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121 Yarkand Collection at SOAS: Arabic No. 6 (Gronke II)
An order of the court concerning an intestacy.
- Primary Language
- Arabic (Arabic script)
- Type
- Legal (Document)
- Writing Support
- Paper
- Dates (CE)
- March 1110
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122 Afghanistan National Archives: Firuzkuh 46
An order sent from al-Dīwān al-Ikhtiyārī to the muʿtamid ʿAlī, the silāḥ-dār, to deliver 70 mann of wheat in exchange for some silk that was sold. The name of the seller and recipient of the wheat is not given, which is highly unusual. The document is complete as it ends in the date. This may...
- Primary Language
- New Persian (Arabic script)
- Type
- Administrative (Document)
- Writing Support
- Paper
- Dates (CE)
- 1218-1219
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123 Afghanistan National Archives: Firuzkuh 47
An order sent from al-Dīwān al-Ikhtiyārī to the muqaddams and the people (jamāʿat) that appear in a certain list (tafṣīl), concerning the compensation for the sheep eaten by the villagers. The dīwān has sent Muʿtamid al-Dawla ʿAlī b. ʿAbd al-Rashīd to oversee the procedure.
- Primary Language
- New Persian (Arabic script)
- Type
- Administrative (Document)
- Writing Support
- Paper
- Dates (CE)
- May-June 1217(?)
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124 Yarkand Collection at SOAS: Arabic No. 5 (Gronke III)
A land sale contract in Arabic, with witness statements in Arabic and Old Uyghur written in both Arabic and Old Uyghur scripts
- Primary Language
- Arabic (Arabic script)
- Type
- Legal (Document)
- Writing Support
- Paper
- Dates (CE)
- 22 May 1121
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125 Yarkand Collection at SOAS: Arabic No. 7 (Gronke IV)
Fragment of a document of appointment to guardianship.
- Primary Language
- Arabic (Arabic script)
- Type
- Legal (Document)
- Writing Support
- Paper
- Dates (CE)
- 31 December 1124
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126 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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127 Afghanistan National Archives: Firuzkuh 48
A receipt indicating payment of 149 mann of fodder grain paid by Abū Bakr b. Muḥammad b. Yaʿqūb to ʿAlī b. ʿAbd al-Rashīd. The latter is titled here khwāja, although documents issued by al-Dīwān al-Ikhtiyārī refer to him as muʿtamid. Significantly, the receipt lacks a few elements that are typical of...
- Primary Language
- New Persian (Arabic script)
- Type
- Administrative (Document)
- Writing Support
- Paper
- Dates (CE)
- May 1221
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128 Afghanistan National Archives: Firuzkuh 49
An order sent from al-Dīwān al-Ikhtiyārī to the khwāja ʿAlī b. ʿAbd al-Rashīd to release 100 mann of apples.
- Primary Language
- New Persian (Arabic script)
- Type
- Administrative (Document)
- Writing Support
- Paper
- Dates (CE)
- 1217-1218
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129 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
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130 Afghanistan National Archives: Firuzkuh 58
A receipt indicating payment of 200 mann of wheat with the equivalent value of one animal, possibly a deer. The amount of wheat was paid by Ḥājjī b. al-Ḥusayn to ʿAlī b. Muḥammad b. Ḥusayn, who is addressed in the document in the first-person singular. This was paid according to an order of payment (barāt) issued by Rashīd al-...
- Primary Language
- New Persian (Arabic script)
- Type
- Administrative (Document)
- Writing Support
- Paper
- Dates (CE)
- October-November 1210
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131 Afghanistan National Archives: Firuzkuh 85
A fragmentary receipt indicating a payment made in wheat, although the specific quantity is lost due to damage, but likely around 30 mann. The names of the payer and the recipient are missing from the document. However, the mention of an order of payment (barāt) pertaining to a person named Rashīd al-Dīn can be found in the...
- Primary Language
- New Persian (Arabic script)
- Type
- Administrative (Document)
- Writing Support
- Paper
- Dates (CE)
- Unknown
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132 Afghanistan National Archives: Firuzkuh 93
An order sent from al-Dīwān al-Ikhtiyārī to the muʿtamid ʿAlī b. ʿAbd al-Rashīd to pay 30 mann of grain to by ʿAlī b. Zīrak from the tithe funds. For similar orders see Firuzkuh 33 and 42.
- Primary Language
- New Persian (Arabic script)
- Type
- Administrative (Document)
- Writing Support
- Paper
- Dates (CE)
- 1220-1221
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133 Afghanistan National Archives: Firuzkuh 96
A letter written seemingly by a local imām to Asad al-Dawla wal-Dīn, a military commander in charge of the area, asking for a winter garment.
- Primary Language
- New Persian (Arabic script)
- Type
- Letter (Document)
- Writing Support
- Paper
- Dates (CE)
- Unknown
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134 Private Collection: Huart I
This is one of three Arabic land sale documents from Yarkand 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 a vineyard by a certain Fāṭima for 500 dirhams in the currency of Kāshgar.
- Primary Language
- Arabic (Arabic script)
- Type
- Legal (Document)
- Writing Support
- Paper
- Dates (CE)
- August-September 1096
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135 Private Collection: Huart II
This is one of three Arabic land sale documents from Yarkand which Huart received from Pelliot to study. The original was accompanied by a modern transcription. This a land sale document dated Shawwāl 505/ April 1112 and concerns the purchase of an estate, including a manor house, vineyards and orchards for 700 dirhams, weighted against simple,...
- Primary Language
- Arabic (Arabic script)
- Type
- Legal (Document)
- Writing Support
- Paper
- Dates (CE)
- April-May 1112
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136 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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137 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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138 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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139 Yarkand Collection at SOAS: Turki 7 (Erdal Doc. III)
A fragment of a land sale document consisting of six witness statements. 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 sale in the collection, which according to Erdal follow Chinese...
- Primary Language
- Old Uyghur (Old Uyghur script)
- Type
- Legal (Document)
- Writing Support
- Paper
- Dates (CE)
- Unknown
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140 Yarkand Collection at SOAS: Turki 3 (Erdal Doc. IV)
A fragment of an almost complete land sale document concerning the sale of a grove for the price of 150 yarmaqs. 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 sale in the...
- Primary Language
- Old Uyghur (Old Uyghur script)
- Type
- Legal (Document)
- Writing Support
- Paper
- Dates (CE)
- September-October 1090
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141 Afghanistan National Archives: Firuzkuh 66
A letter requesting the recipient, an imām, to mention the sender in his prayers for strengthening his faith.
- Primary Language
- New Persian (Arabic script)
- Type
- Letter (Document)
- Writing Support
- Paper
- Dates (CE)
- Unknown
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142 Afghanistan National Archives: Firuzkuh 67
Fragment of a letter sent as response to the recipient's previous letter. At the end of the letter, the sender asks for a turban from the sister.
- Primary Language
- New Persian (Arabic script)
- Type
- Letter (Document)
- Writing Support
- Paper
- Dates (CE)
- Unknown
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143 Afghanistan National Archives: Firuzkuh 100
Fragment of an administrative document, possibly pertaining to the loan of a sizable cauldron necessary for yogurt production.
- Primary Language
- New Persian (Arabic script)
- Type
- Administrative (Document)
- Writing Support
- Paper
- Dates (CE)
- Unknown
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144 Yarkand Collection at SOAS: Turki 1 continued (Erdal Doc. V)
Fragment of a land sale document consisting of 13 witness statements. According to Erdal, this document has a preceding Arabic text which was available to another editor but was lost by the time Erdal was writing. This is one of six land sale documents written in the late eleventh century, collected by Denison Ross, of which photos were kept at...
- Primary Language
- Old Uyghur (Old Uyghur script)
- Type
- Legal (Document)
- Writing Support
- Paper
- Dates (CE)
- 1080- Sep-Oct
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145 Yarkand Collection at SOAS: Unknown Shelfmark (Erdal VI)
A modern transcription of a lost original land sale document written in the iqrār (acknowledgment) format regarding a plot of land in Sınmas sold for 1000 yarmaqs. Erdal's transcription of the text does not include the interlinear New Persian annotations. This is one of six land sale documents written in the late eleventh century,...
- Primary Language
- Old Uyghur (Arabic script)
- Type
- Legal (Document)
- Writing Support
- Paper
- Dates (CE)
- June-July 1121
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146 National Library of Israel: Ms.Heb.8333.86 recto
The document contains part of a decree in which the recipient is ordered to leave the place in which a local raʾīs has given him protection, and to proceed to an unnamed village. It appears that the recipient had either left this place of residence or deployment, or never moved there in the first place despite being requested to do so....
- Primary Language
- New Persian (Arabic script)
- Type
- Legal (Document)
- Writing Support
- Paper
- Dates (CE)
- 7 October 1167
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147 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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148 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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149 National Library of Israel: Ms.Heb.8333.38, verso
Residence permit for Zangī issued by ʿAbd al-Rashīd b. Muḥammad Zardūz, who may be the house owner.
- Primary Language
- New Persian (Arabic script)
- Type
- Legal (Document)
- Writing Support
- Paper
- Dates (CE)
- 20 August 1213
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150 National Library of Israel: Ms.Heb.8333.38, recto
A letter sent possibly by an agent to buy some cloth for his master. The writer informs his master that the sale has gone through and that he will need to release the payment in order to receive the order.
- Primary Language
- New Persian (Arabic script)
- Type
- Letter (Document)
- Writing Support
- Paper
- Dates (CE)
- Unknown
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