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Freedom Papers (azadnamcha) are as such: Praise be to Allah who protects the necks of the righteous ones from the fires [of hell] and provisions them with the choicest of virtues and strengths, and greetings and peace be upon his prophet and his kin and progeny. And then, the cause/reason for penning these legal [shar’iyya] words is that in accordance with the content of the Hadith “whosoever frees a believing slave, Allah will free all of his members, and their members, from the fire [of hell]”, ‘Izzat Ābādī Yusuf Khān freed and released from the yoke of bondage all the six-dāng members of one slave named so-and-so Bahman ?? for forty years?, to achieve closeness [qurba] to Allah and seek his contentment on the day of judgment as with other matters ??? and he [the slave] has control [ikhtiyār] to go wherever he desires. Written? Such-and-such month 1137 AH / 1725 CE
آزاد نامچه اینست الحمد لله الذی اعتق الرقاب المحسنین فی/من النار و رزقهم نعم البرار و القرار و الصلوة و السلام علی نبیه و اله و اولاده و بعد باعث بر تحریر این کلمات شرعیه اینست که بنابر مضمون من اعتق رقبه مومنه اعتق الله کل عضو منها عضوا من النار آزاد گردانید و از قید بندها رهانید عزت آبادی؟ یوسف خان تمامت و جملگی شش دانگ عضو یکنفر غلام فلان بهمین نام گشادها؟ برای چهل ساله قربة الی الله و طلبا برضایته قضا الیوم کسایر الاقرار و مر؟ او راست؟ اختیار که بهرجا که خواهد رود [امضا؟] شهر فلان ۱۱۳۷
Draft (barāt) regarding fodder and hay Fodder The response to the holder of the office (sarkār) of vizier, the dignity sheltering Mirza Sadiq of ???? dated the month of so-and-so of 1130 AH (1718 CE) of the year of the ram (ki/qūy), equivalent to a donkey-load head of hay or a [donkey-load] head of fodder And give it to Piraruq whereby its price will be as agreed, one hundred Dinars ???
برات علف و کاه ؟؟؟ علف جواب سرکار؟ وزارت و رفعت پناه میرزا صادق سلسه؟ امتدان؟ بتاریخ شهر فلان ۱۱۳؟ کاکی ییل موازی خروار سری کاه یا سری علف
If someone buys a book and writes on its margins, the two should be read together.
اگر کسی کتابی بخرد در حاشیه کتاب چیز نویسد بهم خوانده
And this book, named the Jami’ al-Abassi, the second, came into the possession of an esteemed young man known as Rizā Qulī, the oldest of the sons of Karbalā’ī Valī Muhammad Qarāmānlū resident of the city of guidance, Ardabil, may Allah protect it [Ardabil] from oppression and hardship, in the year of panther [bārs] 1137 AH [1724 CE].
و صارهذة الکتاب المسماة بجامع العباسی الثانی من تملکات شاب الاعز المدعو برضاقلی خلف الارشد کربلایی ولیمحمد قرامانلو الساکن فی دار الارشاد الاردبیل حفظه الله تعالی من قهر و الوبیل فی سنه باریس ئیل سنه۱۱۳۷
A group of old leather-bound books on a shelf
A split piece of paper with old writing on it on a desk next to a small candle