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shelfmark:"Bodl ms. Heb a 2/3"
Recto: Official Arabic document. (Information from CUDL)
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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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Recto: State document. Accounts regarding agrarian administration submitted by Boqṭor b. Sisinne, a Copt, the overseer (al-khawlī) in Badsā (in the province of al-Giza), for …
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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 …
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.
Report from a Fatimid chancery clerk concerning an iqṭāʿ. The land is a sugarcane plantation (al-qand), mentions dīwān al-qand, or rather dīwān al-saʿīd, and the …
تسلم الـ[
بالناحية المعروفة بمنية سندبسط القديمة(؟)[
لمحمد بن ابرهم الناىب عن ابي الحسين بن حمزة . . مقدم من ابيه
الحصتين الجارية لما للديوا…
Submitted [
From the district of Minyat Sandabasṭ al-Qadīma
By Muḥammad b. Ibrāhīm, acting as deputy for Abū al-Ḥusayn b. Ḥamza, […] delivere…
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Official-looking document in Arabic script. Needs examination. Reused for pen trials in Judaeo-Arabic and jottings in Hebrew, and on recto for liturgical text in Hebrew. …
Official correspondence, probably. The ends of 6 lines are preserved. Difficult to make out much of the content Mentions "al-Dawla" (likely part of someone's laqab) …
The end of one line from a state document in Arabic script (decree vs. petition vs. report). Quite faded. Reused for Hebrew piyyuṭ.
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 …
Fiscal accounting. Seems to regard a construction project for a government building (Dār al-Malik and maybe al-ḥujra al-saʿīda are mentioned on recto) and quantities of …
Official letter/report. The ends of 6 lines are preserved. Difficult to make out any of the content. Reused on the other side for Hebrew piyyuṭ. …
Fatimid state document, probably a report. The beginnings of six lines are preserved. Reused on verso for Hebrew piyyuṭ. Merits further examination.
Recto: Fiscal document, in Arabic script, headed with a basmala and beginning in a petition format. Followed by many lines of sums of money, written …
Probably a report or official correspondence in Arabic script. In a chancery hand. Portions of 8 lines from the main text block are preserved, and …
Recto: fiscal document or state memorandum mentioning a ḍamān and the name Maʿālī b. Yūnā (?). Reused for a tax receipt issued for 402H written …
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Official report in Arabic script. Small fragment. Mentions the caliph (… ين الله), probably al-Ẓāhir (li-Iʿzāz Dīn Allāh), al-Ḥāfiẓ (li-Dīn Allāh), or al-ʿĀḍid (li-Dīn Allāh). …
Tax receipt for Yaʿqūb b. Isḥāq, likely for what he owes as the tax farmer of something (min jumlat mā ʿalayhi ʿan [ḍamānih?]...). On verso …
Receipt for the capitation tax of Ibrāhīm b. Yūsuf the Jew, a silk worker (qazzāz) and craftsman (ṣāniʿ). Same payer: T-S Ar.34.224, T-S Ar.34.282 (where …
State document, fragment of a petition. Contains the "shadd" formula.
Official-looking small receipt. Needs examination.
Recto: Official letter in Arabic script. Approximately 4 lines are preserved. Wide space between lines. Very faded, and it is difficult to read more than …
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.
Fragment of a letter in Arabic, likely an official report or petition. The sender reports that he went up to the citadel (يقبل الارض وينهي …
Document in Arabic script. Perhaps accounts or an administrative document. Needs examination.
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 + …
Fatimid decree (sijill) of investiture, Judaeo-Arabic copy. Renews the appointment of a Jewish physician "to the headship of all the Israelite denominations: the Rabbanites, Qaraites, …
Recto: Informal note in difficult Arabic script, scrawled basmala on top, possibly a memorandum to do with land tenure? Needs further examination. Verso: Informal note …
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 …
Tax receipt, Fatimid.
State document, in Arabic script. Receipt of the capitation tax payment of al-Qāhira and Fusṭāṭ.
Petition. In Arabic script. Fragment (upper right corner). The petitioner seems to be a female slave (and not just a figurative slave/mamlūka): "wa-tunhī al-mamlūka annahā …
[العبدة المملوكة فلانة بنت فلان من ناحية فلان]
بسم الله الر[ـحمن الرحيم]
تقبل الارض بالمجلس الـ[ـشريف الـسامي الـ ]
وتنهي المملوكة ا…
Receipt for someone's capitation tax in Fustat for the year 6[..] AH (approx. 13th century CE). Needs examination.
Very unusual account, written in large letters, likely fiscal. Perhaps wages for soldiers/mercenaries? Recto, upper section: -people's names such Masʿūd b. Manṣūr b. Sabʿ(?) and …
Official correspondence in Arabic script. Petition? Fragment (lower part). The sender's name is likely Bū Bakr b. ʿAntar (right margin). The main request seems to …
Fiscal document, Ayyubid. Bifolio. There are holes in various configurations indicating where the thread for the binding used to be. Three of the four pages …
Small fragment of a decree (parts of two lines are preserved, but no full words). Reused for a medical recipe in Judaeo-Arabic. The hand might …
Fiscal register (compare BL OR 5566B.3 and the other shelfmarks cited there). Reused for Hebrew hoshaʿnot. Needs further examination.
Possibly a fiscal document. Mentions the kharāj. Needs examination.
State document, in Arabic script. Eleven fragmentary lines, probably addressed to a higher official from a lower official. The official bears the title Ḥamīd al-Dawla. …
Receipt for the capitation tax of Hiba b. Khalaf in Fustat. Dated: 503 or 530 AH.
Small fragment from the bottom of a state document with wide line spacing, preserving only a ḥamdala and ṣalwala.
Receipt for the capitation tax of Ibrāhīm b. Yūsuf, a Jewish goldsmith (yahūdī ṣāʾigh), in Fustat, for the year 536. See also T-S Ar.35.196.
Probably a fiscal account.
Part of an official document in Arabic script. The ends of ~6 lines are preserved. Mentions a canal (khalīj). Also mentions the kiswa twice. The …
Probably a state document (or documents). Text unclear, but contains a date: 432? Verso l. 1 refers to the amir Sayf al-Khilāfa.
Unidentified document in Arabic script. Maybe fiscal, ca. 13th century or later.
State document, possibly a decree. Suggests orders conferred upon an authority: hayʾat (?) l-muṭālaʿa wa-l-āʿmāl bihā. There is Arabic script in another not-so-elegant hand and …
Original use: Small fragment from the bottom of a Fatimid decree. Dating: No later than 1077 CE.
Receipt for the capitation tax of Bū Saʿd b. Bū ʿAlī in Fustat. Cf. T-S AS 50.99 (PGPID 39028).