Use keywords or phrases in any language to return matching or similar results across all fields. Arabic script searches will return both Arabic and Judaeo-Arabic transcription content.
Use Hebrew or Arabic script to find precise matches in the transcriptions. See How to Search page for advanced use cases.
{2}
{0,5}
.*
[יו]
shelfmark:"Bodl ms. Heb a 2/3"
Fiscal document, or accounts in a bifolio, in Arabic script with integers in Coptic numerals. The columns are headed "al-mustakhraj" and "al-maṣrūf" (the former is …
No Scholarship Records
Verso: State document in Arabic script. The beginnings of four lines are preserved.
Receipt for the capitation tax of [...] b. Ibrāhīm the Jewish garment mender (al-raffāʾ) in Fustat for the year 567 AH = 1171/72 CE (if …
Petition from the Jewish physician Sulaymān b. Mūsā. In Arabic script. He reports that he "was raised among the physicians of the hospital (māristān) in …
1 Transcription 1 Translation
Probably an official report in Arabic script. Approximately 6 lines are preserved, but very faded and hard to read. Needs examination. Reused on verso for …
Formulaic phrases from petitions and letter to dignitaries.
1 Transcription
Official accounts from "al-Ṣāfīyya bi-wilāyet al-Gharbīyya" (מוסה נעים צראף אלכזינה באסם אלצאפייה בולאיית אלגרבייה), an institution related to the provincial Treasury (כזינה). Dated Ṣafar 1247 …
1 Discussion
ʿAlāma from a state document: al-thiqa bi-l-lāhī waḥdahū
Verso (original use): Provincial fiscal account concerning the maintenance of the dikes (ʿimārat al-jusūr al-maʿmūra) in the districts of Shubrā and one other by the …
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
جمل
ررفعه(؟) عبد الكريم بن نصر الله الوكيل على عمارة
الجسور المعمورة ىاحىوىه(؟) وشبرى وابو ركوة
من الخراج لمركزية (…
1 Transcription 1 Discussion
Document in Arabic script. Possibly a state document. There is a single line, subsequently reused for a Judaeo-Arabic composition.
Petition from a certain Jaʿfar to a Fatimid dignitary (qāʾid) in which Jaʿfar asks that the support (maʿūna) granted to him not be withdrawn because …
العبد جعفر
عبد مولاى القائد الجليل اطال الله بقاه وادام عزه وتاييده وحراـ[ـسته…
The slave Jaʿfar
In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate.
The slave of my master, the glorious leader, may God prolong his life and …
A few words from an Arabic state document: "kutiba... dhī l-qaʿda...." Reused for Hebrew literary text.
Petition to a state official. In Arabic. After a taqbīl, the addressee is greeted with many titles ("al-majlis al-ʿādilī al-sayfī al-nāṣirī(?) al-kāmilī al-hādī"). The petitioner …
One line of a document in Arabic script, likely state related. Reused for a literary text in Judaeo-Arabic mentioning Talmudic rabbis.
State document, in Arabic script. Wide line spacing in a chancery hand beginning with a basmala. Reused for Arabic text and Coptic numerals. Needs examination.
Fiscal register, in Arabic script. Needs examination.
Official report to a superior concerning the ḍamān in Damīra. Complete. The writer, in deferential chancery style, reports to a superior authority on matters relating …
Fragment of an official report, or perhaps a legal document with particularly wide line spacing. Sparse on details but is describing some situation involving a …
State document, in large oversized chancery script, two words. From a gigantic decree.
Tax receipt, Fatimid. Registration marks - al-ḥamdu lil-lāh shukran and al-ḥamdu lil-lāh ḥamd al-shākirīn.
Fiscal account. Needs examination.
State document in Arabic script. Most-likely a petition or report reused for a letter on recto. Both sides have the glyph, which signifies a basmala. …
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…
Petition draft. From Manṣūr b. Salāma (Khan) or b. Ṣadaqa (Elbaum and Rustow independently of one another) to the Fatimid caliph al-Āmir bi-Aḥkām Allāh (1101–30 …
العبد المملوك
منصور بن سلامة من اهل سنديون
صلوات الله وبركاته ونوامي زكواته وافضل سلامه وتحياته على مولانا وسي…
The servant and slave
Manṣūr ibn Salāma from among the people of Sindiyūn.
In the name of God, the Merciful and Compassionate.
The bl…
2 Transcriptions 2 Translations
Petition from a woman to a high dignitary or perhaps to al-Malik al-ʿĀdil himself (one reigned 1200–18 and another reigned 1238–40) in a rudimentary hand. …
Verso: Official-looking receipt for Abū l-Ḥasan al-Ṣabbāgh for the rent of his shop. On recto there is an earlier (state?) document, in Arabic script. Mentions …
Bottom left fragment of a state document, probably, in Arabic script. Ḥamdala towards the end. Needs examination.
Recto: Fatimid state document, in a chancery hand. Difficult to establish the genre because the text is written in a highly prosaic register. Maybe a …
State document, Fatimid decree, in Arabic script. The decree is addressed to the military general Fāris al-Dawla. The document is a draft as the recto …
Note in Arabic script in the upper left margin of a page of dirges. Mentions the title Sharaf al-Umarāʾ and ما هو مشروح.
Fragment of state document(s). There is one hand on recto, and two different hands (different documents) on verso. Recto mentions "hādhihi al-ruqʿa." Verso mentions a …
State document in Arabic. Fragments of 4 lines are preserved.
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 …
Tax receipt, probably Fatimid. Written on the verso of a torn petition or formal letter in Arabic script which reads as "ʿabd Mawlānā wa-Sayyidunā", then …
State document: Official report (fragment) concerning armed insurrection and civil unrest. For the letter on recto, see separate entry.
Fragment of a petition in Arabic script, written in a rudimentary hand. The sender (or the person he is writing on behalf of) wishes to …
Official correspondence. Fragment (left side). The ends of 13 lines are preserved. Addressed to the office of the vizier (al-ḥaḍra al-sāmiya al-wazīriyya). Mentions paper (al-waraq) …
Verso: One line from an Arabic state document: لشانه . . . وطالعت حضرته . . . Reused on recto for piyyuṭ.
State document, Fatimid, in large chancery script. Mentions the chief Fatimid judge and dāʿī Qāsim b. ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz b. al-Nuʿmān, and that his name is …
Report to the caliph Al-Ẓāhir li-Iʿzāz Dīn Allāh in which a previous report is mentioned. Dating: ca. 411–27/1021–36. On verso there is an Aramaic midrash. …
The benedictions of God and his blessings, his most excellent greetings andincreasing benefacti…
An Arabic makhzūma, related to a land with Coptic numerals. The document was drawn in the name of Shamṭar (probably Coptic) al-ʿAmūdī. Needs examination.
State document, in Arabic script. Four fragmentary lines preserved. Dated 446 H/1054 CE. Probably a decree ordering the safeguarding of the affairs of the people …
Official-looking document in Arabic script. Mentions dīwān in the first line, fiscal-related. Needs examination.
State document, in Arabic script. Probably a report or petition with a tarjama in the right column part of which reads as al-Mamlūk Muḥammad. The …
Tax receipt, probably. Cramped and difficult to read. Mentions [...] b. Ṣāliḥ, the ḍāmin of the dīwān.... Needs examination. On verso the beginning of a …
Verso (original use): Fiscal accounting. In Arabic script. Mentions the treasury (bayt al-māl al-maʿmūr): بالنفق من بيت المال المعمور من جملة . . . . …
Tax receipt probably from the archive of Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb; only bottom part preserved. Written by the jahbadh Mīkhāʾīl b. ʿAbd al-Masīḥ. Dated: 7 …
1 Transcription 1 Translation 1 Discussion
Beginning of a petition beginning "mamlūk al-ḥaḍra. . . ." This seems to be pasted on to a bifolio of Hebrew piyyuṭ in a rudimentary …
Petition to a higher official from a military general or army veteran based on "ṣibyān al-khāṣṣ". The petitioner says he comes from the class of …
ـ]ـك واعبائهم مشهور بالنهضة والشجاعة والفروسية مستحق[
]في امره [ ] احضر تحته فرس ملك…
Petition. In Arabic script. Dating: Perhaps Mamluk-era based on handwriting and format, but that is a guess. The addressee is Shams al-Dīn [...] b. Shams …