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Petition or legal document from a Jew on behalf of the Jewish community to the government. The petitioner's name appears in the lower right margin. …
يقبلون الارض
الايام متع لله بوجوده (الايام؟)
ويهود وبينهم وبين جماعة دعاوي شرعية و
لهم خلاص الا باللباب (=بالباب) العالي وسمو الهم من الصـ[…
תעתוק אחד
Receipt of payment or tax receipt, in Arabic script. There is a registration mark "الحمد] لله وبه استعين]". Name of the payee is not readable …
אין רשומות קשורות
None
Petition to the Fatimid ruler Sitt al-Mulk. Dating (Rustow): 411–14/1021–24. In which the otherwise unknown Yaḥyā b. al-Ḥasan complains that a local amīr has confiscated …
תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד דיון אחד
Fiscal document, Ayyubid. Bifolio. There are holes in various configurations indicating where the thread for the binding used to be. Three of the four pages …
Small fragment of a state document in Arabic script. Reused for Hebrew literary text.
Recto: Fragment of an official document in Arabic script. The preserved text contains a string of official titles: "Jamāl al-Dīn... ʿUmdat al-Mulūk, Fakhr al-Umarāʾ, Majd …
2 תעתוקים
Petition or report. In Arabic script. Probably sent from the village of Danūhiyya (modern spelling: دنوهيا) in the Sharqiyya district of the Nile Delta (the …
Fiscal account? Mentions a dīwān and possibly the terms muqṭaʿ and/or maṭbakh. Needs examination.
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Document in Arabic script. Possibly a letter or petition. 4 lines are preserved. Dating: possibly ca. 13th century based on handwriting and format. Mentions various …
Decree fragment, beginning few words of nearly three lines preserved. Probably mentions "ilā Damish[q" in the first line. Requires further examination.
State document, in Arabic script. Probably late. Mentions "al-waraq al-sāmī al-Muʾarrakh". Needs examination.
State document, in large oversized chancery script, two words. A decree.
Official letter/report in Arabic script. 6 lines preserved from near the beginning. (There are also a few lines legible as mirror-image imprints only, including the …
Tax receipt of some kind. The payer is a Jewish man possibly named Bishr b. Bū l-[...]. Dated: 19 Ṣafar 553 AH = 22 March …
Document in Arabic script, likely a petition or official correspondence. Dating: late Ayyubid or Mamlūk era based on paleography.
Tax receipt for Yaʿqūb b. Isḥāq, likely for what he owes as the tax farmer of something (min jumlat mā ʿalayhi ʿan [ḍamānih?]...). On verso …
State document, or official correspondence, in a chancery hand. Only the top-most part containing the basmala and ṣalwala are preserved. Needs examination.
State document, or official letter, in Arabic script. Refers to an amīr and his operations, and mentions something in relation to the bedouins (ʿurbān). The …
Fiscal document, in Arabic script. Extremely fragmentary.
Recto: One or two damaged lines of Arabic text from a large state document, possibly a decree. Requires further examination.
Decree fragment: one line on verso. wa-ri'āyan li-kum[ ]. Cut, reused, and bound in a Hebrew script literary text: 15 lines plus notes on recto, …
Original use: official account (makhzūma) in Arabic script. Needs examination.
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. Decree. Mentions taking something from the Amīr Makīn al-Dawla.
وحراسته ونعمته في [ ] من يد الامير مكين الدولة
Capitation tax receipt for Bū l-Faḍl b. Manṣūr, a Jewish trader, in Fustat. Dated: 17 Muḥarram 525 AH.
Minute fragment with a few Arabic words preserved on each side, either from a legal or official document. AA
Beginning of a petition to the Fatimid caliph al-Ḥākim.
תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד
Small, official-looking receipt. A notation in Judaeo-Arabic on verso reads "shahr ramaḍān."
Large document in Arabic script, preserving the ends of ~15 lines. The upper part may be the bottom of a legal query or petition, probably …
Verso: Draft of a beginning of a report to an official, possibly a vizier, from a lower official. Beginning formula and opening honorifics are preserved. …
תעתוק אחד 2 תרגומים
Tax receipt. Trigger: addā.
Tax receipt, Fatimid.
Capitation tax receipt for the Jewish man Sālim b. Bū l-Faḍl for the year 621(?) AH. Landscape format. Needs further examination.
Verso (original use): remnant of an official Arabic document. Mentions "to al-Dār al-Saʿīda in Fustat."
Fragment of a letter about government business. In Arabic script. ". . . if he has it done by the jahbadh of the arsenal (al-ṣināʿa), …
فلو قام بذلك على يد جهبذ الصناعة لكان اصلح له ورايها الموفق
وبن بو الغنائم فقد سالته احضار التحرير المختص بالديوان المفرد
وحضوره ايضا ات…
Official-looking document in Arabic script, most likely fiscal-related. Needs examination.
Small fragment of an Arabic state document.
Presumably a draft of a letter of appointment for a scribe to the central chancery. ʿAbd al-Ghanī b. Muḥammad al-Kātib is appointed as a scribe …
Small fragment from the bottom of a state document with wide line spacing, preserving only a ḥamdala and ṣalwala.
Verso (original use): State document, in Arabic script. Petition to a Fatimid Caliph, probably al-Mustanṣir based on the reuse on recto. Only the beginning and …
…من تدبيره(؟) والمطالعة به…….في
ولمولانا صلوات الله عليه وعلى ابائه الطاهرين
وابنائه الائمة المنتجبين الراي العالي في الامر بالوقوف
على خدم…
State document, in Arabic script. Fragment of a fiscal document. Mentions a date: 5 Dhū l-Qaʿda 612 H, but this should be verified. Reused for …
Tax receipt for the capitation of Ibrāhīm b. Ṣadaqa in Fustat for the year 526 AH. Amount: ½ dīnār (the lowest rate). Jahbadh: Hibat Allāh. …
State document in Arabic on recto, very wide line spacing. Medieval-era. The remnants of two partial lines are visible. Both sides were reused for a …
A pair of receipts for [...] al-ʿAṭṭār, which were never cut apart, unlike most other receipts. Needs further examination to determine what for (jizya?) and …
Official correspondence in Arabic script. Maybe a petition (at least in the sense that the sender is buttering up the addressee and asking for a …
Fragment of an official letter (report or petition?). In Arabic script. The ends of two lines are preserved. Phrases include: lil-khidma bi-l-thaghr... bi-ḍawāḥīh... Reused on …
Small fragment from a piece of official correspondence: wa-qad sayyara ilayhimā min al-[...]....