New Persian: National Library of Israel, Ms.Heb.8333.77
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Ms.Heb.8333.77
National Library of Israel
Bamiyan Papers
Gold (given following external peer review through journal/book publication)
New Persian (Arabic script)
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Legal: Loan

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An acknowledgement by Zulaykhā bt. Khwāja Jaʿfar that she has accepted 90 mann of grain from Jamāl al-Dīn Muḥammad, perhaps the shiḥna officer, out of a loan given to (or by) a certain J._.k.ū.t.ā.ī; the document is meant to ensure repayment

Dates

  • The Gregorian calendar: 9 January 1219 (1219-01-09)
  • The Hijri calendar: 14 Shawwāl 615 (0615-10-14)

People

  • Zulaykha bt. Khwāja Jaʿfar
  • Jamāl al-Dīn Muḥammad b. Maḥmūd (Jamāl al-Dīn Muḥammad b. Rashīd al-Dīn Maḥmūd ʿAlamdār)
  • J.[+1].k.ū.t.ā.ī

Publications

  • Azad, Arezou with Firoozbakhsh, Pejman. 2025. The Warehouse of Bamiyan: Economic Life in Medieval Afghanistan. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
    Catalogue Number: 23
    The IEDC translation and transcription have been taken from this publication

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IEDC Data

65
02/12/2023
27/05/2025

Citations

Arezou Azad
Pejman Firoozbakhsh
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Bismillāh (including abbrev)

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Ghalla (grain)

Measurement Units

Mann
Transcription
Folio:
                        ... (؟) 1
قبول کرد مسماه زلیخا بنت خواجه جعفر 2
از جمال‌ الدین محمد بن رشید الدین محمود علمدار 3
از حواله جٮکوتایی (؟) غله نود من 4
هر کاه طلب کند جواب کویم و ذلک فی 5
الرابع عشر من شوال سنه خمس عشر و ستمائه 6
                        کذی اقرت عندی 7
                        وکتبه علی بن ابی‌ بکر علی یده (؟) 8
از جمیع دویست بنجاه من کی بدست جمال‌ الدین بودست
  9
Translation
Folio:
1              [Bismillāh?]
2  The lady Zulaykhā bt. Khwāja Jaʿfar has accepted
3  from Jamāl al-Dīn Muḥammad b. Rashīd al-Dīn Maḥmūd ʿAlamdār
4  out of the promissory note for J.[+1].k.ū.t.ā.ī. (?) grain [in the amount of] 90 mann.
5  Whenever he should request it [back], I shall comply. This is dated
6  Shawwāl of the year 615.
7          She acknowledged this to me thus.
8          ʿAlī b. Abī Bakr wrote this in his hand.
9  [vertical, along right margin:] This is out of a total of 250 mann in the hands of Jamāl al-Dīn.
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