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shelfmark:"Bodl ms. Heb a 2/3"
Likely a fragment of a fiscal register (compare BL OR 5566B.3 and the other shelfmarks cited there). One line preserved mentioning the month of Rabīʿ …
אין רשומות קשורות
Petition from Ṭāhir b. Isḥāq, a poor man from Alexandria, to the amir Qarāqūsh Bahāʾ ai-Dīn b. ʿAbdallāh al-Asadī (his nisba derives from his having …
The slave
Tāhir ibn Isḥāq
In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate.
The slave of the lofty, mighty and sublime presence, the most …
תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד
State document in Arabic script. Most-likely a petition or report reused for a letter on recto. Both sides have the glyph, which signifies a basmala. …
An Arabic makhzūma, related to a land with Coptic numerals. The document was drawn in the name of Shamṭar (probably Coptic) al-ʿAmūdī. Needs examination.
Tax receipt issued to Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb for his ḍamān on dyeing in Madīnat al-Fayyūm. Written by the jahbadh Mīkhāʾīl b. ʿAbd al-Masīḥ. Dated: …
2 תעתוקים 2 תרגומים דיון אחד
Verso (original use): Beginning of a petition or letter to an official. Reused on recto for a tax receipt (see separate entry).
بسم اللـه الرحمن الرحيم
قد كان عبد الحضرة السامية الاجلية الشيخية الـ…. ـية ثبت اللـه مجدها
واهلك عدوها وضدها … على مشارفتها في يحا[ …
תעתוק אחד
Bottom part of a receipt written by the jahbadh Mīkhāʾīl b. ʿAbd al-Masīḥ. Dated: 10 Ramaḍān 405.
תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד דיון אחד
Official document, maybe a decree. The beginnings of three lines are preserved with very wide line spacing. Phrases include بذلك . . . .بالتاكيد في …
Two lines of a letter or petition in Arabic script (li-l-sayyid bin al-[...]).
Recto: official-looking letter possibly addressed to a qāḍī. Verso: A receipt of some kind? Both sides need further examination.
Verso: State document. In Arabic script, in a chancery hand. The beginnings of 7 lines are preserved. Possibly a decree? Talking about the destruction of …
Letter or official document in Arabic. Reused on recto for piyyuṭ. (Information from CUDL.)
Fragment of two lines from a state document, reused for liturgical text for Shabbat with Judaeo-Arabic instructions. (Information in part from CUDL.)
State document, most likely an official correspondence. Mentions the amīr Sayf al-Dawla's business dealings with the writer. Among the commodities mentioned are luxury textiles (ʿattābī …
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
احضرت الثوب العتابي اطال الله بقا مولاي الشيخ الجليل وادام علاه وسلامته بحضور مولاي
الامير سيف الدولة ومرضيها ادام الله…
State accounts relating to the tax farm of the lands of Dayqūf, in the province of al-Bahnasā, administered by Basṭiyya b. Marqūra and the property …
Mamlūk-era, tax receipt, in Arabic script.
Fiscal account. Contains multiple entries, each marked with nuqila, “it has been copied.” Khan dates this document to the same period as T-S Ar.40.37, which …
Receipt issued for the khuzzān of the Fayyūm tax districts against revenue delivered by Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb. Dated: 3 Dhū l-Ḥijja 403 (). Amount: …
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Receipt (for tax payment?) for a banker (al-ṣayrafī). Dated: 2 Rabīʿ I 507 AH, which is June 1113 CE (if read correctly). Needs further examination.
Official account mentioning the transfer of sums to the fisc (bayt al-māl) from the bureau of the capitation tax (bayt al-jawālī): "mablagh al-maḥmūl ilā bayt …
Petition from ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. ʿAlī to Ṣalāḥ al-Dīn (Saladin). In Arabic script. Has a tarjama at the upper left; 4 lines of introductory blessings; …
דיון אחד
Fragment of a petition in Arabic script, written in a rudimentary hand. The sender (or the person he is writing on behalf of) wishes to …
حضرته الاجلية ما سبق به كريم وعدها له ما اظن انـ[ـه] تخفى
عن حضرته المحروسة جائحة عبدها ياخذ جميع ما قد كان
يحصل له وقد عزم على العود ال…
Recto: Fragment of an official document in Arabic script. The preserved text contains a string of official titles: "Jamāl al-Dīn... ʿUmdat al-Mulūk, Fakhr al-Umarāʾ, Majd …
2 תעתוקים
Receipt for the capitation tax of Ibrāhīm b. Yūsuf the Jew, a silk worker (qazzāz) and craftsman (ṣāniʿ). Same payer: T-S Ar.34.224, T-S Ar.34.282 (where …
Small fragment of a state document, it seems referring to the year 595 AH = 1198/99 CE.
Report of the death of a Jewish woman named Sitt al-Dār bt. Yaʿqūb on Thursday, 8 Rajab 627 AH = 23 May 1230 CE. The …
Fragment from the lower left corner of a state document, or possibly a legal document concerning state affairs. Mentions 'government crops' (al-ghallāt al-sulṭāniyya) and the …
Official Ottoman-era accounts concerning the produce of the city of Lajjūn (qāʾima mubāraka in shāʾ allāh taʿālā bi-muqāsamat al-ghilāl al-mawjūda bi-madīnat al-Lajjūn al-makhdūma(?) al-dīwān al-saʿīd …
Unidentified document(s) in Arabic script. One has an ʿalāma at the top, with a note underneath: "this is the ʿalāma of the other one(?)" (هذه …
Beginning of a report to a Fatimid caliph. Dating: 11th or 12th century. Involving a woman. (Or perhaps this is a petition from a woman …
The benedictions of God and his blessings, his increasing benefactions and [most excellent p…
Small fragment of an official (state-related) letter of praise/recommendation for somebody. Two lines are preserved.
State document. Response to an endorsement on a petition. A multi-handed internal memorandum. Contains endorsements or minutes (or clerks' notes) that haven't yet been deciphered; …
Praise be to God alone and his blessings be upon [our lord Muḥammad, his prophet, and save him]
The servant and slave
. . . ibn Fatḥ
The ins…
State document, in Arabic script. Pٰrobably the beginning of a decree with a basmala. "mā rāḥ ḥaẓẓuk fī l-ʿūlyā bi-muntaqiṣ", a variant of the poem …
Numerous fragments of a large stage document with extremely large calligraphic Arabic script, probably a decree. Later cut and reused to create multiple bifolios of …
State document in Arabic script. Petition or report? Fragments of 6 lines are preserved, wide space between them. Refers to al-Shaykh al-Muʾayyad fī l-Dīn (maybe …
Capitation tax receipt for Bū l-Faḍl b. Manṣūr, a Jewish trader, in Fustat. Dated: 17 Muḥarram 525 AH.
The remnants of a few words are visible from an Arabic state document, likely a Fatimid decree. Recto and verso are both reused for a …
Verso: Various text blocks in Arabic script probably in an Ayyubid-era chancery hand. One is the name Sālim b. Ḥasan; another is [Sham]s al-Dīn Aḥmad …
Capitation tax receipt, Fustat. The payment is 1 dinar. Dated: 601H? Needs examination.
Official letter in Arabic script. 4 lines preserved, wide line spacing. Reused for legal documents in Judaeo-Arabic (see separate entry). Seems to be a report/petition …
… and fortune in …
I unsheathed an intent to serve in [...] the mis[sion](?) …
[from] on top of pulpits, and spreading the kernels of t…
Official letter of correspondence or report, in Arabic script. The letter begins with a basmala and ṣalwala (blessings on the prophet) followed by a taqbīl …
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم صلى الله سيدنا محمد وسلم تسليما
[المملوك] يقبل الارض وينهي بعد وصف ما هو عليه من الاشتياق
]..الى كريم مامنه ورؤية طلعته…
Recto: Official letter in Arabic script. The beginnings of four lines are preserved. Refers to the beginning of the ebbing of the Nile. The rest …
Document in Arabic, unclear content, left half only, with sewing holes at left, top, and diagonally across the upper left corner. Likely an official document. …
Petition, or at least a formal-looking letter, in Arabic script. Fragment (upper left corner).
Verso: Fragment of a state document, medieval-era. A partial date is legible in line 1 as Dhu l-Ḥijja but most of the year is missing …
Fragment of an official letter, report, or petition from the medieval period. Barely any text is available to discern which of these document types is …
Fragment of a decree mentioning the funds of a dīwān in exchange for something. Late Fatimid (paleographic dating), same chancery hand as some of the …
Official document of some sort. May be headed "makhzūma." Above that, there is an ʿalāma (al-ḥamdu lil-lāhi rabbi al-ʿālamīn). Refers to money exchange (ṣarf) and …
State document, in Arabic script. Probably internal correspondence, mentioning multiple amirs (all called [...] al-Dawla). The ends of 5 lines are preserved. Mentions "al-mulaṭṭaf" meaning …