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Jarring Prov. 418

[ Jarring Prov. 418 | Jarring's handwritten catalogue ]
A composite volume of Eastern Turki manuscripts. Uighur. Eastern Turkistan. 19th century, late (?).

Prov. no. 418 of 557. Go to: 1 ... 415 416 417 418 419 420 421 ... 557

Lund University Library

A composite volume of Eastern Turki manuscripts. Eastern Turkistan, 19th century, late (?), Uighur

Old number 133. Contents;
1) ff. 1b-10b The beginning of the ... of Rabghuzi. On ff. 9a-10b a table of contents of the 72 chapters of the book. It is stated on f. 2a that it was translated from Persian and compiled by ... . This fragment of the ... is not connected with the main work 418:2. It is written in another hand and on another kind of paper;
2) ff. 11b-186b The third volume of the ... Cf. Prov. 389, 392.

Physical description

Support:paper, ff. 1-10 yellowish, unpolished Khotan-paper; ff. 11-186 white-yellowish unpolished Khotan-paper of varying thickness

Extent: ff. 186 ; 350 x 240mm.

Decoration

Binding

Red cardboard binding with rich decorations; back in yellow leather sewn on to the covers

Foliation

The ms. is foliated by G. Jarring.

Condition

Unusable

History

Origin

No date, but probably late 19th century.

Provenance

Bought from Rev. David Gustafsson who acquired the ms. in Kashghar or Yarkand in the 1920's.

Acquisition

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

Prov. no. 418 of 557. Go to: 1 ... 415 416 417 418 419 420 421 ... 557

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