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1231
National Library of Israel:
Ms.Heb.8333.121
This seems to be a practice sheet reused by a scribe who was practicing a draft of a letter addressed to a king. The present transcription of the practice letterings is partial.
- Primary Language
- New Persian (Arabic script)
- Type
- Unknown
- Writing Support
- Paper
- Dates (CE)
- Unknown
Transcription
Translation
Transliteration
1232
National Library of Israel:
Ms.Heb.8333.206, fol. 11v
This document is a page from an account book (daftar). The document contains a ḥisāb for the Nahīlbid Valley. It lists the debts of five individuals from the village of Rām K.ray to be paid in kind.
- Primary Language
- Judeo-Persian (Hebrew script)
- Type
- Administrative (Document)
- Writing Support
- Paper
- Dates (CE)
- Unknown
Transcription
Translation
Transliteration
1233
British Library:
Or.8212/166
This document contains a letter to an unknown associate, concerning a number of matters including trade in sheep and clothing, financial obligations, and correspondence delays. There are significant lacunae as a result of damage to the paper.
- Primary Language
- Judeo-Persian (Hebrew script)
- Type
- Letter (Document)
- Writing Support
- Paper
- Dates (CE)
- Unknown
Transcription
Translation
Transliteration
1234
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....
- Primary Language
- Judeo-Persian (Hebrew script)
- Type
- Letter (Document)
- Writing Support
- Paper
- Dates (CE)
- Unknown
Transcription
Translation
Transliteration
1235
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
Transcription
Translation
Transliteration
1236
National Library of Israel:
Ms.Heb.8333.189
This is a draft phrasebook of Arabic phrases with Persian translations of terms dealing with fruits, physical characteristics of people, doors and pens. On the verso side, the direction of writing flips multiple times, and includes writing in both margins. Possibly 11th century, perhaps from the archive of Yehuda b. Daniel or his son, Siman-Tov.
- Primary Language
- New Persian (Arabic script)
- Type
- Paraliterary (Literature)
- Writing Support
- Paper
- Dates (CE)
- Unknown
Transcription
Translation
Transliteration
1237
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
Transcription
Translation
Transliteration
1238
National Library of Israel:
Ms.Heb.8333.152, verso
This is a quatrain that is recognisable from one attributed by Awfī to Nuṣrat al-Dīn Kabūdjāma.
- Primary Language
- New Persian (Arabic script)
- Type
- Literary text (Literature)
- Writing Support
- Paper
- Dates (CE)
- Unknown
Transcription
Translation
Transliteration
1239
National Library of Israel:
Ms.Heb.8333.187
This is a page from a grammatical primer of Arabic written in Persian, discussing basic features of verbs and nouns. It lists numerous examples for different grammatical categories, which are organised within a category by lexical properties, such as body parts.
- Primary Language
- New Persian (Arabic script)
- Type
- Paraliterary (Literature)
- Writing Support
- Paper
- Dates (CE)
- Unknown
Transcription
Translation
Transliteration
1240
National Library of Israel:
Ms.Heb.8333.160
Various partly-legible notes concerning accounts.
- Primary Language
- New Persian (Arabic script)
- Type
- Administrative (Document)
- Writing Support
- Paper
- Dates (CE)
- Unknown
Transcription
Translation
Transliteration
1241
National Library of Israel:
Ms.Heb.8333.188
This is a literary fragment that has been detached from a codex, dealing with the ancient Iranian festivals of nawrūz and sada.
- Primary Language
- New Persian (Arabic script)
- Type
- Literary text (Literature)
- Writing Support
- Paper
- Dates (CE)
- Unknown
Transcription
Translation
Transliteration
1242
National Library of Israel:
Ms.Heb.8333.193
Fragment of a legal query (istiftā) addressed to a certain legal authority (qāḍī-yi imām-i ajall), seeking clarification on a property dispute involving a sale transaction. The case concerns a property sold by one party, which is now contested by another party claiming objections or rights to the property. The query appears to...
- Primary Language
- New Persian (Arabic script)
- Type
- Legal (Document)
- Writing Support
- Paper
- Dates (CE)
- Unknown
Transcription
Translation
Transliteration
1243
National Library of Israel:
Ms.Heb.8333.215
This is an acknowledgement deed of a sale of the tithe of an endowed tract of land to Abū Naṣr b. Dānīyāl, totalling 15 qafīz of wheat and barley.
- Primary Language
- New Persian (Arabic script)
- Type
- Legal (Document)
- Writing Support
- Paper
- Dates (CE)
- Wednesday Nov-Dec 1009
Transcription
Translation
Transliteration
1244
National Library of Israel:
Ms.Heb.8333.186
Masnawī form in mutaqārib metre, an epic poem based on prophet Muḥammad's military activities known from maghāzī literature; other people mentioned: Governor of Zubāla and Khālid b. al-Walīd
- Primary Language
- New Persian (Arabic script)
- Type
- Literary text (Literature)
- Writing Support
- Paper
- Dates (CE)
- 11th cent. CE ?
Transcription
Translation
Transliteration
1245
National Library of Israel:
Ms.Heb.8333.179
This is a fragment from a manuscript containing the poetry of Abū al-Shīṣ Ahlam b. Isḥāq the Jew. The verso side contains the title page for the first volume (juz), with the text commencing on the verso side. There is some very faint writing on the right margin of the recto side.
- Primary Language
- Arabic (Arabic script)
- Type
- Literary text (Literature)
- Writing Support
- Paper
- Dates (CE)
- Unknown
Transcription
Translation
Transliteration
1246
National Library of Israel:
Ms.Heb.8333.181
This is part of verses 16:28-33 of the Qurʾān. Translation based on Dawood and corpus.quran.com.
- Primary Language
- Arabic (Arabic script)
- Type
- Literary text (Literature)
- Writing Support
- Paper
- Dates (CE)
- Unknown
Transcription
Translation
Transliteration
1247
National Library of Israel:
Ms.Heb.8333.66
This document is an acknowledgement of debt between ʿAlī b. Muḥammad b. Muḥammad to the deputy of the dīwān of the ruler Shams al-Dunyā wa al-Dīn
- Primary Language
- Arabic (Arabic script)
- Type
- Legal (Document)
- Writing Support
- Paper
- Dates (CE)
- Unknown
Transcription
Translation
Transliteration
1248
National Library of Israel:
Ms.Heb.8333.180
Fragment containing verses 27:54-55 of the Qurān.
- Primary Language
- Arabic (Arabic script)
- Type
- Literary text (Literature)
- Writing Support
- Paper
- Dates (CE)
- Unknown
Transcription
Translation
Transliteration
1249
National Library of Israel:
Ms.Heb.8333.182
This is a fragment containing verses 16:29-34 of the Qurʾān.
- Primary Language
- Arabic (Arabic script)
- Type
- Literary text (Literature)
- Writing Support
- Paper
- Dates (CE)
- Unknown
Transcription
Translation
Transliteration
1250
Private Collection:
Shariati II
This is a declaration of sale of four plots of land in what seems like one village involving one seller and one buyer transacted in Gurzawānī currency. The document is signed by or on behalf of 12 witnesses.
- Primary Language
- New Persian (Arabic script)
- Type
- Legal (Document)
- Writing Support
- Paper
- Dates (CE)
- 10 October 1203
Transcription
Translation
Transliteration
1251
Private Collection:
Shariati I
Contract of land sale in a mountainous area of Balkh involving five sellers and one buyer at the price 470 dinars. The document is witnessed by 15 men.
- Primary Language
- New Persian (Arabic script)
- Type
- Legal (Document)
- Writing Support
- Paper
- Dates (CE)
- 29 September 1150
Transcription
Translation
Transliteration
1252
Afghanistan National Archives:
Firuzkuh 20
Two legal queries (istiftā) about inheritance rights and the validity of indirect testimony. The first query concerns the confirmation of a womans death. The religious authorities are asked whether the husband's acknowledgement (iqrār) and the witnesses' testimony, despite lacking direct observation, are...
- Primary Language
- New Persian (Arabic script)
- Type
- Legal (Document)
- Writing Support
- Paper
- Dates (CE)
- Unknown
Transcription
Translation
Transliteration
1253
location unknown:
Minorsky B
An appeal to the notables of Dasht-I Zīnvārī regarding a case of infidels murdering khwāja Ḥusayn (?) Gh.zhdī and looting him. His oaths were to take an oath, sign a document and receive 17 donkey-loads of barley. The document has particularly poor penmanship, and ends with a quotation from the Qurʾān 12:81.
- Primary Language
- New Persian (Arabic script)
- Type
- Unknown
- Writing Support
- Paper
- Dates (CE)
- Unknown
Transcription
Translation
Transliteration
1254
location unknown:
Minorsky C
A letter addressed to khudāwand-i ṣadr-i ajall-i mumakkan-i fāḍil-i munʿim-i muḥsin-i mufḍil Zayn (?) al-Dīn [Abū Bakr?] Malik al-Tujjār regarding certain amounts of metal and coins. The address is inscribed on the verso, opposite to what would be expected.
- Primary Language
- New Persian (Arabic script)
- Type
- Letter (Document)
- Writing Support
- Paper
- Dates (CE)
- Unknown
Transcription
Translation
Transliteration
1255
location unknown:
Minorsky F
This letter is the report of a servant of some standing to a master 'khudawand' regarding his charge of a herd of 400 camels and related logistics. The writer expresses desperation and asks for his lord's attention.
- Primary Language
- New Persian (Arabic script)
- Type
- Letter (Document)
- Writing Support
- Paper
- Dates (CE)
- Unknown
Transcription
Translation
Transliteration
1256
location unknown:
Minorsky E
A receipt for a cover letter (Minorsky D). The letter was sent by Abū Bakr b. Yūnis b. ʿAbduh to Khudāvand-i Adīb Ḥājib-i Ajalli-i Muḥtaram(?)-i Mukarram-i Muʿaddil Amīn al-Dawla wa al-Dīn, who appears in this document as Amīn al-Dīn Mihtar Muḥammad.
- Primary Language
- New Persian (Arabic script)
- Type
- Administrative (Document)
- Writing Support
- Paper
- Dates (CE)
- 25 April 1211
Transcription
Translation
Transliteration
1257
location unknown:
Minorsky D
A cover letter sent by Abū Bakr b. Yūnis b. ʿAbduh to Khudāvand-i Adīb Ḥājib-i Ajalli-i Muḥtaram(?)-i Mukarram-i Muʿaddil Amīn al-Dawla wa al-Dīn, who appears in Minorsky E as Amīn al-Dīn Mihtar Muḥammad. This document is the covering letter and Minorsky E is the receipt.
- Primary Language
- New Persian (Arabic script)
- Type
- Administrative (Document)
- Writing Support
- Paper
- Dates (CE)
- 25 April 1211
Transcription
Translation
Transliteration
1258
Private Collection:
Kābīn-nāma
A legal document outlining the transaction by which the bride accepts her bride-price in the form of properties, valued at 3,000 dirhams. The document is signed by 17 witnesses.
- Primary Language
- New Persian (Arabic script)
- Type
- Legal (Document)
- Writing Support
- Paper
- Dates (CE)
- 07 June 1078
Transcription
Translation
Transliteration
1259
National Museum of Tajikistan:
L1 (F1, F2, F3)
This letter may have been part of a correspondence between Arab forces. The mention of the amīr, a certain Abū Masʿūd, our companions and our brothers, may suggest that the letter was sent by someone who was part of an Arab force under the command of the amīr. The recipient of L1 may have been an Arab...
- Primary Language
- Arabic (Arabic script)
- Type
- Letter (Document)
- Writing Support
- Paper
- Dates (CE)
- Unknown
Transcription
Translation
Transliteration
1260
National Museum of Tajikistan:
L2 (F4)
Fragment of a very early short letter from the Sanjar Shah site in modern-day Tajikistan
- Primary Language
- Arabic (Arabic script)
- Type
- Letter (Document)
- Writing Support
- Paper
- Dates (CE)
- Unknown
Transcription
Translation
Transliteration
Page
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