Inventory of Judeo-Persian manuscripts from Khotan
The following table gives an overview of the Judeo-Persian manuscripts from Afghanistan and Khotan, China. We have grouped the information according to the depository or library in which the manuscripts are currently located. The metadata is drawn from a bibliographic table that Ofir Haim developed for the National Library of Israel and the following article:
ZHANG Zhan and SHI Guang, 2009. "Yijian xinfaxian Youtaibosiyu xinzha de duandai yu shidu." 一件新发现犹太波斯语信札的断代与释读 [Dating and interpretation of a newly-discovered Judeo-Persian letter] Dunhuang tulufan yanjiu 敦煌吐鲁番研究 11 (2008) [2009]: 77-99.
| Catalogue no. | Content summary | Origin | Date: C.E. | Writing surface |
| Or.8212/166 | Private letter of Jewish merchants | Dandan-Uiliq | around 790 | paper |
| Catalogue no. | Content summary | Origin | Date: C.E. | Writing surface |
| BH1-19 | Private letter of Jewish merchants | Dandan-Uiliq | around 790 | paper |
| Catalogue no. | Content summary | Origin | Date: C.E. | Writing surface |
| Ms. Heb. 8333.1=4 | A few lines of a letter concerning commercial matters. | Afghanistan | 11th cent. | paper |
| Ms. Heb. 8333.2=4 | A small fragment of a letter, probably sent to Yehuda ben Daniel or his son, Siman-Tov. | Afghanistan | 11th cent. | paper |
| Ms. Heb. 8333.3=4 | The first few lines of a letter sent to Yehuda ben Daniel from Nāzuk bat Yosef. | Afghanistan | 11th cent. | paper |
| Ms. Heb. 8333.4=4 | A fragment of a commecrcial letter sent to Yehuda (Aḥmad) ben Daniel from Mūsā b. Isḥāq the Jew. | Afghanistan | 11th cent. | paper |
| Ms. Heb. 8333.29=4 | A personal letter sent to Siman-Tov ben Yehuda (Bāmiyān) by Yaʾir ben Ēmēd (Ghaznī). | Afghanistan | 11th cent. | paper |
| Ms. Heb. 8333.34=4 | Unknown exegetical text. Written on parchment. | Afghanistan | 10th-11th cents. | paper |
| Ms. Heb. 8333.35=4 | A letter sent to Abū Sulaymān David ben Yosef from Yehuda ben Daniel. Possibly an autograph. | Afghanistan | 11th cent. | paper |
| Ms. Heb. 8333.195=4 | A bifolio containing several short poems. | Afghanistan | 10th-11th cents. | paper |
| Catalogue no. | Content summary | Origin | Date: C.E. | Writing surface |
| Ms. Heb. 8333.198=4 | Several fragments of an unknown exegetical text. | Afghanistan | 10th-11th cents. | paper |
| Ms. Heb. 8333.201=4 | Chronology from the time of the wandering in the desert up to Alexander. The time of composition: 1258 of the Seleucid Era (=946-7 CE). | Afghanistan | 10th-11th cents. | paper |
| Ms. Heb. 8333.203=4 | The beginning of the ninth quire of an unknown exegetical text. | Afghanistan | 10th-11th cents. | paper |
| Ms. Heb. 8333.204=4 | A folio of a medical text. | Afghanistan | 10th-11th cents. | paper |
| Ms. Heb. 8333.205=4 | A folio containing commercial notes. | Afghanistan | 11th cent. | paper |
| Ms. Heb. 8333.206=4 | Several folios from ledgers pertaining to the archive of Yehuda ben Daniel. | Afghanistan | 11th cent. | paper |
| Ms. Heb. 8333.207=4 | A fragment of a letter sent to Siman-Tov ben Yehuda from [Sulaymān?] ben Jacob. | Afghanistan | 11th cent. | paper |
| Ms. Heb. 8333.208=4 | A fragment of a letter sent to […] ben Abraham. | Afghanistan | 11th cent. | paper |
| Ms. Heb. 8333.220=4 | An incomplete ledger pertaining to the archive of Yehuda ben Daniel. | Afghanistan | 11th cent. | paper |
