State document: T-S C2.209 + ENA 4045.2 + JRL SERIES B 5446 + T-S F13.1 + T-S 13.20 + ENA 3751.5

State document T-S C2.209 + ENA 4045.2 + JRL SERIES B 5446 + T-S F13.1 + T-S 13.20 + ENA 3751.5

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T-S C2.209 + ENA 4045.2 + JRL SERIES B 5446 + T-S F13.1 + T-S 13.20 + ENA 3751.5
Primary Language
Arabic

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Original use: State decree from the Fatimid chancery, written under al-Ḥākim, al-Ẓāhir or al-Mustanṣir to an official in Egypt regarding a dispute over irrigation canals and access to water — insofar as one can judge. Only the left half of the lines are preserved. About 1.3 meters of what was once a much longer decree. The joins of the decree fragment when pieced together refer to the need of restoring the area surrounding the gulf/bay - 'li ḥāja dāʿiya ilā ʿimārat al-khuluj' and the allotment of irrigation from these canals: 'aqsaṭ min al-rī min hādhihi l-khuluj. Verso: Efrayim b. Shemarya uses and reworks passages from the Sheʾiltot for a sermon. Top of the rotulus is headed Shabbat Bereishit (see separate record). Join: Roni Shweka (bottom six fragments) and Rebecca Sebbagh (top fragment). Before 1055. See also Mosseri VI.117.2, which may belong to the left side of this decree. (MR)

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Jewish Theological Seminary Library; John Rylands Library, University of Manchester; Cambridge University Library, Taylor-Schechter
Historical shelfmarks
TS C, 2, fol. 209; TS C, 2, f. 209; TS Box C, 2, fol. 209; TS Box C, 2, f. 209; ENA 4045, fol. 2; ENA 4045, f. 2; TS Box F, 13, f. 1; TS F, 13, f. 1; TS F, 13, fol. 1; TS Box F, 13, fol. 1; ENA 3751, f. 5; ENA 3751, fol. 5
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In PGP since 2019
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Marina Rustow, The Lost Archive (Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2020).

ENA 4045.2 2

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Combined reading from all fragments. Lost Archive, p. 397

their signatures validated it... fifty dīnārs... except for the amount of the officials .... their extraction and expenditure... for the needs of calling for the construction of canals ... [di]srepair of the estate/village and its ... [Therfore the command]er of the faithful has ordered the writing of this decree... all... allotment of irrigation from these canals.

JRL SERIES B 5446 1 / 1 leaf, verso

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ENA 3751.5 1

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Cambridge University Library, Taylor-Schechter, T-S C2.209 + Jewish Theological Seminary Library, ENA 4045.2 + John Rylands Library, University of Manchester, JRL SERIES B 5446 + Cambridge University Library, Taylor-Schechter, T-S F13.1 + Cambridge University Library, Taylor-Schechter, T-S 13.20 + Jewish Theological Seminary Library, ENA 3751.5. Available online through the Princeton Geniza Project at https://geniza.princeton.edu/documents/30851/, accessed November 27, 2024.
https://geniza.princeton.edu/documents/30851/