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shelfmark:"Bodl ms. Heb a 2/3"
Left side of an Arabic-script letter. Possibly a petition, or simply a letter that draws on petition-like phrases (this hypothesis is supported by the fact …
No Scholarship Records
Small fragment of an official letter. A few words from the beginnings of two lines are preserved, wide space between the lines. On verso there …
Petition to a Fatimid caliph, in Arabic script. The ends of ~8 lines are preserved from the upper left corner, including much of the preamble …
Recto: State document in Arabic script. Dating: No later than 1078/79 CE. Large chancery hand, wide space between the lines. 4 lines preserved here. Opens …
Fiscal accounting. Might be dated 454 AH. Reused on verso for a medical prescription in Arabic script. (Information in part from CUDL.)
Tax receipt, Fatimid.
Fiscal document, in Arabic script. The top reads as "ṭāʾifa Najrān al-qadīm". Also contains a cipher, probably related to archiving, on the top left.
State document, extremely fragmentary, report or petition. Mentions 'al-majlis al-ʿālī' and 'imtathal ilaihi'.
Document in Arabic, a single line is preserved from the original text. Medieval-era. One of the words is "حكمتها". This shelfmark may be related to …
Decree fragment, beginning few words of nearly three lines preserved. Probably mentions "ilā Damish[q" in the first line. Requires further examination.
Receipt of some kind.
Complete letter/report in Arabic script written on a long, vertical strip of paper. Looks like a report to a high official or the draft of …
Receipt of an amount received by the dīwān of al-majlis al-sāmī al-ajallī al-fakhrī. Probably dated 11 Dhū l-Qaʿda 557 H.
Small fragment of an official document in Arabic script, maybe a petition. The beginnings of 3 lines are preserved.
Capitation tax receipt for a 1 dinar payment made by Bū l-Thanāʾ b. Bū Saʿd b. Ṭayyib al-Murakkib (the saddle maker) in New Cairo and …
Official correspondence in Arabic script. Wide space between the lines. Fragments of 4 lines are preserved; unclear how much of the substance is preserved. Reused …
Tiny fragment of an Arabic-script document in a chancery hand. Mention a sum of X-hundred dinars and the phrase "...which are mine, and that..." (allatī …
State document in Arabic script. Three lines and the last word of a fourth are preserved. Mentions titles of the judge Abū Isḥaq (al-qāḍī al-rashīd …
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Report of a provincial official, Ibn Lifsh(?) al-Shihābī. In Arabic script. It seems that he received an order to present himself, together with the qāḍī …
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Petition, probably. In Arabic script. Wide space between the lines. On verso there is Hebrew literary/liturgical text arranged in columns.
Official (tax?) receipt. Dated: 5[..] AH (~12th century CE). Needs examination.
Official-looking small receipt. Needs examination.
Decree? In Arabic script, chancery hand, large letters and huge space between the lines. One and a half lines are preserved. It is difficult to …
Verso (original use): Two lines of a large document in Arabic script containing praises for the ruler and gratitude for his protection (amn) and justice …
Fiscal account, left-hand side only, written with wasteful line spacing containing the amounts two ḥabbas, one dīnār, and possibly the annotation nuqila.
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Petition to a state official. In Arabic script. Fragment (upper right corner). All that is preserved is some of the titles of the addressee. "al-majlis …
Recto: Fragment of a petition or report in Arabic script. The sender says that he sent a prior 'khidma,' then praises the addressee and/or the …
Report from the period of al-Afḍal, probably. In Arabic script. Nine lines from the middle of the report are nearly completely preserved. Sent from a …
Verso: Petition, in Arabic script. Mentions a judge, the court, and probably the appointment of someone to the position of judgeship who wasn't fit for …
……………].....ـهم الخلل و ذلك [
]يعمل به ……. يعرض ويؤمر منها العهد والوقت استبد لهم جماعة من الفقها
]على بعض حاله (؟) ومن اوقف جميع بالحضرة …
Fragment from the top of a Judaeo-Arabic copy of a decree (manshūr) of the caliph al-Ḥākim bi-Amr Allāh, it seems his appointment of a certain …
State document or official correspondence in an Arabic chancery hand. "الاعمال بفضل....بما يستخرج الى يوسف القاضي..مصر الاجل العالم...ادام الله تعالى". Needs examination.
Official letter in Arabic script. Beautiful handwriting. Wide space between the lines. Ḥamdala and ḥasbala at bottom. Needs examination.
Petition to a Fatimid vizier regarding the repayment of a debt. The petitioner asks for help in dealing with the head of the arsenal, Abū …
يعرف با[ـبـ]ـي [ا]لاعسر ريس الصناعة و[ ]
بين المملوك وبينه معاملة ولا عليه حسـ[ـا]ـب ولا جبة ضمان ولا كفالة
وأن الريس المذكور ضيق على …
Verso (original use): Petition or official letter in Arabic script. Three lines are preserved containing praises for the addressee and his benefaction.
Official correspondence (petition or report). Refers to Dīwān al-Shām (of Syria, cf. T-S AS 111.37). The beginnings of two lines are preserved: "al-mutaqaddim min jihat …
Fiscal register, in Arabic script. List of dates (no years) and amounts in Arabic, recycled to make a bifolio.
Verso: Small fragment of an Arabic document. State-related? Recto contains accounts in Arabic script and unidentified text in Hebrew script.
Bifolium from a fiscal account ledger. One of the four pages is headed "makhzūma." Needs examination.
Receipt for the ḍamān (or rent?) of a shop in Minyat al-Ghamr(?) for Yūsuf b. Ibrāhīm in the year 516 H. Needs examination.
Fiscal document, probably. Mentions Yūsuf b. ʿAlī; Muḥammad b. ʿAlī; Mūsā b. ʿAlī, [...] b. Khalīl.
Recto (original use): Large state document in Arabic script, likely a decree. The ends of two lines are preserved ([...]bihā wa-ʾārāʾuhā....).
Tax receipt from the archive of Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb, Fatimid. One registration mark: al-ḥamdu lil-lāh ʿalā niʿamih.
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Document in Arabic script in a chancery hand. Most likely a report based on the phrase "mā juddida dhikruhu". Portions of five lines are preserved …
Fatimid official report mentioning two messengers sent from the caliph (al-ḥaḍra al-ṭāhira) to Damascus and also mentioning the Banū Hilāl. Probable join with ENA 3907.6 …
List of names and money received, accounts for the state silk monopoly in Alexandria (which is confirmed by the term "Khazīna" in the fourth scan …
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 …
Verso (original use): Beginning of a Fatimid petition to a caliph. Extremely torn and fragmentary. Mentions a caliph by name, "wa sayyiduna al-Imām", but the …
Trials of the pen in a fiscal or administrative hand, including the glyph, the basmala and "al-shaykh al-ajall."
Official-looking document in Arabic script. Needs examination. Reused for what seems to be a letter, or draft of one, in Judaeo-Arabic, though the hand is …