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State document of some kind. Needs examination.
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Large state document in Arabic script. Probably an official correspondence concerning the transport of some goods on a Nile boat (ʿushārī). Mentions the state official …
Recto and verso might be two drafts of distinct petitions written in different hands. Recto: Mentions "the evil ones from among the Jews" (al-ashrār min …
Recto: Official letter/report, probably. In Arabic script. The ends of ~5 lines are preserved. Verso: piyyuṭ and phrases praising a dignitary. (Information in part from …
Document(s) in Arabic script. Possibly legal or having to do with fiscal accounting. Mentions sums of money and "government lands" (al-arāḍī al-sulṭāniyya). Receipt for produce …
]حضور تسليم المذكوين في هذا العزل(؟)
]لغلة المعينة فيه وهي ماية وثمانين رثلاثين اردبا
]ـا والذي اصدقوه في ذلك العالي..برسوله(؟)
]استمرار(؟)…
תעתוק אחד
Petition, possibly Mamluk.
Fragment from the top of a petition. May be addressed to Saladin (al-Malik al-Nāṣir). Reused for Hebrew seliḥot.
Recto: Fragment of an Arabic-script state document, likely a decree. Verso: Reused for a Hebrew text, probably literary. The ink has faded to silver/white.
Recto: Small fragment from official correspondence. The ends of three lines are preserved. Refers to a "matter" (qaḍiyya) twice and maybe a problem (mushkila). Verso: …
Petition from Ṭāhir b. Isḥāq, a poor man from Alexandria, to the amir Qarāqūsh Bahāʾ ai-Dīn b. ʿAbdallāh al-Asadī (his nisba derives from his having …
The slave
Tāhir ibn Isḥāq
In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate.
The slave of the lofty, mighty and sublime presence, the most …
תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד
A few words in Arabic script likely from a decree. Reused for Hebrew literary text.
Recto: Note in Arabic script, possibly a miniature petition or report ("yunhī," l. 2). Mentions a jahbadh (end of l. 3). Needs further examination. In …
Bottom of a tax receipt. Dated: 12 Rabīʿ I 509 AH = 5 August 1115 CE.
State document, internal report, in Arabic script. The sender may be Yaḥyā b. Ḥāmid(?) b. Sālim. The addressee is a qāḍī (al-ḥaḍra al-sāmiya al-qaḍāʾiyya). Dating: …
Fragment from the right side of an official-looking account.
Tax receipt for Makārim b. Isḥāq al-Ṭabīb, who is known from several other documents (see tag). Dating: ca. first half of the 13th century.
Recto: State document, in Arabic script. Probably late. An internal report of some kind in a very formal tone. The beginning of the document mentions …
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. …
State document, four fragmented lines in a chancery hand, later reused for Hebrew text. Starts with a basmala followed by a Quranic verse 'Naṣrun min …
Fiscal account, probably. One header reads "al-aʿmāl al-Fayyūmiyya." Needs examination.
Report from a Fatimid chancery clerk concerning an iqṭāʿ. The land is a sugarcane plantation (al-qand), mentions dīwān al-qand, or rather dīwān al-saʿīd, and the …
تسلم الـ[
بالناحية المعروفة بمنية سندبسط القديمة(؟)[
لمحمد بن ابرهم الناىب عن ابي الحسين بن حمزة . . مقدم من ابيه
الحصتين الجارية لما للديو…
Submitted [
From the district of Minyat Sandabasṭ al-Qadīma
By Muḥammad b. Ibrāhīm, acting as deputy for Abū al-Ḥusayn b. Ḥamza, […] deliver…
Recto, lower right corner: draft of a state document, likely a petition, beginning with prayers for the caliph al-Mustanṣir. There may be part of a …
Petition from an official. Dating: Likely 13th or 14th century (this can be narrowed if the person named is known from chronicles). Mentions an amir …
Small fragment of official correspondence in Arabic script; portions of 3 lines are preserved with wide space between them. Difficult to read any full phrases. …
Ḥamdala and ṣalwala from the bottom of a state document. Reused for Judaeo-Arabic calendrical text.
Receipt for the capitation tax of Mūsā b. Futūḥ, in Alexandria (bi-thaghr al-Is[kandariyya?]).Same cluster: T-S AS 178.69 (PGPID 36898) T-S AS 180.22 (PGPID 37373) T-S …
Recto: Petition asking for firewood. "انهى ذلك ويقبل الارض بين يديها رايها الصائب في ذلك ان شا الله تعالى". Dating: Probably Mamluk. Verso: Accounts.
Official letter or petition. In Arabic script. Small fragment from the beginning: ...saʿādatahu wa-salāmatahu wa-niʿmatahu ʿalā....
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 …
Likely a fiscal document. In Arabic script. Needs examination. Reused for Hebrew blessings on recto.
Recto: Bifolio with a state-related document (draft or archival copy?). The main text block on the right states that there is an urgent need (al-ḥāja …
Part of one line from an Arabic state document (decree?).
Official-looking report in Arabic script. Refers to Abū l-Mufaḍḍal Mukhtār b. Bushayr (? cf. ENA 4020.62). Mentions the governors (ʿāmilīn) of various locations. Needs examination. …
Verso: Fatimid state document preserving part of one line, including the word يستخرج.
Draft of a long report on fiscal matters. The addressee is addressed as al-maqām al-sharīf (l. 17). The sender (al-mamlūk) describes his dealings with a …
Official correspondence. 7 lines are preserved. Catalogued as a decree concerning tax payment, but needs further examination. Mentions "the release of these seed advances" (khalāṣ …
Very tiny note in Arabic script, in the same type of hand as many of the early 5th/11th century tax receipts. Some contain the mystery …
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.
State document, fiscal. Maybe concerning two months of agricultural taxes. Dated: looks like 403 AH, but this should be checked. The main text after the …
Official report to an amīr who is addressed with many titles (al-muʾayyad al-manṣūr al-amīr Shihāb al-Dīn ʿumdat al-dawla etc.). The sender reports that he arrived …
State document, in Arabic script. Probably a report beginning with taqbīl. Mamlūk-era.
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: 545 AH = …
State document, in Arabic script. Probably official correspondence. The document presumably describes a conflict resolution between two state officials, where both parties will respect each …
Petition from a Jewish man to a dignitary. In Arabic script. Fragment (upper left corner). Opens with two lines of grand titles for the presumably …
بسم الله] الرحمن الرحيم
المملوك يقبل الارض امام الحضرة السامية الاجلية] القضائية السعيدة الماجدة الامينية
ذ]خيرة(؟) الدين جمال الروسا صـ…
Tax receipt for Musāfir b. Yūsuf. Needs examination.
Official-looking document in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Upper left may contain a date (Rabīʿ something?); the next line refers to al-taʾrīkh al-madhkūr; there are …
Fiscal account, probably. Very stylized, loopy letters. Might be dated 4[..] AH (second line).
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 …
Receipt for the capitation tax of Abū l-Munā(?) b. Yehuda in Fustat for the year 5[..] AH. Needs examination.
Recto: Small fragment (2 lines) from an official report. Needs examination for content.