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Capitation tax receipt for a 1 dinar payment made by Bū l-Thanāʾ b. Bū Saʿd b. Ṭayyib al-Murakkib (the saddle maker) in New Cairo and …
אין רשומות קשורות
Two fiscal documents, in Arabic script. Dating: ca. 12th C. Recto is headed "al-muqīmīn" and mentions "al-mustakhraj" in the third line, probably related to tax …
Recto: State document, probably a petition or internal correspondence. In Arabic script. The writer refers to himself as "al-mamlūk"; the script is chancery-esque. Fragment (upper …
תעתוק אחד
Fiscal document, probably Fatimid. Two-sided with very wide line spacing. Recto mentions Nāṣir and two dinars; verso mentions two dinars and three irdabbs. Merits further …
Verso: Upper part of a petition, in Arabic script. Dating: 557 H. The petition is headed "muṭālaʿa", submitted in the dual, and is regarding an …
. . . مما كتب فيها ثبت باعلاه العلامة الجيوشية
منها(؟) لهذا(؟) الحمد لله وبه ثقتي
لينقل خلفهما(؟) من اقطاعه الى اقطاع للاخر بما شهد به …
Letter or official correspondence, probably Ikhshidid, in Arabic script. Mentions two officials, Abū l-Faḍāʾil and Abū Bakr ʿAlī b. Sulḥ, and other people. Also mentions …
Unidentified document in large Arabic script. Fiscal account? Reused on both recto and verso for Hebrew liturgical text (three different hands).
Bifolio in which two of the four pages have entries that sound like language from (state?) receipts, and a third page has a legal-sounding formula.
Capitation tax receipt for Bū l-Ḥasan Ḥusayn b. Hibatallāh al-Ṣayrafī in Fustat. Dated: 4 Muḥarram 541 AH, which is 16 June 1146 CE.
Bifolio containing what look like fiscal accounts, in relatively narrow columns. Very difficult to read. Probably related to iqṭāʿ, mentions maqṭūʿāt on the verso. Dated …
A few words from a large state document ([...] min jiha. . .)
Small fragment from a state document; perhaps the tarjama of a petition from Aḥmad b. ʿAlī b. Ṣalaḥ. Reused to create a bifolium for a …
Recto: official-looking letter possibly addressed to a qāḍī. Verso: A receipt of some kind? Both sides need further examination.
Probably a report or official correspondence in Arabic script. In a chancery hand. Portions of 8 lines from the main text block are preserved, and …
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
Receipt for the capitation tax in Fustat of Maʿālī b. Bū l-Karam a Jewish silk merchant (qazzāz) for the year 525 AH. See T-S AS …
Capitation tax receipt for the Jewish man Yūsuf b. Khalaf in Fustat for the year 513 AH = 1119/20 CE (if read correctly).
Fatimid petition, top left side only, preserving the tarjama. Dates to the period of al-Ḥākim based on the reuse on verso. This makes it not …
روائح(؟) بن جوشن (جريس؟) واصحابه
العبقلين(؟)
بسم الله الرحمن الـ]ـرحيم
مماليك الحضرة السامـ]ـية العلية ال . . . ية والسعيدة السيدية ا…
תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד
Fragment from the top of a petition. May be addressed to Saladin (al-Malik al-Nāṣir). Reused for Hebrew seliḥot.
Receipt. Miniature (cf. ENA NS 83.413). Includes the glyph, payer's name, date, and the sum written in words and in Greek/Coptic numerals. Possibly a registration …
Bottom eight lines of an official letter in Arabic script. Ends with a ḥamdala and ṣalwala, and Amīr al-Muʾminīn, perhaps a rāʾy clause afterward. Difficult …
Recto: Report fragment, 7 lines. The sender mentions a group of people who came before him and pledged their allegiance (...ʿindī mudhʿinīn muslimīn ilayya qāʾimīn …
Small fragment of official correspondence, reused for literary text in Hebrew script. Only a few words preserved.
Accounts in Arabic script, unclear if private or official. Reused on recto for piyyuṭ. (Information in part from CUDL.)
Recto and verso might be two drafts of distinct petitions written in different hands. Recto: Mentions "the evil ones from among the Jews" (al-ashrār min …
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
Letter, possibly official, relating to mosques and construction projects and donations. Mentions specifically the tiles of the mosque. Also "the properties of the government in …
وسعرا؟ وكثر ملكا؟ ما لانه للسـ..
الع….وعهد الى دور في عـ[
وجماع ودار برسم الدعاة…جميع..
واهدا الاحجار لبنا…واصحابه ولمر..
امره الى ا…
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
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 …
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 …
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.
State report. Large and well preserved. Dated: 5 Muḥarram 592(?) AH = 10 December 1195 CE, if read correctly. Refers to a someone with the …
The beginnings of two lines of an official letter in Arabic script. On verso reused for Hebrew seliḥot.
State document, probably. In Arabic script. Wide space between the lines, 9 lines preserved. On verso there is Hebrew literary text. Very faded. One phrase …
Tiny fragment in Arabic script, with wide line spacing and chancery script. Official Correspondence. On verso, there is mirror image text, probably from a letter …
Verso, fol. 2: Fragment of a decree or petition, probably provisional because of the semi-professional hand. Requires further examination.
On verso two lines are preserved from an official Arabic document: yatajaddad fīmā yataʿallaq bi...
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Verso (original use): Unidentified document in Arabic script. Possibly the bottom of a tax receipt or other state document.
Part of an Arabic document. Likely a petition. Probably used at one point for a book binding. Portions of 5 lines are preserved. Mentions the …
State correspondence, probably a petition but any petition-related formula is missing. Five lines are preserved, and possibly a copy of a sixth line. Almost all …
…encompassing, and its justice and perpetual generosities, and benevolence from it and its might.
[The slave] steadfastly remained near our mast…
Small fragment from the top of a letter or petition. In Arabic script. Mentions a "dīwān".
Small fragment of an official letter. A few words from the beginnings of two lines are preserved, wide space between the lines. On verso there …
Receipt for [...] b. Faḍāʾil the Jew for his capitation tax in Cairo and Fustat. Upper part only.
Bifolio (subsequently folded into thirds) of an eclectic selection of incomplete state-related documents. Perhaps the writing exercises or drafting of a chancery scribe, or else …
Ḥamdala and ṣalwala from the bottom of a state document. Reused for Judaeo-Arabic calendrical text.
Recto (secondary use): tax receipt issued to Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb for his ḍamān on dyeing in Madīnat al-Fayyūm. Dated: 9 Dhū l-Qaʿda 403. Measurements: …
תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד דיון אחד
Memorandum or other internal state communication. In Arabic script, with wide line spacing, fragmented baselines, and frequent diacritics. Four lines preserved, the fourth an interlinear …
Decree. Only part of one line is preserved, mentioning the caliph al-Ḥāfiẓ, "...wa-waliyyihi ʿAbd al-Majīd Abī l-Maymūn al-Imām..."
Original use: Official correspondence in Arabic script, mentioning Ibn al-Salār (vizier of al-Ẓāfir, 1149–53 CE). Needs examination for content. Secondary use: Literary text in Arabic …