ISSN 1829-4618

SHARI’A NOTARIAL DOCUMENTS (XVII-XVIII CC.)

By: Kostikyan Kristine,
Khecho Movses,

Yerevan, 2018, “Gitutyun” publ. house, Institute of Oriental Studies of NAS RA, Persian Documents of the Matenadaran, III, 224 p. (in Arm.).

This volume continues the publication of Persian documents of the Matenadaran collection. It presents 25 Shari’a Notarial documents with Armenian translations and textual comments supplied with Persian originals and photocopies.
The title of this group of Persian documents is associated with the creation of their administrative instance - the Shari’a Notarial offices. Created on the basis of various civil agreements - Shari’a Notarial documents mainly reflect facts and phenomena related to the socio-economic history of that period.