Use keywords or phrases in any language to return matching or similar results across all fields. Arabic script searches will return both Arabic and Judaeo-Arabic transcription content.
Use Hebrew or Arabic script to find precise matches in the transcriptions. See How to Search page for advanced use cases.
{2}
{0,5}
.*
[יו]
shelfmark:"Bodl ms. Heb a 2/3"
Top of a decree(?) fragment with a basmala and few honorifics: al-amr al-karīm al-ʿālī al-mawlawī. Probably Mamlūkī.
אין רשומות קשורות
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 …
תעתוק אחד
None
Letter in Arabic script, maybe official. The beginnings of 6 lines are preserved. Needs examination for content. Reused on recto for Hebrew literary text which …
תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד
Fiscal document, probably. Torn and damage.d There is an ʿalāma on the left. Mentions a sum of 500 (dinars) and a dīwān. Needs examination.
Draft of the opening of a petition or official letter. On verso jottings of accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals.
Official correspondence. Recto: Brief letter. Mentions Aḥmad b. ʿAlī al-[...]; "seeking my master Abū l-Faḍl"; "in this there is courage and vigor"; and a request …
Petition to a state official. In Arabic. After a taqbīl, the addressee is greeted with many titles ("al-majlis al-ʿādilī al-sayfī al-nāṣirī(?) al-kāmilī al-hādī"). The petitioner …
Fragment of two lines from a state document, reused for liturgical text for Shabbat with Judaeo-Arabic instructions. (Information in part from CUDL.)
Recto: Arabic prayer (يا قادر على كل شي لا اله الا انت . . . وينصر الاسلام نصرا . . . اهل بيت محمد . …
Small fragment of a petition or state document in Arabic script. One of the only phrases preserved is مراسمنا العالية. Reused on recto for piyyuṭ. …
Document in a calligraphic but barely legible hand. Genre unclear. Dated 510 AH. Needs examination.
Unidentified state document in Arabic script. Mentions names/honorifics such as al-Muʾayyad and al-Mukhliṣ several times, as well as Iftikhār al-Dawla and possibly Jawhar. Needs further …
Report or petition, probably. The ends of two lines are preserved: مراسمها وكملت ... من اقتراحها وعرضها. Reused for piyyut on verso.
Possibly an official receipt, or simply a private account.
State document, in Arabic script. Probably a part of a report or official correspondence. Reads in part: "as the elders of the Bedouins are aware..." …
Fragmentary Fatimid petition dated to the period of al-Mustanṣir. A beuatiful raʾy clause tucked at the bottom.
Fragment of a state document, in Arabic script. Very difficult to glean much context but mentions sending something with someone "مع موصلها".
Draft of a letter/petition, in Arabic script. Addressed to Huṣām al-Dawla. The sender asks that 'you rescue me from this man' (bi-an tukhalliṣ ʿabdak min …
Tax receipt issued to Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb for his ḍamān on dyeing in Madīnat al-Fayyūm. Dated: 24 Ṣafar 405 (Khan reads 27 Ṣafar 405 …
2 תעתוקים 2 תרגומים דיון אחד
Recto: Petition to the caliph al-Mustanṣir from a man who has been detained in the arsenal (khizāna, according to Khan khizānat al-bunūd, which was also …
[علـ]ـى [مولانا وسيدنا الامام المسـ]ـتنصر بالله امير [المـ]و[ـمنيـ]ـن [وعلى ابائه]
الطاهرين عبد مولانا صلوات الله عليه ينهى الي
الحضرة …
Fragment of a state or legal document, reused for Judaeo-Arabic court records. On one side: ḥadara waliyy al-shaykh Abū l-Ḥasan ʿAlī...... b. al-Surūr...
Official looking accounts in Arabic script. Listing names and quantities, presumably of money.
Fiscal receipt, or receipt of payment. For al-Shaykh..... of 1/8 dīnārs. Contains a registration mark "الحمد لله حمدا...". May mention "الحضرة المجيدية".
Tax receipt?
State document, probably. It refers to itself as a "receipt" (wuṣūl). In Arabic script. Location: Dahrūṭ. Dated: Ramaḍān 533 AH, which is 1129 CE. (Also …
State document: Official report (fragment) concerning armed insurrection and civil unrest. For the letter on recto, see separate entry.
Fiscal accounting ledger recording the monthly ground rent (ḥikr) payments for properties in Qaṣr al-Shamʿ made by Manṣūr b. Musallam/Muslim for the years 503 and …
Letter, possibly official. In Arabic script. Five partial lines with fragmented baselines. Refers to equipment (fī l-ʿudda) and two devices (jihāzayn). Contains a suʾāl clause …
Original use: Fiscal account in Arabic script, mentioning wheat and various districts and an ʿāmil. Needs examination.
Recto: Petition draft in Judaeo-Arabic. Abū ʿAlī b. Abū l-[ʿIzz al-Yahūdī] kisses the ground before al-maqām al-ʿālī al-sulṭānī al-malikī al-sayfī al-ʿādilī, and reports that he …
Verso: Three lines from a petition to the caliph al-Mustanṣir (his name is just barely preserved in the final line). This is clearly a draft. …
Official receipt of some sort. Needs examination.
Very tiny note in Arabic script, in the same type of hand as many of the early 5th/11th century tax receipts. Some contain the mystery …
Official correspondence, probably. The ends of 6 lines are preserved. Difficult to make out much of the content Mentions "al-Dawla" (likely part of someone's laqab) …
Upper fragment: small fragment of a letter or official correspondence in Arabic script. The beginnings of 5 lines are preserved.
Minute fragment with a few Arabic words preserved on each side, either from a legal or official document. AA
Small fragment of an official document, maybe a decree: الخراجية على نص من نسخ . . .
Verso. Very small tax receipt, but complete with registrations/mottos/multiple hands. It is "for the poor Jews (ḍuʿafāʾ al-yahūd) in Fustat. The year 615 AH is …
Verso (original use): Fragment of a petition in Arabic script. Very elevated register. Approximately 8 lines are preserved, but few details.
Part of a state or legal document in Arabic script. Mentions a community or group (al-jamāʿa) and the middle of Shawwāl. Reused on recto for …
Receipt for the capitation tax of Maʿālī b. Bū l-Karam in Fustat for the year 525 AH = 1130/31 CE. Needs further examination. See T-S …
State document, fragmentary. Three and a half lines preserved, difficult to glean context, mentions taking permission, "لانه حين اذن". Reused for a Hebrew text, on …
Tax receipt.
Administrative document(s). Dated: 52[6?] AH. Mentions al-Dīwān al-Khāṣṣ. May mention waterwheels (sawāqī). Some of the same language appears in the entries on both recto and …
Petition to the Ayyubid sultan al-ʿĀdil regarding the capitation tax. Dating: ca. 596–615 AH, which is 1200–18 CE. The petitioner asks that his tax rate …
العادلى المظفري [ ]ـي .[سلطان]
جيوش المسلمين وادام قدرته واعلا ابدا كـ[ـلمته] ...
المملوك يقبل الارض امامه وينهى الى
رافته واحسانه…
... al-ʿĀdil, the victorious [ sultan]
of the armies of the Muslims, (may God) cause his power to endure and exalt his word for ever.
The slav…
Official (tax?) receipt. Dated: 5[..] AH (~12th century CE). Needs examination.
Two official documents, the first (22a) dated Tripoli, 15 Dhū al-Qaʻdah 884 H. [1480], the second (22b) dated 9 (?) Ramaḍān 907 H. [1502].