Search Documents

Filters

1,586 total results

  1. 1201

    State documentT-S AS 181.9

    Bifolio (subsequently folded into thirds) of an eclectic selection of incomplete state-related documents. Perhaps the writing exercises or drafting of a chancery scribe, or else …

    Verso (Petition)

    1. ويسئل في الانعام عليه والا[حسان اليه]

    2. وخروج التوقيع العالي زاده الله نفا[دا]

    3. وعلوا باطلاق لهم عن ذلك

    4. وللمجلس السامي ادام الل…

    Recto

    1. Praise be to God] alone, and his blessings be upon our master Muḥammad and his progeny, and peace
    2. God is sufficient for his slave and it is up…

    1 Transcription

    Tags

    View document details
  2. 1202

    State documentT-S NS 305.23

    Petition, or maybe its draft, to the Fatimid Caliph al-ʾĀmir bi Aḥkām Allah. Verso is also some form of state document in a chancery hand, …

    Verso

    1. بسـ]ـم الله الرحمن [الرحيم]
    2. صلوات الله وبركاته ونوامي زكواته [وافضل تحياته على سيدنا ومولانا

    3. [الامام] الامر باحكام الله امير المؤمنين وعلـ[…

    1. In the name] of God the merciful [and compassionate]
    2. The blessings of God, his benedictions and increased benefactions [and best greetings be upon o…

    1 Transcription

    Tags

    View document details
  3. 1203

    State documentT-S Ar.35.368

    Draft of a petition or note, in Arabic script, asking for charity on account of the sender's poverty. At lower left the name(s) of the …

    Recto

    1. يقبل الارض وينهي ان المملوك رجل صعلوك
    2. وله عائلة وما هو عادة يرميه ولوجه الله تعالى
    3. النظر في حاله لوجه الله تعالى
    4. المملوك
    5. ابراهيم ابن محسن(؟)
    6. و…
    1. Kisses the ground and reports that the slave is a pauper
    2. and he has a family, and this [his state of poverty] is not usual, for the sake of God the …

    1 Transcription

    Tags

    View document details
  4. 1204

    State documentT-S Ar.42.173

    Recto (secondary use): Petition draft in Arabic script. The sender thanks the addressee for employing him in government service (khidma). Mentions "al-dawāwīn al-maʿmūra." The variants …

    Recto

    1. المملوك يقبل الارض وينهي انه كان انعم عليه بالخدمة في [
    2. طـ[                              ]....للديوان المعمور
    3. من الجاري[                      …

    Recto

    1. The slave kisses the ground and reports that he [the addressee] showed kindness to him by appointing him in [
    2. [                       ]in the …

    1 Transcription

    Tags

    • 1r
    • 1v
    View document details
  5. 1205

    State documentT-S Ar.39.80

    Original document: Petition from a woman (al-mamlūka), probably in Tinnīs (المقيمة بمدينة تنيس حماها الله تعالى) to a dignitary with the title al-Juyūshī. The addressee …

    Recto

    1. بسم الله الرحمن]الرحيم
    2. ]العالي السامي السيدي الاجلي الجيوشي
    3. ]الهادي وعضد به الدين وامتع بطول[بقائه امير المؤمين]
    4. ]واعلا كلمته           المملو…
    1. In the name of God the merciful] and compassionate
    2. ]the elated, exalted, illustrious, commander of the army
    3. ]the guide, strengthened by him faith, a…

    1 Transcription

    Tags

    View document details
  6. 1206

    State documentMoss. IV,249

    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 …

    Recto

    1. ]في يومه(؟) رضوان مع نزول[

    2. ]المملوك يهتدي مسالك الطرق وقد علت حياته 

    3. وضعفت قدرته وبقي المملوك من ارباب الصدقة وعنده

    4.  عائلة واطفال وليس …

    Recto

    1. ]In his days (?) happiness in residing [
    2. ]The slave finds guidance in the paths of life but his life has become difficult.
    3. His abilities have …

    1 Transcription

    Tags

    View document details
  7. 1207

    State documentL-G Ar. I.105

    Petition, or at least a formal letter in Arabic script. Portions of 11 lines are preserved. Many polite formulae are preserved, but unclear how much …

    1. ا]لسعيد مما كان مصادرته في كل [

    2. ] له دينار لا يوصل منه في هـ[ـذه

    3. ] كل(؟) نجم بالغرض ان تجري هذه الـنو[احـ]ـي(؟) [ 

    4. ] فلولا خوفي من سخطه لكنت …

    1. ] al-Saʿīd. His correspondences in each [
    2. ] a dinar doesn’t generate from this in these [
    3. ]…every (?) installment, for the reason that these distric…

    1 Transcription

    Tags

    View document details
  8. 1208

    State documentENA NS 71.12

    Fatimid petition, fragment of the top left-hand margin, tarjama is preserved. Dates to the period of al-Ḥākim based on the reuse on verso which makes …

    Recto

    1. روائح(؟) بن جوشن (جريس؟) واصحابه

    2. العبقلين(؟) 

    3. بسم الله الرحمن الـ]ـرحيم

    4. مماليك الحضرة السامـ]ـية العلية ال . . . ية والسعيدة السيدية ال…

    1. Rawāʾiḥ b. Jawshan and his colleagues
    2. al-ʿAbqalayn(?)
    3. In the name of God, the merciful and [compassionate]
    4. The slaves of the lofty presence, …. the …

    1 Transcription

    Tags

    • 2
    View document details
  9. 1209

    State documentT-S Ar.42.195 + T-S Ar.38.128

    Petition to a Fatimid dignitary concerning (or from?) a certain Abū l-Faraj apparently regarding various properties in a neighborhood (and perhaps their commandeering?). Subsidiary to …

    1. [. . .]

    2. ابو الفرج الكرخي المبتاع لهذه الدار وقال[

    3. الا باطلاق من مولاي الشيخ //الجليل// لا على الحـ[

    4. اعتابا(؟) له بسبب حق واجب       وعند مولا…

    1. []
    2. Abū l-Faraj al-Karkhī, the seller of this house, and said [
    3. except with the permission from our master the elder //the illustrious// not by [
    4. moc…

    1 Transcription

    Tags

    • 1v
    View document details
  10. 1210

    State documentT-S NS 300.71

    Petition, Fatimid, in Arabic script. Three and a half lines are preserved. The petitioner is one of the traders entering (or importing goods into?) Egypt …

    Verso

    1. انه من جملة التجار الموردين الى الديار المصرية خلد الله[
    2. وهو من اهل الستر والسلامة لازم للطرائق الحميدة[
    3. الا جزا وهو [يجدد] تقبيل الارض ويسئل …
    1. He is among the merchants that come to Egypt, may god perpetuate [
    2. and he is a genuine person, following a virtuous path [
    3. except reward. He [renews…

    1 Transcription 2 Discussions

    Tags

    • 1v
    View document details
  11. 1211

    State documentT-S Ar.42.194

    Petition to addressed to a noble woman, probably the Fatimid empress Sitt al-Mulk given the honorifics. In Arabic script. Written in two columns. The petitioner …

    Recto

    1. مملوك مولاتنا خلد الله ملكها

    2. الخلف(؟)

    3. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم

    4. عبد مولاتنا السيدة الشـ[ـريفة]

    5. الملكة حرس الله ملكها وحرس عزها

    6. وادام م…

    1. The slave of our mistress, may God make her reign eternal

    2. (al-Khalaf?)

    3. In the name of God, the compassionate, the merciful.

    4. The slave of our …

    1 Transcription

    Tags

    • 1r
    View document details
  12. 1212

    LetterT-S Ar.34.94

    Letter/petition in Arabic script. Opens with the phrase "(al-mamlūku) yakhdumu majlisa mawlānā wa-sayyidinā...." The sender asks the addressee to send something with Abū l-Ḥasan, it …

    Recto

    1.    ا[لمملوك]

    2. يخدم مجلس مولانا وسيدنا ادام الله ايامه     ويسل انعامه 

    3. ان يتفضل باحسانه ان يرسل صحبة الشيخ ابو  الحسن جامكية

    4. المملوك في …

    1 Transcription

    Tags

    • 1r
    View document details
  13. 1213

    Paraliterary textENA 4193.18

    Astrological text in Arabic script, with interspersed words transcribed into Judaeo-Arabic (late hand) in the spaces between the lines. This demonstrates that even some Jews …

    Recto

    1. من يوم الاحد وان اردت الهياجان

    2. ففي ساعة المريخ من يوم الجمعة وهي

    3. سادس ساعة منه وان اردت

    4. تحرق قلبه ففي ساعة الزهرة من

    5. يوم الثلاثا وهي …

    Recto

    1. On Sunday. If you intend to provoke/agitate (him/someone)

    2. then in the hours of Mars on Friday which is

    3. The sixth hour of the day and if y…

    1 Transcription

    Tags

    • 1
    • 2
    View document details
  14. 1214

    State documentT-S 8J5.21

    Verso: Draft of a petition in Arabic script, addressed to a lower official. The petitioners raise a dispute regarding a synagogue (kanīsa). They are barred …

      1. المماليك يقبلو الارض {وهو} ينهوا ان لهم بالمحلة كنيسة خرابة وهي تجمع شملهم

      2. بالصلاة فيها والمماليك [[يمنعون]] //خائفين// من الدخول اليها لكونها …

    1. The slaves kiss the ground and report that they have a dilapidated synagogue in al-Maḥalla which unites them
    2. in prayer. However, the slaves are [[…

    1 Transcription

    Tags

    • 1v
    View document details
  15. 1215

    State documentT-S NS 305.119

    Formal letter in Arabic script. Full of eloquent expressions of patronage. Unusual layout. Needs examination for content. Verso, is covered with writing in Arabic script …

    No Scholarship Records

    Tags

    View document details
  16. 1216

    State documentENA 4101.1

    Fatimid decree. Four lines preserved. Dated: 549 AH = 1154/55 CE. Four lines preserved. Seems to be regarding the administration of the dhimmīs who live …

    1. اليهم بالكشف عما يكمل ناحيته من الذمة المستمرين القيام
    2. وما يجدد بها من التـ[]ـس والطاري لسـ[
    3. سنة تسع واربعين وخمس مائة ونظم الاعمال بذلك
    4. والشهادة اخ…

    1 Transcription

    Tags

    • 2
    • 1
    View document details
  17. 1217

    State documentT-S NS 139.36

    Small fragment from an official document, most probably a petition. The second line of the fragment is in a thicker script than the first, and …

    1. الراي]العالي فيما يامر به ان [شا الله
    2. ]الاقطاع ان شا الله
    3. الحمد لله وحده و]صلواته على سيدنا محمد النبي واله الطاهرين وسلم تسليما

    1 Transcription

    Tags

    View document details
  18. 1218

    State documentT-S NS 125.110

    Official letter, in Arabic script. Probably an internal correspondence. Reports on a place or an occurrence "was l-mulāḥaẓa". The beginnings of 7 lines are preserved. …

    No Scholarship Records

    Tags

    View document details
  19. 1219

    State documentT-S NS 141.71

    Petition, probably. In Arabic script. ~4 lines preserved. Refers to al-dīwān al-Mustanṣirī. On verso there is piyyut. Likely related to the cluster T-S H11.90 + …

    1. ..هذين الديوانين وهو يجدد السوال

    2. …قام….من شي بما يجب فيها

    3. ]ـه الى الخدمة في ذلك ولولا ما يطمع به

    4. ….قدرته من [  ]يجب الديوان المستنصري

    1 Transcription

    Tags

    View document details
  20. 1220

    State documentT-S NS 194.109

    Official correspondence. The beginnings of 9 lines are preserved. There are two fragments here which were glued together out of order. The top fragment mentions …

    No Scholarship Records

    Tags

    View document details
  21. 1221

    State documentT-S NS 261.128

    Petition. Small fragment. Contains a taqbīl clause (and not much else). The beginning formula following the taqbīl resembles petition openings during the time of the …

    Verso

    1. [بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم]
    2. المملوك يقبل الارض امام[الموقف النبوي الطاهر ضاعف الله انواره]
    3. [و]اعلا مناره               وينهي

    1 Transcription

    Tags

    View document details
  22. 1222

    Literary textT-S NS 274.48

    Arabic poetry. Needs examination.

    No Scholarship Records

    Tags

    View document details
  23. 1223

    State documentT-S NS 199.154

    Official letter, six fragmentary lines in Arabic, recycled by ʿEli b. Yeḥezqel ha-Kohen of Jerusalem (d. ca. 1055) for a Piyyuṭ which dates the state …

    No Scholarship Records

    Tags

    View document details
  24. 1224

    LetterT-S NS 297.242

    Letter addressed to Abu l-Khayr(?) b. Ibrāhīm al-[...]. In Arabic script. Dating: 11th or 12th century. Nearly entirely preserved, except for the upper left corner …

    No Scholarship Records

    Tags

    View document details
  25. 1225

    State documentT-S AS 185.159

    State document, in Arabic script. Mentions the collection and transfer of funds, probably tax-related. The document is written in a chancery hand and the official …

    No Scholarship Records

    Tags

    View document details
  26. 1226

    State documentT-S NS 100.63

    Official correspondence. 7 lines are preserved. Catalogued as a decree concerning tax payment, but needs further examination. Reused for a Judaeo-Arabic commentary with exegetical queries …

    No Scholarship Records

    Tags

    View document details
  27. 1227

    State documentT-S NS 297.18

    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 …

    No Scholarship Records

    Tags

    View document details
  28. 1228

    LetterAIU XII.116

    Fragment of a mercantile letter in Arabic script. Relatively large (the bottom 22 lines are preserved + 4 lines in the margin + remnants of …

    No Scholarship Records

    Tags

    View document details
  29. 1229

    LetterT-S Ar.41.124

    Letter/petition to Najīb(?) al-Dawla. In Arabic script. The sender reports that he came to the addressee's house but was not able to do something. He …

    No Scholarship Records

    Tags

    View document details
  30. 1230

    Literary textT-S NS 297.177

    Poetry in Arabic script. Recto is all one poem rhymed on -bī. There is an intriguing verse in which a speaker "swears by the Torah.... …

    No Scholarship Records

    Tags

    View document details
  31. 1231

    LetterT-S Ar.38.128 + T-S Ar.42.195 + T-S K11.57

    (Bottom) Charity letter from a woman, in Arabic script. addressed to a dignitary (al-rayyis al-jalīl). After a long, rhymed introduction, the sender complains of poverty …

    Verso

    1. ليس لمن قلت حيلته وعظمت فاقته وعميت بصيرته اطال الله بقا مولاي الريس الجليل وادام تاييده وعلوه وتمكينه

    2. وكبت عدوه ملجا يلجا اليه ولا سندا يح…

    1 Transcription

    Tags

    • 1v
    View document details
  32. 1232

    LetterHalper 222

    Business letter in Arabic script. Dated: 1119 AH, which is 1708 CE. Concerning a property dispute in Damietta. On verso there is a seal as …

    Verso

    1. [بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله وصلوات الله على سيدنا محمد اما]
    2. بعد وان سالتم عنا فاننا بخير وخاطرنا عندكم والذي نعرفكم به ان وصل الي عندنا

    1 Transcription

    Tags

    • p. 2
    • p. 1
    View document details
  33. 1233

    State documentT-S H10.90 + T-S AS 124.249 + T-S NS 139.87 + T-S AS 91.173

    State document in Arabic script. Approximately 12 lines are preserved. Has at least two taqbīl clauses, mentions a "khidma", and a revenue or tax "al-mustakhraj". …

    No Scholarship Records

    Tags

    • 1v
    • 1v
    • 1r
    View document details
  34. 1234

    LetterT-S NS 321.43

    Letter in Arabic script. Probably commercial. Needs examination. Reused on verso for Megillat Esther-related text in Hebrew.

    No Scholarship Records

    Tags

    View document details
  35. 1235

    Credit instrument or private receiptJRL Gaster ar. 56

    Receipt in Arabic issued by a waqf overseer (ناظر وقف), probably for ground rent (ḥikr) on a property in Cairo. Dated Shawwal 1214 AH (1800 …

    No Scholarship Records

    Tags

    • 1 / 1 leaf, recto
    View document details
  36. 1236

    State documentT-S NS 323.14

    Decree, probably Fatimid, in Arabic script. Only three lines of text are preserved. Needs examination.

    No Scholarship Records

    Tags

    View document details
  37. 1237

    State documentBL OR 5566B.25

    Recto: State report. 4 lines preserved. Mentions "Bū Kalījār the king of Ahwāz," probably identical with the Buyid Amir Abū Kālījār Marzubān in Persia (d. …

    1. وزير ورد من عند بو كليجار ملك الاهواز

    2. وانه وصل الى واسط وخرج اليه ثلثة نفر

    3. من وجوه الا[تراك؟] وانه ساقهم ما لا 

    4. يرضيهم فقابلوه بالمكروه واراد…

    1. … a Wazīr who arrived from Bū Kalījār, the king of Ahwāz.

    2. He reached Wāsiṭ and three men went out to him

    3. from the notables of (the Turks?), but…

    2 Transcriptions 1 Translation 1 Discussion

    Tags

    View document details
  38. 1238

    Legal documentT-S NS 327.145

    Legal documents (one on recto and remnants of two on verso) in Arabic script. Might be a deed of sale on recto and deeds of …

    No Scholarship Records

    Tags

    View document details
  39. 1239

    Credit instrument or private receiptJRL Gaster ar. 308

    Receipt, of ground tax (ḥikr) for a flour mill owned by ʿAbd al-Qādir al-Sammāk in the Jewish neighborhood of Fusṭāṭ. The payee is ʿĀbid(?) Ḥamza(?) …

    ٌrecto

    1. وصلـــــــــــــــــــ
    2. من عابد(؟) حمزة(؟) حكر الطاحونة 
    3. بحارة اليهود تعلق وافق
    4. عبد القادر السماك
    5. وذالك عن ١٢٦٧ سنة
    6. ٢٧
    7. فقط لسبعة وعشرين قرش
    8. وا…

    1 Transcription

    Tags

    • 2 / 2 leaves, recto
    View document details
  40. 1240

    State documentT-S NS 325.192

    Decree in Arabic script. The beginnings of 5 lines are preserved. Concerns an iqṭāʿ and dikes (jusūr), and irrigration. Mentions the overseer of the jusūr, …

    Verso

    1. الجزية(؟) الجارية اقطاعه لم يكن عليها

    2. موظف جسور ولا حق .يولي(ديواني؟)[   ]

    3. اهلها به من مدة سنين وان المستخدمين

    4. الان قد تحلبوهم(؟؟) بمو…

    1 Transcription

    Tags

    View document details
  41. 1241

    State documentT-S Ar. 40.151

    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 …

    No Scholarship Records

    Tags

    View document details
  42. 1242

    Literary textT-S C2.209 + T-S F13.1 + ENA 4045.2 + JRL SERIES B 5446 + T-S 13.20 + ENA 3751.5

    Secondary use: Efrayim b. Shemarya (11th c) uses and reworks passages from the Sheʾiltot of Aḥay of Shabḥa (8th c) for a sermon. Written on …

    2 Transcriptions 1 Translation 2 Discussions

    Tags

    • 1
    • 1 / 1 leaf, recto
    • 2
    View document details
  43. 1243

    Paraliterary textENA 3925.8

    Medical prescription. Some ingredients mentioned are pear (ijjāṣ), jujube (ʿunnāb), almond oil, seeds of chicory (bizr hindabāʾ), Egyptian Cuscuta epithymum (aftīmūn Miṣrī), Syrian Borage (lisān …

    No Scholarship Records

    Tags

    • recto
    • verso
    View document details
  44. 1244

    Paraliterary textBL OR 5566B.27

    Recto: a medical prescription in Arabic for ʿAlī b. [..]Allah. Verso: scribal practice in Hebrew. ASE.

    No Scholarship Records

    Tags

    View document details
  45. 1245

    State documentENA 3944.4

    Tax receipt, sixth century AH. Trigger: addā. Few names on verso. Written by and for the same people as ENA 3944.3 (PGPID 10465), but registered …

    No Scholarship Records

    Tags

    • recto
    View document details
  46. 1246

    Literary textBL Or. 5557K.5

    Approximately 13 verses of poetry from the poem of the renowned Arabic poet al-Mutanabbī (d. 354/955) "حاشا الرقيب فخانته ضمائره * وغيض الدمع فأنهلت بوادره".

    No Scholarship Records

    Tags

    View document details
  47. 1247

    Paraliterary textBL OR 5565C.17

    Recto: An amulet or talisman for protection, beginning with a chapter on charms and protections "bāb al-ḥirz l-aʿẓam". Verso: Magical recipe or charm involving an …

    No Scholarship Records

    Tags

    View document details
  48. 1248

    State documentT-S 12.316

    Decree fragment, Fatimid, 11th century. The preserved text reads: "وهذا الغلام فقد كان ورد الـ". Reused by Efrayim b. Shemarya (see PGPID 1649).

    1 Transcription

    Tags

    • 1v
    View document details
  49. 1249

    LetterENA NS 71.13

    Mercantile letter in Arabic script. Fragment (lower half). "... he will/should sell it for him in Tyre and send him the value in the ṣalībī …

    Recto

    1. ….يبيعها له في صور

    2. وينفذ له ثمنها في الصليبي/الصليبية صحبة 

    3. الاصطول فقد وكله على قبض 

    4. ثمن ماله عند (؟) ابو الفضل بن البصري

    5. عن ثمن سكر…

    1 Transcription

    Tags

    • 1
    View document details
  50. 1250

    State documentENA 3969.3

    Tax receipt, Fatimid.

    No Scholarship Records

    Tags

    • recto
    View document details