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Verso (original use): Official correspondence in Arabic script. Fragment (beginning). The sender is probably Ibrāhīm b. Muḥammad. He begins (instead of the usual honorifics and …
عبدها ابرهيم بن محمد
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
عذري واضح في تاخري عن حضرو مولاي الشيخ الاجل اطال الله بقاه
وادام تمكينه ونعمته وسموه وكبت…
2 תעתוקים
Petition or report. In Arabic script. Quite faded. The ends of 5 lines are preserved. Mentions that a certain ʿāmil is more capable than somebody …
אין רשומות קשורות
Fatimid state document, probably a report. The beginnings of six lines are preserved. Reused on verso for Hebrew piyyuṭ. Merits further examination.
Report or petition. In Arabic script. In a chancery hand, wide space between the lines. Two lines are preserved, it seems praising the grace and …
Fol. 2v: Possibly state correspondence, possibly a draft. Wide space between the lines. The same scribe reused verso of each fragment for Hebrew poetry. Mentions …
Petition from an Alexandrian coppersmith. Dating: Fatimid-era based on structure and paleography but could be Ayyubid. The titles of the addressee match that of an …
דיון אחד
Recto: very damaged text of a makhzuma (ledger of receipts). Verso: makhzūma (ledger of receipts) submitted in Rajab 495 AH (= April-May 1102 CE) by …
תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד
Recto: Fiscal document, in Arabic script, headed with a basmala and beginning in a petition format. Followed by many lines of sums of money, written …
Fragment of a state document in Arabic script: "kharaja... mablagh... al-mustakhdamīn..."
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State document, in Arabic script. Fragment of an internal government document, possibly fiscal ("māl ḍamānih li-shuhūr sana..."), dated 412 AH (1021/22 CE). Reused for Hebrew …
תעתוק אחד
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 …
Receipt for the capitation tax in Fustat of Mubārak b. Ibrāhīm (Ibn Sabrā, a relatively well-known character from Judaeo-Arabic Geniza documents). Same cluster: ENA 3953.1, …
State document, fragment, in a chancery hand with long swoopy letters. Describing an issue/conflict associated with merchants (li dhālik(?) al-amr(?) maʿahu min al-tujjār, l. 2). …
Original use: Fiscal document, in Arabic script. Mentions sums in dirhams and mithqāl. Reused for a literary text in Judeo-Arabic on recto and verso.
Verso: tax receipt issued to Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb for his ḍamān on a dyeworks (maṣbagha) in Madīnat al-Fayyūm. Undated. The date on the receipt, …
תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד דיון אחד
Fiscal account, Fatimid, for the sum of 2 dīnārs. Opens: waṣala ilā bayt al-māl. Two registration marks: al-ḥamdu lil-lāh wa-bihi nastaʿīn, al-ḥamdu lil-lāh ʿalā niʿamih.
Original use: Likely the remnants of a fiscal account. Mentions the term "al-kharājiyya." At 90 degrees in the margin there is a note with a …
State document. Petition to the caliph al-Mustanṣir regarding a murder on a boat. The son of the petitioner was traveling with a young fellow-merchant from …
بِسْم الله الرحمن الرحيم
صلوات الله وبركاته ونوامى زكواته وافضل تحياته على مولانا وسيدنا الامام المستنصر بالله
أمير المومنين صلوات الله …
State document, in Arabic script. Decrees that the rituals be carried out according to the tradition 'wa-an yakūn al-ʿamal bi l-rusūm' and mentions 'al-dawla al-sharīfa'. …
Administrative document of some kind. There are Greek/Coptic numerals at upper right specifying a sum in the hundreds. The phrase al-qāḍī al-ajall appears. Dated: 15 …
Fragment likely from the bottom of a Fatimid fiscal account, based on the appearance of the ṣalwala at the bottom (وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد …
Possibly the bottom of a tax receipt. Dated 610 or 620 AH.
Probably an Ikhshīdid fiscal document. See T-S NS 139.65 (PGPID 23643), belonging to the same Hebrew reuse. ASE
Tax receipt.
Ikhshīdid fiscal document; see tag. Dated 329 AH = 940/41 CE. The Hebrew reuse is the same hand as T-S NS 149.18 and possibly T-S …
Main document: Petition or letter draft from Sulaymān from Banī Sarrāj "in the districts of Ṭaḥā and al-Ushmūnayn." In Arabic script. Dating: Late. The margins …
Tax-related accounts in Arabic script. The word "al-mustakhraj" appears at least twice. Needs examination.
Verso: Small fragment of a gigantic Fatimid decree.
Top three lines of a state document in Arabic script. First a basmala, then: ثبت(؟) اصدار(؟) مالك المجلس السامي الامير الاجل المفضل(؟). In between lines …
Account, maybe official/fiscal. Mentions the eunuch (al-ṭawāshī) Sanad al-Dawla or Sayyid al-Dawla (cf. T-S Ar.39.206 (PGPID 20812)). On verso mentions wheat and fava beans.
Verso (original use): Undeciphered document in Arabic script, likely state-related. Appears to be dated 427 AH = 1035/36 CE, which is consistent with the Hebrew …
Provincial fiscal account. Provincial because the scribal hand is less sophisticated than the documents produced in the capital. Mentions "dīwān bi-rasm" and maybe "al-muqṭaʿyn". Could …
Small fragment of an unclear nature. Two lines of Arabic script, the top of which reads "Dīwān al-Ishrāf."
Tax receipt for Makārim b. Isḥāq al-Ṭabīb, who is known from several other documents (see tag). Dating: ca. first half of the 13th century.
Decree in Arabic script. The beginnings of two lines are preserved and the tops of some letters from a third line: bi-muqtaḍā mā huwa... man …
Official-looking account in Arabic script. Mentions al-shaykh Abū Saʿd (the Tustari?) after the basmala. Needs examination.
Tiny fragment of a medieval document in Arabic, perhaps a state decree or petition based on the paleography.
One side has the beginning of a letter written in Arabic script in a hasty scrawl. The other side has, in large letters in a …
Report to al-Afḍal. The join between T-S NS 201.132 and T-S AS 116.410 + T-S AS 103.49 + T-S NS 209.47 is very probably but …
State document, in Arabic script. Closing formula of a decree, which contains ḥamdala, ṣalwala and ḥasbala.
Petition, probably. In Arabic script. Only one line and a couple words from the line below are preserved. "irtifāʿ mā. . . lā yadillu ʿalayhi. …
Petition in Arabic, twelfth-century Fatimid. The petition is addressed to a military general at the time of al-Mustaʿlī or al-Āmir. The petitioner is most likely …
[بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم]
[صلوات الله وبركاته وافضل تحياته وسلامه على مولانا وسيدنا الامام المستعلي بالله امير المؤمنين وعلى ابائه الطاهرين]
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Petition from a Jewish man to a dignitary. In Arabic script. Fragment (upper left corner). Opens with two lines of grand titles for the presumably …
بسم الله] الرحمن الرحيم
المملوك يقبل الارض امام الحضرة السامية الاجلية] القضائية السعيدة الماجدة الامينية
ذ]خيرة(؟) الدين جمال الروسا صـ…
Original use: Fiscal document in Arabic script (al-mudda al-madhkūra... ʿammā yaṣil min al-nawāḥī al-baḥriyya... al-[...] al-sulṭānī...). Large, with multiple distinct entries. Needs examination. Secondary uses: …
Official document of some sort. May be headed "makhzūma." Above that, there is an ʿalāma (al-ḥamdu lil-lāhi rabbi al-ʿālamīn). Refers to money exchange (ṣarf) and …
Tax receipt for Abū l-Surūr. Trigger: addā.