Geniza Lab

Probably a fiscal account.

Receipt of some kind.

Tax receipt for Nuṣayr b. Saʿīd. Dated: 5[..] AH (~12th century CE).

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 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: 6 Ramaḍān 405 AH, which is February 1015 CE. (Information from CUDL)

Receipt for Bū l-Majd b. [...].

Top of a tax receipt. There is a lot of text. Might be from the dossier of Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb? Needs examination.

Official receipt of some kind.

Fiscal account or receipt. Mentions a name at the top and mentions wheat further down. Needs examination.

Tax receipt for Yaʿqūb b. Isḥāq, likely for what he owes as the tax farmer of something (min jumlat mā ʿalayhi ʿan [ḍamānih?]...). On verso there is petition-like text, possibly a draft or possibly the bottom of an actual petition that was torn up for scrap paper. Needs further examination.

Official-looking account reporting revenue.

Fragment of a tax receipt, probably.

Fragment of a tax receipt, probably.

Receipt for the capitation tax of Hiba b. Khalaf in Fustat. Dated: 503 or 530 AH.

Recto: official-looking letter possibly addressed to a qāḍī. Verso: A receipt of some kind? Both sides need further examination.

Maybe a petition or draft of one. In Arabic script. With a raʾy clause.

State/fiscal document. Maybe concerning two months of agricultural taxes. Dated: looks like 403 AH, but this should be checked. The main text after the basmala may read: ليتسلم …… ادام الله عزه …. الزراعات لشهرين … لسنة ثلث واربعمائة. In the addition at the bottom, mentions Dīwān al-Kharāj(?). In the endorsement at the top, the word "yuqābal" appears (cf. ENA 3918.11). Needs further examination.

Small fragment of an unclear nature. Two lines of Arabic script, the top of which reads "Dīwān al-Ishrāf."

Receipt for someone's capitation tax in Fustat. Dated: 5[..] AH (~12th century CE).

A few words in large Arabic script in a chancery hand, possibly from a decree. Specifies a date (13th of Jumādā?).

Receipt for the ground rent (ḥikr) in Qaṣr al-Shamʿ for the year 4[..] AH (~11th century CE).