מסמך שלטוני: T-S K2.96

תיאור

Petition to Saladin from ʿAbd al-Bāqī b. Yaḥyā, the Jew, a resident of Malīj, in the province of al-Gharbiyya, in the Delta. Dating: ca. 564–89 AH, which is 1169–93 CE. The petitioner complains about the tax collectors, who forced him to leave his family and job and to work for them, and asks for the issuing of a rescript that would allow him to go back to his town and family. On verso is an answer to the petition maintaining that since ʿAbd al-Bāqī b. Yaḥyā had some experience as a tax collector, he could not avoid this service. Also on verso is a work on calendar reckoning mentioning the maḥzorim, the moladot and the different kinds of Hebrew year; names of the months of the year in the Julian(!) calendar and the numbers of their days are written vertically on the leaf. The column on the far right on the verso is a list of calendar-related values in Coptic alphanumerals, numbered 1-19 for each year of the Jewish calendar cycle number 260, then ten values for 10, 20 etc. cycles until 100 cycles; then ten values for 100, 200, until 1000 cycles; and finally ten values for 1000, 2000, until 10,000 cycles, a calculation for 190,000 years ahead. There are also a few draft lines of some phrases contained in the petition that appears on verso, and a list of figures in the marginalia. (Information from Khan and from Sacha Stern) See also T-S Misc.28.191 (PGPID 23409).