All texts are based on material stemming from field work by Ilya Gershevitch in Iran in 1956 and belonging to the AIIT IG Bashkardi archive (cf.\@ the description in \bcite{Korn2015}).
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This archive contains the recordings made by Ilya Gershevitch, his field notes, and material (mostly handwritten) of his subsequent work on the data.

There are handwritten transcriptions with some notes by Ilya Gershevitch in the archive for texts H (bundle \dqt{Tape III}), I (bundle \dqt{Tape IV}) and J and K (bundle \dqt{Tape II}).
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For all texts there are sound files available in the archive.
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Unlike noted in \tcite[97]{Korn2017}, text G (B3t27.2) starts at minute 2:30 of the sound file; also, text J (A5t2.1) is at 20 minutes 30s long in the sound file and text K (A5t2.2) is at 1 minute 33s. Texts J and K reoccur on another tape (B2t30 and B2t25, respectively).
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Not using Gershevitch's notes, Bakhtiar Seddiqi Nejad in cooperation with Behrooz Barjasteh Delforooz produced preliminary transcriptions and translations into Persian of text F, G, H, I, and J (typed and/or as sound files).
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Based on these materials, Agnes Korn elaborated a considerably revised transcription (checked several times against the soundfiles) to reflect what she hears on the recording, and a morphosyntactic analysis (using Flex software).
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All translations in the present data set use the materials just mentioned, but differ from these to reflect Korn's understanding of the texts, their morphosyntax, and textual structure (Korn's numberings are likewise included).
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Information on the accents noted by Ilya Gershevitch is not included in this project.
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Text G is published in \acite{Korn2022} (\ycite{Korn2022}, transcription, glosses, translation and commentary); text H is published in \acite{Korn2021} (\ycite{Korn2021}, transcription, translation and some notes). The other texts are unpublished.\footnote{In \tcite[97]{Korn2017}, text F is called \sqt{Traditions 1: Baking bread}, text G \sqt{Traditions 2: Having guests}, text H \sqt{The Jackal's Tail}, text I \sqt{The Magic Donkey and Cudgels}, text J \sqt{The Goat with Two Kids}, and text K \sqt{The Poor Man's Reward}.}

Texts F and G are by the same speaker, text F being followed directly by text G on the recording. Texts J and K are by one speaker as well. Owing to the varying speed use during the recording, the height of the speakers' voices is sometimes distorted.
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The coordinates for Rameshk (texts F and G) are pseudo-exact in the sense that it is not entirely sure whether the place of recording was indeed Rameshk. The place of recording for texts H and I is unknown.

The original data coding undertaken by Agnes Korn includes some additional information and colour-coding, which were not included in the version used for cross-corpus comparison. However, the original spreadsheet containing this original information is available on the WOWA website.\footnote{\url{https://multicast.aspra.uni-bamberg.de/resources/wowa/data/iranian/bashkardi_northern/northern-bashkardi__original-coding.xlsx}}
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In Korn's numbering system, the \dqt{token} count does not include the data lines with extra-textual information (such as \dqt{interruption}), but does include everything which is text (also text in Persian, other speakers saying \dqt{yes} etc., all of which are then counted as non-analysed tokens).


\nocite{Korn2015,Korn2017,Gershevitch1956,Gershevitch1956a}
