State document: BL OR 5561A.2

State document BL OR 5561A.2

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BL OR 5561A.2
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Arabic

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State document. Dating: Refers to payments for the year 415 kharājī; 415 AH is 1024/25 CE, so 415 kharājī is 1024/25 CE plus or minus a year or two. Refers to a dignitary called "amīr al-umarāʾ tāj al-dawla wa-sharaf al-milla al-muʾayyad dhī l-[maʿāl?]ī"; a man called Abū l-Ḥarīrī or Jazīrī ; and to another dignitary called ʿAmīd al-Dawla (together with aṣḥāb dīwān al-[...]). Refers to a government office called Dīwān al-Aṣl. Needs further examination. On verso there is a draft of a Hebrew elegy for a deceased woman. ASE

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British Library
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BM Or 5561A, fol. 2; BM; BM Or 5561A, f. 2
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BL OR 5561A.2 recto

recto
Alan Elbaum, Stephanie Luescher and Marina Rustow's digital edition (2025), with minor emendations by Yusuf Umrethwala (04/25).

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  2. شرط النوااب بالـ[. .]ـل مالهما لامير الامرا تاج الدولة وسيف

  3. الملة المويد ذي الـ[ـمعالـ]ـي وحملت ما يلزمني لسنة خمس عشرة واربع ماىة

  4. الخراجية عينا الى الجهة المذكورة وحملت اقساط نجوم هذه

  5. السنة على كمالها وكان في ديوان الاصل رجل يعرف بابن الحريري

  6. والديوان يشهد له بعين الثقة [ما ز]ال(؟) كشف حاله لعميد الدولة ولاصحاب

  7. ديوان الو[زر]ا(؟) [. . .]ـا دورة من النوااب والجباية(؟) وطالبوه بما ظهر عليه

British Library, BL OR 5561A.2. Available online through the Princeton Geniza Project at https://geniza.princeton.edu/documents/6247/, accessed April 28, 2025.
https://geniza.princeton.edu/documents/6247/