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Literary text, in Arabic script. Probably a folio from a larger historical text regarding the battle of the camel. Mentions Amīr al-Muʾminīn which is possibly …
אין רשומות קשורות
Fragment of a letter or petition in Arabic script from Muwaffaq b. Hiba. Dating: Probably Ayyubid or Mamluk-era. Mentions Damietta(?)
Petition fragment (upper left corner). The ends of 5 lines are preserved. The addressee is called 'nuṣrat al-mujāhidīn' among other titles. Dating: Ayyubid or Mamluk. …
(Part of an) Ismāʿīlī text on creed. The preserved text establishes the genealogy of Ismaʿīlī Imāms from Jaʿfar al-Ṣādiq to al-Mustanṣir with their full names …
תעתוק אחד
Mamlūk-era fiscal document. Perhaps a makhzūma. Mentions a dīwān in the first line. An archival note with an ʿalāma "alḥamdu li-llah rabb al-ʿālamīn" on verso. …
State document, in Arabic script. Fragment from the beginning of a petition. Dating: likely Ayyubid or Mamluk.
Beginning formula of a pseudo-petition, in Arabic script. After the formula, the addressee is mentioned as "fulān" b. "fulān".
Bifolio (subsequently folded into thirds) of an eclectic selection of incomplete state-related documents. Fiscal accounting, and an entry concerning a claim made from al-Ṣināʿa al-Maḥrūsa …
يتم(؟) كتاب(؟) الغلات
بجزيرة بني نصر والبحيرة
مما تسلمه مبارك
وغطريف من جملة المستخدمين
بالزكات السامي
عشر ويبات
بفضل…
Literary text, in Arabic script. Probably a prayer or some sort of instruction manual. Contains a few Quranic verses like "al-Nabī al-Ummī", and "wa-lā ḥawlā …
Recipe or letter fragment in Arabic script. Mentions apples (tuffāḥ) and quince (safarjal), and half mithqāl of something.
Small fragment from the top of a letter or petition. In Arabic script. Mentions a "dīwān".
Receipt for Jamīl b. Hiba b. ʿAbbād b. ʿAlī for the ḍamān of a shop (ḥānūt). Dating: the payment is for the year 516 or …
Medical text, in Arabic script.
Arabic poetry. Starts with a basmala, two verses, probably love poetry.
State document, in Arabic script. Five faded lines on a small paper fragment. Mentions the state official Fakhr al-Mulk. A Fatimid state official by the …
State document, in Arabic script. 2-3 words in a chancery script. Needs examination.
Document in Arabic script, likely a petition or official correspondence. Dating: late Ayyubid or Mamlūk era based on paleography.
Internal Fatimid state correspondence concerning the collection and transfer of funds, probably tax-related. The upper left is missing, so the content is difficult to reconstruct. …
Bottom of a petition, probably, or most likely a report. Parts of 4 lines from the end are preserved, then a huge space, then a …
End of a Fatimid petition fragment, in Arabic script. The preserved text contains the ray clause and the closing formula.
Decree, fragment. Dating: late Fatimid or Ayyubid. Reused for a bifolio and a single folio containing passages from the Babylonian Talmud. (Join by Sussman catalogue …
Upper part of a petition/letter in Arabic from Yaḥyā b. Yusuf, asking the recipient to fulfill the request of "mawlay al-qāʾid" and to send a …
תעתוק אחד 2 דיונים
Fragment of official correspondence in Arabic script. The beginnings of 6 lines are preserved. Reused on verso for piyyuṭ.
End of a decree with ḥamdala and ḥasbala in large letters (2 cm alif), recycled into a Jewish prayerbook with five bifolios. At least three …
State document, in Arabic script. A Fatimid decree, reused for a long liturgical text in Hebrew.
State document, in Arabic script. Draft, the scribe abandoned the draft after writing the first line. Reused for a Hebrew liturgical text.
Unidentified text on parchment, in Arabic script, likely legal or literary. On the other side, there is Hebrew literary text.
Small fragment of a state document, likely a decree. Only two lines are preserved, written in very large letters with huge line spacing between them: …
State correspondence, probably a petition but any petition-related formula is missing. Five lines are preserved, and possibly a copy of a sixth line. Almost all …
…encompassing, and its justice and perpetual generosities, and benevolence from it and its might.
[The slave] steadfastly remained near our mast…
תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד
State document in Arabic script, maybe a decree. Mentions a few places in the upper Nile valley like the village of Būsh (near the Fayyūm), …
State document, administrative accounts. The right halves of 14 lines are preserved. Mentions someone's servants (wa-ghilmānuhū), half of something, and installments (aqsāṭ). The months Ramaḍān, …
Bottom of a letter, state document, or legal document in Arabic script. Referring to someone demanding his rights "yaṭlub īqāf ḥaqqih". In the second to …
Fiscal register, in Arabic script. List of dates (no years) and amounts in Arabic, recycled to make a bifolio.
Fol. 2v: Possibly state correspondence, possibly a draft. Wide space between the lines. The same scribe reused verso of each fragment for Hebrew poetry. Mentions …
Fol. 1v: Letter in Arabic script, in a chancery-esque hand. Likely business-related. There are some deferential phrases (versions of the raʾy formula). Needs further examination.
Fiscal document fragment, in Arabic script. One phrase preserved (من ذي القعدة), part of a larger register. See PGPID 39403.
State document, in Arabic script. 11 lines of official correspondence in a chancery hand, probably a report of some kind. The preserved document was chopped …
Recto: Petition, probably. In Arabic script. 8 lines from the middle of the document, wide space between the lines. Written on a long, narrow sheet. …
State document, probably a decree. In Arabic script, in a chancery hand. Huge letters and wide space between the lines. Reused for a Judaeo-Arabic literary …
Verso: Literary text in Arabic script. The story of the man who complained against ʿAmāra b. Ḥamza before the Abbasid caliph al-Manṣūr (فقال مظلوم امير …
State document, fragment, in Arabic script. Six lines are preserved, wide space between the lines. Might be a draft, since there are words crossed out …
عبد عبيدها ويبدو والقسم وجزيل العطا والنعم
فما ينفك عن عبد خلص ولاوه وحسن تلاوة وانعقدت على
المسابغة عقايده واراوه وتقلب في الطاعة بين سلف
م…
Bottom of a legal document, in Arabic script. One witness clause preserved and a technical terminology "al-mutakkhir bi-mā fī tārikhih".Reused for Hebrew piyyuṭ.
Fiscal account recording the revenue of wheat, barley and broadbeans produced in five villages of the Gharbiyya province (Basūṭ Nahīsah, Maḥallat Bū l-Haytam, Nawāj, Damshīt, …
State document, in Arabic script. Maybe a decree issued in response to a petition. Wide space between the lines. Mentions a masjid in al-aʿmāl al-gharbiyya …
State document, probably an internal state memorandum regarding a payment. Portions of three lines are preserved, wide space between the lines. Mentions a sum of …
الى ان قطع على نفسه ماية دينار وان الذي حصىـ
له من هذه الجملة خمسون دينار ويسال في الانعام عليه
[والاحسان إليه] ….ليقبل به
State document, in Arabic script. Report or official correspondence. The ends of ~14 lines are preserved. Includes many fiscal-related terminologies, "al-dīwān al-maʿmūr", "min al-ḥisāb", "[D]īwān …
Letter, in Arabic script. Top part missing. The sender expresses his longing for the addressee. He mentions a paper trail and expresses his happiness on …
الاجتماع معه على الحال السارة فيه ا[
بمنه وسعة فضله ووصل كتابه ادام الله
حراسته من تنيش(=تنيس) على يد سعادة الغلام
وقراته وابتهجت بما تضمنه …
Decree, in Arabic script. Only a few words preserved in a bold chancery script.
Verso: Petition, in Arabic script. Mentions a judge, the court, and probably the appointment of someone to the position of judgeship who wasn't fit for …
……………].....ـهم الخلل و ذلك [
]يعمل به ……. يعرض ويؤمر منها العهد والوقت استبد لهم جماعة من الفقها
]على بعض حاله (؟) ومن اوقف جميع بالحضرة…
Verso (original use): Official correspondence in Arabic script. The ends of 5 lines are preserved. (The text in between lines 1 and 2 is the …