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Official-looking account in Arabic script. Mentions al-shaykh Abū Saʿd (the Tustari?) after the basmala. Needs examination.
אין רשומות קשורות
Small fragment of a state document in Arabic script. Reused for Hebrew piyyuṭ in the hand of a prolific scribe. Join: Shulamit Elizur.
Petition copy or draft in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: likely early 17th century. The document is difficult to understand, as the first page is missing, and the …
Petition in Arabic script to "the master of the viziers" (sayyid al-wuzarāʾ). The sender swears by Muḥammad and his family but is himself a Jew …
תעתוק אחד
A few words in large Arabic script (fragment of a decree?). "... an nudhkirahu li-nakhruja ilā dīwān..." On verso there is a discussion of Purim …
Official-looking document(s) in Arabic script. Small fragment.
Fragment of a state document. Wide line spacing. Likely a decree. The beginnings of four lines are preserved. May refer to indigo (al-nīl) and investigating …
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Probably a state receipt, in Arabic script, for the purchase of a Nubian female slave named Tawfīq. It seems that the seller is Baqāʾ b. …
תעתוק אחד דיון אחד
Petition, probably from an actor of the state likely involved in the Majlis al-Ḥukm to a higher official or his subordinate. The petition is formatted …
…وشواجرها
عافية(؟) وانارها وبعض حيطانها وقصد المملوك ان
يبـني الطبقة على ما كانت املاء فمنعه من ذلك الجيران
ليس للطبقة المذكورة عالية عليهم …
Small fragment of an Arabic document, reused.
Verso (original use): Lower left corner of a petition in Arabic script, apparently asking for charity or assistance for a woman: . . . . …
Black ink (original use): ِFragment of a state document, fiscal related. At the top: thabata ʿindī jamīʿ mā nuṣṣa wa-shuriḥa fīhi... wa-kataba Muḥammad b. Ibrāhīm …
Tax receipt of some sort for Abū l-Riḍā b. Yūsuf. Trigger: ṣaḥḥ. Needs further examination.
Petition to a Fāṭimid vizier concerning an allowance of a jurisconsult, which the petitioner used to receive from the auspicious office, which was to be …
May God make eternal the rule of the lofty and exalted seat, the mighty lord,(commander…
תעתוק אחד תרגום 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.
Official correspondence in Arabic script, addressed to a superior. Dating: Mamluk period, based on the migration of the tarjama to the right margin. The sender's …
Possibly an official document in Arabic script, but the hand is crude. Could also be an IOU with a layout reminiscent of state documents. Concerns …
Small fragment with various kinds of Arabic text on it. Recto may be poetry or prayers (...اذا ما رمت ادراك...), written with diacritics and vowels. …
Fragment of a state document in Arabic script: "kharaja... mablagh... al-mustakhdamīn..."
Account, fiscal, probably Fatimid, with amounts listed in dinars and dirhams. Current folio number unclear; item 15 in DPUL.
Three words of a decree or draft of one: fa-lammā intahā ilayhi. Reused for copious jottings in Arabic script and Hebrew script, including elaborate designs …
State document, in Arabic script. Six lines of a faded petition, or report, the top four lines are extremely effaced. Mentions probably a man of …
Fatimid state document, most likely a decree, in Arabic script. Reused for a bifolio of a larger historiographical text in Arabic, see different entry.
Tax receipt, Fatimid.
Verso (original use): Small fragment of an official-looking Arabic letter. Parts of four lines are preserved. May mention Barqa (unless this is something like "bi-riqqihī"), …
]علي بربـ[
]لى برقة ويقطع البلاد
]اث الله عليه محابة(؟)
ـ]ـن فاعلمهم ان العذر (الغدر=alt) بين
Official-looking receipt maybe tax-related. Dating: maybe 547 AH, which would be 1152/53 CE.
Small fragment of an official-looking letter (written in huge letters). Mentions the name Makhlūf and "al-[...]ūn annahum raʾaw jamīʿ...")
Petition likely addressed to the vizier of al-Ẓāfir, al-ʿĀdil Abū l-Ḥasan ʿAlī Ibn al-Salār (r. 1149–53), regarding an iqṭāʿ worth 5500 dinars and a market …
صلوات الله وبركاته ونوامى وافضل تحياته و[سلامه]
ما اخذ لهم من طين اقطاعهم وهو ماية فدان احتوى عليها النايب
وقد خرجت الاوامر العالية باع…
... what was assigned to them as t…
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 …
Recto: Fiscal document, minute fragment thereof, from the left margin. Dated 27 Ramaḍān, "aẓẓāma--llāhu barakatuhā". Verso: possibly second side of the same document; mostly blank …
Fol. 7v: Fragment (9 lines) from an unusual state document. Mentions the caliph (al-ḥaḍra al-ṭāhira) and contains many Greek/Coptic numerals, which is atypical for fiscal …
Tax receipt for Musāfir b. Yūsuf. Needs examination.
Petition addressed to a dignitary. In Arabic script. The petitioner may be named Abū ʿAlī b Abū Bakr al-Bazzāz (the clothier). None of the standard …
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 …
Fatimid state report. Dating: beginning of the 12th century, during the reign of al-Afḍal. Describes a battle against the Crusaders. This fragment reports on the …
... of the purity of his heart and the nobility (literally: cleanness) of his disposition [ ]
and his impetuonsness for the defence of Islam an…
תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד 2 דיונים
Tax receipt.
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 …
Probably a state/fiscal document. Mentions a date, then a space, then "al-jahābidha" (the tax collectors), then a space, then at the bottom a date span. …
Beginning three lines of a large state document with elegant line spacing, in Arabic script. Decree. Needs examination. Reused heavily on recto and verso for …
Capitation tax receipt for Bū l-Faḍl b. Manṣūr, a Jewish trader, in Fustat. Dated: 17 Muḥarram 525 AH.
Petition from Mubārak b. Ibrahīm Ibn Sabra to Muʿtamid al-Dawla, who seems to be a Fatimid dignitary. The sender asks for (or heavily implies that …
תעתוק אחד 2 תרגומים דיון אחד
Petition. In Arabic script. Fragment (upper right corner). The petitioner seems to be a female slave (and not just a figurative slave/mamlūka): "wa-tunhī al-mamlūka annahā …
[العبدة المملوكة فلانة بنت فلان من ناحية فلان]
بسم الله الر[ـحمن الرحيم]
تقبل الارض بالمجلس الـ[ـشريف الـسامي الـ ]
وتنهي المملوكة …
Petition, probably. In Arabic script. ~4 lines preserved. Refers to al-dīwān al-Mustanṣirī. On verso there is piyyut. Likely related to the cluster T-S H11.90 + …
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 …
Recto: Note in Arabic script, possibly a miniature petition or report ("yunhī," l. 2). Mentions a jahbadh (end of l. 3). Needs further examination. In …
Letter or report. In Arabic script. Mentions a man from Tiberias by the name of Baysān, wicked people (fa-kathura fasāduhum), people who mentioned that they …
Legal document (iqrār) concerning state finances: if the addendum on verso applies to recto (as it seems to, e.g., "المذكور باطنه"), an official named ʿAfīf …
Tax receipt? Mentions: ...al-yahūdī... bi-ḥudūr...