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Tax receipt from the dossier of Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb. Written by the jahbadh Yūḥannā b. Mīkhāʾīl. The is issued by a government office to …
דיון אחד
Recto: Account in Arabic script, of unknown content. Torn and reused for a letter (see separate record).
אין רשומות קשורות
Legal document, in Arabic script. The two Christians Barzūq b. Mufriḥ and Zurayn b. Makhlūf jointly lease (=shares) a vegetable garden (arḍ al-baqla) on the …
Tax receipt, Fatimid. Possibly mentions ʿAbdallah b. Manṣūr in line 4 after the basmala in line 3. Requires further examination.
Recto: Official letter. Approximately 14 lines are preserved. Dating: No earlier than 1021 CE, since al-Ḥākim was dead at the time of writing. Possibly dating …
حسب اعتدادي بتطوله وما لا يزال يبلغني من بره وحسن محضره ويتصل بي من [.ط…
لاشفقت من اضجاره ادام الله عزه بقراتها لكني اوثر التسهيب واتجنب التثقيل…
תעתוק אחד
Petition to a state official. In Arabic. After a taqbīl, the addressee is greeted with many titles ("al-majlis al-ʿādilī al-sayfī al-nāṣirī(?) al-kāmilī al-hādī"). The petitioner …
Legal document, deed of acknowledgment, concerning an inheritance dispute between Jamīla bt. Lāḥiq the veterinarian and her brother. Contains three testimonies at the bottom. The …
Verso: State document, Fatimid, in Arabic script. Mentions the death of one of the policemen of the vizier's ship (al-mutawaffī min al-raqqāṣīn al-mustakhdama bi-rasm markab …
عبده
امتثل ما امر به ووجد المتوفي من الرقاصين
المستخدمة برسم مركب الوزارة المحروس
واحد قصر مشاهرته على هذه الخدمة ما وجب
لذي الحجة سنة ار…
State document, probably a decree, last three lines, written on the joyous occasion of ʿĪd al-Naḥr. Preserved lines read as "فاعلم هذا واعمل..وكتب في يوم …
واعلم هذا واعمل بـ[ـه وليقرّ بأيديهم بعد ثبوته في ... بحيث يثبت مثله ان شاء الله تعالى]
كتب في يوم عيد النحر السعيد [سنة …. ]
[الحمد لله…
State document, Fatimid, probably a decree fragment, 4 lines. Begins with وعاد بنجابتهما وحسن in a dual tense suggesting that it was addressed to two …
عاد بنجابتهما وحسن
عاد بنجابتها وحسن
وله منتصبين وفيه مجدين وليتحققا
…… مسوولان عنها مطالبيـ[ن
Official letter, six fragmentary lines in Arabic, recycled by ʿEli b. Yeḥezqel ha-Kohen of Jerusalem (d. ca. 1055) for a Piyyuṭ which dates the state …
On recto, Hebrew piyyuṭ. All around it and on verso, Arabic jottings and pen trials.
Fragment of a decree. There is a single full word: "al-mustaḥabbīn."
Tax receipt, Fatimid. Dated: 501 (?). Capitation tax in Fustat. Two registration requests, two ʿalāmas. Trigger: ṣaḥḥa. Glyph at the top.
Tax receipt, Fatimid. For Hiba b. Yūsuf. Trigger: addā. Year: 547 (?). See ENA 3925.6 (PGPID 10284).
Letter from Abū Naṣr, in Alexandria, to his brother al-Thiqa, in Fustat. There are greetings to Abū l-Ṭāhir Ismāʿīl and his son Sharaf(?), but these …
Fatimid petition in Arabic, reused for Hebrew piyyūt on the recto. Awaits in-depth description and edition.
Recto: Chancery excercises. The basmala appears twice, and one line begins, "Qāla Amīr al-Muʾminīn..." Verso: State document, Fatimid. Opens with a reference to an employee …
The text is badly damaged but one can read ʾišhād fulān ʾišhād fulān (l. 3)
Several words written in a thick pen a trial of the pen. Among others one reads the words šayʾ, ḍāʿaf Allāh
Pen trial consisting of three basmala
Pen trial consisting of the formula wa-mā tawfīqī ʾillā bi-llāh
Verso: Account in Arabic script (Naïm Vanthieghem; description to come).
Account in cash (dirhams and dinars)
Trial of the pen consisting of several basmala-s
Tax receipt from the archive of Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb, Fatimid. One registration mark: al-ḥamdu lil-lāh ʿalā niʿamih.
Tax receipt, Fatimid.
Tax receipt from the archive of Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb. Dated: 27 Muḥarram 404.
Tax receipt, Fatimid for the sum of one-quarter dīnār (rubʿ)? Registration mark at the top left corner- al-ḥamdu lil-lāh shukran li niʿmatihi.
Tax receipt, Fatimid. Dated 505 H?
Tax receipt, Fatimid. Registration marks - al-ḥamdu lil-lāh waḥdahu (recto), al-ḥamdu lil-lāh ʿalā nuʿamāʾih (verso).
Receipt for Abu Sahl the teacher (al-muʿallim). Possibly a tax receipt, Fatimid.
Tax receipt, Fatimid, issued in Fusṭāṭ in the name of Saʿīd al-Afṣarī. Hint of a date at the bottom (23?).
State document, in Arabic script. Fatimid petition. Mentions a state official by the name Shaykh Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī b. Ḥadīd, a partnership, and some financial …
]من امره [ ]ـلى ما يجب ان[
]الشيخ ابو الحسن علي بن حديد ادام الله عزه[
]الحضرة الجليلة ادام الله سلطانها واحق…ك. ها
]ـناله وحمى .[]بها وال…
State document, in Arabic script. Damaged/faded. About 8 lines are preserved. The document is probably a Fatimid petition requesting a rescript, "khurūj al-tawqīʿ" and mentions …
Legal document, in Arabic script. Fatimid-era. Begins with blessings upon the reigning Caliph who is al-Ẓāhir due to the year mentioned. May relate to an …
Tax receipt, probably Fatimid. Written on the verso of a torn petition or formal letter in Arabic script which reads as "ʿabd Mawlānā wa-Sayyidunā", then …
תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד
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…