State document: AIU IV.C.256

Description

Left side of an Arabic-script letter. Possibly a petition, or simply a letter that draws on petition-like phrases (this hypothesis is supported by the fact that the sender refers to himself with first-person pronouns instead of as "the slave"). Wide line-spacing, in a chancery hand. Refers to 'the building of that which was destroyed(?) and the renewal of that which has passed" (ʿimāra mā dummira(?) wa-tajdīd ma maḍā). Refers to "that which ʿAbdallāh b. Ṭāhir did with your excellency and viziership" (fiʿl ʿAbdallāh b. Ṭāhir maʿa jalālatih wa-wizāratih). Reused for Hebrew piyyut in between the lines on recto and on verso.