Edition of newly found Pahlavi letters of the "Pahlavi Archive" (Banchroft Library, Berkeley, Cal., USA)

班克罗夫特图书馆（加州伯克利大学）“巴列维档案”中的前伊斯兰和早期伊斯兰时期的中波斯信件。是新的，迄今未经编辑的文件写在困难的巴列维草书。这些文本属于20世纪80年代在伊朗发现的包含大量经济和法律的文件的档案（该材料的一部分属于柏林联邦大学伊朗研究所，在DFG项目MA 796/4中编辑-1并于2008年出版）。这些被确认为信件的文件反映了7世纪和8世纪萨珊书信写作工艺的最后发展阶段。它们以一种特定的结构（也从其他来源得知）与其他文件脱颖而出，该结构由地址中的一组公式化短语、信件的主要部分和最后部分组成。该项目的目标是在系统方法的框架内完成信件的完整版本，计划考虑到所有关于萨珊时期书信写作的现有材料，并根据档案馆的其他经济和法律的文本以及其他收藏品对其进行讨论。由于这一时期的原始资料很少，这一发现为我们提供了一个难得的机会，使我们能够从一个有价值的原始资料中完整地了解这一时期的语言和文字以及经济和法律的文化。

The Middle Persian letters from the pre-Islamic and early Islamic period in the "Pahlavi Archive" of the Bancroft Library (University of Berkeley, Cal.) are new, hitherto unedited documents written in the difficult Pahlavi cursive script. These texts belong to an archive containing numerous economic and legal documents, discovered in the 1980s of the 20th century in Iran (part of this material belongs to the Institute of Iranian Studies of the FU Berlin, was edited in the DFG-project MA 796/4-1and published in 2008). The documents identified as letters in this archive reflect the Sasanian craft of letter writing in its final stage of development in the 7th and 8th centuries. They stand out against the other documents by a specific structure, also known from other sources, consisting of a set of formulaic phrases in the address, the main and the final parts of the letters. The goal of the project is a complete edition of the letters within the framework of a systematic approach, planning to take all the available material on letter writing in the Sasanian period into consideration and to discuss them in the light of other economic and legal texts of the Archive as well as from other collections. Since only sparse original material has survived from this period, this finding gives us the rare opportunity to complete our knowlege of the language and the script as well as the economic and legal culture of this period from a valuable primary source.