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Receipt for the capitation tax of a Jewish person.
אין רשומות קשורות
Petition/letter of appeal for assistance likely addressed to 'the overseer' (al-mushārif, l. 1). The sender refers to this document as "this khidma." The sender is …
State document, in Arabic script. The decree of al-ʿAbbās, the vizier of al-Ẓāfir, concerning the monks of Mt. Sinai and ordering that no unusual impositions …
תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד
Document in Arabic script in a chancery hand. Most likely a report based on the phrase "mā juddida dhikruhu". Portions of five lines are preserved …
תעתוק אחד
Fiscal accounting, possibly. Needs examination.
Report or letter between officials. In Arabic script, written in a chancery hand. Four lines remain. Surrounding the text and on verso there is a …
Sugar accounting for the Dīwān al-Sulṭān (of al-Ṣāliḥ Ayyūb) mentioning the refinery of Ṣafad (or al-Ṣafadī?) and the sugar of Ashmūn. Mentions a quantity of …
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Fragment of an official report, or perhaps a legal document with particularly wide line spacing. Sparse on details but is describing some situation involving a …
Receipt for the capitation tax of Hiba(?) b. Khalaf the Jew in Fustat for the year 507 AH = 1113/14 CE. Payment: 1/2 dinar. Written …
Fiscal account?
State document, probably a report. The beginnings of 9 lines are preserved. Concerning the opening of the canal (Fatḥ al-Khalīj, a major festival in Fatimid …
Fragment of an official-looking letter in Arabic script. The ends of 4 lines are preserved. Likely a petition for help (كل سنة من احوالهم... حتى …
State document, in Arabic script. Wide spacing, two fragmentary lines. Some of the words read as "من مساعدته....من ذلك في امره".
Tax receipt for Abū l-Surūr b. Faraj. Trigger: addā. Registration mark - 'al-ḥamdu lil-lāh bihi athiq', praise be to God in whom I trust.
State document in Arabic script, maybe a decree. Mentions a few places in the upper Nile valley like the village of Būsh (near the Fayyūm), …
Middle part of a tax receipt in the hand of Mīkhāʾīl b. ʿAbd al-Masīḥ, presumably issued for Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb. This is one of …
תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד דיון אחד
Petition or report concerning a government official (Mutawallī al-Sayyāra) named Samyūn (سميون), likely a Christian.The document was cut into two or more pieces and rearranged …
Tax receipt. Layout is that of the usual jizya (capitation tax) receipts, however this is for the ground rent (ḥikr) payment of a group of …
Letter (?), left half only, narrow folds like a letter, mentioning quantities of something and a certain Nūr al-Dīn, so maybe Ayyubid? Item 16 in …
Document in Arabic script. Probably a small piece of a state document, or perhaps a legal document due to the mention of witnesses.Contains an oddly …
State document, in Arabic script. Ayyubid-era, probably addressed to al-Malik al-ʿĀdil.
خرجت الاوامر المطاعة بعملها من المتاخرين
ورجال الاوامر الخـ[ـدمـ]ـة(؟) فقد(؟) عملت(؟)
الى الباب العالي المولوي الملكي العادلي
خلد الله سلطا…
Fragment of a state document, probably a petition.
Receipt of an amount received by the dīwān of al-majlis al-sāmī al-ajallī al-fakhrī. Probably dated 11 Dhū l-Qaʿda 557 H.
Bottom of a petition. In Arabic script. "...al-raʾy al-sāmī... bi-l-wuqūf ʿalā mā anhāhu... wa-yaqif ʿinda... in shāʾa llāh...." On verso there is piyyut.
Small fragment with various kinds of Arabic text on it. Recto may be poetry or prayers (...اذا ما رمت ادراك...), written with diacritics and vowels. …
Draft of a petition to the caliph al-Ḥākim, with tarjama and opening formulae. Recto contains a Hebrew legal deed (see separate entry). From Hibat Allāh …
بسم للهّ الرحمن الرحیم
بسم
العبد المملوك هبة الله بن
ابو منصور الیھودي
صلوات للهّ وبركاته ونوامي زكواته وأف…
Original use: official account (makhzūma) in Arabic script. Needs examination.
Petition addressed to a lower official: وقد عطفت هده الرسالة على . . . ولمولاي السيد الاجل ادام الله علوه . . . الراي العالي …
Tax receipt, in Arabic script. Needs examination. Dated:first quarter of the 11th century.
One word from an Arabic state document (ṭāhir). Reused for Hebrew literary text.
Fiscal document, in Arabic script. Recto contains a date: Muḥārram 567 and total of sums towards the bottom, probably one thousand seven hundred. Needs examination.
State document, in Arabic script. Damaged/faded. About 8 lines are preserved. The document is probably a Fatimid petition requesting a rescript, "khurūj al-tawqīʿ" and mentions …
State document in Arabic script. The first three lines only (kharaja al-amr al-ʿālī al-mawlawī al-sulṭānī al-malikī al-[...] al-nāṣirī zāda allāhu fī. . .). (Information from …
תעתוק אחד דיון אחד
A few words from the end of a decree: واعـ[ـلم هذا] واعمل عليه وبحسبه وو . . . . Reused for Hebrew liturgy.
Report of a provincial official, Ibn Lifsh(?) al-Shihābī. In Arabic script. It seems that he received an order to present himself, together with the qāḍī …
State document in Arabic script with a large ʿalāma (al-ḥamdu lillāh ʿalā niʿmatih wa-[........]). There are several different text blocks. One of them on verso …
Government receipt in Arabic on verso, one line states ṣaḥḥa li-Abū l-Aʿlā(?)… ʿalāʾim. Medieval-era. Requires further examination. MCD/ASE
State document, in Arabic script. Probably a decree fragment. Contains one fragmentary line and the top of another. Reused for a Hebrew script document on …
Official-looking account reporting revenue.
Tax collection (ḍamān) contract from the era of the caliph al-Mustanṣir, dated 477 kharājiyya (1087–88 CE). Mūsā b. ʿĪsā takes upon himself a payment of …
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
ضمن لمولانا وسيدنا الامام المستنصر بالله امير المومنين صلوات الله عليه وعلى ابائه الطاهرين وابنائه الائمة
الاكرمي…
3 תעתוקים תרגום אחד דיון אחד
Small fragment of an official document in Arabic script. The beginnings of 3 lines are preserved, with wide space between them. Reused on verso for …
Petition, draft. in Arabic script. Arranged in four columns on a bifolio, with additional text at 90 degrees in the space between columns. Mentions a …
Decree fragment, one line, in Arabic script. "سعد من وحولها".
Petition or official report. Arabic script, wide line-spacing, chancery hand. The document is dated 502 H, which is extremely rare for petitions, and contains a …
شـ]ـرفا وثباتا سنة اثنتين وخمس ماية…..
]ساميها الى النايب عنها فيها على يد كاتبهم
]..على ذلك استخراج ذلك لهم وعضده وزكاته
]هم الله على السد…
State document: internal memorandum. Mentions the proceeds to dīwān al-Farjī and the state official Jalīl al-Dawla. Join: Marina Rustow. T-S Ar.31.58 is dated 507. Possibly …
To our lord, the blessings of God be upon him, belongs the lofty resolution concerning that, if God wills.
Praise be to God alone, God bless our…
2 תעתוקים 2 תרגומים
Petition addressed to a Jewish dignitary. Dating unknown. The document is mainly in Arabic script but interspersed with biblical quotations and phrases in Hebrew. The …
One line from a Fatimid state document, maybe a decree. Very large letters and line spacing: ولم يزل تحميد افعالك في درج السامية(؟) مترقيا . …