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Jarring Prov. 191

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Story of Alexander the Great. Uighur. Eastern Turkistan (?). 19th century, late (?).

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Story of Alexander the Great. Eastern Turkistan (?), 19th century, late (?), Uighur

End is missing. Cf. Muginov 7 and 8, but probably not the same version; Prov. 263, 324, 427.

Physical description

Support:paper, very coarse, unpolished Khotan paper

Extent: ff. 208 ; 270 x 200mm.

Decoration

Binding

Brick red cloth binding

Foliation

The ms. is foliated by Gunnar Jarring.

Condition

Poor

History

Origin

No date indicated, but probably late 19th century.

Provenance

Acquired by Rev. Sigfrid Moen in Kashghar in the 1930's and presented to Gunnar Jarring on March 31, 1973.

Acquisition

The ms. was part of the Jarring collection of Eastern Turkistan manuscripts donated to the Lund University Library in 1982.

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