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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 …
אין רשומות קשורות
Petition to the Ayyubid sultan al-ʿĀdil regarding the capitation tax. Dating: ca. 596–615 AH, which is 1200–18 CE. The petitioner asks that his tax rate …
العادلى المظفري [ ]ـي .[سلطان]
جيوش المسلمين وادام قدرته واعلا ابدا كـ[ـلمته] ...
المملوك يقبل الارض امامه وينهى الى
رافته واحسانه…
... al-ʿĀdil, the victorious [ sultan]
of the armies of the Muslims, (may God) cause his power to endure and exalt his word for ever.
The slav…
תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד
Receipt for the capitation tax of Bū l-ʿAlāʾ b. Bū l-Faḍl the Jewish silk merchant. Related to the cluster that includes T-S Ar.35.204 (PGPID 20619) …
Petition to a state official. In Arabic script. Fragment (upper right corner). All that is preserved is some of the titles of the addressee. "al-majlis …
Petition in Arabic script to somebody called "mawlānā al-Ṣāḥib." Conveying a story about a brawl at the Dār al-Wakāla and people getting arrested. The petitioner …
Tax receipt. ʿAlāma in the upper right, jahbadh signature at bottom.
State document, decree, in Arabic script. Mentions the year '44, probably [4]44 AH, which would be 1052. The decree seems to be issued in response …
المحل بظاهر الرس(؟) يوم الاثنين لعشر بقين في رجب
سنة اربع واربعين وقد استتب هذين في سلوك
نهج الطاعة والولاء واستبصروا شدي في انخراط
תעתוק אחד
Request for a fatwā (or possibly a petition or official report, or simply a letter). In Arabic script. Dating: Likely Mamluk-era. Begins with a taqbīl …
Verso: Last two lines of a formal letter or petition in Arabic script. Ends with a ḥasbala + ṣalwala.
Fiscal document, few lines of text, something to do with the release of funds. Probably dating to the Ayyubid period. Reused for Hebrew script. Needs …
Document in Arabic script, calligraphic. Likely a state document. The beginnings of 4 lines are preserved. The word "aʿrāḍ" appears. Needs examination. On verso there …
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 …
State document, probably. In Arabic script. Dated: 517 H. (This might also be a kharājī date.) The document has a basmala; a block of text …
بسم ا]لله الرحمن الرحيم
]رى ذكره من مزارعي الناحية المعروفة بالجرش(؟)
]واخذها مما استخرجها القاضي رشيد واحضره
]. ورقاع الشيخ ابوا طاه…
Recto: State document beginning as follows: هذا كتاب من عبد الله ووليه الامام المنصور ابي علي الآمر باحكام الله امير المؤمنين صلوات الله عليه وعلى …
Fiscal account in Arabic script. One section is headed "māl al-jawālī" (revenue from the capitation tax). Reused for Hebrew jottings.
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 …
Official receipt of some kind. Very difficult to read.
State document, in chancery hand. The ends of 5 lines are preserved. Probably a report mentioning the royal kitchen "maṭbakh" and lamb meat "laḥm al-kharīf." …
Official receipt of some kind.
Verso: An ʿalāma, possibly from a larger state document, or practice. "Al-ḥamdu lil-lāhi li-man lahū al-ḥamd." On recto there is unidentified text both in Judaeo-Arabic …
Recto (secondary use): Tax receipt issued to the khuzzān of the Fayyūm tax districts against revenue delivered by Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb. Dated: 10 Ṣafar …
2 תעתוקים 2 תרגומים דיון אחד
Official letter: report or petition. Approximately 7 lines are preserved. The sender expresses his gratitude to the addressee, who may be referred to as al-mawlā …
State document, fragment, in Arabic script. Six lines are preserved, wide space between the lines. Might be a draft, since there are words crossed out …
عبد عبيدها ويبدو والقسم وجزيل العطا والنعم
فما ينفك عن عبد خلص ولاوه وحسن تلاوة وانعقدت على
المسابغة عقايده واراوه وتقلب في الطاعة بين سلف
م…
Document in Arabic script, possibly fiscal accounting.
Receipt for the capitation tax of Eliyya b. [...] in New Cairo and Fustat for the year 631 AH = 1233/34 CE.
Small fragment of a decree or petition, probably. The only phrase preserved is the name of the caliph al-Imām al-ʿĀḍid li-Dīn Allāh Amīr al-Muʾminīn (r. …
Official-looking account in Arabic script. Bifolium from a ledger. Fiscal account from the Fatimid arsenal/navy? Mentions the Red Sea (baḥr al-qulzum) and "the ships" (marākib) …
Fragment from the top of a petition, probably. The sender's name may be partially legible. Opens with a line containing the words عقد and عقدي …
Capitation tax receipt for the Jewish teacher Khalaf b. Ghālib in Fustat.
State document. Dating: early 13th century (Ayyubid period). Petition from Khuyalāʾ b. Ḥasan and Abū l-Jaysh to the caliph al-ʿĀdil regarding an iqṭāʿ in the …
الناصرية
خيلا بن حسن وابو الجيش
بن احمد
بسم الله ا…
Khuyalāʾ ibn Ḥasan and Abū al-Jaysh
In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate.
The slave kisses the ground before th…
State document of some kind. Fiscal account? Wide line spacing, small letters. Discrete text blocks arranged in columns. At least one of the text blocks …
Two fragments of a Fatimid order/decree to a lower official. Mentions the caliph's estates (probably mentions its overseer). Repurposed as two folios for Hebrew liturgical …
التوجه الى الاعـمال الخيرية وحضور مجلس خدمة الا[مير
النجيب سيف الملك ليث الدولة وشجاعها ذي العزم
صنيعة امير المومني…
turning to charitable works (or: the districts of [...]?) and presenting to the majlis al-khidma of the
noble a[mīr] Sayf al-Mulk, the sword of …
A few words in large Arabic script (fragment of a decree?). "... an nudhkirahu li-nakhruja ilā dīwān..." On verso there is a discussion of Purim …
Receipt for the capitation tax of Hiba b. Khalaf the Jewish [...] in Fustat for the year 507(?). Payment: 1/4 dinar.
State document, in an elegant hand with wide linespacing. Mentions "ارباع السلطانية لمصر". Reused for Arabic and Hebrew text on recto and verso. Needs examination.
Might be a fiscal account. Relatively small fragment from the middle of the document.
Petition or report addressed to a vizier (...al-Afḍalī al-Juyūshī...). Fragment from the top (the beginnings of 7 lines are preserved). Reused for piyyuṭ on recto. …
Probably a state receipt, in Arabic script, for the purchase of a Nubian female slave named Tawfīq. It seems that the seller is Baqāʾ b. …
תעתוק אחד דיון אחד
Recto: Ayyubid or Mamluk-era fiscal account. In Arabic script. Extremely neat and well-preserved. Mentions Dār al-Malik al-Muẓaffar and al-Malik al-Ṣāliḥ. Needs examination.
Document(s) in Arabic on recto and verso, wide line spacing. Medieval era. Probably a fiscal register. The end of three lines are preserved on each …
Fiscal document, in Arabic script. Large format with 16 lines preserved, marginal notes, and crossings out. The document is an internal fiscal Fatimid accounting document …
Recto: official-looking letter possibly addressed to a qāḍī. Verso: A receipt of some kind? Both sides need further examination.
Fiscal document concerning wheat. Dated: middle of Muḥarram 564(?) AH. Reused for piyyut on verso. Needs examination.
State/fiscal document. Dated: 403 kharājī = ca. 1012/13 CE. "Account of the revenue extracted from government estates (ḍiyāʿ al-sulṭāniyya)...mablagh …… fī l-ṣināʿa al-sulṭāniyya bi-nāḥiyat …… …
Petition, Mamluk period, 1442. Draft of a petition from the Jewish community of Fustat to the Mamluk government concerning the malpractices of ‘Abd al-Latif the …
תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד דיון אחד
State document, in Arabic script. The document is an official correspondence ending with a raʾy clause. The sender asks the addressee to be sagacious and …
حـ]ـسين بن جابر متولي الحكم وبجماعة يستوجب وكل استبانتهم عند[
ولا يكرمهم بهم شي كيف يسلونه ويلتمسون دينار بان اتصرف تجار(؟) القـ[ـند؟] هو…
Small fragment of a state document. Wide space between the lines. Refers to the rent or wages for the pressing of sugarcane (al-ujra ʿan iʿtiṣār …
Original text: State/fiscal document. The years 534 and 535 AH are specified in multiple places, paired with sums of money at the top. Refers to …
سنة اربع وثلثين وخمس ماية سنة(؟) ستين منها(؟)
سنة خمس وثلثين وخمس ماية ماية …….خمس ماية
علي بن افضل بالخليج
وخروج التوقيع الع…
Fatimid state document, perhaps a petition (...min iḥsānik...). On verso, Hebrew literary text.
Field-guide to taxation. Parts of two paragraphs. Written in a large, calligraphic hand. Collesis joint, suggesting it was once a longer rotulus, but also holes …
תעתוק אחד 2 תרגומים