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Official-looking accounts in Arabic script.

Business accounts in Arabic script and a few Greek/Coptic numerals. Listing various textiles/garments and prices in dirhams. Also mentions the ruqʿa of the banker (al-ṣayrafī).

Letter fragment in Arabic script.

Verso: Letter/petition requesting a covering (? kiswa). In Arabic script. Recto: Undeciphered document in Arabic script. Both sides need further examination.

Right side of an informal note or order of payment in Arabic script. Its content is not preserved, only the opening phrases and the phrase "ḥattā astakmil." Written on the back of a larger document that was torn up.

Bottom part of a (tax?) receipt.

Document in Arabic script. Petition? Needs examination.

Accounts in Arabic script. Might be state/fiscal. Mentions Fustat and 10 dinars.

Small receipt of some kind in Arabic script.

Bottom part of a tax receipt. Dated: 5[..] AH (~12th century).

Undeciphered document in Arabic script. Might be a brief letter since the word 'al-makhdūm' appears at the end of the first line and there may be stylized signatures at the bottom. Dating: Probably Mamluk or early Ottoman era.

Recto: Upper part of a letter or letter formulary. In Arabic script, with all the diacritics and vowels. Verso: Prayer in Arabic script.

Lists of names in Arabic script. Business accounts?

Draft of the beginning of an Arabic letter to a judge. See separate entry for verso. (Information from CUDL)

Receipt relating to the tax farm of Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb written by Mīkhāʾīl b. ʿAbd al-Masīḥ, the cashier, and registered by the Office of Accounts on behalf of the Office of Supervision: Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb has paid the sum of two, a half, a third and an eighth (dirham?) for the estates in Al-Fayyūm, under the supervision of the judge Ṯiqat al-Mulk Makīn al-Dawla wa-Amīnuhā, of the protégé of the commander of the faithful Abū l-Ḥasan ʿAlī b. Bahār, of the judge Abū ʿAlī b. Yaḥyā b. Bahār and the elder accountant Sadīd al-Dawla Abū l-Faraj ʿAbd al-Masīḥ b. Qūrīl. Dated: 3 Shawwāl 405 AH, which is March 1015 CE. See separate entry for recto. (Information from CUDL)

Note addressed to Manṣūr b. Thanāʾ al-[...]. In Arabic script. Mentions ʿIzz al-Dīn. Unclear what the request is.

Fragment from the top of a legal document in Arabic script. Concerning [properties?] comprising the waqf for the poor of the Jews ("...al-mawqūfa ʿalā ḍuʿafāʾ al-yahūd...") in Qaṣr al-Shamʿ.

State or legal document in Arabic script. Needs examination.

Informal note from Abū l-Faraj. In Arabic script. He complains about his illness and inability to go out (on account of the jāliya?). He asks the addressee to send something with the bearer. Maybe wine—the second word of the penultimate line looks like nabīdh.

Small fragment (lower left corner) of a legal document in Arabic script.