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Accounts in Arabic script, unclear if state/fiscal or private. Needs examination.
אין רשומות קשורות
State document, decree fragment, in Arabic script. Reads as "عليها لا محـ". Reused for Hebrew liturgical text or perhaps responsum on recto and verso, in …
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
Small fragment of official correspondence in Arabic script, maybe a report or a decree. Reused on verso for Hebrew piyyuṭ. Requires further examination.
Original use: Fragment of an Arabic state document with wide line spacing. Decree? The beginnings of ~6 lines are preserved, including prayers for the caliph: …
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 …
Decree, probably. Small fragment. On verso there is a Purim-related text in the hand of Efrayim b. Shemarya. ENA 3695.4, ENA 3695.5, and ENA 3695.8 …
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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. …
Small fragment of an official-looking document in Arabic script. Damaged. Some numbers are mentioned (e.g., 700).
Draft of a state document, in Arabic script. Ayyubid era, addressed to Saladin. "الديوان الاجلي الناصري السعيد ادام الله علوا وشرفا في شهر رمضان سنة …
Fiscal document. Needs examination.
A few words from an official document in Arabic script. Mentions "muʿāmalat al-Shām." At least two different sizes of writing. Reused for Hebrew piyyut.
Report or petition in Arabic script. Mentioning finding someone suitable for a government job (khidma); Ibn Khalīfa from [...] al-Sharīf and Muʾnis al-Ṣiqillī; how the …
Verso (original use): Provincial fiscal account concerning the maintenance of the dikes (ʿimārat al-jusūr al-maʿmūra) in the districts of Shubrā and one other by the …
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
جمل
ررفعه(؟) عبد الكريم بن نصر الله الوكيل على عمارة
الجسور المعمورة ىاحىوىه(؟) وشبرى وابو ركوة
من الخراج لمركزية …
תעתוק אחד דיון אחד
Small fragment from a state document, perhaps a decree. Portions of two lines are preserved. The verso retains red and black pigment in two lines, …
Receipt for the capitation tax of Hiba b. Khalaf in Fustat. Dated: 503 or 530 AH.
Fragment from the top of a petition in Arabic script. The sender is introduced as "the basest slave" (aqall al-mamālīk) and then "al-burhāniyya"(?). Reused for …
Decree, fragment, reused for Hebrew piyyut/poetry. The preserved text reads 'and on his brother' - wa ʿalā akhīhi.
State document, fragmentary decree, two lines, in Arabic script. One word probably reads as "al-dukkān". Reused for a letter in Judaeo-Arabic on verso. Needs examination.
Fiscal documents or accounts, in Arabic script.
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) …
Recto (secondary use): Panegyric for (the Rav?) Yehuda b. Yosef "the Nasi of God" who "judged the daughters of Fez upon their rebellion(?) and exiled …
Verso: Fiscal document, 3 fragmentary lines with lacunae, in Arabic script. Mentions an amīr with the laqab Nabīh al-Dawla (though this title appears to be …
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 …
Chancery or fiscal document, presumably Mamluk period. There are two lines preserved, consisting of a date (22nd Rajab is visible) and the ḥamdala. The text …
A few words from a state document in Arabic script (... al-dawla ...). Reused on recto for Hebrew literary text.
Tax receipt, with some less common features. Two of the endorsements at the top mention the dīwān al-iqṭāʿāt al-murtajaʿa (office of reclaimed fiefs), cf. T-S …
Official report in Arabic script. May mention Naṣr al-[...] b. al-Faḍāʾil b. [...] in the first line. Approximately 5 lines are preserved. On verso there …
State document, in Arabic script. Petition, Mamlūk era.
Receipt for payment of a tax farmer (dāmin, line 2) in Fustat. The month of Ramadan al-Muʿaẓẓam of the year 701. Alama: al-ḥamdu lillāh sallama …
State document, it seems an order from a higher-up or a response/rescript (tawqiʿ) for a petition. (There is in fact a draft petition on verso …
Capitation tax receipt for the Jewish man Sālim b. Bū l-Faḍl for the year 621(?) AH. Landscape format. Needs further examination.
Petition, probably, in Arabic script: ممن يخدم . . . ولا يرغب . . . . موجها . . . . وينهي وصول . . …
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, …
Beginnings of 5 lines of an official document or letter in Arabic script. On verso, liturgical text in Hebrew. (Information from CUDL)
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 …
Receipt/order of payment issued by a state overseer (nāzir) for the monopoly of silk production during Meḥmed ʿAlī Pasha's administration. Location: Alexandria. Dated 28 Ramadan …
Petition, draft, addressed to al-Malik al-ʿĀdil (aka the vizier Ibn al-Salār), in the handwriting of Natan b. Shelomo ha-Kohen, asking that he release the estate …
ינהון אן ואלדהם סק[ט באלופאה ]
צגאר ואן מתולי אלמע[ונה ]
ואלדהם וואלדתהם ולמ יבקי אלמאל [ ]
בה וכלף להם דוירה יסתקרון פיהא [ ]
מן אל…
They report that their father has died [ leaving three] .
small [children] and that the head of the police [ ]
their father and their m…
2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד דיון אחד
Response to a letter of complaint concerning taxation of the Jews of Tiberias. The letter refers to a sijill mukarram (noble decree) of the caliph …
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תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד דיון אחד
Official memorandum with the signature of an official called al-Ḥasan b. Muḥammad. Belongs together with ENA 2697.8 + ENA 2697.9 + T- S Ar.31.58 + …
תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד
State document in Arabic. Fragments of 4 lines are preserved.
Fatimid capitation tax receipt for somebody's payment in New Cairo.
Bottom part of a (tax?) receipt.
Fragment of a state document. The ends of two lines are preserved. Dated 2 Muḥarram 528 H = November 1133 CE. Reused on recto for …
State document, in Arabic script. Almost three lines preserved. Probably a report. Mentions land tax "kharāj zarʿ". Part of the document reads as "فان سالتني …
Petition to the caliph al-Āmir (1101–30) from a woman attempting to collect a large debt of 241 dinars on the estate of a deceased person. …
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم 1 بسم
صلوات الله وبركاته ونوامى زكواته وافضل سلامه وتحيـ[ـاته على مولانا]
وسيدنا الامام الامر باحكام الله امير ال…
Recto: Letter or petition addressed to someone with many honorifics: al-muwaffaqiyya al-manṣūra al-ḥāmiya al-muʾayyadiyya.... Might mention the palace (al-qaṣr). The name of the sender may …
State document. In Arabic script. Refers to iqṭāʿ throughout, at least four times. One of the mentions is probably referring to an iqṭāʿ in the …
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 …