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In IEDC since 24 Jan 2025 (IEDCID1157)
1. Afghanistan National Archives: Firuzkuh 70
Fragment of a letter confirming receipt of the recipient's letter. The sender is inferior to the recipient and applies the standard politeness protocol required when writing to a superior.
Primary Language
New Persian (Arabic script)
Type
Letter (Document)
Writing Support
Paper
Dates (CE)
Unknown
Transcription Translation Transliteration
In IEDC since 04 Nov 2024 (IEDCID279)
2. National Library of Israel: Ms.Heb.8333.79, verso
This is a barāt document, which is a certificate of quittance, or receipt, which the warehouse gave to the taxpayer in return for what he has handed over. On the term barāt, see Bosworth, Abū ʿAbdallāh al-Khwārazmī on the Technical Terms of the Secretarys Art: A Contribution to the Administrative History of...
Primary Language
New Persian (Arabic script)
Type
Administrative (Document)
Writing Support
Paper
Dates (CE)
November 1169
Transcription Translation Transliteration
In IEDC since 14 Apr 2025 (IEDCID1236)
3. Afghanistan National Archives: Firuzkuh 99
Fragment of a possible practice sheet of a letter.
Primary Language
New Persian (Arabic script)
Type
Paraliterary (Literature)
Writing Support
Paper
Dates (CE)
Unknown
Transcription Translation Transliteration
In IEDC since 31 Jan 2025 (IEDCID1203)
4. National Library of Israel: Ms.Heb.8333.131
Fragment of an order of payment mentioning a certain Najīb al-Dīn.
Primary Language
New Persian (Arabic script)
Type
Administrative (Document)
Writing Support
Paper
Dates (CE)
May-June 1214 (?)
Transcription Translation Transliteration
In IEDC since 10 Jan 2025 (IEDCID527)
5. Institute of Oriental Manuscripts of the Russian Academy of Sciences: Serindia Petrovsky 93.29
Primary Language
Khotanese (Brahmi script)
Type
Administrative (Document)
Writing Support
Paper
Dates (CE)
Unknown
Transcription Translation Transliteration
In IEDC since 10 Jan 2025 (IEDCID905)
6. British Library: Or.8212/194(f)
Buddhist text.
Primary Language
Sogdian (Sogdian script)
Type
Literary text (Literature)
Writing Support
Paper
Dates (CE)
Unknown
Transcription Translation Transliteration
In IEDC since 21 Oct 2024 (IEDCID269)
7. National Library of Israel: Ms.Heb.8333.110, verso
A fragmentary list containing names of men and quantities measured in mann.
Primary Language
New Persian (Arabic script)
Type
Administrative (Document)
Writing Support
Paper
Dates (CE)
Unknown
Transcription Translation Transliteration
In IEDC since 21 Oct 2024 (IEDCID268)
8. National Library of Israel: Ms.Heb.8333.109, verso
Partly legible list of fabrics and their value in currency.
Primary Language
New Persian (Arabic script)
Type
Unknown
Writing Support
Paper
Dates (CE)
Unknown
Transcription Translation Transliteration
In IEDC since 10 Jan 2025 (IEDCID561)
9. Institute of Oriental Manuscripts of the Russian Academy of Sciences: Serindia Petrovsky 95.8
Primary Language
Khotanese (Brahmi script)
Type
Administrative (Document)
Writing Support
Paper
Dates (CE)
Unknown
Transcription Translation Transliteration
In IEDC since 20 Jan 2025 (IEDCID1138)
10. National Library of Israel: Ms.Heb.8333.80, recto
Fragment of a letter addressed to a person described as wise and knowledgeable. The letter is too fragmentary to say more.
Primary Language
New Persian (Arabic script)
Type
Letter (Document)
Writing Support
Paper
Dates (CE)
Unknown
Transcription Translation Transliteration
In IEDC since 14 Jan 2024 (IEDCID89)
11. National Library of Israel: Ms.Heb.8333.48
A letter instructing Abū Bakr (probably the anbār-dār Abū Bakr b. ʿUmar) to have 2 donkey loads of grain processed into flour by a miller.
Primary Language
New Persian (Arabic script)
Type
Administrative (Document)
Writing Support
Paper
Dates (CE)
Unknown
Tags: Naqīb
Transcription Translation Transliteration
In IEDC since 10 Jan 2025 (IEDCID846)
12. Bibliothèque Nationale de France: Pelliot chinois 5538
Recto: Letter of Viśa’ Šūra, king of Khotan, to his uncle, Gao Yuanzhong, the ruler of Shazhou; Verso: Line 1-8, a letter from a Khotanese envoy to the Khotanese court; Line 9-87, a Sanskrit-Khotanese bilingual conversation between an Indian monk on his way to the Wutai Mountain and a man from Ganzhou (?)
Primary Language
Sanskrit (Brahmi script)
Type
Letter (Document)
Writing Support
Paper
Dates (CE)
970
Transcription Translation Transliteration
In IEDC since 10 Jan 2025 (IEDCID378)
13. British Library: Or.11344/12
Recto: Order concerning road work and wine; Verso: Letter concerning wine
Primary Language
Khotanese (Brahmi script)
Type
Administrative (Document)
Writing Support
Paper
Dates (CE)
Unknown
Transcription Translation Transliteration
In IEDC since 20 Jan 2025 (IEDCID1143)
14. National Library of Israel: Ms.Heb.8333.143
List detailing the quantities of grain brought from Jawqānī, converted from white rice at an exchange rate of 1.5 mann of grain per 1 mann of white rice.
Primary Language
New Persian (Arabic script)
Type
Administrative (Document)
Writing Support
Paper
Dates (CE)
Unknown
Transcription Translation Transliteration
In IEDC since 14 Apr 2025 (IEDCID1232)
15. Afghanistan National Archives: Firuzkuh 81
This is a rhyming poem about the story of Joseph (Yūsuf) known from the Qurʾān (sūra XII) when he was sold into slavery as a boy by his brothers. The poem includes direct speech in Yūsuf's voice. The handwriting is stylised as in 11th-century documents ( e.g. with dotting on the dāl and lettering). A second hand has made annotations.
Primary Language
New Persian (Arabic script)
Type
Literary text (Literature)
Writing Support
Paper
Dates (CE)
Unknown
Transcription Translation Transliteration
In IEDC since 10 Jan 2025 (IEDCID334)
16. British Library: Or.11252/10
Recto: patrol roster; Verso: List of men who delivered jars and sacks
Primary Language
Khotanese (Brahmi script)
Type
Administrative (Document)
Writing Support
Paper
Dates (CE)
Unknown
Transcription Translation Transliteration
In IEDC since 05 Mar 2024 (IEDCID102)
17. National Library of Israel: Ms.Heb.8333.20
Acknowledgment (iqrār) deed concerning a debt of 55 shiyānī to the credit of Ibrāhīm b. Dāniyāl. The reason for the debt is not stated in the document. Ibrāhīm b. Dāniyāl is the brother of Abū Naṣr b. dāniyāl, the archive owner, and may be identified with Abraham, son of Daniel, whose name is written in the margin of a Hebrew...
Primary Language
New Persian (Arabic script)
Type
Legal (Document)
Writing Support
Paper
Dates (CE)
March-April 1005
Tags: Bismillāh (including abbrev) In a state of sound body and mind Shiyānī
Transcription Translation Transliteration
In IEDC since 27 Jan 2025 (IEDCID1179)
18. National Library of Israel: Ms.Heb.8333.183, recto
Fragment of a partially legible list of various goods.
Primary Language
New Persian (Arabic script)
Type
List or table (Document)
Writing Support
Paper
Dates (CE)
Unknown
Transcription Translation Transliteration
In IEDC since 10 Jan 2025 (IEDCID633)
19. Institute of Oriental Manuscripts of the Russian Academy of Sciences: Serindia Petrovsky 100.19.2
Primary Language
Khotanese (Brahmi script)
Type
Administrative (Document)
Writing Support
Paper
Dates (CE)
Unknown
Transcription Translation Transliteration
In IEDC since 31 May 2024 (IEDCID143)
20. Afghanistan National Archives: Firuzkuh 50
An incomplete order (the first few lines seem to be missing). Based on other documents in this corpus, it was sent from al-Dīwān al-Ikhtiyārī to the muqaddams of six villages (Sparf, Band Ilīzh, Shāristay, Khāy, Pūza-yi ʿUlya, and Anwargird; see also Firuzkuh 32), instructing them to hand over all the abandoned property in...
Primary Language
New Persian (Arabic script)
Type
Administrative (Document)
Writing Support
Paper
Dates (CE)
1217-1218
Tags: Abandoned property Iʿtimād nimūdan [bar-īn nishān] (trust the seal) Taxes: ʿUshr Ghalla (grain)
Transcription Translation Transliteration
In IEDC since 08 Sep 2024 (IEDCID199)
21. National Library of Israel: Ms.Heb.8333.84, verso
Receipt concerning the delivery of 150 mann of wheat; issued by Abū Bakr b. ʿUmar.
Primary Language
New Persian (Arabic script)
Type
Administrative (Document)
Writing Support
Paper
Dates (CE)
November-December 1169
Transcription Translation Transliteration
In IEDC since 10 Jan 2025 (IEDCID603)
22. Institute of Oriental Manuscripts of the Russian Academy of Sciences: Serindia Petrovsky 98.10
Primary Language
Khotanese (Brahmi script)
Type
Administrative (Document)
Writing Support
Paper
Dates (CE)
Unknown
Transcription Translation Transliteration
In IEDC since 10 Jan 2025 (IEDCID898)
23. British Library: Or.8212/113
Manichean text.
Primary Language
Sogdian (Sogdian script)
Type
Literary text (Literature)
Writing Support
Paper
Dates (CE)
Unknown
Transcription Translation Transliteration
In IEDC since 04 Nov 2024 (IEDCID286)
24. National Library of Israel: Ms.Heb.8333.112, recto & Ms.Heb.8333.141, recto
List comprising of two fragments, concerning 90 kharwār of grain from Miyānshahr and from a warehouse, consigned to a certain amīr Ḥasan.
Primary Language
New Persian (Arabic script)
Type
Administrative (Document)
Writing Support
Paper
Dates (CE)
Unknown
Transcription Translation Transliteration
In IEDC since 29 Oct 2024 (IEDCID276)
25. National Library of Israel: Ms.Heb.8333.61, recto
An employment contract in which Zangī, the gold-thread embroiderer (zar-dūz), hires an apprentice. The contract is dated 1 Muḥarram 604/4 August 1207 and valid for one year.
Primary Language
New Persian (Arabic script)
Type
Legal (Document)
Writing Support
Paper
Dates (CE)
August 1207
Transcription Translation Transliteration
In IEDC since 10 Jan 2025 (IEDCID485)
26. Institute of Oriental Manuscripts of the Russian Academy of Sciences: Serindia Petrovsky 92.28
Primary Language
Khotanese (Brahmi script)
Type
Administrative (Document)
Writing Support
Paper
Dates (CE)
Unknown
Transcription Translation Transliteration
In IEDC since 15 Nov 2024 (IEDCID305)
27. National Library of Israel: Ms.Heb.8333.47
A letter to Jamāl al-Dawla from his subordinate, who describes himself as child, and the writer as father, notifying that the sum of 6 muʿizzī dinars and one badhrī (?) were sent. Therefore, the sender requests that the bill and pledge be returned.
Primary Language
New Persian (Arabic script)
Type
Letter (Document)
Writing Support
Paper
Dates (CE)
Unknown
Transcription Translation Transliteration
In IEDC since 10 Jan 2025 (IEDCID741)
28. British Library: IOL Khot S. 13
Line 1-22, letter draft; Line 23-108, letter from Chikä Gūlai and Dūṃ Saṃgalakāṃ; Line 109-120, letter from the seven princes
Primary Language
Khotanese (Brahmi script)
Type
Letter (Document)
Writing Support
Paper
Dates (CE)
Unknown
Transcription Translation Transliteration
In IEDC since 10 Jan 2025 (IEDCID736)
29. Institute of Oriental Manuscripts of the Russian Academy of Sciences: Serindia Petrovsky 140.1
Primary Language
Khotanese (Brahmi script)
Type
Administrative (Document)
Writing Support
Paper
Dates (CE)
Unknown
Transcription Translation Transliteration
In IEDC since 27 Jan 2025 (IEDCID1178)
30. National Library of Israel: Ms.Heb.8333.16
Copy of a legal document written by Amīrak b. Bā Yūsuf, the agent of Abū Naṣr Aḥmad b. Muḥammad in Bamiyan.
Primary Language
New Persian (Arabic script)
Type
Legal (Document)
Writing Support
Paper
Dates (CE)
Unknown
Transcription Translation Transliteration
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