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Verso (original use): Fragment from the upper left corner of a petition or official letter in Arabic script. ASE
תעתוק אחד
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... …
אין רשומות קשורות
Legal document or receipt, late, in Arabic script. Dated: Shaʿbān 14 __78 AH. The dating is likely 1178 (1765 CE) or 1278 (1862 CE). The …
Legal document. In Arabic script in a nice hand. Yehuda b. Ibrāhīm the Jew attests that he has received 15 rounds (aqrāṣ) of Levantine cheese …
Fiscal register, dated 3 Dhū l-Ḥijja of an unmentioned year, mentions several sums of money (Compare AIU IV.C.453, T-S NS 243.75a, T-S NS 198.61, ENA …
Fiscal document, few lines of text, something to do with the release of funds. Probably dating to the Ayyubid period. Reused for Hebrew script. Needs …
Account, fiscal record or tax receipt, Fatimid. Binding pinholes.
Fragment of an official document, probably. (Tax receipt?) Little is preserved beyond the date: 12 Ramaḍān 634 AH = 9 May 1237 CE.
Bottom right corner of a 14th C legal contract, probably a contract, dated 27th Muḥarram 723 AH.
Document, in a very faded Arabic script. Mentions a few commercial accounts, probably a receipt or just pen trails. Needs examination.
List or table listing a bunch of names on both sides. Needs examination.
Accounts or a receipt, Ottoman-era with the seals and signatures of four individuals. The heading mentions "[sic]مذكورين ظابطان". Needs examination.
Report or petition fragment, addressed to a higher state official regarding the matters in southern Upper Egypt, contains the taqbīl clause towards the end. The …
للحضور صحبة النايب مقتفي؟ الرجال…. ريب؟
وعبد الغني وان رفعت الرخصة لهم وكثر طمعهم وقل بذاك عدالتهم؟
والمملوك يشكر الانعام عليه بخروج ال…
Petition, or petition-like letter. From a woman ("al-mamlūka"). Very damaged; unclear if any of the substance of the request is preserved. She mentions her occupation …
Petition, or maybe its draft, to the Fatimid Caliph al-ʾĀmir bi Aḥkām Allah. Verso is also some form of state document in a chancery hand, …
صلوات الله وبركاته ونوامي زكواته [وافضل تحياته على سيدنا ومولانا
[الامام] الامر باحكام الله امير المؤمنين وعلـ…
תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד
Magical document with a humanoid figure and Greek alphabets.
Letter in Arabic script. Addressed to [...] al-Ḥakīm, the physician of the amīr Jamāl al-Dīn Aḥmad. Dating: Likely ca. 13th century. The writer seems to …
Ottoman-era accounts, might be Arabic but some words have Ottoman Turkish suffixes. Needs examination.
State document, probably a fiscal order. Mentions rāhin/dāʾin in the first line, slaves (ghilmān), and property (ʿamāʾr). Some of the names mentioned are Abū Jawhar, …
Blank recto and verso, perforations for binding.
Medical prescription. In Arabic script. With numerous ingredients and instructions. Some ingredients include tamarind (tamr hindī), seeds of chicory (bizr hindibāʾ), chebulic myrobalan (ʾihlīlaj kābulī), …
Fiscal accounting document, probably. Large and well preserved. Needs examination. Alt description: Fragment, recto, and verso both contain what look like pen trials (some repetitions, …
Legal document, 13 lines, in Arabic script. Dated: 9 Ramaḍān 883 AH, which is December 1478 CE (if read correctly). Mentions the Mālikī court (majlis …
Recto: State document, huge line spacing, ends with ṣalwala in a calligraphic hand, probably a decree. On verso there is a letter (see separate record). …
Jottings of accounts and calendrical notations in a mixture of Arabic script, Greek/Coptic numerals, and Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably 12th or 13th century, based on handwriting. …
Fragmentary letter (draft?) with many lacunae, 8 lines. Many glorifying phrases: "...[al-shaykh] al-ajall Sadīd al-Mulk ballaghū Allāh taʿālā aʿlā al-manāzil... dīn wa-dunyā... awdaʿahū Allāh taʿālā...." …
Private accounts according to days (Monday and Friday) listing commodities with an assigned numerical value (quantity? price?). Some commodities include milk, almonds, chicken, meat, raisins, …
Note in Arabic script addressed to [al-]shaykh ʿUmar at Raʾs al-Khalīj ("the head of the canal"; there is apparently a site just south of Fustat …
Bottom of a legal document in Arabic script, four and a half wide lines on paper with 3 final signatures, each in the shape of …
ENA 3960.6–10 are five distinct but related Mamlūk-era legal documents in Arabic script, all dated 909 H (1503/04 CE), and involving the same people (e.g., …
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Contract for the sale of flax following the dissolution of the partnership.Tiqva ha-Levi known as Abū …
תעתוק אחד דיון אחד
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 …
Arabic literary text, in a beautiful and elegant Maghribī script. Probably regarding theology or isagoge. Needs examination.
Literary text, compilation of poetry (dīwān). A portion from the long didactic poem (originally of around 90 verses) stretching through five pages from the dīwān …
On recto, the bottom of a letter (official letter? formulary?) in Arabic script. The writer thanks the addressee in the concluding lines quoting two verses …
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 …
………………………………………..ام………….
ىعـ[]...الله تعالى واستناد الله……….
الـ]ـدعا الصالح و[الـ]ـصلوة والطلبه قبل….بما ارجو من الله
غير خاف عن حضرته كيف …
Two medical prescriptions, one on each page. In Arabic script. Both are headed by "lemon syrup" (sharāb laymūn) or begin with this item. The one …
Letter in Arabic script. May be addressed to a jurisconsult regarding a legal opinion, ending "wa-huwa wa-raʾyuhū abṣar." The sender and addressee are Jewish, based …
Late Arabic legal document. Needs examination.
Legal document, late, in Arabic script. Probably a record of payment to the bureau of silk looms "dīwān anwāl l-ḥarīr". Needs examination.
Four sides of a medical text in a beautiful calligraphic hand with diacritical marks. Needs examination for identifying the work.
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 …
Deed of acknowledgment (iqrār) with many lacunae. Concerns default in debt payment; involves [...] b. Abū Ṭāʿa(?) al-Ḥāmī and Manṣūr b. Faraḥ al-Ḥāmī in Cairo. …
Letter from Yiṣḥaq b. Barhūn to Ismāʿīl b. Faraḥ. (Information from Mediterranean Society, V, p. 518 and from Goitein's index cards). The writer mentions several …
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 …
Deed of acknowledgment (iqrār) by a certain Futūḥ b. Aḥmad. Mentions the judge in whose presence the iqrār took place, another person by the name …
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 …
State document, probably a report to a higher official (not a petition). This is a long strip cut from the right side of the document. …
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…