New Persian: National Library of Israel, Ms.Heb.8333.78
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Ms.Heb.8333.78
National Library of Israel
Bamiyan Papers
Silver (given following internal peer review)
New Persian (Arabic script)
Administrative
Administrative: Tax receipts
Būtiyān (Botiyan (modern), Botyan (modern))

Physical Description

paper
fold lines
Paper: Size ca. 9.5 x 18 cm, grey-brown, thin, very course, 4 horizontal fold lines
18.0
9.5
4
horizontal
4 horizontal fold lines

Content

Record by Abū Bakr b. ʿUmar about delivery of various amounts of wheat which add up to a total of 672 mann. The long stroke running diagonally across the text is a ṣaḥḥa meaning it is “correct” and was checked. We find this marking across Cairo Geniza documents as well.

Dates

  • The Gregorian calendar: October 1169
  • The Hijri calendar: Muḥarram 565 (0565-01)

People

  • Abū Bakr b. ʿUmar
  • Muḥammad [b.] Jān ʿAzīz
  • Muḥammad [b.] Ḥasan
  • Aḥmad Ṭabbākh
  • Aḥmad [b.] Abū Ḥanīfa (Aḥmad b. Bū Ḥanīfa)
  • Aḥmad b. Abū al-Ḥasan (Aḥmad b. ‘bul-Ḥasan)

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IEDC Data

67
02/12/2023
08/08/2024

Citations

Arezou Azad
Nabi Saqee, Ofir Haim, Pejman Firoozbakhsh
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Administrative, Military and Legal Titles, Offices and Processes

Bismillāh (including abbrev)

Markings

Oblique stroke (check mark)

Measurement Units

Mann

Administrative, Military and Legal Titles, Offices and Processes

Tafārīqāt

Documentation Terms

Barāt
Transcription
Folio:
        ابوبکر بن عمر 1
... (؟) 2
تسلیم کردند شرکای بوتیان (؟) از غله 3
تحکمانه انبار خاصه کندم     من 4
نصفه (؟) ثلثمائه ست ثلثین من               ششصد هفتاد دو من 5
این خط حجت باشد بتاریخ فی محرم 6
سنه خمس و ستین و خمسمائه 7
8 محـــــمد
جان عزیز       		 احـــــمد
بلحسن		 محـــــمد حسن
9 صد سی من    دویست بیست بنج من   دویست سی هفت من
10 احمد طباخ      احمـــــد
بوحنیفه
11 شست من       بیست من
… (؟) مائه من 1
بـــــراتها 2
تحکم تفاریقات 3
بوتیان (؟) 4
Translation
Folio:
1 Abū Bakr b. ʿUmar
2 [Bismillāh?]
3 The partners of Būtiyān have delivered the statutory grain
4 [tax] to the governmental warehouse:     wheat    mann [?]
5 [half is] 336:             672 mann
6 This note shall serve as proof. Dated Muḥarram
7 in the year 565.
8 Muḥammad b.
Jān ʿAzīz		 Aḥmad b.
‘bul-Ḥasan		 Muḥammad b. Ḥasan
9 130 mann 225 mann 237 mann
10 Aḥmad Ṭabbākh Aḥmad b.
Bū Ḥanīfa
11 60 mann 20 mann
1 […+/-2] hundred mann
2 [On the] receipts of
3 the obligatory [tax]. [Pertaining to the] instalments of
4 Būtiyān.
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