State document: T-S Ar.40.41

State document T-S Ar.40.41

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T-S Ar.40.41
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Arabic

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State document, in Arabic script. Record of an ordinance dated Ṣafar 537 AH (= September 1142 CE) from Al-Ẓāfir to instruct Al-Hāfiẓ’s book warehouse to issue ‘the epistle of the elder ʿAlī b. ʿĪsā’ (i.e. the ophthalmological treatise Tadkirat al-kaḥḥalīn) to the amir Fakhr al-Dīn Abū Manṣūr ʿIzz al-ʿArab b. Muḥammad. The oversized ʿalāma (endorsement) in thick pen reads as "yuṭlaq dhālik", "may it be granted", possibly in the Caliph al-Ẓāfir's own autograph ("al-khaṭṭ al-sharīf").

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Cambridge University Library, Taylor-Schechter
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TS Arabic Box 40, fol. 41; TS Arabic Box 40, f. 41
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T-S Ar.40.41 1v

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

Recto, left side

  1. يطلق ذلك
  2. خرج الامر العالى الظافرى الشريف صلوات الله عليه
  3. بالايعاز الى خزانة الكتب الحافظية الشريفة
  4. ضاعف الله انوارها باطلاق رسالة الشيخ
  5. على بن عيسى برسم الامير فخر الدين
  6. ابى منصور عز العرب بن محمد المنعوت بالشربيش
  7. احد خواص المقام العالى النبوى حسبما خرج
  8. به الخط الشريف ما مثاله يطلق ذلك
  9. لسبع خلون من صفر سنة سبع وثلثين وخمس مائة
  10.           على حكم الانعام
  11. وحســــــبنا الله ونعم الوكيل

Recto, left side, right margin

  1. ثبت بالحضرة
  2. والحمد لله وحده
Geoffrey Khan, Arabic Legal and Administrative Documents in the Cambridge Genizah Collections (Cambridge University Press, 1993).

Recto, left side

  1. Let that be granted.
  2. The exalted and noble ordinance of al-Ẓāfir, the benedictions of God be upon  him, was given
  3. to instruct al-Hāfiẓ's noble warehouse of books,
  4. may God double its light, to issue the epistle of the worthy
  5. elder, ʿAlī ibn ʿĪsa, for the ʿamīr Faḵr al-Dīn
  6. ʾAbū Manṣūr ʿIzz al-ʿArab ibn Muḥammad, described as (the one of) the  šurbūš bonnets,
  7. one of the entourage of the exalted presence, by means of the issuing of
  8. a noble minute with the form 'let that be granted',
  9. after seven days had passed of Ṣafar, in the year five-hundred and thirty-seven,
  10. as a benevolent act.
  11. Our sufficiency is God. How excellent a keeper is he!

Recto, left side, right margin

  1. It was registered in the capital.
  2. Praise be to God alone.

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