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Decree, in Arabic script. 6 lines of a chancery document chopped into pieces and then reused to form quires. The line on fol. 19a has …
2 תעתוקים 2 תרגומים
State document, in Arabic script. 11 lines of official correspondence in a chancery hand, probably a report of some kind. The preserved document was chopped …
אין רשומות קשורות
Receipt for Bū l-Majd b. [...].
Bifolio from a register containing multiple entries recording fiscal payments, including name of the taxpayer and amount paid. Registration marks visible. Could be identified as …
Verso is a faded receipt of some sort, maybe fiscal. Recto: من السوح(؟؟) للنصر(؟) الواصل من ثغر الاسكندرية حماه الله تعالى . . . . …
Decree. Only part of one line is preserved, mentioning the caliph al-Ḥāfiẓ, "...wa-waliyyihi ʿAbd al-Majīd Abī l-Maymūn al-Imām..."
Verso: Draft (probably) of a petition. In Arabic script. "The slave... wishes to maintain the traditions... we wish to maintain our traditions and the traditions …
תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד
Probably a tax receipt. Only the registration notes at the top and the basmala from the original document are preserved.
Tax receipt for [...] b. Yūsuf.
Original use: State accounts. In Arabic script. Several discrete entries mentioning different Fatimid army leaders (qāʾids). The first is "Turkān Shāh b. al-Amīr Asad al-Dawla …
Verso: Fragment with one line of text in Arabic in an elegant scribal hand, from a state document: على تقرر ذلك وينبغي ان. Medieval-era. The …
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State document. Accounts from the central fisc. Begins: waṣala ilā bayt al-māl al-maʿmūr.... Lower down refers to Mālik b. Ibrāhīm. In the bottom text block …
Original use: A few words from a decree: في ديواني الخاصة والخاص وينبغي ان.
في ديواني الخاصة والخاص وينبغي ان
תעתוק אחד
Verso: State document, in Arabic script. Three fragments possibly from a decree, including the word ملكها. May be a draft or writing exercise as a …
Petition fragment. Contains part of a raʾy clause and a reference to Dīwān al-Shām al-Maʿmūr, and then perhaps "the response of the slave with what …
Receipt for the capitation tax of Mūsā b. Futūḥ al-Yahūdī. Location: Alexandria. Amount: 2 dinars. Same cluster: T-S AS 178.69 (PGPID 36898) T-S AS 180.22 …
Fatimid state document, fragment, probably an investiture. The document is written in the dual, addressed to two officials: "Hurry up with it and report what …
State document, internal communication, fragment of a few lines. Mentions a dīwān. Reused for a rabbinic text in Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic mentioning qumāsh (rubbish/goods/cloth). NB: …
Small, official-looking receipt in Arabic script for Mubārak [...]. Unclear what for. Needs examination.
Two official documents, the first (22a) dated Tripoli, 15 Dhū al-Qaʻdah 884 H. [1480], the second (22b) dated 9 (?) Ramaḍān 907 H. [1502].
State document, in Arabic script. Probably another decree of ʿAbd al-Majīd (al-Ḥāfiẓ) concerning the monks at Mt. Sinai, however, he is not mentioned by name. …
… the customs of lords, never ceases wandering upon the path of his noble fathers and ancestors
and following the traces of their justice in G…
Verso: Reused fragment with two partial lines of an Arabic state document. Mentions a group of people who want help (وان غرضهم مساعدة). Reused for …
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 …
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 …
Fatimid state document, most likely a decree, in Arabic script. Reused for a bifolio of a larger historiographical text in Arabic, see different entry.
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). …
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 …
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(?) …
Draft of a letter/petition, in Arabic script. Addressed to Huṣām al-Dawla. The sender asks that 'you rescue me from this man' (bi-an tukhalliṣ ʿabdak min …
Fragment of a fiscal report with one line of Arabic text following the join along the margin on ENA 2857.45v + ENA 2857.46v. The margin …
Upper fragment: small fragment of a letter or official correspondence in Arabic script. The beginnings of 5 lines are preserved.
Beginning formula of a pseudo-petition, in Arabic script. After the formula, the addressee is mentioned as "fulān" b. "fulān".
Probably the bottom of a tax receipt.
State document, in Arabic script. Drafts of mainly the beginnings of state documents, starting with the Basmala. The first draft mentions ḍamān, and the second …
…..لو ستر عليها واجتهاد…
فرغب في ضمانها من غيرهم وازاح علتهم و
…………من الديوان المذكور (؟)
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
حارتين في اقطاع المقطعين …
Receipt for the capitation tax of Yūsuf b. Bū l-Ḥasan the Jew in New Cairo.
Letter (?), left half only, narrow folds like a letter, mentioning quantities of something and a certain Nūr al-Dīn, so maybe Ayyubid? Item 16 in …
Formulaic phrases from petitions and letter to dignitaries.
Unidentified state document in Arabic script. Recto: The two lines near the top refer to [al-juy?]ūsh al-manṣūra wa-l-majlis al-[...]. There are several further text blocks …
Possibly one line of a state document. ""al-[...] bi-waliyy wulāt al-[...] ... istiḥqāq...""
Bifolio of accounts in Arabic script. The layout and hand are reminiscent of fiscal documents, but the headers (qaṣṭīr = qaṣdīr = tin, caraway, mastic, …
State document, probably a petition draft, in Arabic script. The text reads as "المملوك يخدم مجلس مولانا وسيدنا القاضي". There are other jottings in Arabic …
State document in Arabic script. Uses the phrase khidmat mālik al-riqq (see Khan, ALAD, 345, 368, 434 for meaning and other examples); and see T-S …
Accounting document issued by "al-qism al-awwal Qalyūbiyya," one of the 24 administrative sections of Egypt that were established in the 1820s. In Arabic script. Dated: …
Official-looking receipt in Arabic script, unclear for what. Needs examination.
Fiscal account, or possibly commercial. Mentions sums of dinars, places, and the phrase 'al-tawqīʿāt al-afḍaliyya.' Reused for magical text in Hebrew and unidentified (or nonsensical) …
Fiscal document in Arabic script. Long vertical format. A few entries are preserved, mentioning sums of money. Reused for Hebrew literary jottings.