New Persian: National Library of Israel, Ms.Heb.8333.93
The diwan official ʿUmar orders Abū Bakr b. ʿUmar to hand over five donkey loads of wheat to the seed account of the village of Shawāniq which is the property of or administered by the sipāhsālār Zangī. This should be delivered via the chamberlain (sharaf al-ḥujjāb) Amīn al-Dīn to the hand of ʿAlī b. Muḥammad Khurūsh. The...
- IEDC ID
- 62
- Type
- Administrative (Document)
- Number of Folios
- 1
- IEDC Input Date
- 02 Dec 2023
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New Persian: National Library of Israel, Ms.Heb.8333.78
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.
- IEDC ID
- 67
- Type
- Administrative (Document)
- Number of Folios
- 2
- IEDC Input Date
- 02 Dec 2023
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New Persian: National Library of Israel, Ms.Heb.8333.60 verso
Order to release 10 mann of barley to naqīb Ḥaydar, issued by Ṣāʿid whom we assume to be an official of the diwan.
- IEDC ID
- 68
- Type
- Administrative (Document)
- Number of Folios
- 1
- IEDC Input Date
- 02 Dec 2023
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New Persian: National Library of Israel, Ms.Heb.8333.88
Order to collect missing delivery of grain issued by Abū Bakr b. ʿUmar, addressed to a general.
- IEDC ID
- 72
- Type
- Administrative (Document)
- Number of Folios
- 1
- IEDC Input Date
- 02 Dec 2023
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New Persian: National Library of Israel, Ms.Heb.8333.44
Issuer (name torn off) states that Zayn al-Ḥaḍrat Abū Bakr has been sent to apprehend Muḥammad b. Maḥmūd and Muḥammad b. Ḥasan, who are shiḥna officials deployed in Zīrdamān Valley, to bring them to him, otherwise they shall be coercively removed.
- IEDC ID
- 73
- Type
- Administrative (Document)
- Number of Folios
- 1
- IEDC Input Date
- 02 Dec 2023
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New Persian: National Library of Israel, Ms.Heb.8333.91
Cheque, concerning the delivery of 130 mann of grain, issued by ʿUmar from the High Diwan.
- IEDC ID
- 79
- Type
- Administrative (Document)
- Number of Folios
- 1
- IEDC Input Date
- 02 Dec 2023
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New Persian: National Library of Israel, Ms.Heb.8333.177
Receipt for the delivery of 413 mann of corn or pulses of Ghūrwand to the granary, probably to pay back a previous loan.
- IEDC ID
- 84
- Type
- Administrative (Document)
- Number of Folios
- 1
- IEDC Input Date
- 14 Jan 2024
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New Persian: National Library of Israel, Ms.Heb.8333.173
Receipt for delivery of 413 mann of grain.
- IEDC ID
- 85
- Type
- Administrative (Document)
- Number of Folios
- 1
- IEDC Input Date
- 14 Jan 2024
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New Persian: National Library of Israel, Ms.Heb.8333.174
Receipt for the delivery of 500 mann of corn and pulses to the granary, probably for an earlier loan.
- IEDC ID
- 86
- Type
- Administrative (Document)
- Number of Folios
- 1
- IEDC Input Date
- 14 Jan 2024
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New Persian: National Library of Israel, Ms.Heb.8333.158 verso
Receipt for the delivery of 306 mann of grain by two representatives issued by ʿAlī b. Abū Bakr and another official, perhaps one from the Khwarazmshahi administration.
- IEDC ID
- 87
- Type
- Administrative (Document)
- Number of Folios
- 1
- IEDC Input Date
- 14 Jan 2024
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New Persian: National Library of Israel, Ms.Heb.8333.112 verso
The parties involved in this administrative note seem to be Jamāl al-Dīn Muḥammad b. Maḥmūd, known from various Bamiyan Papers as the shiḥna and collector of grains (muḥaṣṣil-i ghalla), and ʿAlī b. Abū Bakr, the warehouse manager. It records a tax credit paid by Jamāl al-Dīn for the village of Sūya valued at...
- IEDC ID
- 88
- Type
- Administrative (Document)
- Number of Folios
- 1
- IEDC Input Date
- 14 Jan 2024
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New Persian: National Library of Israel, Ms.Heb.8333.48
A letter concerning the processing of two donkey-loads of grain into flour by a miller. It is addressed to Abū Bakr, probably Abū Bakr b. ʿUmar the warehouse manager, who is referred to as naqīb and muʿtamid al-dawla. As is usual in letters, there is no date, and there are no ciphers or archival notes indicating that this...
- IEDC ID
- 89
- Type
- Administrative (Document)
- Number of Folios
- 1
- IEDC Input Date
- 14 Jan 2024
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New Persian: National Library of Israel, Ms.Heb.8333.97
Instruction from ʿAlī b. Najīb to Shujāʿ al-Dīn to retrieve 50 mann of seed out of 300 mann from the commanders (sarhangān) at Sar-i Rubāṭ.
- IEDC ID
- 90
- Type
- Administrative (Document)
- Number of Folios
- 1
- IEDC Input Date
- 18 Jan 2024
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New Persian: Afghanistan National Archives, Firuzkuh 5
A legal deed of acknowledgement by a brother and sister who have emancipated their Indian female slave. There are four witnesses to this document.
- IEDC ID
- 109
- Type
- Legal (Document)
- Number of Folios
- 1
- IEDC Input Date
- 30 Mar 2024
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Arabic: Yarkand Collection at SOAS, Arabic No. 2 (Gronke I)
An order concerning a land ownership dispute issued by a judge following a court hearing.
- IEDC ID
- 133
- Type
- Legal (Document)
- Number of Folios
- 1
- IEDC Input Date
- 20 May 2024
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Arabic: Yarkand Collection at SOAS, Arabic No. 6 (Gronke II)
An order of the court concerning an intestacy.
- IEDC ID
- 134
- Type
- Legal (Document)
- Number of Folios
- 1
- IEDC Input Date
- 20 May 2024
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Arabic: Yarkand Collection at SOAS, Arabic No. 5 (Gronke III)
A Land sale contract in Arabic, with witness statements in Arabic and Old Uyghur written in both Arabic and Old Uyghur scripts
- IEDC ID
- 137
- Type
- Legal (Document)
- Number of Folios
- 1
- IEDC Input Date
- 21 May 2024
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Arabic: Yarkand Collection at SOAS, Arabic No. 7 (Gronke IV)
Fragment of a document of appointment to guardianship.
- IEDC ID
- 138
- Type
- Legal (Document)
- Number of Folios
- 1
- IEDC Input Date
- 22 May 2024
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Arabic: Yarkand Collection at SOAS, Arabic No. 1 (Gronke V)
A land sale contract, with two of its Old Uyghur witness statements in Uyghur letters and one in Arabic script.
- IEDC ID
- 139
- Type
- Legal (Document)
- Number of Folios
- 1
- IEDC Input Date
- 22 May 2024
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Old Uyghur: Yarkand Collection at SOAS, Turki 4+5 (Erdal Doc. I)
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...
- IEDC ID
- 153
- Type
- Legal (Document)
- Number of Folios
- 2
- IEDC Input Date
- 17 Jun 2024
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Old Uyghur: Yarkand Collection at SOAS, Turki 6 (Erdal Doc. II)
Three fragments of a document about a sale of land whose price and location are missing but were probably included in the original document. This is one of six land sale documents written in the late eleventh century, collected by Denison Ross, of which photos were kept at SOAS. Formally, these documents differ from the non-Muslim deeds of land...
- IEDC ID
- 154
- Type
- Legal (Document)
- Number of Folios
- 1
- IEDC Input Date
- 20 Jun 2024
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Old Uyghur: Yarkand Collection at SOAS, Turki 3 (Erdal Doc. IV)
A fragment of an almost complete land sale document concerning the sale of a grove for the price of 150 yarmaqs. This is one of six land sale documents written in the late eleventh century, collected by Denison Ross, of which photos were kept at SOAS. Formally, these documents differ from the non-Muslim deeds of land sale in the...
- IEDC ID
- 156
- Type
- Legal (Document)
- Number of Folios
- 1
- IEDC Input Date
- 24 Jun 2024
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New Persian: National Library of Israel, Ms.Heb.8333.86 recto
The document contains part of a decree in which the recipient is ordered to leave the place in which a local raʾīs has given him protection, and to proceed to an unnamed village. It appears that the recipient had either left this place of residence or deployment, or never moved there in the first place despite being requested to do so....
- IEDC ID
- 162
- Type
- Legal (Document)
- Number of Folios
- 1
- IEDC Input Date
- 17 Jul 2024
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New Persian: National Library of Israel, Ms.Heb.8333.27
Fragment from the bottom of a chancery decree. The document may have been issued in the Ghaznavid period, as it pertains to the first 29 documents purchased by the NLI in 2013. Most of these documents are dated to the first half of the eleventh century.
- IEDC ID
- 166
- Type
- Administrative (Document)
- Number of Folios
- 1
- IEDC Input Date
- 02 Sep 2024
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New Persian: National Library of Israel, Ms.Heb.8333.70
Incomplete acknowledgement (iqrār) deed, concerning a debt of 200 mann grain to the credit of Nūr al-Dīn.
- IEDC ID
- 176
- Type
- Legal (Document)
- Number of Folios
- 1
- IEDC Input Date
- 02 Sep 2024
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New Persian: National Library of Israel, Ms.Heb.8333.69, verso
A letter sent by a son to his father, who is titled naqīb and Muʿtamid al-Dawla. The author identifies himself as Īzadyār b. Muḥammad.
- IEDC ID
- 177
- Type
- Letter (Document)
- Number of Folios
- 1
- IEDC Input Date
- 02 Sep 2024
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New Persian: National Library of Israel, Ms.Heb.8333.68, verso
Incomplete letter (end is missing) concerning the outstanding delivery of wheat to naqīb Jamāl al-Dīn Muḥammad.
- IEDC ID
- 179
- Type
- Letter (Document)
- Number of Folios
- 1
- IEDC Input Date
- 02 Sep 2024
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New Persian: National Library of Israel, Ms.Heb.8333.68, recto
Incomplete acknowledgment deed concerning a debt of wheat and sugar cane to the credit of Shujāʾ al-Dīn ʿUmar.
- IEDC ID
- 180
- Type
- Legal (Document)
- Number of Folios
- 1
- IEDC Input Date
- 02 Sep 2024
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New Persian: National Library of Israel, Ms.Heb.8333.72, recto
Acknowledgement concerning 50 dīnārs that were given to Abū Bakr b. Muḥammad b. Abū Bakr ٮاورعاٮدی (?) from the dīwān of amīr Ulugh-Qutlugh, and claimed by Shāh Malik.
- IEDC ID
- 185
- Type
- Legal (Document)
- Number of Folios
- 1
- IEDC Input Date
- 03 Sep 2024
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New Persian: National Library of Israel, Ms.Heb.8333.73, verso
An acknowledgment deed of an advance sale (salam) of 200 mann of wheat that should be returned after three months.
- IEDC ID
- 188
- Type
- Legal (Document)
- Number of Folios
- 1
- IEDC Input Date
- 03 Sep 2024
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