Persian-Mongolian decree of Shaykh Uvays, 759/1358 (Ardabil, A 16)

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• Date	759 AH, year of the Dog = 17 October 1358 (according to Doerfer)
  Ilkhan	Shaykh Uvays Jalayirid (not an Ilkhan; the Jalayirids were the successors of the Ilkhans)
  Addressee	governors, collectors and financial secretaries of Khan-e Beli
  Type	decree (bilingual)
  Script and language	Persian and Mongolian (Uyghur script, 31 lines); tughra; square seals 4.5 cm
  Material	paper, 146 × 22 cm, four glued pieces
  Kept	Ardabil, shrine of Shaykh Safi → Tehran (general indication by Herrmann 2004)
  Discovery and first edition	found by G. Herrmann in Ardabil in 1970; published by Herrmann & Doerfer 1975 (CAJ 19)
  Text	transcription and translation in the corpus mongoliancorpus.org

  Contents

  Confirms an annual stipend of 1,000 dinars from the tax revenue of a village (Sāqiyār / Sādyāt) in Khān-e Beli for the disciples of Shaykh Ṣadr al-Dīn (waqf of the Ardabil hospice); forbids demanding new decrees every year or exercising coercion.

  Literature (2)

  • Herrmann G., Doerfer G. (1975). Ein persisch-mongolischer Erlaß des Ǧalāyeriden Šeyḫ Oveys. Central Asiatic Journal 19:1/2 (1975), 1–84, Wiesbaden PDF · 8.0 MB
  • Tumurtogoo D. (ed.), Cecegdari G. (2006). Mongolian Monuments in Uighur-Mongolian Script (XIII–XVI Centuries). Introduction, Transcription and Bibliography. Language and Linguistics Monograph Series A-11, Taipei: Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica PDF · 31.0 MB

  Source of the data: Herrmann & Doerfer 1975b: 2–6 (description, translation of the Persian part), 56 ff. (Mongolian part); Doerfer 1975: 188, 220 (A 16)

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