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OBJECT
BEFORE
CLAIM.

SOURCE-REPORTED ATTESTATION

THE PRIMARY OBJECT WAS NOT CHECKED.

Iranica reports Bīrūnī’s discussion. SET-U has not directly inspected the underlying manuscript or edition, and no exact year is invented.

Persianfirst half of the 11th century, source-reportedprobable

چای

Bīrūnī discussion of čāy

“čāy and its use in China and Tibet”
WITNESS TYPE
Source-reported corpus record
YEAR
Not fixed
LOCATOR
The spread of tea in the Persian world
REPOSITORY
Encyclopaedia Iranica
SHELFMARK / OBJECT ID
Not recorded
FACSIMILE
Not linked
DIRECT INSPECTION
No
CONFIDENCE
probable
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BIBLIOGRAPHIC PROVENANCE

THE SOURCE BEHIND THE CLAIM

TITLE
ČĀY — Tea
AUTHOR
Daniel Balland and Marcel Bazin
YEAR
2013
PUBLISHER
Encyclopaedia Iranica
SOURCE TYPE
scholarly reference
CITATION KEY
iranica-tea