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Fiscal account, probably. Very stylized, loopy letters. Might be dated 4[..] AH (second line).

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: the tax-farmer Ḏāt al-Ṣafā has paid three, a half and a sixteenth (dirhams?), 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, the deputy judge Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥasan b. Yaḥyā b. Bahār and the elder accountant Sadīd al-Dawla Abū l-Faraj ʿAbd al-Masīḥ b. Qūrīl. Dated: 3 Ramaḍān 402 AH, which is March 1012 CE. Verso: beginning of a draft of the document on recto. (Information from CUDL)

Verso: 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: AAbū 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, and the accountant Abū l-Sarī Theodor b. Yuḥannis. Dated: 25 Dhū l-Qa‘da 403 AH, which is June 1013 CE. Recto: letter (see separate entry). (Information from CUDL)

Receipt for the capitation tax of Bū l-ʿAlāʾ b. Bū l-Faḍl.

Verso: Fatimid petition, right side only. With blessings for 'al-mawqif al-ashraf' and 'al-maqām al-sharīf al-ṭāhir.' Verso as catalogued, but written before the legal document on recto (see separate record).

A mercantile ruqʿa for Abū l-Afrāḥ ʿArūs (b. Yūsuf) al-Urjuwānī. Mentions a bale of lac. (T-S Ar.35.128, T-S Ar.35.269, and T-S AS 184.265 are all similar and all for ʿArūs; ENA 3957.11 is from the same genre and for Nahray b. Nissim).

Official receipt of some sort. Needs examination.

Capitation tax receipt for Musāfir b. Yūsuf, a Jewish man whose profession is "dīwānī." Same man: T-S Ar.35.132, T-S Ar.35.174, and T-S Ar.35.217.

Capitation tax receipt for Khalaf b. Yaʿqūb.

State document(s). The main text on recto includes a name (Muḥammad... ʿAbdallāh...) and many fancy titles (sulṭān... al-imām... sanāʾ al-mulk.. fakhr... naṣr al-mamlaka... al-faḍāʾil sayyid...). At the top there are multiple registration and administrative notes. One begins "Yuqābal..." ("let comparison with it be made"). Underneath there is a note indicating that the instruction has been completed: "Qūbila...." For other documents with a "yuqābal" note, see ENA 3918.11, T-S AS 177.472, and the second document edited by Richards in "A Mamlūk Petition and a Report from the Dīwān al-Jaysh" (https://www.jstor.org/stable/615818#metadata_info_tab_contents).

Bifolio from a small fiscal register in codex form. Three of the four pages each contain a distinct document/entry, beginning with the trigger "balagha." Presumably documenting state revenue of some kind. Merits examination.

Might be a fiscal account. Relatively small fragment from the middle of the document.

Unidentified document in Arabic script. Might be legal or official. Ḥamdala and ṣalwala in the second-to-last line. It was torn and reused for a different kind of document on verso, headed by the glyph and with an elaborate signature or ʿalāma in the middle. Needs examination.

Recto: Official document in Arabic script concerning administration of a district. Phrases include "al-[...] al-marfūʿa min al-aʿmāl.... fī dhālik alladhī uqṭiʿa... min al-jiha al-madhkūra.... in shāʾ allāh... wa-l-ḥamdu lillāh taʿālā(?) wa-ṣalawātuh ʿalā sayyidinā Muḥammad wa-sallama taslīman." Written on top of the inshallah there is another phrase written in a different hand and ink and larger letters: يسفح(؟) باب . . . . مستخدمي الاعمال. Some kind of registration or endorsement? The margins and the spaces between the lines are filled with Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic jottings. Verso: Another document in Arabic script, likely related to recto. In the margins at 90 degrees, in a different hand, possibly another registration or official note possibly reading "bi-rasm (or yursam?) . . al-amr al-ʿālī." Reused for Hebrew jottings. Needs further examination.

Possibly a fiscal account. Only a few lines are preserved on each side, with relatively wide space between them.

Receipt for the capitation tax (jizya) for the Jewish man Bū l-ʿAlāʾ b. Bū l-Faḍl al-Qazzāz (the silk trader) in Fustat. Dated: 19 Muḥarram 533 AH = 26 September 1138 CE. Same man: T-S AS 182.90, T-S AS 182.186, T-S Ar.35.170, and T-S Ar.35.204.

Capitation tax receipt for Musāfir b. Yūsuf, a Jewish man whose profession is "dīwānī." Same man: T-S Ar.35.132, T-S Ar.35.174, and T-S Ar.35.217.

Tax receipt relating to the tax farm of Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb. Written by the jahbadh Mīkhāʾil b. ʿAbd al-Masīḥ.

Tax receipt relating to the tax farm of Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb.

Receipt for the capitation tax of Abū l-Munā(?) b. Yehuda in Fustat for the year 5[..] AH. Needs examination.