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Collection
Afghanistan National Archives
Afrasiab Museum
Aman ur Rahman Collection
Bancroft Library, Berkeley
Bibliothèque Nationale de France
British Library
California Museum of Ancient Art, Los Angeles
Collection of Isao Kurita
Institut für Iranistik of the Freie Universität Berlin
Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures, Chicago
Institute of Oriental Manuscripts of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Khalili Collection
location unknown
Lost. A picture in the State Archive of Tajikistan
Museum of Ethnography, Stockholm
Museum of Renmin University of China
National Library of China
National Library of Israel
Penn Museum
Private Collection
Private Collection, Tehran
Private Collection, Virginia
Sam Fogg Rare Books
Schøyen Collection
Unknown, Tabaristan
Xinjiang Museum
Yarkand Collection at SOAS
Corpus
Arabic Documents from Early Islamic Khurasan
Bactrian Documents from Northern Afghanistan
Bamiyan Papers
Documents from Qarakhanid Samarqand
Firuzkuh Papers
Khotanese Documents from Dandan-Uiliq
Khotanese Documents from Domoko
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The Yārkand Documents
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Administrative: Accounts
Administrative: Decree
Administrative: Fiscal account/register
Administrative: Grains disbursed from the granary
Administrative: Informational note to the field
Administrative: Internal correspondence
Administrative: Inventory of grain warehouses
Administrative: List
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Administrative: Order of seed transfer
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Legal: Slavery and Manumission
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Legal: Transfer of money or goods
Legal: Unknown
Legal: Worship acts
Letter: Apology
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Letter: Confidential
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Letter: Consultation
Letter: Convalescence
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Letter: Gratitude
Letter: Invitation
Letter: Loan request
Letter: Longing
Letter: Support
Toponyms
ʿAjagak (Hajigak (modern))
Āhangarān
Amber (Sar-i Pul (modern))
Andar (Anwar)
Andarāba (Andarāb)
Angār
Anwar-gird (Andar-gird)
Arsaf
Asp-qūl
Azraw
Baghlān
Balkh
Bāmiyān (Bamyan)
Band-i Khāsh (Darra-yi Khāsh (?, modern))
Bandālīzh (Band-i Alīzh, Band-i Ilīzh) (Bandānlīzh, Bandālīch, Bandān Līch, Band-i ʿAlī (?, modern))
Barāslīzh
Bardīz
Bukhara (Bokhara)
Būtiyān (Botiyan (modern), Botyan (modern))
Chākarī (Chāgarī, Jākar, Jāgarī) (Chākarī (modern))
Chawqānī (Jawqānī)
Chemkān
Dāmam
Dar Ṭakh (Takht (?, modern))
Dāwar
Dupawi
Durustī
Farāmān (Warāman, Wazāmān)
Firūzān
Fīrūzkūh (Jām (modern))
Funduqistān (Fondukistan (modern))
Garokan
Gaz
Ghandamīn (Ghalmin (?, modern))
Ghandaq (Ghandak (modern))
Ghandar
Ghārmīkh (Ghārminj, Ghārmikh)
Ghūr Karūd (Ghūr Garūd)
Ghūrwand
Golg
Gozgan (Gōzgan, Guzgan, Juzjan, Jowzjan (modern))
Irīzh
Īsh (Līzh)
Istīw (Istīb)
Izīr
Jawlāh (Jūlāh, Chawlāh, Chūlāh)
K.šwā
Kadagstan
Kadūr
Kāfshān (Kāwshān, Kāf Shān) (Kafshān)
Kah (Kahmard (modern))
Kalf (Kelif, Keleft (modern))
Kāliyūn (Kālyūn)
Kamand-i Rāgh
Karmkār
Karūd
Kashgar
Kāshghar
Kasūf
Kawrīj (Kūrīj)
Khāy
Khīsh (Khesh (Bactrian))
Khustgān
Kiriyān (Kadyān, Karyān)
Lāmtak
Lizg (Lizag)
Madr (Malr)
Mahon
Miyān Shahr
Murghāb
Nala
Nāy (Nay Qalʿa (?, modern))
Nayak (Himak, Nimak)
Nīlinj (Nilinj (modern))
Posgām (Būskām)
Pūza-yi ʿUlyā (Pūza-yi Līch-i ʿUlyā (?, modern))
Qom (Kōm)
Rabanjī
Rabul
Ramin
Rāq (Kūh-i Rāq)
Rīw (Zīr) (Riwah (?, modern))
Rizm
Rob (Rui (modern))
رسحر مں (؟)
Rubāṭ (Āq Rabāṭ (?, modern))
Rubāṭ-i Miyān Shahr
Rubāṭiyān (Ribāṭ Shār)
Sabz Bahār
Safī (Saqī)
Sagnūl
Sakūn
Samangān (Samingan, Siminjan)
Samarqand
Sandaran
Sanga
Sānī (Shānī)
Sar-i Āsiyā
Sar-i Khīsh (Qūl-i Khīsh (?, modern))
Sarī Gudhar
Shahr-e Khuru
Shangaryān (Shingiryān)
Shāristay (Sharestay (modern))
Shāshiyān
Shawāniq
Shawār
Shibārghū (Sibārghū)
Shūya Wak
Sinīn
Sınmas (Altınqı-Sınmas)
Skānj
Sozargan
Sparf (Isparf (modern))
Sū (Shū, Safī, Saqī)
Suf (Suq) (Tagaw-e Suf (modern))
Surkh Dar
Sūya (Shūya, Sūba) (Kūtal-i Ṣūba)
Tag Āb-i Kurgī (Tag Āb-i Kurgīn) (Kurgin (?, modern))
Tālīzh
Ṭāq (Tāgh, Ṭāq-i Murghāb, Tagaw-e Taq (modern))
Tarmid (Termez (modern))
Toponym (Alternative Readings (one place, different readings)) (Other Attested Forms (one place, different writings))
Tufandih (Tukhundī (?, modern))
Wak
Warmiyās
Warzīkh
Wāshān (Wānshān)
Wīlīzh (Waylīzh)
Yārkand (Yārkanda) (Yārqand)
Yaskarāgh
Yaskin
Yunavo (?)
Zēr-i Rahbān
Zīr Damān (Zīr-i Damān)
Zuwer
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Writing Support
birchbark
clay (bullae)
leather
leather
linen
ostracon
paper
parchment
seals
stone (graves)
textile
willow stick
wood
Writing Support Details
Fading/discolouration
fold lines
fraying/crumpling
holes
lacunae
pasted into Mirza Khwaja Muhammad’s notebook
Pieces of paper glued together
recycled
staining
tears
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Sogdian: National Library of China, BH4-136
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IEDC ID
885
Type
Letter (Document)
Number of Folios
0
IEDC Input Date
10 Jan 2025
Transcription
Translation
Transliteration
Judeo-Persian: National Library of China, BH1-19
This document is a letter from Hakim to his brother Shawāfradar. The letter discusses family health, the receipt of a previous letter, the delivery and distribution of gifts (including perfume, silk, and food items) to local officials in exchange for sheep, logistical details of the transaction, and news of military events near Kashgar....
IEDC ID
1282
Type
Letter (Document)
Number of Folios
1
IEDC Input Date
29 Jun 2025
Transcription
Translation
Transliteration