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shelfmark:"Bodl ms. Heb a 2/3"
Original use: Fiscal account in Arabic script. Mentions a sum of greater than 132,000 dinars (this figure has a high degree of precision, ending with …
لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر
Fatimid decree. Two lines in huge script with wide spaces between the lines; faded and difficult to decipher. Reused for a text in Judaeo-Arabic that …
Possibly one line of a state document. ""al-[...] bi-waliyy wulāt al-[...] ... istiḥqāq...""
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State document originating from the Ayyubid administration in Damascus leading up to 644 AH = 1246/47 CE. The joins are not certain. The same Hebrew …
1 نسخ
State document, in Arabic script. Probably a petition from an unemployed person, "baṭṭāl bilā ʿamal". Mentions the amīr Fāris al-Dawla. The amīr Fāris al-Dawla was …
Recto, lower right corner: draft of a state document, likely a petition, beginning with prayers for the caliph al-Mustanṣir. There may be part of a …
Petition. In Arabic script, in a beautiful chancery hand. Portions of 4 lines are preserved. Includes the raʾy clause (fī hādha l-bābi ʿālī l-raʾyi in …
Fragment of a fiscal document in Arabic script. Needs examination. Reused for piyyuṭ.
Unidentified document(s) in Arabic script. Probably state-related. Verso: Headed by the basmala, followed by an elongated "ʿaml," followed by "the petition (? ruqʿa) of Fuḍayl …
Original use: Official correspondence in Arabic script, mentioning Ibn al-Salār (vizier of al-Ẓāfir, 1149–53 CE). Needs examination for content. Secondary use: Literary text in Arabic …
Could probably be part of a decree. Fragmentary date preserved.
Letter or possibly a decree to a lower official in a chancery hand. Upper part only. Someone has attempted to wash out the text of …
1 مناقشة
Fragment of a state document in Arabic script: "kharaja... mablagh... al-mustakhdamīn..."
Verso (original use): Four lines from the bottom of a state document in Arabic script. Mentions a dīwān. Dating: likely early 11th century. Needs examination.
State document, in Arabic script. Five faded lines on a small paper fragment. Mentions the state official Fakhr al-Mulk. A Fatimid state official by the …
State document, Arabic script. Fragmentary. Probably an official correspondences offering congratulations/prayers on the occasion of a new caliph coming to power (... fī ḥulūl mulk …
مو]لانا صلوات الله عليه واهلك[عداه
]ـل بالتسبيح والتمجيد عند اعلانه به وشفع دعاء [
و[د]عا جميع الحاضرين بالابتهال من الله تعالى والرغبة اليه
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Fatimid capitation tax receipt for Isḥāq b. Shūʿā (=Yiṣḥaq b. Yeshuʿa), a Jewish druggist (ʿaṭṭār)
Petition, fragment, in Arabic script. The sender says that he (or less likely someone else) is unable to provide for himself (a trope of petitions) …
State document. Petition to a Fatimid ruler in which the writer asks to be exempted from the payment of his capitation tax (of 1 + …
ويقوم بالجزية الواجبة عليه ومبلغها فى السنة دينار واحد وثلث وربع ودرهم
وفي اكثر اوقاته يتعذر عليه تغليقها الى ان يتصدق له من اليهود اهل طائ…
He pays the poll tax that he is liable for, the annual amount of which is one dīnār, a third and a quarter, and one dirham.
At most times it is d…
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة
Probably a state/fiscal document. Mentions a date, then a space, then "al-jahābidha" (the tax collectors), then a space, then at the bottom a date span. …
Tax receipt, jizyā, dated 507 H (?). Pinholes at the margin 5mm apart.
One line of an extremely faded Arabic text, probably a state document. Reused for Hebrew literary text. There are probably several joins.
Official-looking accounts or receipt, mentioning a 'maṭbakh' and the name Sāliḥ b. ʿAṭiyya.
Receipt for the capitation tax of Maʿālī b. Bū l-Karam. Dated 508? Needs further examination. See T-S AS 177.85 (PGPID 37036) for all the related …
Fiscal document recording the receipt of a sum of money. 108 dirhams is mentioned. There is at least one ʿalāma (al-ḥamdu lil-lāh mustaḥiqq al-ḥamd, same …
State document, in Arabic script. Petition to a lower official. "Mamlūk al-ḥaḍra al-sāmiyya al-ajalliya". Only beginning formula preserved. Mentions khufarāʾ (the village protectors).
Tax receipt.
Document in Arabic script. Possibly a state document. There is a single line, subsequently reused for a Judaeo-Arabic composition.
Fiscal document. Needs examination.
Receipt ("tadhkira bism...") for the capitation tax of Maʿrūf b. Yahūdhā al-Yahūdī, an indigo merchant (nīlī) and perfumer (ʿattār), in Fustat. The registration mark / …
Fiscal account of some sort, Fatimid, dated 533 AH = 1138/39 CE. Small. Refers to the iqṭāʿ attributed to the caliph al-Ḥāfiẓ ("al-iqṭāʿāt al-Ḥāfiẓiyya..."). Also …
Petition to a Fatimid dignitary regarding a theft of money. The archer Manṣūr b. Zakī al-Dawla (or: Rukn al-Dawla, which seems more likely given al-Maqrīzī's …
Tax receipt, Fatimid.
Fatimid tax receipt.
Recto: Fiscal account, probably, or less likely commercial. Needs examination
Petition to a Fatimid caliph, end only, with long lower margin enabling it to be reused as a biofolio transverse to the original text.
عليـ]ـهم ما شمل كله المعظم (؟) في هذه الايام
الزاهرة القاهرة عدلا واحسانا ورهبة ور حمة
ولمولانا صلوات الله عليه رايها العالي في ذلك
ان …
1 نسخ 2 مناقشتان
Verso (original use): State document in Arabic script. Portions of the ends of 8 lines are preserved. Mentions a large number of horses. Needs further …
1 نسخ 1 مناقشة
Verso: State correspondence, petition or report, probably Fatimid, in Arabic script. The sender informs that he has appointed an appropriate person for the job, using …
Original use: State document in Arabic script. Secondary use: Responsa or halakhic discussion in the hand of Efrayim b. Shemarya discussing laws of purity of …
Small fragment from an official report or petition. The ends of 3 lines are preserved. المملو]ك ينهي . . .
Small fragment from a state document (tax receipt?) with the ʿalāma الحمد لله الخفي لطفه.
Receipt (for tax?) for Abū l-Faḍl b. Ibrāhīm. There is a curious hexagonal medallion on the back that may say "al-Imām al-Ḥākim." Needs further examination.
Two pages from a single fiscal register, mentions the months Rabīʿ II, Ramaḍān, Shawwāl, Dhū l-Qaʿda, and a name ʿAbīd b. ʿUmar. Reused for Hebrew …
Fiscal account in Arabic script. One section is headed "māl al-jawālī" (revenue from the capitation tax). Reused for Hebrew jottings.
Fiscal register. Compare BL OR 5566B.3 (PGPID 19261) and the other shelfmarks cited there. Reused for piyyuṭ.
State document: report to a high bureaucrat (with taqbīl clauses), written under the Fatimid caliph al-Āmir, 509/1115; in the Hebrew on verso, the date is …
State document, probably a report to a higher official (not a petition). This is a long strip cut from the right side of the document. …
State document in Arabic script. Mentions Arslān b. Khuṭlukh of the 'old' Ḥāfiẓī regiment (ṭāʾifat al-ḥāfiẓiyya al-qudamāʾ"); the estate/town (ḍayʿa) known as Sumusṭā in Middle …
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