National Library of Israel: Ms.Heb.8333.100
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An internal state document written in the format of an acknowledgement with witness statements concerning a partial payment (or loan repayment) from the shiḥna officers. Jamāl al-Dīn Muḥammad b. Maḥmūd and Shujāʿ al-Dīn Muḥammad b. Ḥasan to the amīr Ḥasan, with a promissory note for the remainder.

Dates

  • The Gregorian calendar: ca. 10 November 1217 (1217-11-10)
  • The Hijri calendar: early Shaʿbān 614 (0614-08)

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Ms.Heb.8333.100
National Library of Israel
Bamiyan Papers
Gold (given following external peer review through journal/book publication)
New Persian (Arabic script)
Legal
Legal: Loan

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paper
fold lines
14.1
10.0
5
horizontal

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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

77
02/12/2023
07/07/2025

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Arezou Azad
Arash Zeini, Majid Montazermahdi, Pejman Firoozbakhsh
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Folios
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Agriculture

Gandum (wheat)
grain
Jaw (barley)

Measurement Units

Donkey-load
Mann

Officials titles and offices

Amīr
Transcription
Folio:
             ... (؟) 1
 پدرفتند و اعترف نمودند یکی از ایشان جمال الدین 2
 زین الرجال محمد بن محمود و شجاع الدین محمد حسن از امیر اجل 3
 حسن از مجموع نود خروار غله بعد انج تسلیم کرده‌اند 4
این مبلغ قبول کردند 5
6 کنـــــدم               جـــــو    
7 سی جهار خروار جهل خروار
8 هشتاد من نود بنج من
 کی از تاریخ این ذکر تا بیست روز هر کی این قبض بیارند 9
 بدو تسلیم کنند و عذری نیارند و ذلک فی 10
 الاوایل من شعبان سنه اربع عشر و ستمائه 11
 شهد بما فیه        شهد علیه        ... ... ... ... (؟) 12
 رشید علی ابوبکر    علی بن محمود 13
 [vertical] شهد علی ذلک 14
 [vertical] محمد بن محمد ... بامره (؟) 15
Translation
Folio:
1  (?)
2-3 Jamāl al-Dīn Zayn al-Rijāl Muḥammad b. Maḥmūd and Shujāʿ al-Dīn Muḥammad b. Ḥasan confirm [that] 
4 out of a total 90 donkey loads of grain [due], they have delivered to the illustrious amīr Ḥasan the following amount:
5 wheat barley
6 34 donkey loads    40 donkey loads
7 [and] 80 mann                        [and] 95 mann
9  If anybody brings this note within twenty days of the date of this document,
10  either of them shall hand over [the remaining amount] to that person, without any excuse. And this is [dated]
11  early Shaʿbān 614. 
12  What is contained herein is witnessed         It is witnessed     […+/− 3]
13  by Rashīd ʿAlī b. Abī Bakr             by ʿAlī b. Maḥmūd 
14  This is witnessed by 
15  Muḥammad b. Muḥammad [...+/− 1], at his order.
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