{% extends "base.html" %} {% load static i18n %} {% block main %}

{% translate "Typology of texts in IEDC" %}

{% translate 'Type' %} {% translate 'Sub-type' %} {% translate 'Definition' %} {% translate 'Included' %} {% translate 'Excluded' %} {% translate 'Comments' %}
{% translate 'Legal' %}
  1. {% translate 'Worship acts' %}
  2. {% translate 'Sale' %}
  3. {% translate 'Rent-hire' %}
  4. {% translate 'Partnership' %}
  5. {% translate 'Marriage' %}
  6. {% translate 'Divorce' %}
  7. {% translate 'Loan' %}
  8. {% translate 'Amicable Settlement' %}
  9. {% translate 'Preemption' %}
  10. {% translate 'Power of attorney' %}
  11. {% translate 'Slavery and Manumission' %}
  12. {% translate 'Inheritance' %}
  13. {% translate 'Donation' %}
  14. {% translate 'Transfer of money [or good]' %}
  15. {% translate 'Guarantee of liability' %}
  16. {% translate 'Loan, Debt' %}
  17. {% translate 'Penal rules' %}
  18. {% translate 'Personal Status' %}
  19. {% translate 'Testimony' %}
  20. {% translate 'Litigation' %}
  21. {% translate 'Jihad' %}
{% translate 'Document produced by or for a qāḍī court or legal or paralegal professional (eg. faqīh), often having probative or dispositive value' %}
  • {% translate 'Stand-alone deeds: testimonies, marriage contracts, bills of divorce, bills of sale, acknowledgments of debt, partnership agreements' %}
  • {% translate 'Copies of deeds and summaries of cases in court registers' %}
  • {% translate 'Legal queries and responsa' %}
  • {% translate 'Communal decrees when formulated like legal documents, but also tag as #communal_decree' %}
  • {% translate 'Tax receipts and orders of payment to or from the fisc (classed under administrative document)' %}
  • {% translate 'Other administrative documents with legal force: this category is for court and private deeds only' %}
  • {% translate 'Orders of payment (not involving the fisc)' %}
  • {% translate 'Legal formularies' %}
  • {% translate 'Private orders of payment' %}
  • {% translate 'Lists of payment (not involving the fisc)' %}
  • {% translate 'Commercial accounts' %}
  • {% translate 'Price lists' %}
{% translate "Legal documents can contain witnesses’ signatures but don’t necessarily." %}
{% translate 'Letter' %}
  1. {% translate 'Complaint' %}
  2. {% translate 'Condolence' %}
  3. {% translate 'Support' %}
  4. {% translate 'Longing (ishtiyāq)' %}
  5. {% translate 'Congratulation' %}
  6. {% translate 'Convalescence' %}
  7. {% translate 'Gratitude' %}
  8. {% translate 'Displeasure' %}
  9. {% translate 'Invitation' %}
  10. {% translate 'Consultation' %}
  11. {% translate 'Apology' %}
  12. {% translate 'Loan request' %}
  13. {% translate 'Confidential note (mulaṭṭafa)' %}
  14. {% translate 'Commercial' %}
  15. {% translate 'Confirmation of receipt of letter' %}
{% translate 'Communication from one or more parties to one or more parties, named or unnamed. Usually contains full sentences with verbs' %}
  • {% translate 'Letters' %}
  • {% translate 'Notes' %}
  • {% translate 'Epistles' %}
  • {% translate 'Petitions to private patrons or communal officials' %}
  • {% translate 'Epistolary formularies with practical value' %}
{% translate 'Administrative (i.e. state) decrees, rescripts, petitions and reports (classed under administrative document)' %}
{% translate 'List or table' %}
  1. {% translate 'Grocery' %}
  2. {% translate 'Payment' %}
  3. {% translate 'Charity' %}
  4. {% translate 'Commercial accounts' %}
  5. {% translate 'Prices' %}
  6. {% translate 'Inventory' %}
{% translate 'Items arranged in sequence, whether vertically or horizontally. A list has one column, a table has two or more columns; rarely contains verbs.' %}
  • {% translate 'Grocery lists' %}
  • {% translate 'Lists of payment' %}
  • {% translate 'Charity lists' %}
  • {% translate 'Commercial accounts' %}
  • {% translate 'Price lists' %}
{% translate 'state (fiscal) accounts' %}
{% translate 'Literary' %}
  1. {% translate 'Poetry' %}
  2. {% translate 'Liturgy/prayer' %}
  3. {% translate 'Political history' %}
  4. {% translate 'Biographical' %}
  5. {% translate 'Lexicography' %}
  6. {% translate 'Science' %}
  7. {% translate 'Medicine' %}
  8. {% translate 'Scriptures' %}
  9. {% translate 'Exegesis' %}
  10. {% translate 'Mystical' %}
{% translate 'Long-form narrative, analytical or canonical texts, as well as poems; often artful and/or formal; usually intended for posterity.' %}
  • {% translate 'Poems' %}
  • {% translate 'Prayerbooks' %}
  • {% translate 'Tales' %}
  • {% translate 'Anthologies' %}
  • {% translate 'Chronicles' %}
  • {% translate 'Biographical dictionaries' %}
  • {% translate 'Scientific and medical works' %}
  • {% translate 'Copies of transmitted religious works (Bible, Qurʾān, Talmud, Midrash)' %}
  • {% translate 'Legal codes' %}
  • {% translate "Occasional literary pieces such as sermons, liturgical poems and panegyrics intended for recitation in specific settings, even if they haven’t been anthologized — tag accordingly" %}
  • {% translate 'Prayers for curative purposes are given the prayer sub-type' %}
{% translate '1-2 lines of a literary work jotted down in another context, e.g., trials of the pen when scribbled on other texts that we can categorize some other way. But if a fragment contains only literary trials of the pen, it is literary.' %}
{% translate 'Paraliterary' %}
  1. {% translate 'Curative prescription' %}
  2. {% translate 'Calendar' %}
  3. {% translate 'Magic' %}
  4. {% translate 'Recipe' %}
  5. {% translate 'Colophon' %}
  6. {% translate 'Draft' %}
{% translate 'Texts that are neither documentary nor literary, and/or are highly specialized and/or highly formalised. The texts are less narrative or literary and less of the quotidian records that documents are.' %}
  • {% translate 'Medical prescriptions' %}
  • {% translate 'Ephemerides, calendars and other astronomical aids' %}
  • {% translate 'Amulets and other practical magical texts' %}
  • {% translate 'Recipe' %}
  • {% translate 'Colophon' %}
  • {% translate 'Drafts of literary texts' %}
  • {% translate 'Cheques (these are legal); tax receipts (these are administrative)' %}
  • {% translate 'Drafts of legal or administrative documents' %}
{% translate 'Administrative' %}
  1. {% translate 'Decree' %}
  2. {% translate 'Petition to state officials' %}
  3. {% translate 'Report' %}
  4. {% translate 'Receipt' %}
  5. {% translate 'Fiscal account/register' %}
  6. {% translate 'Order of payment (or other)' %}
  7. {% translate 'List' %}
  8. {% translate 'Internal correspondence' %}
{% translate 'Documents written by or to state officials in their capacity as officials, including private contractors (such as tax farmers)' %}
  • {% translate 'Decrees and rescripts' %}
  • {% translate 'Petitions to state officials (even drafts or private copies)' %}
  • {% translate 'Official reports' %}
  • {% translate 'Tax receipts' %}
  • {% translate 'Fiscal accounts' %}
  • {% translate 'Lists of payment' %}
  • {% translate 'Charity lists and poor rolls' %}
  • {% translate '[Internal correspondence]' %}
{% translate 'letters or notes written by state officials acting as private persons (classed under letters)' %}
{% translate 'Unknown' %} {% translate 'Unknown is for quitters!' %}
  • {% translate 'Illegible texts' %}
  • {% translate 'Doodles' %}
  • {% translate 'Pen trials' %}
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