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1 Yarkand Collection at SOAS: Turki 4+5 (Erdal Doc. I)
The land sale contracts of the late eleventh century published here are important for several reasons. First, they are the oldest known legal documents written in Turkish. Very many Uighur-Turkish civil documents were found in the more eastern parts of the Tarim basin, but none of those appear to be older than the thirteenth century. the Persian...
- Primary Language
- Old Uyghur (Old Uyghur script)
- Type
- Legal (Document)
- Writing Support
- Paper
- Dates (CE)
- September-October 1080
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2 Yarkand Collection at SOAS: Turki 6 (Erdal Doc. II)
Three fragments of a document about a sale of land whose price and location are missing but were probably included in the original document. This is one of six land sale documents written in the late eleventh century, collected by Denison Ross, of which photos were kept at SOAS. Formally, these documents differ from the non-Muslim deeds of land...
- Primary Language
- Old Uyghur (Old Uyghur script)
- Type
- Legal (Document)
- Writing Support
- Paper
- Dates (CE)
- May-June 1090
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