Art. XXVII.—Early Documents in the Persian Language

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This document is described by Dr. Hoernlé in a Report on the British Collection of Antiquities from Central Asia, reprinted from the Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, vol. lxx, pt. i, extra No. 1, p. 27. On the discovery of these documents Dr. Hoernlé's Note on the British Collection of Central Asian Antiquities, Oxford, 1899, should be consulted. The Persian leaf is now in the British Museum. There is with it another of about the same period, but almost illegible. They formed crumbled up lumps of waste paper, and required very careful unfolding and smoothing out.