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Description
Blank fragment. Blank verso of fragment
Description
Instructions concerning land tax.
Description
Receipt for ḫarāǧ. Mentioning the cultivating of land on behalf of/with others, and land tax. Dated Ramadan 307 AH.
Date created
920 CE (307 AH)
Description
Document containing a list of those witnessing declarations, mentioning renting and salt.
Date created
868 CE (254 AH)
Description
Private letter, mentioning the despatch of someone with a certain person and including news of a birth of a child to the writer.
Date created
9th century CE (3rd century AH)
Description
Private letter mentioning money.
Date created
9th century CE (3rd century AH)
Description
Official letter concerning the news reaching the writer about a certain battle and a declaration of acceptance of something.
Date created
9th century CE (3rd century AH)
Description
An IOU for barley, dated 84 AH (703 CE), or possibly 204 AH (819 CE). If the reading of 84 is correct, this is the earliest dated Arabic papyrus in the collection.
Date created
703 CE (84 AH)
Description
Legal document concerning property sharing, the locality of the property and the aquisition, together with a list of a list of witnesses to legal declarations. Dated Shawwal 287 AH (November 900 CE)
Date created
900 CE (287 AH)
Description
A legal document concerning property sharing, the locality of the property and the aquisition, together with a list of a list of witnesses to legal declarations.
Date created
900 CE (287 AH)
Description
Legal document containing written testimony and a sum of money. Ending with the seal of Solomon and dated 265 AH. Verso blank.
Date created
878 CE (265 AH)
Description
Legal document containing written testimony and a sum of money. Ending with the seal of Solomon and dated 265 AH. Verso blank.
Date created
878 CE (265 AH)
Description
Document concerning the leasing of land, with mention of land measurements, crops, payments by instalments and various fractions.
Date created
9th century CE (3rd century AH)
Description
Document containing a list of names.
Date created
9th century CE (3rd century AH)
Description
Document including the name of an amir.
Date created
9th-10th century CE (3rd-4th century AH)
Description
Documents concerning the collection and non-collection of land tax.
Date created
8th-9th century CE (2nd-3rd century AH)
Description
Document with witnesses and mention of money. Dated 312 AH (924 CE).
Date created
924 CE (312 AH)
Description
Legal document with witnesses to a legal declaration. Dated Shawwal 282 AH (January 896 CE).
Date created
896 CE (282 AH)
Description
Document with witnesses and mention of money. Dated 312 AH (924 CE).
Date created
924 CE (312 AH)
Description
Legal document with witnesses to a legal declaration. Dated Shawwal 282 AH (January 896 CE).
Date created
896 CE (282 AH)
Description
Fragment of a personal letter with good wishes and a request, the writer asking the recipient not to neglect him. There are nine recto lines plus two lines in the right hand margin at right angles to the main body of apparent text.
Date created
9th century CE [3rd]
Subject
Letters
Description
Two lines of large thick script written along the horizontal fibres in fading brown ink. Text is probably a fragment of Qur'anic text.
Date created
9th century CE [3rd]
Subject
[Qur'an, Islam, Religion]
Description
Light brown fragment with two lines of large, thick Kufic text across the horizontal fibres in brown ink. Text is probably Quranic.
Date created
8-9th century CE [2nd-3rd]
Subject
[Qur'an, Islam, Religion]
Description
Two lines of Coptic in black ink across the vertical fibres.
Date created
8-9th century CE [2nd-3rd]
Description
Six lines of religious, possibly Quranic, text in dark brown ink along the horizontal fibres of the fragment.
Date created
9th-10th century [3rd-4th]
Subject
[Qur'an, Islam, Religion]
Description
A soiled and badly damaged brown fragment. A private letter with good wishes, with the name Abu al-Husayn mentioned. Four lines of text in black ink across the vertical fibres.
Date created
9th-10th century [3rd-4th]
Subject
Letters
Description
A document with the basmalah and personal names and terms. The upside down text is a legal document with mention of a legal case.
Date created
9th century CE (3rd century AH)
Description
Brown fragment of three lines in large, thick Kulfic script [no complete words] along the horizontal fibres. A religious, probably Quranic, text.
Date created
9th-10th century CE [3rd-4th]
Subject
[Qur'an, Islam, Religion]
Description
Blank aside from some brown ink stains.
Date created
9th-10th century CE [3rd-4th]
Description
Receipt for the payment of ḫarāǧ (land tax), dated 292 AH.
Date created
904 CE (292 AH)
Description
Receipt for the payment of ḫarāǧ (land tax), dated Mesore 226 AH (July-August 841).
Date created
841 CE (226 AH)
Description
Petition addressed to an Amir from a Christian monk on behalf of his poor followers who inhabit a monastery, making several complaints about the supporters of the sultan/local government officials of beatings and fines and suggesting religious discrimination. He ends the letter begging the Amir to rectify the injustice the writer and his colleagues have suffered.
Date created
9th-10th century CE (3rd-4th century AH)
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