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shelfmark:"Bodl ms. Heb a 2/3"
Verso (original use): Small fragment of an official-looking Arabic letter. Parts of four lines are preserved. May mention Barqa (unless this is something like "bi-riqqihī"), …
]علي بربـ[
]لى برقة ويقطع البلاد
]اث الله عليه محابة(؟)
ـ]ـن فاعلمهم ان العذر (الغدر=alt) بين
1 Transcription
Letter or petition to a vizier, possibly al-Afḍal. Approximately three lines are preserved from the opening praises ("... al-Afḍaliyya... Kāfil Quḍāt al-Muslimīn wa-Hādī Duʿāt al-Muʾminīn..."). …
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State document, in Arabic script. A Fatimid decree, reused for a long liturgical text in Hebrew.
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 …
State document, Fatimid. Two fragmentary lines preserved of a larger document. A partial reading of the first line is as follows: "منها وما معها وبوس(؟) …
State document, in Arabic script. Two fragmentary lines.
Probably a fiscal register (compare BL OR 5566B.3 and the other shelfmarks cited there). Mentions various dates and the name ʿAbd al-Ṣamad. Reused on the …
Tax receipt.
Original use: Official letter or decree in Arabic script. Written in large letters wide space between the lines. The ends of 8 lines are preserved. …
Fiscal account, probably. There is a year at upper left. Needs examination.
Capitation tax receipt for Musāfir b. Yūsuf, a Jewish man whose profession is "dīwānī."
Report or petition, probably. The ends of two lines are preserved: مراسمها وكملت ... من اقتراحها وعرضها. Reused for piyyut on verso.
Small, official-looking receipt.
Unidentified document in Arabic script. Fiscal accounting? Personal letter? Two different documents glued together? Reused by the same Hebrew scribe as T-S NS 111.63 and …
Small fragment of official correspondence, reused for literary text in Hebrew script. Only a few words preserved.
State document in Arabic script. Dated either 512 or 522 AH (or both, one on recto and the other on verso?). Mentions a ḍamān ("tax …
Order of payment issued for the ṣarrāf Mūsā Naʿīm (Moshe ben Naʿim) involving the Dīwān Anwāl al-Ḥarīr in Alexandria and a certain al-Ḥajj Muḥammad Kh..iyya. …
Small fragment of a state document, likely a decree: ـد من فتى مولانا وسيدنا الا[مر(؟) Reused for a Judaeo-Arabic text discussing principles of Jewish conduct …
Small fragment from a state document, perhaps a decree. Portions of two lines are preserved. The verso retains red and black pigment in two lines, …
Verso (primary use): end of a petition containing a raʾy clause mentioning istikhrāj (extraction of taxes).
Fiscal document, or account in Arabic script and Coptic numerals.
State document, official correspondence. The ends of 8 lines are preserved. Mentions obedience (al-samʿ wa-l-ṭāʿa li-l-amr), and it seems the sender is asking for orders. …
Possibly a receipt mentioning "min al-mustakhdamīn" and a calendar date (but it seems no year). Needs further examination.
Fiscal account recording the revenue of wheat, barley and broadbeans produced in five villages of the Gharbiyya province (Basūṭ Nahīsah, Maḥallat Bū l-Haytam, Nawāj, Damshīt, …
State receipt issued by fiscal officials of the Qalyūbiyya qism, one of the twenty-four administrative sections that existed in Egypt after 1826. Dated in [1]247 …
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 …
1 Translation
Petition or official report. Arabic script, wide line-spacing, chancery hand. The document is dated 502 H, which is extremely rare for petitions, and contains a …
شـ]ـرفا وثباتا سنة اثنتين وخمس ماية…..
]ساميها الى النايب عنها فيها على يد كاتبهم
]..على ذلك استخراج ذلك لهم وعضده وزكاته
]هم الله على السدا…
Subsequent use, probably: Drafts of petition text in Arabic script addressed to al-maqām al-[...] al-Ḥāfiẓī (dating to the reign of al-Ḥāfiẓ, 1132–49). On the other …
Register of ground rent (ḥikr) receipts for Manṣūr b. Muslim al-Zajjāj for his compound in Qaṣr al-Shamʿ with numerous tidy entries spanning a period of …
Verso: small fragment of an Arabic state document in large script. There is an ʿalāma in the margin. Recto: possibly a maqāma, praising a ruler …
Black ink (original use): ِFragment of a state document, fiscal related. At the top: thabata ʿindī jamīʿ mā nuṣṣa wa-shuriḥa fīhi... wa-kataba Muḥammad b. Ibrāhīm …
Bifolio of fiscal accounting, with entries for months of the years 524, 525, and 526 AH. Very detailed, fairly well preserved. The first entry (recto, …
Tax receipt. Needs examination.
Recto: Petition, fragment. Perhaps involving the plunder and occupation of a house (....al-bayt wa-nahabū... ikhrājuhum ʿanhu... fa-mā li-l-mamlūk illā marāḥim al-mawlā...). The form of the …
Tax receipt, or possibly credit instrument? Contains an ʿalāma at the upper right and a jahbadh signature at the bottom.
Small fragment of a state document in Arabic script. Reused for bifolio of Hebrew literary text.
State document, fragment of a longer text, dismembered at the collesis. What has remained is wa-mā tawfīqī illā bi-l-lāh. Possibly Ayyubid (tawfīqī billāh was an …
Writing practice or drafts of the formulae typically used in official documents with prayers for the caliph ("... al-ṭāhirīn... al-akramīn...).
Large account in Arabic script, likely fiscal given the handwriting and the wasteful layout. One of the entries mentions Ḥāmid b. Ḥamīd. Needs examination.
Fiscal document. Begins, "[...] fī bayt al-māl...." Dated: 5[..] AH. Mentions Shams al-Mulk at the end of the second large line. Needs further examination.
Petition in Arabic script to "the master of the viziers" (sayyid al-wuzarāʾ). The sender swears by Muḥammad and his family but is himself a Jew …
State document, in Arabic script. Decree fragment, four very faded lines with visibly large line spacing. The first word probably reads as "wa l-yujaddid". Needs …
Official-looking account in Arabic script.
Bottom left fragment of a state document, probably, in Arabic script. Ḥamdala towards the end. Needs examination.
State document or commercial dār receipt. Dated: probably [5]49 AH = 1154/55 CE.
Decree fragment, beginning few words of nearly three lines preserved. Probably mentions "ilā Damish[q" in the first line. Requires further examination.
State document, probably a letter of official correspondence, in Arabic script. Sent by an official with the title ʿĀzim al-Dawla. An order from al-Ḥaḍra al-Majīdiyya …
al-Amīr ʿĀzim al-Dawla and his slave Saʿīd b……
In the name of God the most merciful
I do not doubt the love of al-Shaykh al-Sayyid, may G…
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State document in Arabic of which three lines are well-preserved. Medieval-era. The paper was reused for a text in Hebrew on both the recto and …
Fragment of a document in Arabic script, likely a petition addressed to al-Amīr al-Muwaffaq al-Manṣūr Ḥusām al-Mulk Muʾayyad [al-Da]wla. Mentions "...these farms from the inside …
Capitation tax receipt for Bū l-Faḍl b. Manṣūr, a Jewish trader, in Fustat. Dated: 17 Muḥarram 525 AH.