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shelfmark:"Bodl ms. Heb a 2/3"
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 …
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Fiscal document with several ʿalāʾim. Needs examination.
Booklet of psalms and other liturgical text. On fol. 3v, righthand side, there are various jottings, including one phrase that looks like it is from …
Official correspondence or petition, in Arabic script. Probably Mamlūk era. Fragmentary to glean proper context but a preliminary reading is as follows: المرجو من الله …
Original use: Fiscal document, in Arabic script. Mentions sums in dirhams and mithqāl. Reused for a literary text in Judeo-Arabic on recto and verso.
Clockwise from upper left: (d) Small fragment in Arabic script, perhaps from a petition or draft: ...al-sāmī bi-faḍlihā...
Official correspondence in Arabic script with wide line-spacing. Some phrases from T-S NS 313.23: صحيح . . . وبلوغها مرادها . . . فيها بعض …
Fragment of a capitation tax receipt, probably. Needs examination.
Fiscal register (compare BL OR 5566B.3 and the other shelfmarks cited there). Reused for Hebrew hoshaʿnot. Needs further examination.
Oficial letter in Arabic script (وما القول الان الا ان . . . له عن تفضله فيجعل ادام الله عزه . . . وافضاله فوالله …
Fragment of a report apparently from an army officer to a superior. He describes how "we all went out to Wādī Buṭnān (near Aleppo) and …
Brutal document. Probably to do with fiscality. Looks official and Mamluk-era based on paleographical grounds. Needs examination.
One damaged line from a state document in Arabic script. Reused on recto for piyyuṭ. (Information from CUDL.)
There are multiple fragments under this shelfmark; some of them are joins. C, fol.3 - State document, or a draft, in Arabic script. Four ʿalāmas …
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 …
Official memorandum with the signature of an official called al-Ḥasan b. Muḥammad. Belongs together with ENA 2697.8 + ENA 2697.9 + T- S Ar.31.58 + …
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Request for a fatwā (or possibly a petition or official report, or simply a letter). In Arabic script. Dating: Likely Mamluk-era. Begins with a taqbīl …
State document, in Arabic script. Decree of the Fatimid caliph al-Ẓāhir to the monks of Sinai in response to their petition.
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Petition or official report. Arabic script, wide line-spacing, chancery hand. The document is dated 502 H, which is extremely rare for petitions, and contains a …
شـ]ـرفا وثباتا سنة اثنتين وخمس ماية…..
]ساميها الى النايب عنها فيها على يد كاتبهم
]..على ذلك استخراج ذلك لهم وعضده وزكاته
]هم الله على السدا…
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Official-looking receipt for Abū l-ʿIzz b. Bū ʿAlī. Unclear for what. Landscape layout. Needs further examination. See also T-S AS 180.126 and T-S AS 181.71.
State receipt. Landscape layout. Begins "aʿṭā..." The payer is Mūsā b. Futūḥ, and it is for his capitation tax in Alexandria. Same cluster: T-S AS …
Petition addressed to a lower official: وقد عطفت هده الرسالة على . . . ولمولاي السيد الاجل ادام الله علوه . . . الراي العالي …
Petition. In large Arabic script, wide space between the lines, in a chancery hand. This is a small fragment from the lower right corner of …
Fatimid fiscal report or account for the fiscal (kharājī) year 417, from the period of the Fatimid caliph al-Ẓāhir. Dated: 417 kharājī/419 AH. Document is …
عبد مولانا وسيدنا الامام الظاهر لاعزاز دين الله امير المومنين
صلوات الله عليه وعلى ابائه الطاهرين وابنائه الاكرمين
ومملوكه حسين…
The servant of our master and lord, the imām al-Zāḥir li-Iʿzāz Dīn Allāh, commander of the faithful,
the blessings of God be upon him and upon hi…
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A few words in Arabic in a chancery hand ("the order of this [...] arrived..." / وصل امر هذا), possibly from a state document or …
State document, one line. "خارجا عما حمل للدار وسلم بحر". Needs examination.
Small fragment of an Arabic state document.
Verso: A tax-related note referring to what Jaʿfar(?) b. [...] the jahbadh will do. Needs examination. This document was torn and reused for Hebrew piyyuṭ.
Draft of a long report on fiscal matters. The addressee is addressed as al-maqām al-sharīf (l. 17). The sender (al-mamlūk) describes his dealings with a …
Official letter in Arabic script. ~4 lines preserved. Reused for Hebrew literary text. Needs examination.
Fragment from near the top of an official report or petition, mentioning the storehouses of the sugar refineries: ". . . ṣalawāt Allāh ʿalā mālikih …
State document, in Arabic script. A decree concerning the monks at Mt. Sinai. The vizier Ṭalāʾiʿ orders the amīr ʿIzz al-Mulk Saʿd al-Dawla wa-Fārisuhā, governor …
Recto: State document. Possibly an account synthesizing multiple streams of revenue: capitation tax (māl al-jawālī), a tax on palm produce (māl al-nakhl or maybe the …
Fragment of an official-looking account. Verso may contain the glyph. Pinholes at the margin ~4mm apart. Needs examination for content.
Fragment of a petition. Portions of 8 lines are preserved, with different sizes of text and large gaps apparently dividing sections. Mentions "the Jews" and …
Fragment from the bottom of a petition. With a raʾy clause (...al-raʾy al-sāmī fīhi lā zāla ʿāliyan...). Dated: Jumādā I 5[.]7 AH, which is 1113–1201 …
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 …
Verso (original use): Beginning of state correspondence possibly in the name of the caliph al-Ẓāfir. It is headed by the basmala, followed by the phrase …
Recto: Chancery exercises. The basmala appears twice, and one line begins, "Qāla Amīr al-Muʾminīn..." Verso: State document, Fatimid. Opens with a reference to an employee …
State document, extremely fragmentary. Only "al-Ajall" is readable.
Capitation tax receipt for Musāfir b. Yūsuf, a Jewish man whose profession is "dīwānī." Dated: Muḥarram 504 AH = 1110 CE.
Letter, or official correspondence dated 909 H. Mentions measure of an unspecified commodity, probably grains, in qinṭār. Ḥasbala towards the end. Needs examination.
State document, four fragmented lines in a chancery hand, later reused for Hebrew text. Starts with a basmala followed by a Quranic verse 'Naṣrun min …
Fol. 5: Official-looking report in Arabic. Refers to receiving a petition from a man "whom he (i.e., I) had taken under my protection (iṣṭanaʿahū) and …
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 …
Order of payment. In Arabic. Dated 7 Rabīʿ II 1239 AH, which is 1823 CE. Issued by the Dīwān Anwāl li-Maṣliḥat al-Ḥarīr, an institution in …
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State document in Arabic script, probably a petition. Six fragments are preserved. The addressee is referred to with the titles al-Malikī al-Nāṣirī, which in Geniza …
Tax receipt(s)?
Upper part of a tax receipt? Multiple hands/endorsements in the upper margin. The main text mentions Yūsuf b. Hiba and a jahbadh. Needs examination. On …
Tax receipt from the dossier of Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb.