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shelfmark:"Bodl ms. Heb a 2/3"
A few words from an official Arabic document (ḥaḍratuhu... ʿuluwwahu...), apparently praises for an addressee, so from a report or petition. Reused for Hebrew literary …
אין רשומות קשורות
Verso (original use): Beginning of a petition. The top three lines are partially preserved. Reused on recto for a Judaeo-Arabic text about the laws of …
Fiscal account?
Decree, probably Fatimid, in Arabic script. Only three lines of text are preserved. Needs examination.
Letter from an unnamed Fatimid official in Alexandria to Najīb al-Dawla. Dating: second half of the eleventh century. 36 lines preserved, written in an elegant …
תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד
Small fragments of state correspondence in Arabic script. Portions of two lines are preserved, with very wide line spacing. There are numerous nearby small fragments …
State document, in chancery hand, one isolated line which may read as "العبد المجتهد(؟) باذن الله مشروحا". Reused for an 11th-century letter in Hebrew script. …
Letter addressed to the chief justice (Qāḍī l-Quḍāt). Only the first 4 lines are preserved.
תעתוק אחד
State document, probably a decree fragment, huge script. Reused for later writing practice, contains a registration mark "والحمد لله وحده" and a name "فضائل بن …
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 …
Receipt. Miniature (cf. ENA NS 83.413). Includes the glyph, payer's name, date, and the sum written in words and in Greek/Coptic numerals. Possibly a registration …
State document, ending line of a petition containing the raʾy clause. Hebrew liturgical text on verso.
Fiscal account, probably. One header reads "al-aʿmāl al-Fayyūmiyya." Needs examination.
Verso: Minute fragment of Arabic-script text, possibly a decree, but late. Requires further examination.
Fragment of a report apparently from an army officer to a superior. He describes how "we all went out to Wādī Buṭnān (near Aleppo) and …
Document in Arabic script opening with prayers for the caliph al-Āmir bi-Ahkām Allāh (r. 1101–30).
Fiscal register, in Arabic script. List of dates (no years) and amounts in Arabic, recycled to make a bifolio.
Original use: Brief fiscal document in Arabic, mentioning a dīwān, a person's name, and several numbers. Reuse: Prognostications in Judaeo-Arabic. Appears to be the same …
Official-looking note in Arabic script. Beginning "awrada al-shaykh X. . ." and ending with a date. Needs examination.
State document: Official report (fragment) concerning armed insurrection and civil unrest. For the letter on recto, see separate entry.
Probably a state document, but the specific genre and purpose are unclear. There are multiple distinct entries on both recto and verso, with a lot …
Tax receipt, or possibly credit instrument? Contains an ʿalāma at the upper right, maybe, and a jahbadh signature at the bottom. Also contains the glyph, …
Petition from Mubārak b. Ibrahīm Ibn Sabra to Muʿtamid al-Dawla, who seems to be a Fatimid dignitary. The sender asks for (or heavily implies that …
תעתוק אחד 2 תרגומים דיון אחד
Petition in Arabic, twelfth-century Fatimid. The petition is addressed to a military general at the time of al-Mustaʿlī or al-Āmir. The petitioner is most likely …
[بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم]
[صلوات الله وبركاته وافضل تحياته وسلامه على مولانا وسيدنا الامام المستعلي بالله امير المؤمنين وعلى ابائه الطاهرين]
وا…
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.
Tax receipt, in Arabic script. Needs examination. Dated:first quarter of the 11th century.
Testimony in Arabic script probably meant to accompany an investiture petition from the gaʾon Shelomo b. Yehuda to the newly appointed caliph al-Mustanṣir billāh, listing …
(Having been requested,) we, all together and each separately,
(to deliver this testimony,) namely all those writing their witness and signing
תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד 2 דיונים
Fiscal account recording amounts by month.
Receipt for the capitation tax of Ḥasan b. Ṣadaqa in Fustat.
State document, bottom fragment, in Arabic script. "الذي لا يقدر فيهم على غيره... ومحاسبته على استقبال سنة خمسـ[...على ما استخرجه واحضر ما". The phrase "wa-muḥāsabatuhu …
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 …
Fragment of an Arabic official document reused for Hebrew piyyuṭ on both sides in the hand of a prolific scribe.
State document, in Arabic script. Decree of Ṭalāʾiʿ, the vizier of al-Fāʾiz, concerning the monks of Mount Sinai. The vizier Ṭalāʾiʿ orders that the tax …
Report to a Fatimid vizier. Dating: fifth/eleventh century. Khan published T-S K25.221 as the end of petition. Marina Rustow later found the join to the …
ولمولانا الوزير الأجل صفى أمير المؤمنين وخالصته ادام الله علاه وكبت اعداه
الراى العالي في ذلك ان شا الله
والحمد لله وصلواته عل…
To my master, the mighty vizier, the sincere and intimate friend of the commander of the faithful, may God cause his exaltation to endure and crus…
2 תעתוקים 2 תרגומים
Fiscal account recording the revenue of wheat, barley and broadbeans produced in five villages of the Gharbiyya province (Basūṭ Nahīsah, Maḥallat Bū l-Haytam, Nawāj, Damshīt, …
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Small fragment possibly from an official letter/report. Mentions "waṣala al-nāṣiḥ/al-nāḍij(?) Masʿūd(?)...."
Accounts in Arabic script, unclear if state/fiscal or private. Needs examination.
Verso: State correspondence, petition or report, probably Fatimid, in Arabic script. The sender informs that he has appointed an appropriate person for the job, using …
Small fragment from the bottom of a state document with wide line spacing, preserving only a ḥamdala and ṣalwala.
Recto: Petition, probably. In Arabic script. Fragment (lower left corner, portions of 4 lines preserved). The raʾy clause is partially legible in the last line: …
Verso (original use): Fragment of a petition in Arabic script. The petitioner complains that the ىىن (= the fig trees? the straw?) have been moved …
Fiscal document, reused for the Talmud commentary of Rav Nissim Gaʾon. Needs further examination. T-S Ar.47.55 was published by Sheraga Abramson, Rav Nissim Gaʾon, pp. …
Receipt issued to Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb for his ḍamān on dyeing in Madīnat al-Fayyūm and for the appointed treasurers. Dated: end of Jumādā I …
Registration mark on right
2 תעתוקים 2 תרגומים דיון אחד
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
Petition or report concerning a government official (Mutawallī al-Sayyāra) named Samyūn (سميون), likely a Christian.The document was cut into two or more pieces and rearranged …
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 …
Capitation tax receipt for Musāfir b. Yūsuf, a Jewish man whose profession is "dīwānī."
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 …
State document, fragmentary, in chancery hand. Mentions the province (or port?) of Damietta (thagr Dimyāṭ) and someone's arrival/appointment to it. Also has an ʿalama in …