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shelfmark:"Bodl ms. Heb a 2/3"
State document, likely a report, in Arabic script. Contains the taqbīl clause and the yunhī formula. The sender refers to his prior report (khidma) which …
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Fiscal document, probably. Mentions Yūsuf b. ʿAlī; Muḥammad b. ʿAlī; Mūsā b. ʿAlī, [...] b. Khalīl.
No Scholarship Records
Petition, probably. In Arabic script. Fragmentary. The sender seems to be complaining that someone has opposed him or will oppose him in conducting his business …
State document, in Arabic script. Dating: probably Fatimid. Not a lot is preserved but the document seems like an internal government memorandum mentioning accounts and …
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Bottom part of a (tax?) receipt.
State document, perhaps. In Arabic script. Fragment: Bottom only. Contains the end of a prayer for the amīr al-mu'minīn (wa-sallim taslīman) and a ḥasbala.
Tax receipt. Needs examination.
Verso (original use): Draft of a petition or other state correspondence in Arabic script, containing conventional praises and blessings for a powerful person. Recto: Draft …
Bottom of a state document. 4 lines preserved. The first line refers to the execution of an order and the sender's deference to the decision …
Fiscal account, probably. There is a year at upper left. Needs examination.
Small fragment of a petition for charity in Arabic script.
Bottom of a state document in Arabic script. Only the date (difficult to read, partially damaged) and the ḥamdala and ṣalwala are preserved. Reused for …
Bifolio from a small fiscal register in codex form. Three of the four pages each contain a distinct document/entry, beginning with the trigger "balagha." Presumably …
State document. Dating: Beginning of 12th century CE. Appointment of a Christian dignitary by the government and confirmation that the ordinances of previous caliphs are …
... the noble, prophetic (dynasty), may (God) extend its life, over
all the Christians dwelling in his dominion and living
[in ] the province…
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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 …
Verso: State document, in Arabic script. Six lines from the bottom are preserved, with moderately wide spacing and wasteful margins. Might be official correspondence. Reused …
Fiscal register. Compare BL OR 5566B.3 (PGPID 19261) and the other shelfmarks cited there. Reused for piyyuṭ.
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 …
Fiscal accounting. Dated (on T-S Ar.38.120): 436 kharājī = 1044/45 CE plus or minus a couple years. There are three or four distinct documents present: …
Verso (original use): A state report, most likely a draft, in Arabic script. Dating: 12th C because of report openings. Another report is written inversely …
Described in PUDL as a letter from a slave to his master regarding administrative matters. [Described on the paper wrapper as: "lettre d'un esclave à …
Capitation tax receipt in Arabic script. Does not have the usual endorsements at the top (unless they were much higher up and torn away). For …
Blessing formula for the caliph al-Ḥāfiẓ li-Dīn Allah (1131-1149 CE), possibly a draft petition. See also T-S NS 110.26. (“Prayers from the Geniza for Fatimid …
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Tax receipt, jizyā, dated 507 H (?). Pinholes at the margin 5mm apart.
Fiscal account or receipt. Mentions a name at the top and mentions wheat further down. Needs examination.
Upper part of an official (tax?) receipt, with ʿalāʾim and registration notes.
Fiscal accounting. ʿAlāma at the top: al-ḥamdu lillāhi wa-ʿalayhi tawakkulī. Needs examination.
Tax receipt?
State document, probably a decree, last three lines, written on the joyous occasion of ʿĪd al-Naḥr. Preserved lines read as "فاعلم هذا واعمل..وكتب في يوم …
واعلم هذا واعمل بـ[ـه وليقرّ بأيديهم بعد ثبوته في ... بحيث يثبت مثله ان شاء الله تعالى]
كتب في يوم عيد النحر السعيد [سنة …. ]
[الحمد لله …
Receipt for the capitation tax of Hiba b. Khalaf in Fustat. Dated: 503 or 530 AH.
Fiscal document, probably. Entries in multiple hands, some of them beginning with ṣaḥḥa, some of them mentioning a mablagh (sum) of money.
Fiscal document. Mentions a qāḍī, "al-maṭābikh al-maʿmūra," and various sums of money. Cf. T-S K6.150.2 (PGPID 34366). Needs examination. At the top there is what …
Bifolio with fiscal accounts. One page begins: "waṣala ilā [bayt al-māl?] al-maʿmūr min jihat Muḥammad b. ʿAmmār al-wakīl fī [...]," then the date: 413 or …
A few words from a state document, perhaps a decree. Reused for Hebrew piyyuṭ.
Tax receipt, Fatimid.
Unidentified document(s) in Arabic script, probably state related. Reused for liturgical text in Hebrew. (Information in part from CUDL.)
Account, maybe official/fiscal. Mentions the eunuch (al-ṭawāshī) Sanad al-Dawla or Sayyid al-Dawla (cf. T-S Ar.39.206 (PGPID 20812)). On verso mentions wheat and fava beans.
Account in Arabic script, looks fiscal. Needs examination.
Petition/report in Arabic script, begins with a taqbīl formula. Addressed to [...] b. Muḥammad intriguingly called 'the agent (wakīl) of the sultan.' Dating: probably Mamluk-era …
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 …
Report on income from a province (ʿaml al-[...]) submitted to the diwan of al-Afḍal (i.e., the vizier al-Afḍal b. Badr al-Jamālī, r. 1094–1121). Some of …
End of an official letter in Arabic script. "...fīmā yaḥtāj ilayh..." then a ḥamdala and ṣalwala. Reused for Hebrew piyyuṭ probably by the same scribe …
State accounts (makhzūma) in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Two names, Bū l-ʿAlā (..) and ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, can be read in the third line. Written …
Likely a fiscal document. In Arabic script. Needs examination. Reused for Hebrew blessings on recto.
Tax receipt? - needs examination.
Petition addressed to a dignitary. In Arabic script. The petitioner may be named Abū ʿAlī b Abū Bakr al-Bazzāz (the clothier). None of the standard …
Writing/calligraphic exercises in Hebrew, Judeo-Arabic and Arabic. Recto, upper right quadrant: Formulae beginning with אדאם אללה and ادام الله in Judeo-Arabic and Arabic. Upper left …
Report (or petition?). Line 3: الراي العالي باطلاقه لك على. Line 4: ان شا الله عليه الراي. On verso there are accounts in Judaeo-Arabic, in …
مما يطلق عن الديوان الابواب…بمصر
مائة وخمسة وخمسون دينارا
ومما يطلق من الديوان الاموال (الابواب؟) بالقاهرة
سبعة وسبعون دينارا
ويخرج …
Probably a state document in Arabic script. Only a few partial lines are preserved on both recto and verso.
Decree (manshūr) issued by the caliph al-Hafiz on 21 Rajab 528/1133 to stop two cases of malpractice which were adversely affecting the Delta province of …
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