National Library of Israel: Ms.Heb.8333.61, recto
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A contract in which the master gold-thread embroiderer Zangī holds his apprentice liable to work during the master’s one-year absence a specified salary and subsistence allowance. The contract is dated 1 Muḥarram 604/4 August 1207.

Dates

  • The Gregorian calendar: August 1207 (1207-08)
  • The Hijri calendar: al-Muḥarram 604 (0604-01)

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Ms.Heb.8333.61, recto
National Library of Israel
Bamiyan Papers
Silver (given following internal peer review)
New Persian (Arabic script)
Legal
Legal: Rent-hire

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paper
Incomplete (top half missing), black ink; verso side reused.
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276
29/10/2024
02/06/2026

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Ofir Haim
Arezou Azad, Majid Montazermahdi, Mateen Arghandehpour, Nabi Saqee, Pejman Firoozbakhsh
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Folio:

Administrative

coinage
khaṭṭ (deed)

Legal terms

iqrār (acknowledgment)
legal formula
bi amrihi

Material Culture

clothing
textile
Transcription
Folio:
از غره محرم سنه اربع و ستمائه بي استاد زنگی می باشم و کار 1
زردوزی بکنم و اکر روي بگردانم بی دستوری او 2
صد دینار سیم رسمی بدهم و قبول کرد زنگی بن [+ 1] 3
یعرف زردوز کی درین یک سال کی بی من باشد 4
هفتاد دینار سیم رسمی و دو دست جامۀ کرباس 5
و برد او را بدهم و نان و برگ او بدهم و این خط 6
فرمود نبشته شد بتاریخ دوام غره محرم سنه اربع و ستمائه 7
8 اقر بما فیه و کتبه
محمد بن محمود بن احمد یعرف
نقاشں بامره		 هم برین جمله اقرار کرد کتبه
عثمان بن محمد بن علی یعرف
زردوز بامره
Translation
Folio:
1 From the beginning of Muḥarram in the year 604, I will be without the master Zangī, and
2 will carry out gold-thread embroidery work. And if I stop working without his permission, I
3 will pay one hundred dinars of official coinage. Zangī b. [+ 1]
4 known as “the gold-thread embroiderer [zardūz],”  has accepted that, “during this one year of my absence, I shall pay him
5 seventy dinars of official coinage, two sets of white muslin and
6 striped fabric and will cover his food and daily subsistence.” And this letter was
7 instructed to be written on the second day in the beginning of Muḥarram in the year 604.              
8 He acknowledged what is herein and signed it Muḥammad b. Maḥmūd b. Aḥmad known as
“the painter,” at his order   		 He acknowledged all of this [and] signed it
ʿUthmān b. Muḥammad b. ʿAlī known as
Zardūz, at his order
National Library of Israel: Ms.Heb.8333.61, recto: Folio (recto)
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