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A RARE MAMLUK FIRMAN ISSUED BY THE TREASURY OF SULTAN QAYTBAY
A RARE MAMLUK FIRMAN ISSUED BY THE TREASURY OF SULTAN QAYTBAY
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A RARE MAMLUK FIRMAN ISSUED BY THE TREASURY OF SULTAN QAYTBAY

EGYPT, DATED 3 JUMADA I AH 886/30 JUNE 1481 AD

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A RARE MAMLUK FIRMAN ISSUED BY THE TREASURY OF SULTAN QAYTBAY
EGYPT, DATED 3 JUMADA I AH 886/30 JUNE 1481 AD
Arabic manuscript on buff paper, one side with 16ll. of elegant flowing ta'liq written on the diagonal, two shorter lines below, the reverse with 12ll. of smaller similar script written to one side of the folio, areas of repair
14 1/8 x 10 3/8in. (35.7 x 26.5cm.)

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This document is issued by the Treasury of Sultan Qaytbay and is in the hand of his major domo (amir ustadar) Taghribirdi al-Qadiri. It concerns the deposition of a sum of two thousand and two gold ashrafi dinars to the treasury by a certain Faris bin ‘Abdullah al-Sayfi Tashbugha as part of a conversion (istibdal) of a pious endowment (waqf) made by al-‘Ala’i ‘Ali bin al-Nasiri Muhammad bin Tashbugha. It is witnessed at the bottom by a certain Ibrahim bin ‘Umar al-Damiri. On the other side in a fainter hand is the record of another financial transaction carried out by Tahgribirdi al-Qadiri in his capacity as Amir Ustadar.

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