Another Fatimid tax receipt for your viewing pleasure. This one leapt out of the pile this morning, from the collection of the Alliance Israélite Universelle in Paris. /1 
The AIU collection contains lots of Ottoman texts. Geniza document specialists have neglected it; we cluster in the 1000–1500 range. Ottoman Ladino and Arabic from AIU are getting attention now from Alan Elbaum of the PGP team; the Ottoman Turkish material awaits its Goitein. /2
But back to the Fatimids! Here's the AIU tax receipt with the same grid I introduced in my most recent #fragmentfriday post. The zones overlap, and there is a possible bonus: a sixth hand (?) at top, which echoes hand 1 (the cashier). It says addā "he paid." /3
So hand 6 could belong to yet another tax official, or perhaps a government archivist. I'm not sure. But that same mark appears on other MSS in different meanings, sadly for my sanity. Here's one from @theULSpecColl, at the top of a letter. /4
Back to the tax receipt: I believe the date is 528H (1133–34): سنة ثمان وعشرون وخمسماىة. I'm unsure about the digit, though. I will entertain all proposals. I also accept pity from the less beleaguered, like readers of Arabic literary manuscripts, or 19th century archives.😞/5
I was thinking that was the amount. But you’re the badass paleographer here, over to you 😉
