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In IEDC since 19 May 2025 (IEDCID1259)
1231 Khalili Collection: DOC 53
The first section of a talismanic scroll with listings of the qualities of God in two different categories, and ending with the header of the Beautiful names of God continued on DOC 54 as part of the trio of folios. See DOC 54 (section 2) DOC 52 (section 3).
Primary Language
Arabic (Arabic script)
Type
Paraliterary (Literature)
Writing Support
Paper
Dates (CE)
Unknown
Transcription Translation Transliteration
In IEDC since 19 May 2025 (IEDCID1260)
1232 Khalili Collection: DOC 54
The second section of a talismanic scroll containing the 99 names of God, an invocation against arrow shots, the khātam (Solomonic seal?), the Throne verse Q. 2:255, and Q. 2:256, and a selection of invocations for warding off various diseases. See DOC 53 (section 1) DOC 52 (section 3).
Primary Language
Arabic (Arabic script)
Type
Paraliterary (Literature)
Writing Support
Paper
Dates (CE)
Unknown
Transcription Translation Transliteration
In IEDC since 21 May 2025 (IEDCID1261)
1233 location unknown: location unknown (field no. CT-133/4)
This document is a receipt concerning the distribution of bread rations by a certain Windādag.
Primary Language
Middle Persian (Pahlavi script)
Type
Administrative (Document)
Writing Support
Ostracon
Dates (CE)
Unknown
Transcription Translation Transliteration
In IEDC since 21 May 2025 (IEDCID1262)
1234 Penn Museum: PM 37-33-54 (field no. CT-135/1)
This document is a receipt concerning the distribution of bread rations by a certain Windādag.
Primary Language
Middle Persian (Pahlavi script)
Type
Administrative (Document)
Writing Support
Ostracon
Dates (CE)
Unknown
Transcription Translation Transliteration
In IEDC since 21 May 2025 (IEDCID1263)
1235 Penn Museum: PM 37-33-52 (field no. CT-135/2)
This document is a receipt concerning the distribution of bread rations by a certain Windādag.
Primary Language
Middle Persian (Pahlavi script)
Type
Administrative (Document)
Writing Support
Ostracon
Dates (CE)
Unknown
Transcription Translation Transliteration
In IEDC since 21 May 2025 (IEDCID1264)
1236 Penn Museum: PM 37-33-50 (field no. CT-135/4)
This document is a receipt concerning the distribution of bread rations by a certain Windādag.
Primary Language
Middle Persian (Pahlavi script)
Type
Administrative (Document)
Writing Support
Ostracon
Dates (CE)
Unknown
Transcription Translation Transliteration
In IEDC since 21 May 2025 (IEDCID1265)
1237 Penn Museum: PM 37-33-21 (field no. CT-135/5)
This document is a receipt concerning the distribution of bread rations by a certain Windādag.
Primary Language
Middle Persian (Pahlavi script)
Type
Administrative (Document)
Writing Support
Ostracon
Dates (CE)
Unknown
Transcription Translation Transliteration
In IEDC since 21 May 2025 (IEDCID1266)
1238 Penn Museum: PM 37-33-42 (field no. CT-135/6)
This document is a receipt concerning the distribution of bread rations by a certain Windādag.
Primary Language
Middle Persian (Pahlavi script)
Type
Administrative (Document)
Writing Support
Ostracon
Dates (CE)
Unknown
Transcription Translation Transliteration
In IEDC since 21 May 2025 (IEDCID1267)
1239 Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures, Chicago: ISACM A154067 (field no. CT-205.1)
This document is a receipt concerning the distribution of bread rations by a certain Windādag.
Primary Language
Middle Persian (Pahlavi script)
Type
Administrative (Document)
Writing Support
Ostracon
Dates (CE)
Unknown
Transcription Translation Transliteration
In IEDC since 21 May 2025 (IEDCID1268)
1240 Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures, Chicago: ISACM A154069 (field no. CT-205/3a)
This document is a receipt concerning the distribution of bread rations by a certain Windādag.
Primary Language
Middle Persian (Pahlavi script)
Type
Administrative (Document)
Writing Support
Ostracon
Dates (CE)
Unknown
Transcription Translation Transliteration
In IEDC since 21 May 2025 (IEDCID1269)
1241 Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures, Chicago: ISACM A154070 (field no. CT-205/3b)
This document is a receipt concerning the distribution of bread rations by a certain Windādag.
Primary Language
Middle Persian (Pahlavi script)
Type
Administrative (Document)
Writing Support
Ostracon
Dates (CE)
Unknown
Transcription Translation Transliteration
In IEDC since 21 May 2025 (IEDCID1270)
1242 Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures, Chicago: ISACM A154068 (field no. CT-205/4)
This document is a receipt concerning the distribution of bread rations by a certain Windādag.
Primary Language
Middle Persian (Pahlavi script)
Type
Administrative (Document)
Writing Support
Ostracon
Dates (CE)
Unknown
Transcription Translation Transliteration
In IEDC since 27 May 2025 (IEDCID1271)
1243 National Library of Israel: Ms.Heb.8333.81, recto
Fragment of a letter containing only the sender's name (Masʿūd b. Muḥammad).
Primary Language
New Persian (Arabic script)
Type
Administrative (Document)
Writing Support
Paper
Dates (CE)
Unknown
Transcription Translation Transliteration
In IEDC since 27 May 2025 (IEDCID1272)
1244 National Library of Israel: Ms.Heb.8333.84, recto
Fragment of a witness statement that is at the end of a legal document.
Primary Language
New Persian (Arabic script)
Type
Legal (Document)
Writing Support
Paper
Dates (CE)
Unknown
Tags: legal formula
Transcription Translation Transliteration
In IEDC since 27 May 2025 (IEDCID1273)
1245 National Library of Israel: Ms.Heb.8333.85, recto
A fragmentary list containing names of men and quantities measured in qafīz and ṭās.
Primary Language
New Persian (Arabic script)
Type
Administrative (Document)
Writing Support
Paper
Dates (CE)
Unknown
Tags: sharīk (partner) livestock ṭās (unit of volume)
Transcription Translation Transliteration
In IEDC since 18 Jun 2025 (IEDCID1274)
1246 National Library of Israel: Ms.Heb.8333.129
A poetic fragment containing three quatrains of which only the first two are fully legible. The first two quatrains express emotions of loss and hope and are written in the rubāʿī format.
Primary Language
New Persian (Arabic script)
Type
Literary text (Literature)
Writing Support
Paper
Dates (CE)
Unknown
Tags: consumables estate
Transcription Translation Transliteration
In IEDC since 18 Jun 2025 (IEDCID1275)
1247 National Library of Israel: Ms.Heb.8333.52, 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
In IEDC since 18 Jun 2025 (IEDCID1276)
1248 National Library of Israel: Ms.Heb.8333.49, recto
A brief prayer for divine healing of erysipelas, drawing on Qurʾānic passages
Primary Language
Arabic (Arabic script)
Type
Literary text (Literature)
Writing Support
Paper
Dates (CE)
Unknown
Transcription Translation Transliteration
In IEDC since 18 Jun 2025 (IEDCID1277)
1249 National Library of Israel: Ms.Heb.8333.113, recto
This is an finished folio of an astrological treatise, possibly a discarded practice sheet. The verso was reused for an accounting ledger.
Primary Language
New Persian (Arabic script)
Type
Literary text (Literature)
Writing Support
Paper
Dates (CE)
Unknown
Tags: city
Transcription Translation Transliteration
In IEDC since 18 Jun 2025 (IEDCID1278)
1250 National Library of Israel: Ms.Heb.8333.115, recto
A poetic quatrain, written in the rubāʿī metre and rhyme format, pertaining to grief for a beloved. The verso was reused for administrative purposes.
Primary Language
New Persian (Arabic script)
Type
Literary text (Literature)
Writing Support
Paper
Dates (CE)
Unknown
Transcription Translation Transliteration
In IEDC since 18 Jun 2025 (IEDCID1279)
1251 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
In IEDC since 29 Jun 2025 (IEDCID1280)
1252 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
Tags: animal fodder
Transcription Translation Transliteration
In IEDC since 29 Jun 2025 (IEDCID1281)
1253 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
In IEDC since 29 Jun 2025 (IEDCID1282)
1254 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
In IEDC since 30 Jun 2025 (IEDCID1284)
1255 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
In IEDC since 03 Jul 2025 (IEDCID1285)
1256 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
Tags: fruit clothing household items
Transcription Translation Transliteration
In IEDC since 04 Jul 2025 (IEDCID1286)
1257 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
In IEDC since 18 Jul 2025 (IEDCID1287)
1258 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
In IEDC since 21 Jul 2025 (IEDCID1288)
1259 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
In IEDC since 28 Jul 2025 (IEDCID1289)
1260 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
Page of 44