New Persian: National Library of Israel, Ms.Heb.8333.96
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Ms.Heb.8333.96
National Library of Israel
Bamiyan Papers
Gold (given following external peer review through journal/book publication)
New Persian (Arabic script)
Administrative
Administrative: Order of payment (or other)
Chawqānī (Jawqānī)

Physical Description

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13.7
10.5
5
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Content

An order issued by Muḥammad b. Najīb and ʿAlī b. Najīb from the high diwan, instructing Jamāl al-Dīn Muḥammad and Shujā al-Dīn Muḥammad, the shiḥna from Zīrdamān, to hand over 8 donkey loads of grain to the shiḥna from Chawqānī.
 

Dates

  • The Gregorian calendar: May 1218 (0615-05)
  • The Hijri calendar: Ṣafar 615 (615-02)

People

  • ʿAlī [b.] Najīb
  • Muḥammad [b.] Najīb
  • Shujāʿ al-Dīn Muḥammad [b.] Ḥasan
  • Jamāl al-Dīn Muḥammad b. Maḥmūd
  • Jamāl al-Dīn Sanjar

Publications

  • Azad, Arezou with Firoozbakhsh, Pejman. 2025. The Warehouse of Bamiyan: Economic Life in Medieval Afghanistan. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
    Catalogue Number: 14
    The IEDC translation and transcription have been taken from this publication

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IEDC Data

91
30/01/2024
27/05/2025

Citations

Arezou Azad
Nabi Saqee, Ofir Haim, Pejman Firoozbakhsh
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Folio:

Administrative, Military and Legal Titles, Offices and Processes

Amīr
Bismillāh (including abbrev)
Shiḥna/shiḥnagī

Agricultural Terms

Ghalla (grain)
Kāh (straw)

Markings

Tanṣīf (half-amount stroke above written out number)

Measurement Units

Kharwār
Transcription
Folio:
محمد نجیب             علی نجیب 1
... (؟) 2
جمال‌ الدین محمد محمود رساند و شجاع‌ الدین 3
محمد حسن دام عزهم از وجوه باقی بهاء کاه 4
کی با ایشان جمع است در وجه امیر اجل جمال‌ الدین سنجر 5
شحنه  جوقانی        غله هشت خروار 6
        [نصفه] اربع وا (؟) مائه من 7
فی صفر سنه خمسه عشر ستمائه 8
Translation
Folio:
1  Muḥammad b. Najīb        ʿAlī b. Najīb
2  [Bismillāh?]
3  Jamāl al-Dīn Muḥammad b. Maḥmūd and Shujāʿ al-Dīn
4-5 Muḥammad b. Ḥasan, may God extend their glory, shall deliver [the following amount] from the remaining funds that are equivalent to the straw and have been entrusted to them to the illustrious amīr Jamāl al-Dīn Sanjar,
6  the shiḥna of Chawqānī:        grain: 8 donkey loads
7  [half-amount:] 400 mann
8  In Ṣafar of the year 615.
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