Bactrian: Khalili Collection, DOC 112
This sealed document was made to settle the quarrels and conflicts of Kamird-far and Bāb against Wahran and Mīr. All of these four men were brothers. In order to bring peace to the household, they agreed to equally share all their properties, including lands, houses, slaves, and slave-girls, and live together as brothers do. Three of the...
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- 3
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- 02 Dec 2023
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Bactrian: Khalili Collection, DOC 116
This double document is a contract of purchase land. In order to pay a large amount of Arab poll-tax and harvest-tax and debts, Wurol and Hilitber, sons of Bah, and Wurol's son Zard sold Wahran and Mir, sons of Bek, a piece of land at the price of 60 silver Arab dirhams.
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- 4
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- 2
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- 02 Dec 2023
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Bactrian: Sam Fogg Rare Books, Sims-Williams Ss
This document is a fragmentary loan contract, in which three market traders of Amber borrowed two hundred silver dirhams from another group of market traders in Amber for two months.
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- 6
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- 2
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- 02 Dec 2023
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Bactrian: Schøyen Collection, MS 4581
This document aims to settle a disagreement between the two parties, most likely over a piece of land.
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- 7
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- 2
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- 02 Dec 2023
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Bactrian: Khalili Collection, DOC 10
This document is a deed of gift of a piece of land and a female slave. The contract stipulates that anyone who disputes it will pay a fine to several noted people.
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- 8
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- 02 Dec 2023
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Bactrian: Collection of Isao Kurita, Sims-Williams zd
This is a short devotional text added secondarily on two blank sides in the middle of a large Sanskrit manuscript of the Prātimokṣasūtra, which must have consisted of 116 or 117 folios, only a portion of which have survived, and was allegedly from Bamiyan. Text and translation is incomplete.
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- 10
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- Paraliterary (Literature)
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- 1
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- 02 Dec 2023
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Bactrian: Khalili Collection, DOC 113
Yaskul and Yazdgird, sons of Kaw, sold a boy named Khalas to Fanz, Wind-marg, and Pusk, sons of Bagmareg.
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- 11
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- 3
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- 02 Dec 2023
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Bactrian: Khalili Collection, DOC 114
This document is a contract of loan. At the market of Rob, Deb and his wife Wiraz-finz took a loan of 40 Persian silver dirhams from Khudew-mareg and Wisburg-mareg, sons of Hinsar with an interest of two dirhams per month, or 60% per annum.
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- 17
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- Legal (Document)
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- 3
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- 02 Dec 2023
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Bactrian: Khalili Collection, DOC 55
This double document is a contract of land purchase. Absih, Sor, Wakhsh-burd, and Meyam, the sons of Wahran, sold a property called the village of Zerd to Zar-yol, Bredag, and Sand at the price of 150 silver Arab dirhams
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- 18
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- 02 Dec 2023
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Bactrian: Sam Fogg Rare Books, Sims-Williams Tt
This document refers to the deed of a gift of a certain kind of tax revenue in return for their willing service and for strenuous exertions.
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- 1
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- 02 Dec 2023
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Bactrian: Sam Fogg Rare Books, Sims-Williams R
This document is a contract put forward by Pap, Gamanig and Gazar the sons of Sawug in which they renounce their claims and disputes with Kanag son of Gugn and Moyan son of Laguk.
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- 02 Dec 2023
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Bactrian: Khalili Collection, DOC 5
This document is a lease of vineyard made in Madr, modern Madr. The contract involves the sale of a slave, a plough-ox, and five sheep for the acquisition of the farming right of a vineyard called Wadam-stan. There are several stipulations on taxes attached to the contract.
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- 02 Dec 2023
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Judeo-Persian: National Library of Israel, Ms.Heb.8333.29
Fully preserved letter written in Early Judeo-Persian. It was sent from Ghazna to Abū al-Ḥasan Siman-Tov b. Abū Naṣr Yehuda, who was in Bāmiyān, by Yaʾir, son of Ēmēd. Yaʾir writes at length about personal issues, mainly justifying his remaining in Ghazna, probably to the recipient's displeasure, and expresses his desire...
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- 107
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- Letter (Document)
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- 2
- IEDC Input Date
- 12 Mar 2024
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New Persian: Afghanistan National Archives, Firuzkuh 38
An order sent from al-Dīwān al-Ikhtiyārī to the muʿtamid ʿAlī b. ʿAbd al-Rashīd to pay 100 mann of autumn apples (sīb-i tīrmāhī) to ʿAlī, the atabek.
- IEDC ID
- 123
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- Administrative (Document)
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- 1
- IEDC Input Date
- 16 Apr 2024
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Arabic: Private Collection, Gronke I (Arabic No. 2)
An order concerning a land ownership dispute. 26 lines of text in cursive script with very scarce diacritical dots. Above the text, alāma of the judge; below, further line of text also written by the judge.
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- 133
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- 1
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- 20 May 2024
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New Persian: Afghanistan National Archives, Firuzkuh 50
An incomplete order (the first few lines seem to be missing). Based on other documents in this corpus, it was sent from al-Dīwān al-Ikhtiyārī to the muqaddams of six villages (Sparf, Band Ilīzh, Shāristay, Khāy, Pūza-yi ʿUlya, and Anwargird; see also Firuzkuh 32), instructing them to hand over all the abandoned property in...
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- 143
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- Administrative (Document)
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- 1
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- 31 May 2024
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New Persian: Afghanistan National Archives, Firuzkuh 85
A fragmentary receipt indicating a payment made in wheat, although the specific quantity is lost due to damage, but likely around 30 mann. The names of the payer and the recipient are missing from the document. However, the mention of an order of payment (barāt) pertaining to a person named Rashīd al-Dīn can be found in the...
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- 145
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- 1
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- 02 Jun 2024
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Uighur: Private Collection, Erdal I (Turki 4 + 5)
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...
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- 153
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- Legal (Document)
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- 1
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- 17 Jun 2024
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Uighur: Private Collection, Erdal II (Turki No. 6)
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
- 154
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- Legal (Document)
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- 1
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- 20 Jun 2024
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