New Persian: National Library of Israel, Ms.Heb.8333.78
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Details

Ms.Heb.8333.78
National Library of Israel
Bamiyan Papers
Gold (given following external peer review through journal/book publication)
New Persian (Arabic script)
Administrative
Administrative: Receipt
Būtiyān (Botiyan (modern), Botyan (modern))

Physical Description

paper
fold lines
18.0
9.5
4
horizontal

Content

A receipt issued by the anbār-dār Abū Bakr b. ʿUmar for the delivery of various amounts of wheat that add up to a total of 672 mann.

Dates

  • The Gregorian calendar: October 1169 (1169-10)
  • 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)

Publications

  • Azad, Arezou with Firoozbakhsh, Pejman. 2025. The Warehouse of Bamiyan: Economic Life in Medieval Afghanistan. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
    Catalogue Number: 2
    The IEDC translation and transcription have been taken from this publication

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IEDC Data

67
02/12/2023
27/05/2025

Citations

Arezou Azad
Arash Zeini, Majid Montazermahdi, Nabi Saqee, Ofir Haim, Pejman Firoozbakhsh
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Tags
Folio:

Administrative, Military and Legal Titles, Offices and Processes

Anbār (warehouse)
Bismillāh (including abbrev)

Agricultural Terms

Gandum (wheat)
Ghalla (grain)

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
1 احمد طباخ      احمـــــد
بوحنیفه
2 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 state warehouse:     wheat    mann [?]
5 [half-amount] 336:             672 mann
6 This note shall serve as proof. In Muḥarram
7 of the year 565.
8 Muḥammad b.
Jān ʿAzīz		 Aḥmad b.
‘bul-Ḥasan		 Muḥammad b. Ḥasan
9 130 mann 225 mann 237 mann
1 Aḥmad Ṭabbākh Aḥmad b.
Bū Ḥanīfa
2 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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