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Petition to Saladin from ʿAbd al-Bāqī b. Yaḥyā, the Jew, a resident of Malīj, in the province of al-Gharbiyya, in the Delta. Dating: ca. 564–89 …
المملوك
عبد الباقى بن يحيى اليهودى
المقيم بلمليج
תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד
Ikhshīdid fiscal account. See tag for similar documents. This one mentions the year 329 AH = 940/41 CE and the year 331 AH = 941/42 …
אין רשומות קשורות
Tax receipt. From the archive of Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb. Join: Alan Elbaum.
תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד דיון אחד
Letter(s) or official document(s) in Arabic script. Narrow space between the lines on one side (this part mentions a fortress/qalʿa), wide space between the lines …
Tax receipt for someone's payment of the capitation tax in Fustat. Dated: looks like 557 AH = 1161/62 CE.
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 …
Possibly a fragment of a petition, or a legal document (mentions ṣaḥīḥ sharʿī in l. 2). The beginnings of 11 lines are preserved. Mentions the …
Official receipt, likely for capitation tax ("min jizyatihī") for Yaʿqūb b. Yūsuf the Jew. Mentions "bi-mushārafat al-qāḍī . . . Yūsuf b. [...]." In the …
State document, in large oversized chancery script, two words. A decree.
תעתוק אחד
Bottom left fragment of a state document, probably, in Arabic script. Ḥamdala towards the end. Needs examination.
Recto: Fragment of a letter in Arabic script, possibly a petition. Contains blessings for the addressee: "li-ʿālim(?) khallaṣahu(?) li-ʿālamīn(?) adāma Allāhu saʿdahū wa waṭṭada(?)... majdahu …
State document, in Arabic script. Petition addressed to the Fatimid caliph based on the beginning invocations and blessings. The name of the petitioner is Ṣandal …
Fiscal register (possibly equivalent to what al-Makhzūmī and Ibn Mammātī call a rūznāmaj). Contains multiple entries, each with a date and a sum. Each entry …
State document in Arabic script. The first line mentions Dīwān al-Juyūsh al-Manṣūra (the bureau of the victorious armies). Lists people named [...] al-Dawla Dāʾūd al-Nāʾib …
Decree, in Arabic script. Approximately twelve lines, later cut and reused to form quires. It is difficult to piece the decree fragments in the order …
One line from a Fatimid state document, maybe a decree. Very large letters and line spacing: ولم يزل تحميد افعالك في درج السامية(؟) مترقيا . …
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Fragment, concluding 5 lines of what seems a state document in a chancery hand ending with a ṣalwala. Some phrases: "wa l-dukhūl fīhi sana", "in …
State document, in Arabic script. Dating: Looks late, perhaps Mamluk-era. Might begin with the word "qabaḍa" and might mention an iqṭāʿ. Contains an ʿalāma: al-ḥamdu …
Verso (original use): Fragment of a state report. The ends of 6 lines are preserved: "...the ṭalḥiyyūn(?), and there did not remain in al-Ramla... Muḥammad(?) …
State document: Official report (fragment) concerning armed insurrection and civil unrest. For the letter on recto, see separate entry.
Probably an official receipt of some kind. Needs examination. (Information in part from CUDL)
Small fragment of an official letter in Arabic script. (Information in part from CUDL)
Fatimid tax receipt dated 528H (1133–34). Five different hands: at top, 2 requests for registration, 2 confirmations of registration; lower part is receipt itself. (MR)
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
Capitation tax receipt in Arabic script. Does not have the usual endorsements at the top (unless they were much higher up and torn away). Has …
Official-looking accounts in Arabic script. Some numbers are written out in full and others in Greek/Coptic numerals. Verso looks like a private reuse and includes …
Tax receipt.
Petition in Arabic script. Begins with a taqbīl and praises for "al-majlis al-ʿālī... khallada allāh ayyām sulṭānahu....). Concerning "my father Abū Zikrī al-Ṭabīb (the physician)." …
Verso: Original use. A decree in Arabic script. Probably Mamluk-era. Recto: Small fragment with few lines in Arabic. Probably a recipe or technical instructions (based …
Fragment of an Arabic (fiscal?) document reused for Hebrew piyyuṭ on both sides.
Petition. Report fragment, probably early Ayyubid period (taqbīl clause + paleography + reused by Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi, whose documents cluster ca. 1190–1210; see description …
State document, Fatimid, probably a decree fragment, 4 lines. Begins with وعاد بنجابتهما وحسن in a dual tense suggesting that it was addressed to two …
عاد بنجابتهما وحسن
عاد بنجابتها وحسن
وله منتصبين وفيه مجدين وليتحققا
…… مسوولان عنها مطالبيـ[ن
Report or petition, probably. The ends of two lines are preserved: مراسمها وكملت ... من اقتراحها وعرضها. Reused for piyyut on verso.
Fiscal document, in Arabic script. Mentions dīnār and "in-shā ʾAllah". Reused on recto for the ʿamida for Yom Kippur. (Information in part from CUDL)
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 …
جمل
ررفعه(؟) عبد الكريم بن نصر الله الوكيل على عمارة
الجسور المعمورة ىاحىوىه(؟) وشبرى وابو ركوة
من الخراج لمركزية …
תעתוק אחד דיון אחד
Official correspondence or state document, in Arabic script, late. Two big fragmentary lines with faded text. The first line begins as "يذكر السيد المذكور". Needs …
Fiscal document recording the receipt of a sum of money. 108 dirhams is mentioned. There is at least one ʿalāma (al-ḥamdu lil-lāh mustaḥiqq al-ḥamd, same …
Report to a vizier of al-Ḥāfiẓ from a military official. The sender refers to previous petitions, and also makes a new request for a rescript. …
[ ] When the gross receipts headed with the [noble] motto arrived [ ]
[ ] on the verso of the document of the director of stipends, the footsold…
Official document or receipt of some kind. In Arabic script. Headed by the glyph and with the Greek/Coptic numeral for 40 at the top (also …
Recto: Petition, fragment. Perhaps involving the plunder and occupation of a house (....al-bayt wa-nahabū... ikhrājuhum ʿanhu... fa-mā li-l-mamlūk illā marāḥim al-mawlā...). The form of the …
Recto: Arabic prayer (يا قادر على كل شي لا اله الا انت . . . وينصر الاسلام نصرا . . . اهل بيت محمد . …
State document, in Arabic script. A decree concerning the monks at Mt. Sinai. The vizier Ṭalāʾiʿ orders the amīr ʿIzz al-Mulk Saʿd al-Dawla wa-Fārisuhā, governor …
State account of some kind, headed "72 ghulāms(?)... for each of them in a day...," and underneath entries such as "1/6 + 1/8 irdabb." On …
Rotulus. 4 Arabic-script fragments were pasted together to form a long rotulus for a Hebrew literary text on verso. Text 1 is a decree (wide …
Small fragment of an Arabic state document.
State document, in Arabic script. Eleven fragmentary lines, probably addressed to a higher official from a lower official. The official bears the title Ḥamīd al-Dawla. …
Verso: Small fragment of an official Arabic document, mentioning al-ṣadaqa. Unidentified Hebrew text on recto.
Small fragment of official-looking correspondence, likely a petition. Mentions honorifics like "al-karīm al-ʿālī al-makhdūmī."