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State document, Fatimid. Two fragmentary lines preserved of a larger document. A partial reading of the first line is as follows: "منها وما معها وبوس(؟) …
אין רשומות קשורות
Fragment of a state or legal document, reused for Judaeo-Arabic court records. On one side: ḥadara waliyy al-shaykh Abū l-Ḥasan ʿAlī...... b. al-Surūr...
Decree fragment, beginning few words of nearly three lines preserved. Probably mentions "ilā Damish[q" in the first line. Requires further examination.
Petition submitted to the Fatimid caliph al-Mustanṣir upon his accession in 1036 CE. Requesting that he confirm the appointment of Yosef ha-Kohen, a judge of …
…for Joseph the Aaronite...)
may God have mercy upon him.And Joseph did not cease to administer the affa(irs of the Alexandrian community until…
2 תעתוקים 2 תרגומים 2 דיונים
Unidentified document in Arabic script, probably official. Reused on recto for piyyuṭ with Judaeo-Arabic headings פזמאן and גירה (pizmān, ḡayruhu). (Information in part from CUDL)
State document, in Arabic script. Mentions "خلد الله" towards the end and "رسالة عالي" in the second line. Reused for an order of payment on …
Possibly a fiscal account. Only a few lines are preserved on each side, with relatively wide space between them.
Ḥamdala and ṣalwala from the bottom of a state document. Reused for Judaeo-Arabic calendrical text.
Receipt (for tax?) in Arabic script with a Judaeo-Arabic filing note at the top. The date is given but is difficult to read—46[.](?).
Decree to a lower official commanding him to retrieve bricks and everything belonging to the government from a certain location (a ruined mosque?); and from …
תעתוק אחד
Fiscal account, fragment from a bifolio. Items include names (Yūsuf [...], Faḍāʾil [...]) and quantities of dinars expressed in words.
Fragment of a legal document. In Arabic script. On parchment. Concerning either the sale or rent of a house. About 6 lines are preserved. Includes …
A few words from a state document in Arabic script (... al-dawla ...). Reused on recto for Hebrew literary text.
State document, in Arabic script. Probably official correspondence. The document presumably describes a conflict resolution between two state officials, where both parties will respect each …
Formal letter or report in Arabic script. Reporting that the sender left the addressee, rapidly found a boat, traveled to Alexandria, and delivered the letter …
State document, in Arabic script. Original use: Decree, of which only the phrase "amīr al-muʾminīn is preserved." The document is reused for a internal state …
Verso: Small fragment from the bottom of a petition or other state document, preserving the raʾy clause and the ṣalwala.
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 …
State document, in Arabic script. Closing formula of a decree, which contains ḥamdala, ṣalwala and ḥasbala.
Verso: Remnants of a state document (two lines partially preserved, wide line spacing) mentioning Alexandria. In the large blank space someone has practiced writing لا …
Capitation tax receipt for Musāfir b. Yūsuf, a Jewish man whose profession is "dīwānī."
Receipt of payment or tax receipt, in Arabic script. There is a registration mark "الحمد] لله وبه استعين]". Name of the payee is not readable …
Fiscal document, in Arabic script. Refers to two iqṭāʿs (على الاقطاعين المذكورين). The last line bears a date that may be 403 AH or 430 …
Most probably a Fatimid report, but written in a decree-like format, or could be a decree relating the contents of the report/petition, in Arabic script. …
الجزية الجارية اقطاعه لم يكن عليها
موظف جسور ولا حق ديواني[ مطلوب؟]
اهلها به من مدة سنين وان المستخدمين
الان قد طلبوهم بموظف الجسور وغريما
תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד
Tax receipt for the capitation of Khalaf b. Yaʿqūb. Trigger: ṣaḥḥa. See also: ENA 3945.9, T-S NS 297.171, T-S Ar.35.133, and T-S AS 181.31. The …
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 …
תעתוק אחד דיון אחד
Likely a fragment of a fiscal account. There are four text blocks arranged in a grid, each headed by the name of a person written …
Very tiny note in Arabic script, in the same type of hand as many of the early 5th/11th century tax receipts. Some contain the mystery …
Petition to addressed to a noble woman, probably the Fatimid empress Sitt al-Mulk given the honorifics. In Arabic script. Written in two columns. The petitioner …
مملوك مولاتنا خلد الله ملكها
الخلف(؟)
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
عبد مولاتنا السيدة الشـ[ـريفة]
الملكة حرس الله ملكها وحرس عزها
وادام …
The slave of our mistress, may God make her reign eternal
(al-Khalaf?)
In the name of God, the compassionate, the merciful.
The slave of our…
Tax receipt issued for the ḍāmin of Dhāt al-Ṣafā against revenue delivered by Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb. Dated: 12 Dhū l-Qaʿda 405. Written in the …
תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד דיון אחד
A ḥamdala and ṣalwala written in a chancery hand, presumably once part of a larger document. Reused for Hebrew literary text.
Fragment of official correspondence in Arabic script. The beginnings of 6 lines are preserved. Reused on verso for piyyuṭ.
Fragment of a Fatimid state document. Reporting that an official document belonging to an unnamed person (the -hū of kitābuhū) and dated 4 Rajab 523 …
Unidentified document in Arabic script. Might be legal or official. Ḥamdala and ṣalwala in the second-to-last line. It was torn and reused for a different …
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 …
Tax receipt for Bū l-Makārim b. Bū Ishaq al-Mutaṭabbib, possibly for the purchase of a house in Fustat. Landscape format. Contains three registration marks at …
Official-looking or commercial receipt (ṣaḥḥa...). Or maybe commercial. Resembles T-S AS 179.142. Needs examination.
Small fragment from a state document (tax receipt?) with the ʿalāma الحمد لله الخفي لطفه.
Original use: official account (makhzūma) in Arabic script. Needs examination.
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 …
Official (tax?) receipt for a goldsmith (al-ṣāʾigh).
State document, decree, in Arabic script. Mentions the year '44, probably [4]44 AH, which would be 1052. The decree seems to be issued in response …
Verso: Minute fragment of an Arabic document. Resembles the format of the Ikhshīdid fiscal documents but there is too little preserved to confirm. Reused for …
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 …
Brutal document. Probably to do with fiscality. Looks official and Mamluk-era based on paleographical grounds. Needs examination.
Folio completely covered with willy nilly Arabic text written in a chancery hand, maybe writing exercises copied from other documents, including phrases from petitions (...yujaddid …
Official receipt of some kind. Very difficult to read.
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...). …
Fiscal accounting: "...al-muʿāmilīn bi-[...] wa-Dimyāṭ..."
Petition to the caliph al-Mustansir concerning the schism of 1038–42 between Shelomo b. Yehuda, the gaʾon of Palestine, and a pretender to the gaonate, Natan …
بِسْم الله الرحمن الرحيم العبيد ينهوا الى الموقف الشريف زاد الله شرف حالهم وذلك ان لما
جرى على ريسهم…
3 תעתוקים תרגום אחד 2 דיונים