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Fragment of a fiscal register, reused for a Judaeo Arabic commentary.
אין רשומות קשורות
Verso (probably original use): Probably a small piece of a state document, "let it be copied. . . . God willing" (ينسخ ان شا الله …
Official letter, probably. In Arabic script. The ends of 3 lines are preserved; upslanting and wide space between lines. Probably mentions Sidon(?). Needs examination for …
Verso (original use): ḥamdala, ṣalwala, and ḥabala from the bottom of a state document in Arabic script.
תעתוק אחד
Verso: Extremely faded state document, wide line spacing, ~7 lines preserved. Recto is piyyuṭ.
State document, extremely fragmented, only a few words readable. Mentions the amir Asad al-Dawla. Or possibly Murhaf al-Dawla Asad.
Tax receipt issued to Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb for his ḍamān on dyeing in Madīnat al-Fayyūm. Dated: 24 Ṣafar 405 (Khan reads 27 Ṣafar 405 …
2 תעתוקים 2 תרגומים דיון אחד
Small fragment of a Fatimid decree containing a truncated closing formula and the beginning of the date (day of the week only — Thursday). Interesting …
Possibly a tax receipt or similar document. Rajab 606 AH?
Decree fragment, Fatimid, 11th century. The preserved text reads: "وهذا الغلام فقد كان ورد الـ". Reused by Efrayim b. Shemarya, who was active 1007–1055 CE …
Verso: Receipt issued to Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb for his ḍamān on dyeing in Madīnat al-Fayyūm. Dated: 21 Dhū l-Qaʿda 403 (Khan reads 26 Dhū …
Registration mark on left
Tax receipt, Fatimid.
Recto and verso are two different versions of petitions, in two different hands. The one on verso looks somewhat later, perhaps Ayyubid-era, and is from …
State document, in Arabic script. Eleven fragmentary lines, probably addressed to a higher official from a lower official. The official bears the title Ḥamīd al-Dawla. …
Receipt for the capitation tax (jizya) for the Jewish man Bū l-ʿAlāʾ b. Bū l-Faḍl al-Qazzāz (the silk trader) in Fustat. Dated: 19 Muḥarram 533 …
Likely a small fragment from a state document. Similar two-column format as T-S NS 96.66 and T-S Misc.22.252.
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
Tax receipt, or possibly credit instrument? Contains an ʿalāma at the upper right, maybe, and a jahbadh signature at the bottom. Also contains the glyph, …
Document in Arabic script opening with prayers for the caliph al-Āmir bi-Ahkām Allāh (r. 1101–30).
Bottom of a state document in Arabic script. 3 lines preserved, wide space between the lines. Gives the date of writing (12 Shaʿbān, no year), …
Draft report containing two taqbīl and narratio (inhāʾ) sections. The first section mentions local residents impeding access with stones. Reporting on two matters: (1) that …
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.
Petition or report, probably. In Arabic script. The ends of 6 lines are preserved. Mentions: al-muslimīn... mutawallī al-balad... al-ghulām... ʿalā nafsihi l-ʿādila...lammā kānat hādha l-waqt... …
Small fragment of fiscal accounting, probably. Reused for Hebrew literary text.
Fatimid official report mentioning two messengers sent from the caliph (al-ḥaḍra al-ṭāhira) to Damascus and also mentioning the Banū Hilāl. Probable join with ENA 3907.6 …
Official-looking account in Arabic script.
Verso (original use): The last words of two lines of a letter with wide line spacing, possibly official: خادمها . . . واجباتها . . …
State document, most likely an official correspondence. Mentions the amīr Sayf al-Dawla's business dealings with the writer. Among the commodities mentioned are luxury textiles (ʿattābī …
State report. Large and well preserved. Dated: 5 Muḥarram 592(?) AH = 10 December 1195 CE, if read correctly. Refers to a someone with the …
Small fragments from an Arabic state document, containing the grand titles of the addressee ([...] al-mulūk [...] al-dawla [...] al-mujāhidīn sayf amīr al-muʾminīn) and blessings …
Verso (original use): Unidentified Arabic document, probably official. Mentions al-Faḍl b. ʿAlī and an agent (al-wakīl). Mostly crossed out. Needs further examination.
Verso: Fragment of an Arabic state document mentioning the dīwān. Reused on recto for a halakhic discussion or commentary.
A few words from a decree: "... al-muwaffaq Ḥusām al-Mulk Sanad al-Dawla..."
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 …
Trials of the pen in a fiscal or administrative hand, including the glyph, the basmala and "al-shaykh al-ajall."
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 …
Brief official letter, or report in Arabic script. Late/ With a stamped seal in the margin next to the name of the issuer/sender (Muṣṭafā Agha/Ağa). …
Capitation tax receipt, Fustat. The payment is 1 dinar. Dated: 601H? Needs examination.
Draft of a long report on fiscal matters. The addressee is addressed as al-maqām al-sharīf (l. 17). The sender (al-mamlūk) describes his dealings with a …
Fiscal account, probably Fatimid.
Small, official-looking receipt. Trigger: afrada.... For ʿImrān b. al-Riṣāfī(?). Seems to be for 25 dinars. The ʿalāma at upper right looks like wa-l-ḥamdu li-l-lāhi musābiq …
State accounts relating to the tax farm of the lands of Dayqūf, in the province of al-Bahnasā, administered by Basṭiyya b. Marqūra and the property …
תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד
Verso (original use): Petition in Arabic script. Invokes the trope of a bad person "taking people's property" (akhdh amwālihim) and refers to the caliph (al-ḥaḍra …
Fiscal accounting. Seems to regard a construction project for a government building (Dār al-Malik and maybe al-ḥujra al-saʿīda are mentioned on recto) and quantities of …
State document, fragment, in a chancery hand, mentions the dīwān al-amwāl. The duality of the noun "aʿdāʾhuma" (line 3) suggests that it is addressed to …
Possibly a receipt, mentioning Barakāt and Abū Manṣūr. Needs examination.
Fiscal account, probably Fatimid. Dates include 507H and 510H.
Tax receipt for [...] b. Eliyya, a Jewish silk trader (qazzāz). Needs examination for details.
Tax receipt for [...] b. Yūsuf.
Small fragment of Arabic document(s). Recto looks like part of a line from a state document. Verso has a mirror-image imprint of text from another …