Details
Details
Erdal III (Turki No. 7)
Gold (given following external peer review through journal/book publication)
Physical Description
The photograph shows that the folio has three clear horizontal foldlines, one of which had developed into a tear through part of one of the written lines. The text is legible despite this.
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Three horizontal fold lines.
Content
The 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.
This document only preserves the witness clauses.
This document only preserves the witness clauses.
Dates
- The Gregorian calendar: None
People
- İsḥaq Narsi-chi
- ʿAlī Muḥammad-chı
- ʿUthmān
- Bäbäk
- Yūsuf
Publications
- Erdal, Marcel. "The Turkish Yarkand Documents." Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 47/2, 1984. pp. 260-310 (Pages: 280-281)
The IEDC translation and transcription have been taken from this publication
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IEDC Data
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24/06/2024
08/08/2024
Citations
Ofir Haim
The transcription and translation have been taken from a previous publication (see Publications)
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