Geniza Lab

Tax receipt for the capitation of Musāfir b. Yūṣuf in New Cairo, beginning with the 'tadhkira', at the top, registration marks related to the diwān al-jawālī. Dated: 502 H, which is 1108/09 CE.

Tax receipt from the archive of Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb (see Khan, ALAD, pp. 140–59). He pays a half dinar for the year 404 AH.

Tax receipt, Fatimid. Blank verso. Perforated for binding. For the capitation tax of Hiba b. Yūsuf; same dossier as T-S Misc.24.38.1–3 and ENA 3936.3. Dated: Jumādā I 552 AH (=June/July 1157 CE).

Tax receipt, Fatimid, one registration mark: al-ḥamdū lil-lāh ʿalā niʿamih. Damaged and not easy to decipher bottom lines with date and jahbadh signature. Verso: text and genre unclear, but contains an ʿalāma: al-ḥamdu lil-lāh kamā huwa ahluhu. Dated Ṣafar 436 H.

Tax receipt for Bū l-Makārim b. Bū Ishaq, possibly for the purchase of a house in Fustat. Contains one registration mark.

Tax receipt from the archive of Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb.

Tax receipt in the hand of the jahbadh Mīkhāʾīl b. ʿAbd al-Masīḥ for the tax farm of Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb. Reused on verso for an account.

Verso: tax receipt from the archive of Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb

Tax receipt, Fatimid. One registration mark; 'al-ḥamdu lil-lāh ḥamd al-shākirīn'. Written in the month of Jumād al-Ukhrā of an undeciphered year. Blank verso. Perforated for binding.

Tax receipt, Fatimid. Two registration marks; 'al-ḥamdu lil-lāhi l-muwaffiq li-ḥamdihi' and 'al-ḥamdu lil-lāh ḥamd al-shākirīn'. Blank verso. Perforated for binding.

Tax receipt, Fatimid. One registration mark; 'al-ḥamdu lil-lāh al-wāḥid al-ḥaqq'. Blank verso. Perforated for binding.

Tax receipt, Fatimid. One registration mark; al-ḥamdu lil-lāh ḥamd al-rāʾfa.

Tax receipt, Fatimid.

Capitation tax receipt for a 1 dinar payment made by Bū l-Thanāʾ b. Bū Saʿd b. Ṭayyib al-Murakkib (the saddle maker) in New Cairo and Fustat for the year 405 AH, which is 1014/15 CE. Dated: 21 Muḥarram. Registration mark: 'al-ḥamdu lil-lāh ʿalā niʿamih', all praise be to God for his benefactions (found twice on recto and once on verso). Verso also has some numbers written out in Judaeo-Arabic (might be a writing exercise). (Information from PGP tax receipt team.)

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.

Tax receipt, jizyā, dated 507 H (?).

Tax receipt, mentioning the tax was credited towards the treasury - "Waṣala li-bayt al-māl".

Verso: Tax receipt from the archive of Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb, with holes at the margin. Registration mark - al-ḥamdu lil-lāh ʿalā niʿamih, praise be to God for his benefactions.

Tax receipt.

Tax receipt from the archive of Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb. Multiple registration marks such as 'al-ḥamdu lil-lāh ʿalā niʿamih', praise be to God for his benefactions, and 'al-ḥamdu lil-lāh shukran', praise be to God and gratitude.