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shelfmark:"Bodl ms. Heb a 2/3"
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, …
אין רשומות קשורות
State document, in Arabic script. Fragmentary but from what is preserved, it is indicative that the petition is addressed to a caliph due to the …
תעתוק אחד
Receipt for the capitation tax (jizya) for the Jewish man Bū l-ʿAlāʾ b. Bū l-Faḍl al-Qazzāz (the silk trader) in Fustat. Dated: 19 Muḥarram 533 …
Draft of a long report on fiscal matters. The addressee is addressed as al-maqām al-sharīf (l. 17). The sender (al-mamlūk) describes his dealings with a …
Fiscal document? Quite faded. Needs examination.
Petition from Ṣāliḥ al-Khaybārī, a Jew from the community of Baghdad, to the Fatimid amīr Tāj al-Dawla. In Arabic script. Ṣāliḥ petitions regarding a miserable …
رجل…
תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד
Petition to a Fāṭimid vizier concerning an allowance of a jurisconsult, which the petitioner used to receive from the auspicious office, which was to be …
May God make eternal the rule of the lofty and exalted seat, the mighty lord,(commander…
State document in Arabic script. Chancery hand, huge space between the lines. Three lines are preserved. Probably a decree/order to a lower official : والحضرة …
Internal Fatimid state correspondence concerning the collection and transfer of funds, probably tax-related. The upper left is missing, so the content is difficult to reconstruct. …
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 …
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 …
State document in Arabic, the left side of three lines is preserved. Medieval-era. This fragment may be related to the neighboring shelfmark T-S AS 186.212. …
Official report or petition in Arabic script. Calligraphic, wide space between the lines. Approximately 7 lines are preserved. Dating: Likely 12th or 13th century. some …
Petition or report or draft of one, in Arabic script. Strings of titles. There are alternating lines of light ink (bigger letters) and dark ink …
Writing exercises in a chancery hand. "على العادة في مثله واما ما ذكرته" and "من ان مال الحمل بلاعمال التي مشارفها ". This may have …
Petition or formal letter concerning an iqṭāʿ, which was subsequently torn, and a related record written on verso. Dating: Probably Mamluk or early Ottoman era, …
Decree fragment: one line on verso. wa-ri'āyan li-kum[ ]. Cut, reused, and bound in a Hebrew script literary text: 15 lines plus notes on recto, …
Capitation tax receipt for Bū l-Ḥasan Ḥusayn b. Hibatallāh al-Ṣayrafī in Fustat. Dated: 4 Muḥarram 541 AH, which is 16 June 1146 CE.
Official-looking small receipt. Needs examination.
Three words of a decree or draft of one: fa-lammā intahā ilayhi. Reused for copious jottings in Arabic script and Hebrew script, including elaborate designs …
A pair of conjoined (either glued together or never separated in the first place) tax receipts related to a tax farm (ḍamān). Dated: 25 Jumādā …
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 …
Fiscal register (compare BL OR 5566B.3 and the other shelfmarks cited there). Reused for Hebrew piyyuṭ.
Lower left corner of a petition.
Fragment of a decree. There is a single full word: "al-mustaḥabbīn."
'תבוא יד ותקחני בציצת ראשי': מכתב מחורז מאת חלפון אל הר"י אבן מיגש ספרד [כנראה חודש תמוז או אב, שנת 1138] זהו שריד גדול של …
Fragment of a petition to a vizier, possibly al-Afḍal. Approximately three lines of the opening praises are preserved. Reused on recto for poetry attributed to …
Decree fragment, probably. Two lines partially preserved: ليكونوا على اشغالهم(؟) بها متوفرين و . . . مجتهدين . . . Reused on verso for Birkat …
Small, official-looking receipt. A notation in Judaeo-Arabic on verso reads "shahr ramaḍān."
Verso (original use): Provincial fiscal account concerning the maintenance of the dikes (ʿimārat al-jusūr al-maʿmūra) in the districts of Shubrā and one other by the …
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
جمل
ررفعه(؟) عبد الكريم بن نصر الله الوكيل على عمارة
الجسور المعمورة ىاحىوىه(؟) وشبرى وابو ركوة
من الخراج لمركزية …
תעתוק אחד דיון אחד
State document, in Arabic script. Decree. "...the manshūr was drawn on 23rd Dhū l-Ḥijja" (.....ينسخ....المنشور موقع بتاريخ ثلث وعشرون من ذي الحجة).
Capitation tax receipt for Bū l-Faḍl b. Manṣūr, a Jewish trader, in Fustat. Dated: 17 Muḥarram 525 AH.
Verso: Upper part of a petition, in Arabic script. Dating: 557 H. The petition is headed "muṭālaʿa", submitted in the dual, and is regarding an …
. . . مما كتب فيها ثبت باعلاه العلامة الجيوشية
منها(؟) لهذا(؟) الحمد لله وبه ثقتي
لينقل خلفهما(؟) من اقطاعه الى اقطاع للاخر بما شهد به …
Petition (draft) from […] Mukhliṣ, in Minyat Ghamr, to an Ayyubid dignitary. In Arabic script. The petitioner complains about the young son of a neighbor …
[ ] Mukhliṣ, inhabitant of Minyat Ghamr.
In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate.
(The slave) reports to the seat …
State document, in Arabic script. Wide line spacing in a chancery hand beginning with a basmala. Reused for Arabic text and Coptic numerals. Needs examination.
Tax receipt, Fatimid. Blank verso. Perforated for binding. For the capitation tax of Hiba b. Yūsuf; same dossier as ENA 3936.3, T-S Misc.24.38.1–3, T-S AS …
Small fragment of an official letter in Arabic script. (Information in part from CUDL)
Verso (original use): Arabic letter or state document. Wide line spacing. الى ما يخصني من اثاث وقشة(؟) لاخذه(؟) لها مثل . . . . . …
Fragment of a fiscal account. Reused for various jottings and pen trials in Hebrew script. Needs examination.
Draft of a petition, possibly. In Arabic script. Addressed to al-majlis al-sāmī al-ajallī al-mawlawī and the petitionee is also addressed as "ʿumdat l-mulūk wa l-salāṭīn". …
Receipt or account in Arabic script. For Abū l-Afrāḥ Yūsuf (the well-known merchant). See tag (commercial receipt). Needs examination.
Tax receipt, Fatimid. Trigger: addā.
Petition. In Arabic script. Fragment (upper right corner). The petitioner seems to be a female slave (and not just a figurative slave/mamlūka): "wa-tunhī al-mamlūka annahā …
[العبدة المملوكة فلانة بنت فلان من ناحية فلان]
بسم الله الر[ـحمن الرحيم]
تقبل الارض بالمجلس الـ[ـشريف الـسامي الـ ]
وتنهي المملوكة …
Official-looking correspondence in Arabic script. Wide space between the lines. Excerpts: حصل . . . . الامر يصل ذلك وان . . . الفندق حمله …
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State document in Arabic script. The first three lines only (kharaja al-amr al-ʿālī al-mawlawī al-sulṭānī al-malikī al-[...] al-nāṣirī zāda allāhu fī. . .). (Information from …
Report (or petition?). Line 3: الراي العالي باطلاقه لك على. Line 4: ان شا الله عليه الراي. On verso there are accounts in Judaeo-Arabic, in …
مما يطلق عن الديوان الابواب…بمصر
مائة وخمسة وخمسون دينارا
ومما يطلق من الديوان الاموال (الابواب؟) بالقاهرة
سبعة وسبعون دينارا
ويخرج …
Two petitions in Arabic script, which have been glued together. Reused for piyyuṭim on verso in a beautiful hand (one has the refrain El Melekh). …
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, probably. In Arabic script. Addressed to a lower official requesting to summon some people. Portions of 5-6 lines are preserved. Refers to agents, a …