانا الإمام [الظاهر لإعزاز دين الله (؟) أمير…
תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד דיון אחד
Unidentified document in Arabic script, possibly a Fatimid or Ayyubid fiscal document (mentions words like "māl... al-dīwān... wa-kataba..."). On verso there's a curious drawing along …
Tax receipt, Fatimid.
Fiscal document, with two holes. Needs examination.