New Persian: Afghanistan National Archives, Firuzkuh 80
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Details

Firuzkuh 80
Silver (given following internal peer review)
New Persian (Arabic script)
Letter

Physical Description

paper
Black ink, Incomplete (top and bottom thirds missing), damaged in the middle in a zigzag rip.
5
horizontal

Content

Fragment of a document concerning eight pasture ewes. The text was written by a skilled scribe in a calligraphic style.

Dates

  • The Gregorian calendar: None
  • The Hijri calendar: Early Jumādā I (year missing)

People

  • ʿAlī Ṭūsī
  • Tāj al-Dawla wal-Dīn

Publications

  • Khwaja Muhammad and Nabi Saqee, Barg-hāy az yak faṣl, yā asnād-i tārīkhī-yi Ghur (Kabul: Saʿīd 1388/2009) (Pages: 126-127)
    The IEDC transcription has been revised from this publication.

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IEDC Data

1159
26/01/2025
24/02/2025

Citations

Ofir Haim
Arezou Azad, Nabi Saqee
The transcription has been revised from a previous publication (see Publications), the translation is the original work of the IEDC Team (as yet unpublished in peer-review print)
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Folios
1. recto
Transcription
Folio:
[+/- 5] بود کی درین چنان [+ 1] 1
 کی مگر ازان معتمد الدولة نه (؟) مرد (؟) علی طوسی بجانب (؟) 2
 [+ 1] بدیه [+ 1] چند سر گوسفند بوده است یک کرت 3
 کسان امیر سفهسالار اجل کبیر عالم عادل تاج الدولة و الدین  4
 فخر الامرا پهلوان [+ 1] اعز الـ[ـله انـ]ـصاره هشت سر میش مراعی 5
 [ + 4] الدولة والدین اعز الله انصاره 6
 [ + 4] بوده است از جمله هشت سر میش 7
 [+/- 10] 8
Translation
Folio:
1  [+/- 5] was that in this [matter], [+ 1] such 
2  other than by that Muʿtamid al-Dawla. Nine of ʿAlī Ṭūsī’s men [headed] towards (?)
3  [+ 1] to the village of [+ 1]. Several sheep were [there]. Once,
4  the people of the illustrious, great, the knowledgeable and just amīr sifahsālār, Tāj al-Dawla wal-Dīn, the pride of the amīrs, 
5  the champion of [+ 1], may God strengthen his followers, eight pasture ewes
6  [+ 4] al-Dawla wal-Dīn, may God strengthen his followers,
7  [+ 4] has been from the eight ewes
8  [+/- 10]
New Persian: Afghanistan National Archives, Firuzkuh 80: Folio (recto)
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