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shelfmark:"Bodl ms. Heb a 2/3"
Verso: Small fragment from the bottom of a petition or other state document, preserving the raʾy clause and the ṣalwala.
No Scholarship Records
Fragment of official correspondence concerning the administration of Upper Egypt. The first four lines are mostly preserved. "It is necessary to write a noble letter …
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One line of Arabic text from an official letter or document, mentioning al-jāmiʿ ("the mosque"). Reused for piyyuṭim, one of which is ascribed to Isaac …
Official-looking account. Needs examination.
Recto: Fragment, 11 lines in a chancery(?) hand, difficult to read. Needs examination. Perforated binding. Verso: Mamlukī names in pretty naskhī script on verso. Including …
State document, in Arabic script. One line in chancery script.
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The ends of 5 lines of a state document. Mentions a dīwān in l. 1. Needs examination. Verso is blank.
Fragment of a decree. There is a single full word: "al-mustaḥabbīn."
Formal-looking letter apparently from an astrologer to a vizier (سيدنا الوزير الاجل). In Arabic script. Dating: Probably Fatimid, 11th or 12th century. Quite damaged. Opens …
State document in Arabic script. Two lines, huge space between them. ...ḥukmahu wa-qālat lahu mā shi'ta... Reused for piyyutim.
Original use: remnant of a state document (fiscal register?). Very little is preserved apart from a date: the end of Dhū l-Ḥijja 546(?) AH, which …
Original use: Unidentified document in Arabic script, possibly a state document. Needs examination.
Petition or report, Fatimid, fragment from near the beginning containing end of blessings, the taqbīl clause, and part of the qiṣṣa. Dating: 1100–71. Related to …
State document, Fatimid period. Letter of a Fatimid dāʿī addressed to a chief qāḍī to congratulate him on a new honor the caliph had bestowed …
وكبت عداه عند اتّصال الخبر الينا أعلمنا سائر الأولياء بما جدّده الله تعالى عنده من جميل
رأى مولانا الإمام [الظاهر لإعزاز دين الله (؟) أمير]…
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Recto: Fragment of a letter in a chancery hand; official correspondence? May mention al-faqiḥ al-wakīl ʿAbd al-Bāqī b. al-Ḥasan b. al-Ḥusayn. Verso: Fragment of a …
Tax receipt issued to the khuzzān of the Fayyūm tax districts against revenue delivered by Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb. Dated: 7 (?) [month not preserved] …
State document: fragment of a decree: [hādha a]l-sijill al-manshūr fī l-aʿmā[l]. . . . Reused for piyyutim.
Order or report in multiple hands to do with 131 dīnārs paid to the treasury (bayt al-māl). Person mentioned is Saʿd al-Mulk Ilyās, possibly a …
Petition from a man described as having many dependents (the first two lines read: wa-huwa ṣuʿlūk kathīr al-ʿāʾila wa-yasal al-inʿām ʿalayhi wa-al-iḥsān ʾilayhi bi-khurūj ilā …
Receipt issued to the khuzzān of the Fayyūm tax districts against revenue delivered by Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb. Dated: 21 Dhū l-Ḥijja 403. Amount: one-half, …
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Bottom part of a tax receipt in the hand of the jahbadh Mīkhāʾīl b. ʿAbd al-Masīḥ. Dated: 17 Ṣafar 404. Measurements: 4.3 x 8.2 cm. …
State document, in an elegant hand with wide linespacing. Mentions "ارباع السلطانية لمصر". Reused for Arabic and Hebrew text on recto and verso. Needs examination.
Fiscal document. Challenging to read. May mention sugar. Needs examination.
Petition in Arabic. T-S Misc.34.5 (4r) includes the opening formula: "المملوك يقبل الارض". There are 12 folios under the shelfmark T-S Misc.34.5– three of which …
State document, draft of a report, in Arabic script. Addressed to a lower official whose titles are "al-Rayyis al-Muḥrim al-Amīr ʿImād al-Mulk". Reports an event …
الريس علم الرياسة الـ[
يجدد نعمته وينهي ان ا[
بالمولا على شاطي الـ[ـبحر]...
وصول وصول بتاريخ بتاريخ بتاريخ علي الـ...
المملوك يجدد خد…
Tax receipt? Extremely faded.
Official correspondence in Arabic script. Portions of 7 lines are preserved. Seems to be either a petition or a letter of gratitude after a favorable …
استمطار سحب المكارم الالهية بما يصلحها وعليها..
صنائع هذه الايام الناضرة[ ]
من الحكام في هذه الاعمال ولو لا يتم بالاعراف في شكر النعمة
Tax receipt, or possibly credit instrument? Contains an ʿalāma at the upper right, maybe, and a jahbadh signature at the bottom. Also contains the glyph, …
Receipt (for tax payment?) for a banker (al-ṣayrafī). Dated: 2 Rabīʿ I 507 AH, which is June 1113 CE (if read correctly). Needs further examination.
Receipt for the capitation tax of Bū Saʿd b. Bū ʿAlī in Fustat. Cf. T-S AS 50.99 (PGPID 39028).
Fiscal accounting document, probably. Large and well preserved. Needs examination. Alt description: Fragment, recto, and verso both contain what look like pen trials (some repetitions, …
Account in Arabic script in small handwriting, possibly official (fiscal). Reused for Hebrew piyyuṭ in a hand resembling that of Abū Sahl Levi.
State document, in Arabic script. Report or official correspondence. The ends of ~14 lines are preserved. Includes many fiscal-related terminologies, "al-dīwān al-maʿmūr", "min al-ḥisāb", "[D]īwān …
One line of text in Arabic script, from an official document or letter. Reused for a text in Aramaic on verso and another text in …
Very tiny note in Arabic script, in the same type of hand as many of the early 5th/11th century tax receipts. Some contain the mystery …
Verso contains the beginning of a petition. The tarjama appears at the right. The petition begins "yuqabbil al-yad al-ʿāliya al-mawlawiyya al-ajalliyya. . ." Recto contains …
Draft of a petition, possibly. In Arabic script. Addressed to al-majlis al-sāmī al-ajallī al-mawlawī and the petitionee is also addressed as "ʿumdat l-mulūk wa l-salāṭīn". …
Petition from Abū l-Ḥasan b. Dāwūd to a Fatimid dignitary. The petitioner is a poor young man, whose father died destitute and left him only …
His servant and slave,
Abū al-Ḥasan ibn Dāʾūd
In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate.
The slave of the lofty, mighty, much-sought…
Official document in Arabic script. Apparently dealing with witnesses and legal procedure. Fragments of two lines are preserved: ... fa-asqaṭahu min al-shahāda... min shuhūd al-bilād …
Fragment of an Arabic state document. One line is partially preserved with two more words on the line underneath. Fiscal account? The word at lower …
Recto: State document, probably a petition or internal correspondence. In Arabic script. The writer refers to himself as "al-mamlūk"; the script is chancery-esque. Fragment (upper …
Receipt for the capitation tax of Eliyya b. [...] in New Cairo and Fustat for the year 631 AH = 1233/34 CE.
Petition to the Fatimid vizier Al-ʿAbbās requesting an allowance in grain to be paid to the petitioner in yearly installments. Dating: 548–49/1153–54. (Information from CUDL.) …
الافضلى السيفى الناصرى ا[لــ]ـكافل لقضاة المسلميـ[ـن الهادى]
لدعاة المومنين عضد الله به الدين وامتع بطول بـ[ـقائه امير المومنين]
وادام ق…
al-Afḍal, sword of Islam, the defender, the protector of the judges of the Muslims [and the guide]
of the dāʿīs of the believers, may God…
Recto, lower right corner: draft of a state document, likely a petition, beginning with prayers for the caliph al-Mustanṣir. There may be part of a …
Fatimid document, probably fiscal, more than one hand, one large in shā allāh, and one registration mark: al-ḥamdū lil-lāh ʿalā niʿamih. Damaged and not easy …
State document, probably a report. The sender ('the slave of my master the vizier') states that he received a 'noble letter' (probably from the vizier) …
Note in Arabic script in the upper left margin of a page of dirges. Mentions the title Sharaf al-Umarāʾ and ما هو مشروح.
Tax receipt for Abū l-Surūr. Trigger: addā.
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 …
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