وثيقة رسميّة: ENA 4101.14a

الوصف

Fragment of a draft (?) of a petition opening with the taqbīl clause repeated twice (once in isolation) and followed by the caliphal honorific titles: amām al-maqām al-nabawī al-ṭāhirī al-muʿaẓẓam al-sharīf. The actual addressee seems to be a vizier whose titles follow after wa bi-l majlis al-sāmī; al-Sayyīdī al-Ajallī al-ʿĀlī al-Jūyūshī al-Sayfī al-Nāṣirī al-Kāmilī. Probably dates from the late Fatimid period. The petition also has a marāḥim formula "ilā l-marāḥim al-ʿamīma wa l-faḍāʾl al-karīma" (For details on this formula see: Khan, ALAD, pg.396). Further investigation is required to determine the identities of the caliph and addressee in question. On verso there is a single line with a ḥamdala and ṣalwala in Arabic script (perhaps originally from the bottom of the petition? Or from another document that has gotten glued on here.) And there is a cryptic text in Judaeo-Arabic with diagrams of dots and sticks, maybe some kind of technical/magical instructions.