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Or.8210/S.466

manuscript, ink on paper

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Title

Contract relating to land mortgage

Date

953

Find site

Dunhuang Mogao

Measurement

height 29.5 centimetres, width 12 centimetres

Material

manuscript, ink on paper

Language / script

Chinese (lang.) Chinese (script)

Subject

dated documents Social and Economic Legal Sponsored

Description

Scope and content : This contract gives the conditions by which the two brothers of poor means agree to mortgage two parcels of their inherited estate totalling two and a half mou of land for a term of four years to their neighbour Luo Sichao in exchange for 15 piculs of wheat. The names and identifying marks of the three men appear at the close of the text along with those of two witnesses, Luo 's father Luo Anjin, and the Vinaya Master Fuhai.

Institution

British Library

Provenance

Stein 1906-8

Find site identifier

DHMG.

Stein site number

Ch.87.VI.18

Find site description

Short description : Mogao Caves near Dunhuang

Non-Buddhist Documents from Dunhuang in the British Library (Boltz)

Giles, LDescriptive Catalogue of the Chinese Manuscripts from Tunhuang in the British MuseumLondonBritish Museum1957ManuscriptsDunhuangGoldenLight

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