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shelfmark:"Bodl ms. Heb a 2/3"
Bottom part of a tax receipt. Dated: 5[..] AH (~12th century).
אין רשומות קשורות
Report to Al-Afḍal ibn Badr al-Jamālī for the attention of the amir Ḥusām al-Dawla regarding a quantity of produce that had been left unattended. The …
In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate. Praise be to God, the praise of the thankful.
The benedictions of God and his blessings, his…
תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד
Fiscal cocument(s) in Arabic script. Probably 12th C Fatimid based on paleography. Mentions the town Raʾs al-khalīj on the lower Nile delta, and a string …
Official receipt(s). Needs examination. On verso there is a fragment from the beginning of a letter in Arabic to someone important, possibly a draft as …
Small fragment of an official document, maybe a decree: الخراجية على نص من نسخ . . .
Verso: Accounts in Arabic, likely fiscal. Mentions fūl (fava beans) and jullabān (vetch) and shaʿīr (barley).
Official-looking note in Arabic script. Beginning "awrada al-shaykh X. . ." and ending with a date. Needs examination.
Small fragment from a Fatimid decree, containing only the phrase "[some verb from the root kharaja/'issue'] the decree/rescript to the Dīwān of [...]."
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
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.
Recto and verso are two distinct petitions, in different hands. Unclear if/how they are related. Recto: Petition for charity apparently from someone under arrest (muʿtaqal), …
תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד דיון אחד
State document, in Arabic script. 11 lines of official correspondence in a chancery hand, probably a report of some kind. The preserved document was chopped …
Probably an official report in Arabic script. Approximately 6 lines are preserved, but very faded and hard to read. Needs examination. Reused on verso for …
Petition in Arabic. T-S Misc.34.5 (4r) includes the opening formula: "المملوك يقبل الارض". There are 12 folios under the shelfmark T-S Misc.34.5– three of which …
State document. Petition to the caliph al-Mustanṣir regarding a murder on a boat. The son of the petitioner was traveling with a young fellow-merchant from …
بِسْم الله الرحمن الرحيم
صلوات الله وبركاته ونوامى زكواته وافضل تحياته على مولانا وسيدنا الامام المستنصر بالله
أمير المومنين صلوات الله …
IB VI, 35. Fatimid petition to al-Āmir bi-Aḥkām Allāh from a Jewish merchant, Mūsā b. Ṣadaqa, who was detained unlawfully after his return from India …
العبد المملوك
موسى بن صدقة التاجر اليهودي
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
صلوات الله وبركاته ونوامى زكواته وافضل سلامه وتحياته على مولانا
وسي…
Mūsā ibn Ṣadaqa, the Jewish merchant.
In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate.
The benedictions of God …
4 תעתוקים 2 תרגומים
Petition, possibly Mamluk.
Official correspondence in Arabic script, addressed to a superior. Dating: Mamluk period, based on the migration of the tarjama to the right margin. The sender's …
The ends of three lines from an official-looking letter or document in Arabic script. Reused on recto for piyyuṭ. (Information in part from CUDL.) Reads …
One line of text in Arabic script, from an official document or letter. Reused for a text in Aramaic on verso and another text in …
Tax receipt, Fatimid.
End of an official letter in Arabic script. "...fīmā yaḥtāj ilayh..." then a ḥamdala and ṣalwala. Reused for Hebrew piyyuṭ probably by the same scribe …
Likely fiscal accounts, in very small writing. E.g. "min māl. . . al-aʿmāl..." and "wuṣūl... dīnārayn..." Underneath there may be a date (560 AH?). It …
Recto: Official letter/report, probably. In Arabic script. The ends of ~5 lines are preserved. Verso: piyyuṭ and phrases praising a dignitary. (Information in part from …
Fiscal document, in Arabic script, bottom part of the fragment. Refers to a sum of 70 dinars. The document is dated Muḥarram 487 H and …
Tax receipt, jizyā, dated 507 H (?). Pinholes at the margin 5mm apart.
Two different letters in Arabic script, one on recto and on verso. The one on verso may be a petition. Needs examination for content.
Small fragment of a state document. Wide space between the lines. Refers to the rent or wages for the pressing of sugarcane (al-ujra ʿan iʿtiṣār …
Possibly a receipt for the ḥikr (ground rent). Dated: 568 AH (=1172/73 CE). Mentions "one dirham" and "Dīwān al-Aḥbās." On verso there is a note …
Fiscal document, in Arabic script. Recto contains a date: Muḥārram 567 and total of sums towards the bottom, probably one thousand seven hundred. Needs examination.
Large state document in Arabic script. Probably an official correspondence concerning the transport of some goods on a Nile boat (ʿushārī). Mentions the state official …
State document, in Arabic script. Petition fragment containing the "rayy" clause.
תעתוק אחד
Small fragment of an official report or petition in Arabic script (cf. PGPID 29220). Not a lot of the substance is clearly preserved.
Official report addressed to a Fatimid vizier. The addressee's titles (sayyid al-wuzarāʾ tāj al-aṣfiyāʾ qāḍī l-quḍāt dāʿī [l-duʿāt ʿalam al-majd] khalīl amīr al-muʾminīn wa-khāliṣatuhū) are …
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Verso (original use): Two lines of a large document in Arabic script containing praises for the ruler and gratitude for his protection (amn) and justice …
Verso: Fragment of a state document, wide-line spacing. Mentions the arrival of a group "wa-waṣalat al-jamāʿa", and maybe barley "al-shaʿīr". Also mentions the beginning of …
Possibly official correspondence. In Arabic script. Long and well preserved. Reused on recto for piyyut.
Report to the Fatimid caliph al-Āmir bi-Aḥkām Allāh regarding the arrival of five Christian (Rūm) merchants carrying timber: Sergius son of Constantine, [name partly illegible], …
Report or letter between officials. In Arabic script, written in a chancery hand. Four lines remain. Surrounding the text and on verso there is a …
Bottom of a state document in Arabic script. Only the date (difficult to read, partially damaged) and the ḥamdala and ṣalwala are preserved. Reused for …
State document, Arabic script. Decree of al-Ḥāfiẓ concerning the monks of Mt. Sinai. Al-Ḥāfiẓ orders his military governor of al-Ṭūr, Mutawallī al-Dawla, to extend his …
Recto: Unidentified state document in Arabic script. A scribe-in-training has practiced copying the text in between the lines. A few lines from the bottom it …
Tax receipt, Fatimid for the sum of one-quarter dīnār (rubʿ)? Registration mark at the top left corner- al-ḥamdu lil-lāh shukran li niʿmatihi.
State-issued rent receipt for Ḥasan b. Thābit for his dwelling in Qaṣr al-Shamʿ (Fustat). Needs further examination.
Fiscal accounting. Seems to regard a construction project for a government building (Dār al-Malik and maybe al-ḥujra al-saʿīda are mentioned on recto) and quantities of …
Fatimid fiscal report or account for the fiscal (kharājī) year 417, from the period of the Fatimid caliph al-Ẓāhir. Dated: 417 kharājī/419 AH. Document is …
عبد مولانا وسيدنا الامام الظاهر لاعزاز دين الله امير المومنين
صلوات الله عليه وعلى ابائه الطاهرين وابنائه الاكرمين
ومملوكه حسي…
The servant of our master and lord, the imām al-Zāḥir li-Iʿzāz Dīn Allāh, commander of the faithful,
the blessings of God be upon him and upon h…
2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד
State document, fragment, in Arabic script written in enormous letters, probably a decree. Mentions "fourteen heads" (li-arbaʿa ʿashara raʾs) (of cattle?). Reused for several different …
Report or petition draft, but most like the a report due to the verb "فاعلمته" (I inform) followed by the raʾyy clause.
Likely a fragment of a fiscal account. There are four text blocks arranged in a grid, each headed by the name of a person written …