Uighur: Private Collection, Erdal II (Turki No. 6)

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Shelfmark/TitleErdal II (Turki No. 6)

CollectionPrivate Collection

CorpusThe Yārkand Documents

ClassificationGold (given following external peer review through journal/book publication)

Primary LanguageUighur (Uighur script)

TypeLegal

Document SubtypeLegal: Sale (bayʿ)

Physical Description

Writing Supportpaper

Writing Support Details

Writing Support NotesThe photograph shows that the folio had been torn into 3 pieces, with holes on some of the fold lines.

Fold Lines5

Fold Lineshorizontal

Fold LinesAcross the three pieces, the folio displays 5 horizontal fold lines.

Content

Summary of ContentThe land sale contracts of the late eleventh century published here are important for several reasons. First, they are the oldest known legal documents written in Turkish. Very many Uighur-Turkish civil documents were found in the more eastern parts of the Tarim basin, but none of those appear to be older than the thirteenth century. the Persian text of A.D. 1107 published by Minorsky (1942 shows a rather similar form, which may simply have been borrowed by th Turks. Formally, our documents differ from the non-Muslim deeds of land sale in Turkish, which appear to follow Chinese models; this also speaks against common Turkish tradition. What we have here are also the oldest specimens of Muslim-Turkish writing. Our documents throw some light on th introduction of Arabic writing customs and lexical material into Turkish.

Dates

The Gregorian calendar: May-June 1090 (Estimated date range: 1090-05-10-1090-06-08)

The Hijri calendar: Rabīʿ al-Awwal 482 (0482-03)

People

Mikāʾil Arslan
İsḥaq (Master İsḥaq)
Yūsuf (Yūsuf "the Ferry-Man")

Publications

Erdal, Marcel. "The Turkish Yarkand Documents." Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 47/2, 1984. pp. 260-310 (Pages: 277-280)
The IEDC translation and transcription have been taken from this publication

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IEDC Data

IEDC ID154

Date Added to IE Corpus20/06/2024

Date Last Updated in IE Corpus08/08/2024

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Principal EditorOfir Haim

Source of DataThe transcription and translation have been taken from a previous publication (see Publications)

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Folios

1. recto

a

bu ol khaṭ(ṭ) turur kim tanuq boldı- 1

lar. tanuqlar atı bu khaṭ(ṭ) ichindä 2

[ya]th [qılıl]th[ı 3

c

ḥad(d)i ulugh yol. butünlük uchün 4

bu khaṭ(ṭ) ////// //m/// 5

İsḥaq jal(l)ab-qa bir käsäk yerimni 6

sattım 7

Yusuf täknächi chıtı muntını. bir ḥath(th)i 8

bahanı tukäl bulthum. 9

//// yeri b[i]r ḥ[a]d(d)i [ ]k-l[ 10

yeri, bir ḥad(d)i Yusuf täknächi yeri, bir 11

b

b^outhım taqaghu yılı 12

rabi'al aw(w)al ayında. 13

män Mäka'il Arslan 14

subashı tanuq män. 15

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a

1 This is that document for which they were the witnesses.

2 The names of the witnesses have been [noted]
in this document.
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c

3 I have sold a piece of my land to Master İsḥaq.

6 I have received the whole price.
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5 this side of the fence of Yūsuf the ferry-man. One boundary
of [the plot is N.N.'s]

7 land; one boundary is [N.N.'s]

8 land; one boundary is the land of Yūsuf the ferry-man; one

1 boundary is the main road. For the sake of integrity

2 this document [has been ...]

b

3 ... In the poultry year,

4 in the month of rabī' al-awwal.

5 I, Mikā'īl Arslan,

6 the commander, am witness.
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