Geniza Lab

Receipt for the capitation tax of Yūsuf b. Bū l-Ḥasan the Jew in New Cairo.

Official (tax?) receipt. Dated: 5[..] AH (~12th century CE). Needs examination.

Official-looking accounts in Arabic script.

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.

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

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)

State or legal document in Arabic script. Needs examination.

Fiscal account (?) dated 533 AH = 1138/39 CE. Small. Refers to something related to the caliph al-Ḥāfiẓ ("...al-Ḥāfiẓiyya...").

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 people of the town of al-Shūbays have paid two and a half (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: 22 Jumādā I 403 AH, which is December 1012 CE. (Information from CUDL)

Fiscal account. Needs examination.

Document in Arabic script. Tax receipt?

Verso (original use): Official-looking document in Arabic script. Maybe a receipt. Mentions "al-kharājiyya al-muwāfiqa li-[...]." Needs further examination.

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 quarter and a sixth (of a 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: Middle of Dhū l-Qa‘da 403 AH, which is May 1013 CE. (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 quarter and a sixth (dirhams?) 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: Beginning of Dhū l-Ḥijja 403 AH, which is June 1013 CE. (Information from CUDL)

Fiscal document. Begins, "[...] fī bayt al-māl...." Dated: 5[..] AH. Mentions Shams al-Mulk at the end of the second large line. Needs further examination.

Official report, probably, in Arabic script. Mentions people owing debts to each other, and mentions "the fortress" (al-qalʿa) at the bottom of recto. Continues on verso, mentioning more names and ending with a ḥamdala.

Fatimid tax receipt.

Accounts in Arabic script. Fiscal? Mentions al-Qāhira at the top of recto.