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shelfmark:"Bodl ms. Heb a 2/3"
Verso: Accounts in Arabic script, beginning with "wuṣūl", apparently state/fiscal (mainly iqṭāʿ-related), though Greek/Coptic numerals are atypical for fiscal documents. The first entry is regarding …
وصول
لمقطع المحجرة(؟) من جملة ما عليه من مال الجسور
ثلثة وثلاثين(؟).....
من جملة
من التصرف وضمان(؟) العمل
اخذ باسم ضمنا برطس من جملة…في
תעתוק אחד
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 …
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 …
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 in Arabic script, the ends of three lines are well-preserved. Medieval-era. Requires further examination.
Verso (original use): Fragment of a petition or other formal state correspondence. The beginnings of 8 lines are preserved, mostly consisting of honorifics for the …
شعبان بن عبد الله ابو بكر الكرمي
محمد بن محمد التركماني
بسم الله الـ[ـرحمن الرحيم]
صلوات الله وبركاته ونو[امي زكواته وافضل سلا…
Fragment from the bottom of a petition in Arabic script, containing a portion of a raʾy clause and blessings for the addressee (ṣalawāt allāh ʿalā …
Receipt for the capitation tax of Ibrāhīm b. Yūsuf the Jew, a silk worker (qazzāz) and craftsman (ṣāniʿ). Dated: 537 AH = 1142/43 CE. Same …
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 …
תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד
Small fragment (upper left corner) of an official receipt. Might refer to dyeing (ṣabgh).
Likely a tax receipt, maybe involving sugar. Very hastily written.
Probably a fiscal register (compare BL OR 5566B.3 and the other shelfmarks cited there). Mentions various dates and the name ʿAbd al-Ṣamad. Reused on the …
State report? Three lines preserved, wide space between them: واحضار . . . ال . . . من جزيرة بني [عمـ؟]ـر فالذي اعتمده في ذلك(؟) …
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…
Probably an Ikhshīdid fiscal document. See T-S NS 139.65 (PGPID 23643), belonging to the same Hebrew reuse. ASE
Official-looking small receipt. Needs examination.
Petition from Abū Bakr b. ʿAlī to a dignitary whose name is torn off. Mentions Abū l-Ḥasan, who may be a kātib. (Information in part …
Minute fragment of a Fatimid state document, probably a decree. Only the tail of a ي or a similar letter is preserved. Reused for Hebrew …
Draft of praises for a vizier: Sayyidnā [. . . .] Amīr al-Juyūsh Sayf al-Islām Nāṣir al-Anām Kāfil Quḍāt al-Muʾminīn wa-Hādī Duʿāt al-Muslimīn. Written in …
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 …
A few words from the end of a decree: واعـ[ـلم هذا] واعمل عليه وبحسبه وو . . . . Reused for Hebrew liturgy.
Official correspondence about agricultural administration. Needs examination.
Small fragment of a state document. Very large writing, wide line spacing. Refers to someone who "severed the ambitions of the en[emies?]" ...سرم فطم مطامع …
Receipt for the capitation tax of Maḥfūẓ b. Eliyya(?), a Jewish silk trader (qazzāz), in Fustat.
State document, report, in Arabic script. Chancery hand (though not the best), with widened space between the lines, and with white space used to divide …
Bottom eight lines of an official letter in Arabic script. Ends with a ḥamdala and ṣalwala, and Amīr al-Muʾminīn, perhaps a rāʾy clause afterward. Difficult …
Small fragment of a state document, or draft of one. Three different hands. Pious phrases and an ʿalāma, but the upper right text might be …
State document, or at least official correspondence, in Arabic script. Mentions "dīwān" at least two times, Jews, and something taken from the peasants "fa-yuqaddam ilā …
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 …
Decree fragment, probably. Two lines partially preserved: ليكونوا على اشغالهم(؟) بها متوفرين و . . . مجتهدين . . . Reused on verso for Birkat …
Small receipt for the ḥikr (ground rent) payment of Abū ʿAlī al-Ṣāʾigh.
State document, probably a decree of appointment, in Arabic script. Beginning of three fragmentary lines - "يتصرف فيه...وما معها يعمل...". Needs examination.
Fiscal account of some sort, Fatimid, dated 533 AH = 1138/39 CE. Small. Refers to the iqṭāʿ attributed to the caliph al-Ḥāfiẓ ("al-iqṭāʿāt al-Ḥāfiẓiyya..."). Also …
Official-looking or commercial receipt (ṣaḥḥa...). Or maybe commercial. Resembles T-S AS 179.142. Needs examination.
Tax receipt from the archive of Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb. On verso there are accounts of some sort (mentioning Manṣūr b. [...]), unclear if this …
תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד דיון אחד
Closing of a state document containing words of gratitude, ḥamdala, ṣalwala, and ḥasbala. "fa-ūqābil bi-l-shukr ʿalayhi inshāʾ Allāh".
Tax receipt, with some less common features. Two of the endorsements at the top mention the dīwān al-iqṭāʿāt al-murtajaʿa (office of reclaimed fiefs), cf. T-S …
Fiscal register (compare BL OR 5566B.3 and the other shelfmarks cited there). Reused for Hebrew piyyuṭ.
State document, Fatimid period. Petition or report to a vizier (beginning only), possibly under al-ʿAḍid (see line 4, where the blessing uses the verb ʿaḍada; …
3 תעתוקים תרגום אחד
Unidentified document in Arabic script, possibly official. Maghribī or Andalusī hand. Seven lines are partially preserved, including the prayers for Muḥammad often found in state …
Tax receipt. From the archive of Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb. Join: Alan Elbaum.
Account in Arabic script in small handwriting, possibly official (fiscal). Reused for Hebrew piyyuṭ in a hand resembling that of Abū Sahl Levi.
Unidentified document(s) in Arabic script. Might be official.
State document, iqṭāʿ-related. Dating: Likely Mamluk-era, based on handwriting and format. The bottom 11 lines of the document are preserved. Moderately wide space between the …
Draft of the opening of a petition to 'al-majlis al-sāmī al-ajallī al-mawlawī. . . al-malikī al-muʿaẓẓamī al-muʿizzī al-manṣūrī..." This is found among various other jottings …
State document, decree fragment, in Arabic script. Reads as "عليها لا محـ". Reused for Hebrew liturgical text or perhaps responsum on recto and verso, in …
Official letter in Arabic script in a chancery hand, with wide line spacing. The beginnings of 4 lines are preserved.
Bottom of a petition. In Arabic script. Dating: Perhaps Ayyubid-era, based on the titles. The addressee (the caliph or vizier?) is asked to issue (or …
Tax receipt issued to Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb for his ḍamān on dyeing in Madīnat al-Fayyūm. Dated: Middle of Dhū l-Ḥijja 403. Amount: one-third and …
2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד דיון אחד
One line from a state document, possibly a decree, praising somebody: وابائه(؟) خير(؟) جميل الراي فيك وما عهد من استيقاف(؟) مقاصدك ومساعيك. Reused for a …