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shelfmark:"Bodl ms. Heb a 2/3"
Letter in Ottoman Turkish to the sultan that references at least three imperial officials and the transfer of a thousand qantars of gunpowder "bārūt" (l. …
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Minute fragment of a state document. Only one full word (al-nāḥiya) is preserved. Reused for piyyuṭ.
State document, in Arabic script. 5 partially faded lines in chancery script are visible. Reused for bookbinding. Needs examination.
Bottom of a tax receipt from the dossier of Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb, written by Mīkhāʾil b. ʿAbd al-Masīḥ. Dated: 11 Muḥarram 405. The verso …
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Tax receipt issued to Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb for his ḍamān on dyeing in Madīnat al-Fayyūm. Dated: 2 or 8 Dhū l-Qaʿda 405. Payment made …
Official-looking small receipt. ENA 3968.21 and ENA 3968.23 appear to be in the name of the same person (Ḥusayn b. [...]). Needs examination.
Receipt for tax dated 701 (1302)
Recto: fragment of a fiscal account in a Fatimid chancery hand, including amounts in dīnārs. In l. 7, mentions something al-mubāraka ilā mawlāy (or mawlāhā). …
Fiscal account, fragment from a bifolio. Items include names (Yūsuf [...], Faḍāʾil [...]) and quantities of dinars expressed in words.
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 …
A few words in large, calligraphic Arabic script: د ويشاع فحوله في . . . Reused for Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew literary texts. The Judaeo-Arabic seems …
Fiscal account (?). There are numbers and possibly dates. Ductus seems like someone high-up in the administration. Needs examination, and comparison with similarly structured documents. …
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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…
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Formal letter or report in Arabic script. Reporting that the sender left the addressee, rapidly found a boat, traveled to Alexandria, and delivered the letter …
A few words from a large state document ([...] min jiha. . .)
Receipt of payment or tax receipt, in Arabic script. There is a registration mark "الحمد] لله وبه استعين]". Name of the payee is not readable …
State document, in Arabic script. Fragment of an internal government document, possibly fiscal ("māl ḍamānih li-shuhūr sana..."), dated 412 AH (1021/22 CE). Reused for Hebrew …
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State document, in Arabic script. The beginnings of ~6 lines are preserved. Chancery hand, mainly beginning blessings. Reused for Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic liturgical text. Needs …
State document, likely a decree. The ends of three lines are preserved. "... bi-l-istiʿmālāt al-mubāraka... wa-ʿarrafanā ijtihādaka... al-maḥmūl ʿaynan wa-l-aṣnāf...." Acknowledging the good service of …
Verso (original use): Fragment (lower left corner) of a petition or other state correspondence in Arabic script. Ends with ṣalwala and ḥasbala. Needs examination.
Petition addressed to the Fatimid caliph based on the raʿy clause towards the end "wa li-mawlāna ṣalawāt Allah ʿalayhi ʿāliya al-raʾy". In a rudimentary or …
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 …
Minute fragment with a few Arabic words preserved on each side, either from a legal or official document. AA
Fiscal document mentioning an official titled Wajīh al-Dawla. Reused for an account (see separate entry).
Fiscal register (compare BL OR 5566B.3 and the other shelfmarks cited there). Reused for Hebrew piyyuṭ.
انسلاخ شهور سنة تسع وا[ربع
على ما بين من شرحه في مواضـ[
من العين احد عشـ[ـر
Verso (original use): Official-looking document in Arabic script. Maybe a receipt. Mentions "al-kharāj al-muwāfaqa li l-khidma al-wizāra." Needs further examination.
Fragment from the right side of an official-looking account.
Document in Arabic script. Fiscal? Needs examination. Reused for Hebrew piyyuṭ, mentioning Ḥannuka.
Remnants of a state document, in Arabic script. Two fragmentary lines. Reused for a document in Hebrew script on recto and verso.
State document, extremely fragmentary. The name of the Fatimid Caliph al-Mustanṣir is written "al-Mustanṣir Billah Amīr al-Muʾminīn."
State document, in Arabic script. Most probably an internal correspondence. Mentions a Qāḍī Ḥammād b, ʿAlī and also Amīr al-Muʾminīn in l4. Reused for Hebrew …
State document, internal report, in Arabic script. The sender may be Yaḥyā b. Ḥāmid(?) b. Sālim. The addressee is a qāḍī (al-ḥaḍra al-sāmiya al-qaḍāʾiyya). Dating: …
Receipt for the capitation tax of Bū Saʿd b. Bū ʿAlī in Fustat. Cf. T-S AS 50.99 (PGPID 39028).
Ikhshīdid fiscal document. Mentions both Sayyidnā al-Ikhshīd (=Muḥammad b. Ṭughj) and Abū l-Misk (=Kāfūr) by name. Dated: 329 AH = 940/41 CE. Reused for Hebrew …
Petition in Arabic script. The sender bemoans his poverty (ṣaʿlaka) and expresses his trouble with paying a tax, probably his capitation tax. He is a …
]في يومه(؟) رضوان مع نزول[
]المملوك يهتدي مسالك الطرق وقد علت حياته
وضعفت قدرته وبقي المملوك من ارباب الصدقة وعنده
عائلة واطفال وليس …
Fragment of a petition (upper right corner). Preserved text: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم خلد الله ايام الحضرة السامية . . . الجلالية ناصرة ال . …
Official correspondence about agricultural administration. Needs examination.
Two different state documents, in Arabic script, glued together to form one Hebrew literary document. Reused by the same Hebrew scribe as T-S NS 111.63 …
Fragment of an Arabic state document mentioning the dīwān. Reused on recto for a halakhic discussion or commentary.
Receipt for the capitation tax of Hiba b. Yūsuf. See ENA 3925.6 (PGPID 10284).
Decree, probably a public copy with gigantic line spacing. Mentions the signature/ʿalāma (khaṭṭ, khuṭūṭ) of two just witnesses (al-shuhūd al-ʿadlayn) and overseers (al-mushārifīn). Also mentions …
Decree fragment. Only a few words are legible, in large, calligraphic script. There are also a few words in smaller Arabic script in the upper …
Draft of the opening of a petition or official letter. On verso jottings of accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals.
Petition to the caliph al-Āmir (1101–30) from a woman attempting to collect a large debt of 241 dinars on the estate of a deceased person. …
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم 1 بسم
صلوات الله وبركاته ونوامى زكواته وافضل سلامه وتحيـ[ـاته على مولانا]
وسيدنا الامام الامر باحكام الله امير الم…
Receipt for the capitation tax in Fustat of Maʿālī b. Bū l-Karam a Jewish silk merchant (qazzāz) for the year 525 AH. See T-S AS …
Document(s) in Arabic script. Likely official correspondence. Recto and verso look like different hands, and each has portions of ~4 lines preserved. Recto may mention …
Verso (probably original use): Account signed at the top by Ḥannā b. Mīkhāʾīl, probably identical with the jahbadh Yūḥannā b. Mīkhāʾil known from numerous other …
Small fragment of fiscal accounting, probably. Reused for Hebrew literary text.
Damaged fragment of a (state?) document in Arabic script. The name Mūsā b. ʿUmar b. Aḥmad appears.
Verso: tax receipt, or possibly credit instrument? Contains an ʿalāma at the upper right, maybe, and a jahbadh signature at the bottom. Also contains the …