The New History Hansen, Valerie Primary Author mixed material bibliography New York Oxford University Press 2012 monographic 1st Ed en English

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337p The document on the facing page illustrates the subject of this book. It is acourt record of testimony given by an Iranian merchant living in China sometime around 670 ce . The Iranian requested the court’s assistance in recovering 275 bolts of silk owed to his deceased brother.He testified that,after lending the silk to his Chinese partner,his brother disappeared in the desert on a business trip with two camels, four cattle, and a donkey, and was presumed dead. The court ruled that,as his brother’ssurvivor,the Iranian was entitled to the silk,but it is not clear whether the ruling was ever enforced. Silk Road History 950.19780195159381 Podomoro University Digital Library 950.1 Han t The_Silk_road_ebook.jpg.jpg 722 2016-05-03 09:51:13 2016-05-03 09:52:58 machine generated