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Minute fragment of a state document in Arabic. Medieval-era. The visible portion of the text states: "عنها مصلحته على [?]خدمة ال".
אין רשומות קשורות
State document, probably Fatimid, fragmentary. In Arabic script. "Al-mustakhdam bi l-ṣaʿīd(?)". The name of the official could be Munjiz al-Dawla. Merits further examination.
Original text: Possibly a fiscal account in Arabic script. Mentions names such as Maḥmūd and Aḥmad and "messenger" (rasūl) and 10 dinars on both sides. …
Small fragment with remnants of ḥamdala and ṣalwala.
Tax receipt for the capitation tax of Zayn(?) b. Abū l-Faraj(?) the Jew. On verso there is a blessing for a groom in Hebrew. Needs …
Fragment of a larger document in Arabic on verso, most likely a medieval-era decree. The only visible line reads: "... الصناعة المحروسة ليعمله" (perhaps referring …
Petition from Abū l-Ḥasan b. Dāwūd to a Fatimid dignitary. The petitioner is a poor young man, whose father died destitute and left him only …
His servant and slave,
Abū al-Ḥasan ibn Dāʾūd
In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate.
The slave of the lofty, mighty, much-sough…
תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד
A few words from an Arabic state document (ʿalayhimā wa-law...). Reused for Hebrew piyyuṭ.
Recto: Letter/petition in Arabic script to a qāḍī (al-majlis al-sāmī al-ajallī al-qaḍāʾī al-shamsī). The sender's name is given at the top but is tricky to …
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 …
Part of one line from an Arabic state document (decree?).
Tax receipt issued to Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb for his ḍamān on dyeing in Madīnat al-Fayyūm. Dated: 20 Shawwāl 405. Written by the jahbadh Mīkhāʾīl …
Let it be registered on behalf of the office of supervision,
if God wills.
They have registered the amoun…
2 תעתוקים 2 תרגומים דיון אחד
Tax receipt, Fatimid.
Receipt for the capitation tax of the Jewish man Maʿālī b. Yūsuf in Fustat and Cairo for the year 500-something (550? 505?).
Ikhshīdid fiscal account. See tag for similar documents. This one mentions the year 329 AH = 940/41 CE and the year 331 AH = 941/42 …
State document, report, in Arabic script. Chancery hand (though not the best), with widened space between the lines, and with white space used to divide …
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.
Small, official-looking receipt. Needs examination.
State document. Specific genre/purpose unclear. Has the glyph at the top. Then "... fī al-Dīwān al-Khāṣṣ lil-Fakhriyya...." The an ʿalāma and perhaps a confirmation of …
State document. Dating: Refers to payments for the year 415 kharājī; 415 AH is 1024/25 CE, so 415 kharājī is 1024/25 CE plus or minus …
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شرط النوااب بالـ[. .]ـل مالهما لامير الامرا تاج الدولة وسيف
الملة المويد ذي الـ[ـمعالـ]ـي…
תעתוק אחד דיון אחד
Verso: Small fragment of a gigantic Fatimid decree.
תעתוק אחד
State accounts (makhzūma) in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Two names, Bū l-ʿAlā (..) and ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, can be read in the third line. Written …
Fiscal register. Compare BL OR 5566B.3 (PGPID 19261) and the other shelfmarks cited there. Reused for piyyuṭ.
Three different documents stuck together. The main one is a report of the death of al-Ḥājj Ṭāhir. After reporting his death the document lists his …
Verso (original use): State document in Arabic script. Portions of the ends of 8 lines are preserved. Mentions a large number of horses. Needs further …
Original use: Bottom part of a state document in Arabic script, containing only the ḥamdala, taṣliya, and ḥasbala. There is also one more word written …
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 …
Minute fragment from an official-looking document. On verso mentions [...] al-yahūdī al-Afḍalī(?) and on recto mentioned four irdabbs of grain.
Small fragment of an Arabic state document.
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…
Fiscal account. Partial date: [4]03 or [5]43 AH. Monthly ledger (khatma) by name of taxpayer, in this case for a certain Manṣūr, with the months …
Recto: Official-looking receipt for a dyer (al-Ṣabbāgh) for the rent of his shop. Dated: Muḥarram 545 AH = April/May 1150 CE. On verso there is …
Petition from a group of Sufis written in the style of a testimony with a dozen witness statements, addressed to someone referred to as "mawlānā …
Petition or report, Fatimid, fragment from near the beginning containing end of blessings, the taqbīl clause, and part of the qiṣṣa. Dating: 1100–71. Related to …
Capitation tax receipt, Fatimid. For Abū Naṣr b. Yūsuf (someone with this name also appears in T-S 10J30.15). One registration mark: al-ḥamdu lil-lāh ḥamd al-shākirīn. …
State document, in Arabic script. Extremely fragmentary decree, barely one word readable per line. In perpendicular is another Arabic script in thin pen containing a …
דיון אחד
State document(s). The main text on recto includes a name (Muḥammad... ʿAbdallāh...) and many fancy titles (sulṭān... al-imām... sanāʾ al-mulk.. fakhr... naṣr al-mamlaka... al-faḍāʾil sayyid...). …
Verso (original use): Petition or decree. The ends of ~6 lines are preserved. Between the lines and on recto (secondary use): Account in Arabic script. …
Fragment of a letter in Arabic, likely an official report or petition. The sender reports that he went up to the citadel (يقبل الارض وينهي …
Verso (original use): State (fiscal) document in Arabic script. Mentions 300-something al-kharājiyya (a year? in which case this would be ~1009 CE at latest). There …
State document, probably, mentions "Miṣr". Reused for another Arabic script text, probably literary on verso. Needs examination.
Decree fragment, beginning few words of nearly three lines preserved. Probably mentions "ilā Damish[q" in the first line. Requires further examination.
Letter or state document in Arabic script. Wide space between the lines. Three lines are preserved. Mentions iqṭāʿāt and the year 589 H, if read …
Official report in Arabic script. Blaming a spy named Abū Saʿīd Ibn al-Ḥammāra and one other person for betraying Damietta to the Franks and possibly …
Fiscal account or receipt dated Muḥarram 437H (July–August 1045). Closing five lines. (MR)
State-issued order of payment from the Treasury of Silk Looms in Alexandria. Date: 14 Jumāda II 1237 AH (1820 CE). A total of 150 kuruş …
Fragment of a petition, or draft. Nothing is preserved except for the identification of the petitioners: al-ʿabīd al-mamālīk jamāʿat al-yahūd, i.e., a group or community …
Receipt(s) for Abū Naṣr for the rent of his dwelling. In Arabic script. Very elaborate, with multiple sections on both recto and verso -- resembles …
Official-looking receipt, maybe for someone's capitation tax. Very messy. Square format (closer to Ayyubid landscape format than the usual Fatimid portrait format).