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shelfmark:"Bodl ms. Heb a 2/3"
Petition in Arabic, with two lines well-preserved. Medieval-era. The preceding shelfmark T-S AS 186.57 was reused for alphabetical practice by the same scribe as T-S …
תעתוק אחד
Unidentified document in Arabic script. Might be legal or official. Ḥamdala and ṣalwala in the second-to-last line. It was torn and reused for a different …
אין רשומות קשורות
Recto (original use): Document in Arabic script, possibly a state administrative memorandum, possibly a letter. (Information from CUDL and Marina Rustow.)
Petition from a man described as having many dependents (the first two lines read: wa-huwa ṣuʿlūk kathīr al-ʿāʾila wa-yasal al-inʿām ʿalayhi wa-al-iḥsān ʾilayhi bi-khurūj ilā …
Petition to a Fatimid dignitary regarding a theft of money. The archer Manṣūr b. Zakī al-Dawla (or: Rukn al-Dawla, which seems more likely given al-Maqrīzī's …
תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד
Upper part of an official (tax?) receipt, with ʿalāʾim and registration notes.
Petition about a commercial dispute. In Arabic script. A party or an authority named al-Ṭūsī is mentioned twice. It seems that the petitioner received an …
ا]لعبد الى الطوسي مع الرجل المذكور فدفع اليه شي حمله عنده الى والده ولم يعلم ما هو فجا به
الى والده فجعله في حانوته معما تملك وكان يعامل التجار…
Tax receipt from the dossier of Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb.
תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד דיון אחד
State document, a petition regarding an iqṭāʿ and the relocation of peasants. The petitioner talks about an iqṭāʿ assigned to him in a ḍayaʿa (the …
العبد يقبل الارض اما]م المقام الشريف(؟) ضاعف الله انواره و[اعلى
مناره وينهي الى . . . . . . . . . . . // . . . . . . . . . . . . . . \\ من اعم…
Beginnings of 5 lines of an official document or letter in Arabic script. On verso, liturgical text in Hebrew. (Information from CUDL)
Recto: Official letter in Arabic script. Portions of 7 lines are preserved. On verso there is an inscription in enormous Hebrew letters (אלקדר יצ...) flanked …
Official-looking accounts in Arabic script.
Original use: Accounts in Arabic script, probably fiscal. Dating: twice mentions the year 413 AH = 1022/23 CE. The sums mentioned are very large, e.g., …
Bifolio from a register containing multiple entries recording fiscal payments, including name of the taxpayer and amount paid. Registration marks visible. Could be identified as …
Bottom of a petition. In Arabic script. Addressed to a caliph. Needs examination. Reused on recto for piyyuṭ. (Information in part from CUDL.)
One side: State document. Only a few words are preserved from very widely spaced lines ("...ʿalā l-ḥukm ʿalā..."). The text on the other side is …
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 …
State document, in Arabic script. Petition addressed to the Fatimid caliph based on the beginning invocations and blessings. The name of the petitioner is Ṣandal …
Tax receipt? - needs examination.
State document, in Arabic script. Petition, Mamlūk era.
Fatimid official report mentioning two messengers sent from the caliph (al-ḥaḍra al-ṭāhira) to Damascus and also mentioning the Banū Hilāl. Probable join with ENA 3907.6 …
Recto: Small fragment (2 lines) from an official report. Needs examination for content.
Recto: State document? Accounts in Arabic script in a chancery-esque hand.
Official document of some kind. Abū Naṣr al-[...] may owe 6.25 dinars. There is a date (Dhū l-Ḥijja something), but the year seems to be …
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 …
A few words in Arabic script: "by Ḥajjāj b. ʿAbdallāh under the supervision of [...]." Reused on verso for a Hebrew liturgical text.
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 …
Fiscal document. Begins, "[...] fī bayt al-māl...." Dated: 5[..] AH. Mentions Shams al-Mulk at the end of the second large line. Needs further examination.
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Small fragment of official correspondence in Arabic script. The ends of 4 lines are preserved. Mentions 'al-wilāya.' Reused on recto for a book list in …
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 …
Small fragment from a Fatimid decree, containing only the phrase "[some verb from the root kharaja/'issue'] the decree/rescript to the Dīwān of [...]."
Two partial lines from a large petition in Arabic script. Some phrases: "... bi-waqt al-jibāyāt fī zamānihā(?) mujtahid... wa-yasal wa-yaḍraʿ...." There are also a few …
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 …
Unidentified document in large Arabic script. Fiscal account? Reused on both recto and verso for Hebrew liturgical text (three different hands).
State document in Arabic script with a large ʿalāma (al-ḥamdu lillāh ʿalā niʿmatih wa-[........]). There are several different text blocks. One of them on verso …
Petition, Fatimid(?). In Arabic script. Last 9 lines. With hamdala and hasbala at end. Not a lot of context can be gleaned from the preserved …
End of an official document (letter? petition?). Likely a date in the penultimate line: 4[..] AH.
Receipt for the capitation tax of a Jewish person.
Verso (original use): Letter, maybe official state correspondence. Begins "ʿaraḍa hādhihi l-mukā[taba]...." Mentions Jaʿfar b. Fattāh, only the beginning formula with honorifics is preserved. Ends …
بسم الله [الرحمن الرحيم
عرض هذه المكـ[ـاتبة(؟)
الاجل اطال الله بقاه[
وسموها وسناها و…[
جعفر بن فتاح اجل[
…………………
و..[
Fragment of a tax receipt, probably.
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 …
Recto (original use): Petition or report preserving the ends of 7 lines from the lower part of the document. Concerns farming and safeguarding of land …
Verso: fragment from an Arabic-script document in large characters, with wide line spacing. Possibly a state document. Reused by Ḥalfon b. Menashshe, thus the dating …
Small fragment of a decree. Reused for Judaeo-Arabic literary work.
ـ]ـامر حقيقا وبالاستخدام جديرا خليفا
Capitation tax receipt, Fatimid. For Hiba b. Yūsuf. See ENA 3925.6 (PGPID 10284).
Verso: Petition fragment in Arabic script. Four lines are partially preserved. The petitioners are requesting something to do with the qaṭīʿa and iqṭāʿ system, probably …
Government receipt in Arabic on verso, one line states ṣaḥḥa li-Abū l-Aʿlā(?)… ʿalāʾim. Medieval-era. Requires further examination. MCD/ASE
Verso: state document, probably. Part of one line is preserved, referring to "al-abwāb al-sharīfa" and throwing people in jail (الى الابواب الشريفة واعتقلوهم في السجن).
Tax receipt, Fatimid. For someone's payment in Cairo. Needs examination.