State document: T-S NS 111.114

State document T-S NS 111.114

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Description

Decree, or rather record of the issuing of a decree/rescript (tawqīʿ) from the chancery of al-Ḥāfiẓ, as a response to a petition (ruqʿa) sent by the judge Sanāʾ al-Mulk ʿAbdallāh b. ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz b. Abī Kāmil regarding restoring the funds, oil and glass that used to be bestowed upon his mosque out of the warehouse in Fusṭāṭ. Dated Muḥarram 532 AH (= September-October 1137 CE). It contains a reproduction of the wording of the authorizing minute (tawqīʿ) introduced by the words mā mithāluhu, as is the case in T-S Ar. 40.41 [ALAD no. 116]. (Information from Khan, ALAD, doc. 118, and from CUDL) Significant from a material point of view because it shows evidence of once having been part of a bifolio, so suggests that such records were kept in quires or folders of some sort—i.e., evidence of archives. (MR). On verso there are Hebrew piyyuṭim including a zulat.

T-S NS 111.114 1r

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Translation

Geoffrey Khan, Arabic Legal and Administrative Documents in the Cambridge Genizah Collections (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993).

T-S NS 111.114 1v

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  1. In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate.

  2. The exalted rescript, may God increase its efficacy, has been issued,

  3. dated Muḥarram of the year five-hundred and thirty-two on a petition from the learned judge

  4. Sanā' al-Mulk 'Abdallāh ibn 'Abd al-'Azīz ibn 'Abī Kāmil,

  5. in response to his request concerning the restoration of the funds, the oil and the glass that used to be bestowed upon the mosque for which he is responsible out of the warehouse in Fusṭaṭ,

  6. (The decree) had the form: Let

  7. the appropriate document be issued from the prosperous office.

 

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