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Arabic script (VMR)

Legal or official document. In Arabic script. Dated: Jumādā II 1239 AH, which is February 1824 CE (but this reading should be checked). Mentions ʿUmar Agha the superintendent of freights of silk (nāẓir anwāl al-ḥarīr), apparently in the Bīṭāsh area of Alexandria (mentions وكالة البيطاش). Witnessed by Aḥmad Ghānim al-[...]. Needs further examination.

Arabic script (VMR)

Arabic script (VMR)

Arabic script (VMR)

Arabic script (VMR)

Arabic script (VMR)

Arabic script (VMR)

Arabic script (VMR)

Arabic script (VMR)

Arabic script (VMR)

Arabic script (VMR)

Arabic script (VMR)

Fatimid tax receipt possibly from the time of al-Ḥākim bi ʿAmr Allah from the archive of Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb. Multiple registrations marks: 'al-ḥamdu lil-lāh ʿalā niʿamih', all praise be to God for his benefactions, 'al-ḥamdu lil-lāh bihi athiq', all praise be to God in him I trust.

Legal document in Arabic script, fragment, 7 lines. Dating: Ottoman or possibly late Mamluk era. Mentions people such as Niʿmat (or Nūr?) al-Dīn, [...] b. ʿAbdallāh, Mūsā the Rabbanite Jew, Yaʿqūb b. Ibrāhīm [...] al-Lāwī, the wife of al-khwājā Niʿmat (or Nūr?) al-Dīn, and the daughter of the late (al-marḥūm) khwājā Zakariyā b. Muḥarrar and her daughter-in-law. Includes standard phrases about legal competence (sound health, willingness, and free choice—fī ṣiḥḥatih wa-salāmatih wa-ṭawāʿiyyatih wa-ikhtiyārih). Possibly a will of al-khwāja Muḥarrrar(?) Niʿmat(?) al-Dīn. Benefactors(?) include his wife (zawj al-Khwājā) and his deceased son (al-Marḥūm) al-Khwājā Zakariyyā b. al-Muḥarrar. A debt owed by Yaʿqūb b. Ibrāhīm associated to the wife of the khwājā is forgiven (wa inna dhālik taghliq mā ʿalā Yaʿqūb b. Ibrāhīm [...] al-Lāwī min al-dayn... al-mutaʿalliq bi-zawjat al-khwājā...). Might also be a release or another kind of legal document.

Arabic script (VMR)

Arabic script (VMR)

Arabic script (VMR)

Tax receipt, jizyā, dated 507 H (?).

Arabic script (VMR)