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shelfmark:"Bodl ms. Heb a 2/3"
Capitation tax receipt. Trigger: tadhkira bism. Dated: 502 AH = 1108/09 CE if read correctly. For Abū l-Yumn(?) b. Baṣal(??). Needs further examination.
لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر
Receipt for the capitation tax of Hiba(?) b. Khalaf the Jew in Fustat for the year 507 AH = 1113/14 CE. Payment: 1/2 dinar. Written …
A few letters are preserved from an Arabic state document, probably a decree. Reused for Hebrew piyyuṭ.
State document, four fragmented lines in a chancery hand, later reused for Hebrew text. Starts with a basmala followed by a Quranic verse 'Naṣrun min …
State document, in Arabic script. Addressed to two addressed in a dual tense. The sender is in Damsīs. Dating: 11th or 12th century. Reused for …
1 نسخ
State document, in Arabic script. Fragment of a petition addressed to al-Ḥāfiẓ ʿAbd al-Majīḍ (1132–49). Apart from the opening formula and the blessings on the …
1 نسخ 2 مناقشتان
Fragment of a state document, probably a petition.
Small fragment from a piece of official correspondence: wa-qad sayyara ilayhimā min al-[...]....
Probably a document, but could be a religious text such as a prayer. In Arabic script, in a very large (chancery?) hand. Full of fancy …
Recto (secondary use): Petition draft in Arabic script. The sender thanks the addressee for employing him in government service (khidma). Mentions "al-dawāwīn al-maʿmūra." The variants …
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة
State document. Petition to the caliph al-Mustanṣir regarding a murder on a boat. The son of the petitioner was traveling with a young fellow-merchant from …
بِسْم الله الرحمن الرحيم
صلوات الله وبركاته ونوامى زكواته وافضل تحياته على مولانا وسيدنا الامام المستنصر بالله
أمير المومنين صلوات الله ع…
Official letter/report. The ends of 6 lines are preserved. Difficult to make out any of the content. Reused on the other side for Hebrew piyyuṭ. …
Main document: Petition or letter draft from Sulaymān from Banī Sarrāj "in the districts of Ṭaḥā and al-Ushmūnayn." In Arabic script. Dating: Late. The margins …
Letter fragment in Arabic script, likely state-related. Fragments of ~4 lines are preserved. Reused for Hebrew literary text.
Tax receipt.
State document, in Arabic script. Five fragmented lines of what seems like a petition or an internal correspondence. Mentions land-tax (bi-kharājihi). Needs examination.
]ـن امر[
وحد كل الحد في بحصـ[
واعلم انه وان ارقد(؟) ان و[
بخراجه والرقبان(؟) الفـ[
والسلم وكتب لا[
One line of a document in Arabic script, likely state related. Reused for a literary text in Judaeo-Arabic mentioning Talmudic rabbis.
Damaged fragment of a (state?) document in Arabic script. The name Mūsā b. ʿUmar b. Aḥmad appears.
Verso (original use): Fragment of a petition in Arabic script. Dating: Probably Fatimid-era. The beginnings of 4 lines are preserved. Moderately wide line spacing. Includes …
Fiscal document in Arabic script. The upper text block refers to a transfer from "the account of the (governmental) urban properties to the account of …
1 مناقشة
Part of a state or legal document in Arabic script. Mentions a community or group (al-jamāʿa) and the middle of Shawwāl. Reused on recto for …
Petition to a Fatimid dignitary concerning (or from?) a certain Abū l-Faraj apparently regarding various properties in a neighborhood (and perhaps their commandeering?). Subsidiary to …
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ابو الفرج الكرخي المبتاع لهذه الدار وقال[
الا باطلاق من مولاي الشيخ //الجليل// لا على الحـ[
اعتابا(؟) له بسبب حق واجب وعند مولا…
Small fragment of a decree: "wa-ʿlam..."; there is additional text to the lower right which may be related. Needs examination. Reused (at 180 degrees) for …
State document, or official correspondence, in a chancery hand. Only the top-most part containing the basmala and ṣalwala are preserved. Needs examination.
Fiscal document, in Arabic script. Refers to two iqṭāʿs (على الاقطاعين المذكورين). The last line bears a date that may be 403 AH or 430 …
State document, probably a letter of official correspondence, in Arabic script. Sent by an official with the title ʿĀzim al-Dawla. An order from al-Ḥaḍra al-Majīdiyya …
al-Amīr ʿĀzim al-Dawla and his slave Saʿīd b……
In the name of God the most merciful
I do not doubt the love of al-Shaykh al-Sayyid, may G…
1 نسخ 2 ترجمتين
Petition from a woman to a high dignitary or perhaps to al-Malik al-ʿĀdil himself (one reigned 1200–18 and another reigned 1238–40) in a rudimentary hand. …
Fatimid decree. The decree is from the period of al-Hafiz (1131–49) and mentions the congregational mosques of al-Ḥākim (in Cairo) and al-Ḥāfiẓ (it is not …
في المسجدين الجامعين الحافظي والحاكمي
فيضورك من تاخر جائهم فقد خرج
الامر الى الديوان بذكر ما عنده في ذلك
فاعلم هذا امر أمير المومنين ورسمه
In the two congregational mosques, the mosque of al-Ḥāfiẓ and the mosque of al-Ḥākim.
You will suffer if their arrival is delayed. For the order
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
Draft of the opening of a petition to 'al-majlis al-sāmī al-ajallī al-mawlawī. . . al-malikī al-muʿaẓẓamī al-muʿizzī al-manṣūrī..." This is found among various other jottings …
Decree or petition. Portions of two lines are preserved, mentioning Yaḥyā b. Muḥammad b. [...], and a version of a raʾy clause: ...bi-khayri mā yarāhu …
Document in Arabic script. Possibly a state document. There is a single line, subsequently reused for a Judaeo-Arabic composition.
Recto: Fiscal account, probably, or less likely commercial. Needs examination
Small fragment of a decree. Reused for Judaeo-Arabic literary work.
ـ]ـامر حقيقا وبالاستخدام جديرا خليفا
State document in Arabic on verso. Medieval era. The remnants of one line is visible. Both sides were reused for a literary text in Hebrew. …
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Fragment of a draft (?) of a petition opening with the taqbīl clause repeated twice (once in isolation) and followed by the caliphal honorific titles: …
المملوك يقبل الارض اما
….المملوك يقبل الارض امام المقام النبوي الطاهري(الظاهري؟) المعظم الشريف
ضعف الله انواره واعلى لندامته/…اميره(؟) وبالم…
Tax receipt for a Jewish man Bū Sahl(?) b. Khalaf for his capitation tax in Fustat for the year 535 AH = 1140/41 CE.
Recto: Upper part of an official letter/report. In Arabic script. The handwriting looks Ayyubid or Mamluk-era. Moderately wide line spacing. Opens with a taqbīl and …
Verso: Fragment of official correspondence. Mentions [...] al-bilādī(?), [...] al-maḥrūsa, the phrase "it has been validated(?) for some of the Maghribīs" (وان بعض المغاربة قد …
Fiscal register (compare BL OR 5566B.3 and the other shelfmarks cited there). Reused for Hebrew hoshaʿnot. Needs further examination.
Fragment of a petition in Arabic script, interspersed with Arabic script in the wide spaces what seems like a draft of a letter or just …
]وسعادته لمضافرته ومطالبته؟
]افدته يعزمه مظهر/بعزمه يظهر لي وله قواها
] للنجاج باولاها واخراها
] يعمل عليها وصدره حالا بع…
Small fragment of an official-looking document in Arabic script. Damaged. Some numbers are mentioned (e.g., 700).
Accounts in Arabic script, likely fiscal.
Accounting document issued by "al-qism al-awwal Qalyūbiyya," one of the 24 administrative sections of Egypt that were established in the 1820s. In Arabic script. Dated: …
A few words from a state document (decree? fiscal register?). Specifically a number: 3[.]7, maybe 347. The text on recto is a mirror-image imprint from …
Verso (original use): Fragment from the bottom of a state document, containing ṣalwala and ḥasbala. Reused on recto for piyyuṭ.
State document, in Arabic script. Maybe be an investiture but could be a fragment of a petition (...wa-tadbīr umūrihā...). On verso there is one line …
One line of text in Arabic script, from an official document or letter. Reused for a text in Aramaic on verso and another text in …
Small, official-looking receipt in Arabic script for Mubārak [...]. Unclear what for. Needs examination.