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21 results found of all 1247 Corpus Texts
1 Collection of Isao Kurita: Sims-Williams zd
This is a short devotional text added secondarily on two blank sides in the middle of a large Sanskrit manuscript of the Prātimokṣasūtra, which must have consisted of 116 or 117 folios, only a portion of which have survived, and was allegedly from Bamiyan. Text and translation is incomplete.
- Primary Language
- Bactrian (Greek-based script)
- Type
- Paraliterary (Literature)
- Writing Support
- Birchbark
- Dates (CE)
- Before c. 675 CE
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2 Khalili Collection: DOC 45 [AR 20]
Quittance relating to the dowry of Ḥamra, the daughter of Mīr b. Bēk.
- Primary Language
- Arabic (Arabic script)
- Type
- Legal (Document)
- Writing Support
- Parchment
- Dates (CE)
- September-August 766
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3 Yarkand Collection at SOAS: Arabic No. 1 (Gronke V)
A land sale contract, with two of its Old Uyghur witness statements in Uyghur letters and one in Arabic script.
- Primary Language
- Arabic (Arabic script)
- Type
- Legal (Document)
- Writing Support
- Paper
- Dates (CE)
- 13 September 1135
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4 Private Collection: Huart III
This is one of three Arabic land sale documents from Yārkand which Huart received from Pelliot to study. The original was accompanied by a modern transcription. This is a land sale document dated 489/1096 and concerns the purchase of land in the Yārkand kūra for 4,600 valid and current dirhems.
- Primary Language
- Arabic (Arabic script)
- Type
- Legal (Document)
- Writing Support
- Paper
- Dates (CE)
- 05 August 1114
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5 National Library of Israel: Ms.Heb.8333.219
A letter to a subordinate counterpart, possibly Abū Bakr Kalānisī, regarding a number of matters, including outstanding payments and requisitions, gardening and saddle making, and family affairs.
- Primary Language
- New Persian (Arabic script)
- Type
- Letter (Document)
- Writing Support
- Paper
- Dates (CE)
- Unknown
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6 National Library of Israel: Ms.Heb.8333.27
Fragment from the bottom of a chancery decree. The document may have been issued in the Ghaznavid period, as it pertains to the first 29 documents purchased by the NLI in 2013. Most of these documents are dated to the first half of the eleventh century.
- Primary Language
- New Persian (Arabic script)
- Type
- Administrative (Document)
- Writing Support
- Paper
- Dates (CE)
- Undated
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7 National Library of Israel: Ms.Heb.8333.161
Fragment of legal document, possibly concerning marital issues.
- Primary Language
- Arabic (Arabic script)
- Type
- Legal (Document)
- Writing Support
- Paper
- Dates (CE)
- 1096-1106
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8 National Library of Israel: Ms.Heb.8333.127
A note concerning the repayment of 50 (?) mann by naqīb ʿAlī Bāmiyānī for a previous loan.
- Primary Language
- New Persian (Arabic script)
- Type
- Administrative (Document)
- Writing Support
- Paper
- Dates (CE)
- November-December 1219
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9 Afghanistan National Archives: Firuzkuh 55
- Primary Language
- New Persian (Arabic script)
- Type
- Administrative (Document)
- Writing Support
- Paper
- Dates (CE)
- Unknown
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10 Afghanistan National Archives: Firuzkuh 95
Petition made on behalf of a female farmer, the daughter of Khiḍṛ b. Palang, to Asad al-Dawla wal-Dīn, asking him to rescind an order to curtail her plot.
- Primary Language
- New Persian (Arabic script)
- Type
- Administrative (Document)
- Writing Support
- Paper
- Dates (CE)
- Unknown
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11 Afghanistan National Archives: Firuzkuh 4
A fragmentary letter sent to a high official, probably situated in Firuzkuh either at the time of Ghurid or Khwārazmshāhī rule. The writer has travelled to Firuzkuh several times but was denied access to the recipient. He wishes to return to Firuzkuh and might be seeking employment in the court.
- Primary Language
- New Persian (Arabic script)
- Type
- Letter (Document)
- Writing Support
- Paper
- Dates (CE)
- Unknown
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12 Afghanistan National Archives: Firuzkuh 12
A fragment of land sale deed concerning 10 parcels of mountain land in the village of Tufandī near Ghandamīn (present-day Ghalmīn?). The format is standard for contemporary land sale deeds written in the region (see, e.g., Khalili 37, Khalili 38).
- Primary Language
- New Persian (Arabic script)
- Type
- Legal (Document)
- Writing Support
- Paper
- Dates (CE)
- Unknown
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13 National Library of Israel: Ms.Heb.8333.155, verso
A letter from ʿAlī b. ʿUmar to Amīn al-Mulk, Muʿtamid al-Dawla (the name is missing due to a lacuna in the text). The sender mentions the threats made by Shujāʿ al-Mulk Ḥasan and asks the recipient to reprimand Ḥasan. He also affirms his loyalty, stating that he is simply fulfilling his duties and nothing more. However, if the recipient demands,...
- Primary Language
- New Persian (Arabic script)
- Type
- Letter (Document)
- Writing Support
- Paper
- Dates (CE)
- Unknown
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14 Afghanistan National Archives: Firuzkuh 80
Fragment of a document concerning eight pasture ewes. The text was written by a skilled scribe in a calligraphic style.
- Primary Language
- New Persian (Arabic script)
- Type
- Letter (Document)
- Writing Support
- Paper
- Dates (CE)
- Unknown
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15 Afghanistan National Archives: Firuzkuh 97
A petition sent to Asad al-Dawla wal-Dīn, Ulugh Jāndār Bīk, asking for judgement of a particular egregious misdeed carried out against a group of peasants.
- Primary Language
- New Persian (Arabic script)
- Type
- Administrative (Document)
- Writing Support
- Paper
- Dates (CE)
- Unknown
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16 National Library of Israel: Ms.Heb.8333.213
Inventory list of items, mostly kitchenware.
- Primary Language
- New Persian (Arabic script)
- Type
- List or table (Document)
- Writing Support
- Paper
- Dates (CE)
- Unknown
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17 National Library of Israel: Ms.Heb.8333.120, verso
List detailing amounts of grain seed from the village of Wak.
- Primary Language
- New Persian (Arabic script)
- Type
- Administrative (Document)
- Writing Support
- Paper
- Dates (CE)
- Unknown
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18 Afghanistan National Archives: Firuzkuh 9
Fragment of a legal document, possibly a land sale deed or a settlement agreement, concerning a plot of land with a capacity of thirty mann of seed.
- Primary Language
- New Persian (Arabic script)
- Type
- Legal (Document)
- Writing Support
- Paper
- Dates (CE)
- Unknown
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19 National Library of Israel: Ms.Heb.8333.56, recto
Fragment of a letter, which is difficult to decipher due to its physical condition and brevity.
- Primary Language
- New Persian (Arabic script)
- Type
- Letter (Document)
- Writing Support
- Paper
- Dates (CE)
- Unknown
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20 National Library of Israel: Ms.Heb.8333.192
The fragment contains verses of a famous Arabic qasida (long poem in monorhyme) by Dhū l-Rummah, with commentary (sharḥ) by an unknown author.
- Primary Language
- Arabic (Arabic script)
- Type
- Literary text (Literature)
- Writing Support
- Paper
- Dates (CE)
- Unknown
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21 National Library of Israel: Ms.Heb.8333.201
A dated historical treatise in Early Judeo-Persian. The transcribed section begins in the format of an abbreviated Seder Olam and has the date of writing (at least the date of composition, which was apparently in Hebrew this is shown by the order of words in the sentences in Persian).
- Primary Language
- Judeo-Persian (Hebrew script)
- Type
- Literary text (Literature)
- Writing Support
- Paper
- Dates (CE)
- 946/7
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