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shelfmark:"Bodl ms. Heb a 2/3"
Recto is probably a state report in Arabic script. Damaged and very difficult to read. Referring to people fleeing from a battle, al-Shām, Egypt, ʿAsqalān, …
No Scholarship Records
A fragmentary line of a widely spaced Arabic text (probably a decree) visible in the left margin; the document was recycled to copy a biblical …
Numerous fragments of a large stage document with extremely large calligraphic Arabic script, probably a decree. Later cut and reused to create multiple bifolios of …
Report (or petition?). Line 3: الراي العالي باطلاقه لك على. Line 4: ان شا الله عليه الراي. On verso there are accounts in Judaeo-Arabic, in …
مما يطلق عن الديوان الابواب…بمصر
مائة وخمسة وخمسون دينارا
ومما يطلق من الديوان الاموال (الابواب؟) بالقاهرة
سبعة وسبعون دينارا
ويخرج …
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State document, or at least official correspondence, in Arabic script. Mentions "dīwān" at least two times, Jews, and something taken from the peasants "fa-yuqaddam ilā …
Fragment of an official letter (upper left piece). In Arabic script. After the basmala one reads :ʾaṭāla llāh baqāhā wa-ʾadāma taʾyīdahā wa-ʿalāhā (l. 2), ʿārafahu …
Tax receipt. Trigger: addā.
State-related report on unrest all over Egypt, from the Delta (Ṭalkha and Suwayd on recto) to Upper Egypt (al-Ṣaʿīd on verso). Mentions Bedouins (al-ʿurbān and …
Letter addressed to the amir Muḥammad b. Baghdād. In Arabic script. Dating: late Mamluk or Ottoman-era. Begins, "baʿd al-taḥiyya wa-l-taslīm wa-l-ʿizz wa-l-takrīm bi-l-jināb al-karīm...." There …
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A few words from a decree: "... al-muwaffaq Ḥusām al-Mulk Sanad al-Dawla..."
Fiscal register. Compare BL OR 5566B.3 (PGPID 19261) and the other shelfmarks cited there.Reused for piyyuṭ. This one reads: 2/3 + 1/4 dinars; [In the …
Minute fragment of a state document referring to the caliph (al-Imām) al-M[ustanṣir?]. Nothing else is preserved.
State document in Arabic. Fragments of 4 lines are preserved.
Official receipt for Dāʾūd b. Yaʿqūb. Unclear for what. Dated: 524(?) AH. Needs further examination.
Document in Arabic script. Likely a fiscal document recording amounts of money associated with the operations of dīwān al-maṭābikh al-maʿmūra (the state sugar refineries?) Cf. …
Recto: Small fragment (2 lines) from an official report. Needs examination for content.
Petition, draft, addressed to al-Malik al-ʿĀdil (aka the vizier Ibn al-Salār), in the handwriting of Natan b. Shelomo ha-Kohen, asking that he release the estate …
ינהון אן ואלדהם סק[ט באלופאה ]
צגאר ואן מתולי אלמע[ונה ]
ואלדהם וואלדתהם ולמ יבקי אלמאל [ ]
בה וכלף להם דוירה יסתקרון פיהא [ ]
מן אלמ…
They report that their father has died [ leaving three] .
small [children] and that the head of the police [ ]
their father and their mo…
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Official report in Arabic script. Blaming a spy named Abū Saʿīd Ibn al-Ḥammāra and one other person for betraying Damietta to the Franks and possibly …
Probably a petition in Arabic script. The addressee is a dignitary (referred to with the honorific 'khāliṣat amīr al-muʾminīn'). The petition has something to do …
Document(s) in Arabic on recto and verso, wide line spacing. Medieval era. Probably a fiscal register. The end of three lines are preserved on each …
Official letter, probably. In Arabic script. The ends of 3 lines are preserved; upslanting and wide space between lines. Probably mentions Sidon(?). Needs examination for …
A few words in Arabic script: "by Ḥajjāj b. ʿAbdallāh under the supervision of [...]." Reused on verso for a Hebrew liturgical text.
Fiscal document headed مال سنة سبع واربعين واربعماىة الخراجية وما قبلها "funds of the kharājī year 447 and the preceding." This was circa 1055/56 CE. …
State document, bottom fragment, in Arabic script. "الذي لا يقدر فيهم على غيره... ومحاسبته على استقبال سنة خمسـ[...على ما استخرجه واحضر ما". The phrase "wa-muḥāsabatuhu …
Small fragment of a state document in Arabic script, maybe a decree. Three words are preserved.
Writing exercise in a chancery hand, two different hands alternating. Encomium to an official. Alternatively, the original document may be a genuine document rather than …
Fragment of a fiscal register, reused for a Judaeo Arabic commentary.
Fragmentary Fatimid petition dated to the period of al-Mustanṣir. A beuatiful raʾy clause tucked at the bottom.
Possibly a fiscal document. Faded and damaged. Reused for Hebrew literary text on recto.
Recto: Memorandum concerning the demolition of a building (possibly a mosque) and the sale of its timber and bricks. The text mentions Old Mosque and …
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Tax receipt for Yūsuf b. Ṣadaqa, probably for his jizya.
Decree in Arabic script. The beginnings of two lines are preserved and the tops of some letters from a third line: bi-muqtaḍā mā huwa... man …
State document, fragmentary, in chancery hand. Mentions the province (or port?) of Damietta (thagr Dimyāṭ) and someone's arrival/appointment to it. Also has an ʿalama in …
Three different documents stuck together. The main one is a report of the death of al-Ḥājj Ṭāhir. After reporting his death the document lists his …
Fragmentary document, with huge line spacing, probably state document, late. The only readable word is "irdab", referring to the measure of grain. The preceding word …
Small fragment in Arabic. A few words in a chancery hand.
A few letters from an official Arabic document, possibly a decree. No full words preserved. Reused for piyyuṭ on recto.
Verso (probably original use): Fragment of a state document, in Arabic script. One of the lines is copied underneath; this might be later scribal practice.
Recto: Letter/petition in Arabic script to a qāḍī (al-majlis al-sāmī al-ajallī al-qaḍāʾī al-shamsī). The sender's name is given at the top but is tricky to …
State-issued receipt for al-Muʿallam Salmūn Iskenderānī who is listed with the administrative title "عامل" (financial intendant or collector of revenues). Dated: "in the end of …
Fiscal account in Arabic script. One section is headed "māl al-jawālī" (revenue from the capitation tax). Reused for Hebrew jottings.
Verso: Petition from a woman. In Arabic script. She is "cut-off" (munqaṭiʿa) and poor (ṣuʿlūka). Not much else is preserved. On verso there is a …
Fragment likely from the bottom of a Fatimid fiscal account, based on the appearance of the ṣalwala at the bottom (وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد …
Recto: Letter or petition addressed to someone with many honorifics: al-muwaffaqiyya al-manṣūra al-ḥāmiya al-muʾayyadiyya.... Might mention the palace (al-qaṣr). The name of the sender may …
Bottom of a petition or official correspondence - وانها المملوك ذلك بعد تقبيل يده والحمد لله وحده . . . ولمولانا . . . Verso …
One line from the bottom of a large state document, likely a decree. Mentions the month of Ramaḍān. Reused on recto for piyyuṭ. (Information from …
State document, probably fiscal. The beginnings of ~6 lines are preserved, mainly sums of money. Reused for Hebrew literary text. There has been a lot …
Bottom two lines of an Arabic document. Might be a state document. The last line is a ḥamdala and ṣalwala, then "Allāhu ḥasbī wa-tawakkaltu ʿalayhi." …
Petition in Arabic script, in a chancery hand. The sender is saying, to paraphrase, "I am your most devoted servant, so don't force me to …
Official-looking document(s) in Arabic script. T-S NS 327.63 Recto contains two documents headed by the glyph and with similar formatting. The upper parts of documents …