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Type: State document
1081 records found
Petition, possibly Mamluk.
Two official documents, the first (22a) dated Tripoli, 15 Dhū al-Qaʻdah 884 H. [1480], the second (22b) dated 9 (?) Ramaḍān 907 H. [1502].
Petition to ʻUthmān ibn ʻUmar to Jawhar al-Ṣafawī, asking him for money. [Described on a separate small piece of paper: "Important"; [next line] "A letter from a mamluk (slave) named ʻUthmān ibn ʻUmar asking his master Gohar Al Safawī to send him a sum of money"; [next line] "The word Urgent is written around the inscription in thick characters."].
Official document issued to the Majlis al-ʻĀlī, dated 512 H. [1118]. Linked to item 1 (?).
Tax receipt, Fatimid, possibly for the year 414? 11.5 x 10.5. NB: There is a discrepancy between the numbering of the manuscripts and the photos.
Petition to the Fatimid caliph al-Musanṣir.
Account, fiscal, probably Fatimid, with amounts listed in dinars and dirhams.
Receipt for tax dated 701 (1302)
Receipt for tax, possibly Mamluk
Petition (formula: al-mamlūk yuqabbil al-yad al-ʿāliya), 1106H (?)
Possibly a tax receipt or an order of payment? Two endorsements, end of Dhū l-Qaʿda of the year 403 (?) 6x8 cm, verso blank
Receipt for payment of a tax farmer (dāmin, lines 2) in Fustat. The month of Ramadan al-Muʿaẓẓam of the year 701. Alama: al-ḥamdu lillāh sallama taslīman (?). Verso has a note about the shop (dukkān) of someone. 9 x 7 approximately
Letter (?), left half only, narrow folds like a letter, mentioning quantities of something and a certain Nūr al-Dīn, so maybe Ayyubid?
Petition mentioning the names of Ismāʻīl and ʻUmar al-Kutāmī. [Described on the paper wrapper as: "Complainte contre un homme de la tribu de Kutawa [...] Fatimite" ; on a separate small piece of paper : " A complaint against a man from the tribe of Kutama (from the Fatimite period)"].
Unidentified state document, possibly fiscal.
Recto: Official letter in Arabic script. Four lines preserved. The sender reports that something either fell (waqaʿat) or was signed (wuqqiʿat), probably the latter. Someone is away from Fustat but as soon as he returns, the sender will obtain something from him and deliver it to "al-majlis al-sāmī" (حرس الله عز سلطانه).
Petition. Report fragment, probably early Ayyubid period (taqbīl clause + paleography + reused by Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi, whose documents cluster ca. 1190–1210; see description of verso of this document). Difficult to decipher. Contains a registration mark in faded (iron gall?) ink.
State document in Arabic script. The first three lines only (kharaja al-amr al-ʿālī al-mawlawī al-sulṭānī al-malikī al-[...] al-nāṣirī zāda allāhu fī. . .). (Information from Goitein's index cards)
State document: Official report (fragment) concerning armed insurrection and civil unrest. For verso, see separate entry.
Recto: A few words from a decree: al-mamlūk muqaddam al-juyūsh.
