New Persian: National Library of Israel, Ms.Heb.8333.17
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Ms.Heb.8333.17
National Library of Israel
Bamiyan Papers
Gold (given following external peer review through journal/book publication)
New Persian (Arabic script)
Judeo-Persian (Hebrew script)
Legal
Legal: Debt

Physical Description

paper
Paper, 10 fold lines, tears in upper part.
29.5
19.5
10
10 fold lines.

Content

Acknowledgment (iqrār) deed concerning a debt of 70 shiyānī and 30 ṭās of wheat to the credit of Abū Naṣr b. Dāniyāl. Verso contains a note written in Judeo-Persian, summarizing the details of the acknowledgment. The reason for the debt is not stated in the document.
 

Dates

  • The Gregorian calendar: June 1019 (1019-06)
  • The Hijri calendar: Ṣafar 410 (0410-02)

People

  • Abū al-ʿAbbās Muḥammad b. Abū ʿUmar (Abū al-ʿAbbās Muḥammad b. Abī ʿUmar)
  • Shāhak b. Abū Muḥammad b. Abū Naṣr (Shāhak b. Abī Muḥammad b. Abī Naṣr)
  • ʿAlī b. hʾ---
  • Abū al-ʿAbbās b. Muḥammad
  • Abū Naṣr b. Dāniyāl (Bū Naṣr b. Dāniyāl)
  • Aḥmad b. Muḥammad (Aḥmad Shubān (Judeo-Persian))

Publications

  • Haim, Ofir. “Acknowledgment deeds (iqrārs) in Early New Persian from the Area of Bāmiyān (395-430 AH/1005-1039 CE).” Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society 29/3, 2019. pp. 415-446. (Pages: 421-423)
    The IEDC translation and transcription have been taken from this publication

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IEDC Data

100
05/03/2024
08/08/2024

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Ofir Haim
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Administrative, Military and Legal Titles, Offices and Processes

Bismillāh (including abbrev)
In a state of sound body and mind
Of their own volition and without coercion

Currencies and Denominations

Shiyānī

Measurement Units

Ṭās
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Transcription
Folio:
بسم الله الرحمـ[ـن الرحیم] 1
مقر امد احمد بن محمد بتن درستی بعقل خویش 2
فی مکروهی فی ستمی کداد فاید مرا مر بو 3
نصر دانیال را هفتاد شیانی او سی طاس 4
گندم کنیمه شیانی باشد سی او پنج وان گندم 5
باشد پانزده طاس گندم وام لیزم حق واجب 6
مرا ازین فاز گشتن نیست تا ین حق بدوا 7
تسلیم نکنم واین خط مر او را حجت واین خط 8
نبشته امد پنج گذشته بود از ماه صفر 9
سال فر چهار صد وده حاله این تا سه ماه 10

Witness Clauses

شهد ابو العباس محمد بن ابی عمر وکتب بخطه 11
شهد شاهک بن ابی محمد بن ابی نصر علی اقراهما و[کتب بـ]ـخطه 12
شهد علی بن ها--- علی اقراهما وکتب بخطه 13
شهد محمد بن ابی العباس وکتب بخطه صح 14
כט אחמד שבאן [+/- 3 גנ]דום 1
Translation
Folio:
1 In the name of God, the Merci[ful, the Compassionate.]
2 Aḥmad b. Muḥammad acknowledged in his own sound body and mind,
3 without any coercion or force as follows: “It is incumbent upon me to give Bū
4 Naṣr b. Dāniyāl seventy shiyānī and thirty bowls
5 of wheat, of which half of the shiyānī being thirty-five, and [half] of the wheat
6 being fifteen bowls of wheat. [It is] an obligatory debt, a binding obligation.
7 I cannot revoke this as long as I do not deliver to him this debt”.
8 This document [serves as] evidence for him. This document
9 was written on the fifth [day] of the month of Ṣafar
10 in the year 410. This is to be transferred within three months.

Witness Clauses

11 Abū al-ʿAbbās Muḥammad b. Abī ʿUmar was a witness and he wrote [it] in his handwriting.
12 Shāhak b. Abī Muḥammad b. Abī Naṣr was a witness to the acknowledgment of both of them and [he wrote it in] his handwriting.
13 ʿAlī b. hʾ--- was a witness to the acknowledgment of both of them and he wrote in [it] his handwriting.
14 Muḥammad b. Abī al-ʿAbbās was a witness and he wrote [it] in his handwriting. Valid.
1 The document of Aḥmad Shubān  [+/- 3 wh]eat.
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