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shelfmark:"Bodl ms. Heb a 2/3"
Beginning of a petition addressed to the Fatimid caliph al-Ẓāhir. Beginning lines only. On verso, there is literary text in Hebrew. For the formula "al-ḥaḍra …
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Probably a state receipt, in Arabic script, for the purchase of a Nubian female slave named Tawfīq. It seems that the seller is Baqāʾ b. …
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Presumably a draft of a letter of appointment for a scribe to the central chancery. ʿAbd al-Ghanī b. Muḥammad al-Kātib is appointed as a scribe …
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Fiscal document. There is an ʿalāma at the top and underneath registration of various sums of money. Needs examination. Reused for piyyut on verso.
No Scholarship Records
Document in Arabic script. Likely a state report, or a letter with an official-looking layout (narrow column, with a large amount of space left in …
Small fragment of an official document in Arabic script. The beginnings of 3 lines are preserved, with wide space between them. Reused on verso for …
Ayyubid era receipt, contains the glyph which may mean a "basmala" here. Mentions "min māl al-dīwān". Needs examination. Verso: Document in a different hand in …
Receipt for the capitation tax in Fustat of Maḥfūz b. Eliyya. Dated: 52[.] AH.
Fragment of an official report; the ends of 4 lines are preserved. Mentions a city (bi-l-madīna) and to traveling routes (ان الموضع الذي سلك . …
Petition, probably from an actor of the state likely involved in the Majlis al-Ḥukm to a higher official or his subordinate. The petition is formatted …
…وشواجرها
عافية(؟) وانارها وبعض حيطانها وقصد المملوك ان
يبـني الطبقة على ما كانت املاء فمنعه من ذلك الجيران
ليس للطبقة المذكورة عالية عليهم و…
State document, it seems an order from a higher-up or a response/rescript (tawqiʿ) for a petition. (There is in fact a draft petition on verso …
Tax receipt?
State document in Arabic script. 7 lines are partially preserved. Mentions a rescript (al-tawqīʿ) and probably a year in the 5th century AH (4[..]). The …
Small fragment of a Fatimid state document. The ends of three lines are preserved.
Verso: Tax receipt for Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb in the hand of the jahbadh Mīkhāʾil b. ʿAbd al-Masīḥ. Dated: 4 Rabīʿ I 404. On recto …
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Decree. Portions of two lines are preserved: ...bi-sumuwwi l-ʾamri... qabla l-tadbīri(?).... Reused for Hebrew poetry/liturgy.
Bottom of a state document in Arabic script, maybe a petition. Reused on recto for Hebrew piyyuṭ. On verso there are also piyyuṭ drafts and …
Possibly a fiscal document. Faded and damaged. Reused for Hebrew literary text on recto.
Decree fragment, one line, in Arabic script. "سعد من وحولها".
State document, in Arabic script. Petition fragment, asking for a rescript. Preserves the closing invocations and the inhāʾ formula.
Fiscal register. Compare BL OR 5566B.3 (PGPID 19261) and the other shelfmarks cited there. Reused for piyyuṭ.
Petition or official correspondence, in Arabic script. Mentions the death of someone's mother and sending the brother of their servant Abū Muḥammad to take care …
Tax receipt for Musāfir b. Yūsuf. Needs further examination for the details.
Small fragments of state correspondence in Arabic script. Portions of two lines are preserved, with very wide line spacing. There are numerous nearby small fragments …
Receipt, crudely written on a small slip, for a person whose name is given in the first line. It seems for a ḥikr (ground rent) …
Tax receipt. Needs examination.
Receipt for Abu Sahl the teacher (al-muʿallim). Possibly a tax receipt, Fatimid.
Report. In Arabic script. Headed: al-ʿizza lillāh waḥdahū. Might be a draft, since there are some extra jottings in the same hand around the first …
Fragment of state correspondence in Arabic script. Legible words include muṣṭanaʿ, mustakhdam, in shāʾ allāh. Approximately 2 lines are preserved. On verso there is adidtional …
Tax receipt, Fatimid.
Small fragment of a state document in Arabic script. Reused for Hebrew piyyuṭ in the hand of a prolific scribe. Join: Shulamit Elizur.
Unidentified text in Arabic script. Probably accounts, possibly fiscal/state. Might mention ʿAbd al-Ṣamad. Reused for a Hebrew literary text. (Information from CUDL)
State document, in Arabic script. Petition addressed to the Fatimid caliph based on the beginning invocations and blessings. The name of the petitioner is Ṣandal …
Capitation tax receipt for the Jewish man Sālim b. Bū l-Faḍl for the year 621(?) AH. Landscape format. Needs further examination.
Official document or receipt of some kind. In Arabic script. Headed by the glyph and with the Greek/Coptic numeral for 40 at the top (also …
Fiscal document. Needs examination.
State document, possibly. There are two lines in a chancery hand and the end of a third line, with huge spaces between them, and an …
Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Looks like a state/fiscal hand.
Fragment from the bottom of a petition. In Arabic script. Dating: late, likely no earlier than ~15th century. The petitioner's name probably appears at bottom …
Recto: Official letter in Arabic script. Very faded. Fragments of ~5 lines are preserved, with wide space between the lines. Verso: Letter/report in Arabic script, …
Original use: Probably a small fragment of a state document in Arabic script, with one phrase preserved beginning وليعمل بموجبه.
State document, in Arabic script. Extremely fragmentary decree, barely one word readable per line. In perpendicular is another Arabic script in thin pen containing a …
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Very tiny note in Arabic script, in the same type of hand as many of the early 5th/11th century tax receipts. Some contain the mystery …
Petition from the wife of Ṭayyib b. Musallam al-ʿIblānī, a Khaybarī Jew, to the caliph al-Mustanṣir (r. 1036–94), seeking the restitution of money taken from …
Petition/letter of appeal for assistance likely addressed to 'the overseer' (al-mushārif, l. 1). The sender refers to this document as "this khidma." The sender is …
Official salary receipt issued by the state administration for silk production in Alexandria. Dated: Jumādā II 1239 AH (1824 CE). In the introduction to her …
Deposits
from the hand of the exemplar of the great and support of
the notables, of power and renown, his excellency
our master the noble…
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 …
Possibly a fragment from a petition, addressed to a Caliph based on the beginning of a "raʾyy" clause in the penultimate line.
تو]قيع الامر مط.. بان الحديث فيهم
جرى به عادته وحملهم
…..واطفالهم
]الى كافة الخلق
]ولمولانا
[صلوات الله عليه علو الراي في ذلك ان شا الله]
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 …