Jarring Prov. 346
[ Jarring Prov. 346 | Jarring's handwritten catalogue ]
A composite Eastern Turki manuscript.
Uighur.
Eastern Turkistan.
1254/1838-1839, ca.
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Lund University Library
A composite Eastern Turki manuscript. Eastern Turkistan, 1254/1838-1839, ca, Uighur
Old number 155. Contents;
1) ff. 1b-5b A story of a poor man Gharip Bai and his wife Salima;
2) ff. 6a-11a Stories about 'Ali (beginning missing);
3) ff. 11b-14b Cf. Prov. 109:4, 301:5, 320:1;
4) ff. 15a-16b A fragment of ... . The title on f. 16b together with a statement that it was translated into Turki (from Persian). Cf. Prov 342:2 which carries the same name (The victory book of rays of wisdom);
5) ff. 17a-21b A story of a Khoja who had a friend who died and of his son. F. 17a begins with some poetry;
6) ff. 22a-50b Fragment of a manuscript of religious moralizing contents; both beginning and end missing;
7) ff. 51-59 Fragments of different unidentifiable manuscripts.
Physical description
Extent: ff. 59 ; 215 x 150mm.
Decoration
Binding
Cardboard binding, dressed in red cloth with flower pattern
Foliation
The ms. is foliated by G. Jarring.
Condition
Unusable
History
Origin
No 346:2 is dated (f. 11a) 1254/1838-1839 which can be assumed to be roughly the date of the other items too.
Provenance
On f. 1a a note carrying the date 1320/1902-1903. Bought from Rev. Oskar Hermansson who acquired the ms. in Kashghar or Yarkend in the 1930's.
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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