Arabic: Khalili Collection, DOC 47 [AR 21]
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DOC 47 [AR 21]
Khalili Collection
Arabic Documents from Early Islamic Khurasan
Gold (given following external peer review through journal/book publication)
Arabic (Arabic script)
Legal
Legal: Slavery and Manumission

Physical Description

parchment
Written on light parchment.
34.0
10.0

Content

Manumission of a slave.

Dates

  • The Gregorian calendar: June-July 765 (Estimated date range: 0765-06-25-0765-07-24)
  • The Hijri calendar: Jumada I 148 (0148-05)

People

  • Būya b. Muḥammad
  • Qiyā
  • Yaḥyā b. Ḥabba
  • Adam b. ʿAbdallāh
  • Yaḥyā b. Ḥabba
  • ʿAbd al-Malik
  • Jaʿfar b. Ḥimrān
  • Mukhallad
  • Ḥassān
  • Jahm b. Qays
  • ʿUmar
  • al-Rutbīl b. Warāzān
  • Yamshlād
  • ʿAnbar b. Qbjmwn (?)
  • Gar b. Jōk
  • Shamīk Akhūnaj (?)
  • Khodo al-Ḥaddād
  • Baghdādī b. Meyam
  • Sulaymān b. Sarakhs
  • Bay b. Dād-framān
  • Arkhān b. Khudēwag
  • Ktt (?) b. Weybōr
  • Kānah b. Zundad

Publications

  • Khan, Geoffrey. 2007. Arabic documents from early Islamic Khurasan (Studies in the Khalili Collection Volume V). London: The Nour Foundation in association with Azimuth Editions. (Pages: 162-165)
    Catalogue Number: 32
    The IEDC translation and transcription have been taken from this publication

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IEDC Data

35
02/12/2023
08/08/2024

Citations

Geoffrey Khan
Thomas Benfry
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Folios
1. recto
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Translation
Transcription
Folio:
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم 1
هذا ما كاتب بويه بن محمد كاتب 2
غلامه يسما قيى الحائك على 3
مية درهم وستة عشر درهما 4
وقد قبض المية درهم وستة 5
اعشر درهما بيض نقد الناس 6
وبرئ قيى الحائك عن 7
مكاتبته كلها الى بويه 8
بن محمد شهد ادم بن عبد الله 9
يحيى بن حبة وعبد الملك 10
وجعفر بن حمران ومخلد مولى 11
زرعة وحسان مولى عبد الرحمان 12
وجهم بن قيس وعمر بياع 13
الكراس والرتبيل بن ورازان 14
ويمشلاد وعنبر بن قبجمون 15
وكر بن جوك وشميك 16
اخونج وخدو الحداد وبغدى 17
بن ميم وسليمن بن سرخس وباي 18
بن داد فرمان وطرخان بن خديوج 19
وكتت بن ويبود وكانه بن 20
زنداد وكتب لغرة 21
جمادى الاول سنة ثمان واربعين و 22
ومية وختم بويه بن محمد والشهود 23
Translation
Folio:
1 In the name of God, the Merciful and Compassionate.
2 This is what Būya b. Muḥammad contracted. He contracted
3 his servant, who is called Qiyā the weaver, for
4 one hundred and sixteen dirhams
5 and he has received the hundred and
6 sixteen dirhams, white, the currency of the people.
7 So Qiyā the weaver has been released
8 from (the obligation of) his contract in its entirety (to pay this) to Būya
9 b. Muḥammad. It has been witnessed by Adam b. ʿAbdallāh,
10 Yaḥyā b. Ḥabba, ʿAbd al-Malik,
11 Jaʿfar b. Ḥimrān, Mukhallad the client
12 of Zurʿa, Ḥassān the client of ʿAbd al-Raḥmān
13 Jahm b. Qays, ʿUmar the seller
14 of quires, al-Rutbīl b. Warāzān,
15 Yamshlād, ʿAnbar b. Qbjmwn (?),
16 Gar b. Jōk, Shamīk
17 Akhūnaj (?), Khodo the blacksmith, Baghdādī
18 b. Meyam, Sulaymān b. Sarakhs, Bāy
19 b. Dād-framān, Arkhān b. Khudēwag,
20 Ktt (?) b. Weybōr, Kānah b.
21 Zundād. It has been written at the beginning
22 of Jumādā I of the year one hundred and forty-eight.
23 Būyha b. Muḥammad and the witnesses have set their seal.
Seals
Seal 1
Photograph of this seal
Inscription

The bulla contains a number of blank impressions, thumbnails, and a seal with an inscription which may read "Mukhallad (?) Ma...(?)" which may correspond to the witness "Mukhallad Mawlā".

مخلد (؟)م

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Arabic: Khalili Collection, DOC 47 [AR 21]: Folio (recto)
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