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Brief official letter, or report in Arabic script. Late/ With a stamped seal in the margin next to the name of the issuer/sender (Muṣṭafā Agha/Ağa). …
תעתוק אחד
Decree, or rather record of the issuing of a decree/rescript (tawqīʿ) from the chancery of al-Ḥāfiẓ, as a response to a petition (ruqʿa) sent by …
The exalted rescript, may God increase its efficacy, has been issued,
dated Muḥarram of th…
תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד
State document in Arabic script. The beginnings of 7 lines are preserved. Mentions a ship (markab), probably the docking of a ship (mursā), and is …
אין רשומות קשורות
Fiscal document, or accounts, in Arabic script. Contains a date in the second line. Needs examination.
Fragment of an Arabic (fiscal?) document reused for Hebrew piyyuṭ on both sides.
State-related account, on one of the four pages of the bifolio: muḥāsabat al-mawlā [……..] al-muʿāmal/il bi-l-dīwān al-maʿmūr…..Needs examination.
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 …
State document, fragmentary. Three and a half lines preserved, difficult to glean context, mentions taking permission, "لانه حين اذن". Reused for a Hebrew text, on …
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Small fragments of state correspondence in Arabic script. Portions of two lines are preserved, with very wide line spacing. There are numerous nearby small fragments …
Unidentified official-looking document in Arabic script. Reused on recto for piyyuṭ with Judaeo-Arabic heading גירה. (Information in part from CUDL)
Fiscal account, probably.
Official-looking small receipt. ENA 3968.21 and ENA 3968.23 appear to be in the name of the same person (Ḥusayn b. [...]). Needs examination.
State document, in Arabic script. A report to an official: Shujāʿ al-Dawla Bū Faḍl Ziyāda regarding issues pertaining to Abshīsh and Ṭamlay.
Fragment of official correspondence in Arabic script. The beginnings of 6 lines are preserved. Reused on verso for piyyuṭ.
State document, in Arabic script. Fragment of a petition addressed to al-Ḥāfiẓ ʿAbd al-Majīḍ (1132–49). Apart from the opening formula and the blessings on the …
תעתוק אחד 2 דיונים
Very unusual account, written in large letters, likely fiscal. Perhaps wages for soldiers/mercenaries? Recto, upper section: -people's names such Masʿūd b. Manṣūr b. Sabʿ(?) and …
Draft of the opening of a petition or official letter. On verso jottings of accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals.
Fragment of an official document in Arabic script, possibly official correspondence or a petition. Mentions 'my master al-Qāḍī al-Saʿīd Ṣafiyy al-Mulk." (Al-Yāzūrī had a son …
Small fragment of a state document in Arabic script. Reused for Hebrew literary text.
Tax receipt. From the archive of Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb. Join: Alan Elbaum.
תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד דיון אחד
Verso (original use): account (table form) in a fiscal hand, transverse to Arabic text. The first entry refers to a white Dimyāṭī garment that is …
Tax receipt issued to Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb for his ḍamān on dyeing in Madīnat al-Fayyūm. Dated: 8 Rabīʿ I 405 (6 September 1014). Written …
3 תעתוקים 3 תרגומים דיון אחד
Official-looking correspondence in Arabic script. Only the basmala and the opening line (ṣalawāt allāh wa-barakātuhū wa-nawāmī zakawātihī wa-afḍal taḥiyyatihī) are preserved.
Receipt for the capitation tax of Bū ʿAlī b. Faraj(?) a Jewish goldsmith (ṣāʾigh) in Fustat for the year [50?]8.
Fiscal account?
Verso: Official letter. Approximately 14 lines are preserved. Dating: No earlier than 1021 CE, since al-Ḥākim was dead at the time of writing. Possibly dating …
State document, fragment, one isolated line in Arabic script. "والذي ينهيه عبد مولانا امير المؤمنين". Reused on recto for Hebrew piyyuṭ, the prayer for rain …
Verso: Note addressed to al-Shaykh al-Makīn. In Arabic script. Mentions the director of a government bureau (mutawallī dīwān al-khāṣṣ, probably) and "the conditions in the …
Petition (or maybe a report) from Ibrāhīm al-Naqīb to ʿAbd al-Karīm. The sender repeatedly asserts that he serves as the representative or head (naqīb) of …
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
المملوك
ابرهيم النقيب
يقبل الارض وينهي بين يدي
الشيخ عبد الكريم بان…
الى العلم ان المملوك عمل نقيب المجالس في
Verso: tax receipt, or possibly credit instrument? Contains an ʿalāma at the upper right, maybe, and a jahbadh signature at the bottom. Also contains the …
Fiscal document, with two holes. Needs examination.
Report on income from a province (ʿaml al-[...]) submitted to the diwan of al-Afḍal (i.e., the vizier al-Afḍal b. Badr al-Jamālī, r. 1094–1121). Some of …
Two fragments from the middle and bottom of a petition to a vizier. Dating: likely 1051–62 CE, as Daniel b. ʿAzarya seems to be Gaʾon …
Verso: Petition, or at least a formal letter in Arabic script. Portions of 11 lines are preserved. Many polite formulae are preserved, but unclear how …
Letter or report. In Arabic script. Mentions a man from Tiberias by the name of Baysān, wicked people (fa-kathura fasāduhum), people who mentioned that they …
State-issued receipt in Arabic. From the first administrative section of Egypt: "Qism al-Awwal Qalyubiyya" (there were 24 administrative sections). Dating: the end of (غاية) ___(month …
State document, in Arabic script. Ends of 7 lines. Penultimate line: al-jāriya bi-l-dīwān al-Farkhī. Last line: al-mutawallī ʿimārat rubāʿ dīwān al-khāṣa. Likely a join with …
State document, in Arabic script, wide spacing, maybe a petition. Mentions a wazīr but the portion of his name is cut off in the lacunae. …
State document: fragment of a decree: [hādha a]l-sijill al-manshūr fī l-aʿmā[l]. . . . Reused for piyyutim.
Tax receipt. Mentions the mustakhdim al-jawālī in Damietta. Dated: 601 AH. Amount: 1.25 dinars. ʿAlāma: الحمد لله وبه استعين. Endorsed across the text rather than …
State fiscal and administrative text from the Ayyubid period. Dated: 4 Rabīʿ II 595 AH = 3 February 1199 CE. Written in the form of …
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم والحمد لله حمد الشاكرين
لما ورد امر المولا الطواشي الاسفه سلار الكبير بها الدين قراقوش المنصوري
الافضلی بخط کریم…
In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate. Praise be to God, with the praise of those who give thanks.
When the order of our m…
Might be a fiscal account. Relatively small fragment from the middle of the document.
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 …
Tax receipt, Fatimid. Dated 505 H?
Official Ottoman-era accounts concerning the produce of the city of Lajjūn (qāʾima mubāraka in shāʾ allāh taʿālā bi-muqāsamat al-ghilāl al-mawjūda bi-madīnat al-Lajjūn al-makhdūma(?) al-dīwān al-saʿīd …
Small fragment of a Fatimid state document. The ends of three lines are preserved.
Tax receipt?
Fiscal account, probably. One header reads "al-aʿmāl al-Fayyūmiyya." Needs examination.
Small fragment from an official report or petition. The ends of 3 lines are preserved. المملو]ك ينهي . . .