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Jarring Prov. 66

[ Jarring Prov. 66 | Jarring's handwritten catalogue ]
A composite volume. Arabic, Persian, Uighur. Eastern Turkistan. 1263-1265/1846-1849.

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A composite volume. Eastern Turkistan, 1263-1265/1846-1849, Arabic, Persian, Uighur

1) Persian work. From the date 1263/1846-1847 expressed in Turki it is evident that the copyist must have been a Turk;
2) Prayers in Arabic (incomplete);
4) A treatise in Turki on religious matters;
5) An Arabic text;
6) A treatise in Arabic, on f. 143b name of author, copyist and date;
7) In Persian, cf. Prov. 108:4, 342:5;
8) A religious treatise in Persian;
9) f. 160a An Amulet-text in Turki;
10) In Persian.

Physical description

Support:paper, indigenous, some papers polished

Extent: ff. 160 ; 190 x 135mm.

Decoration

Binding

Leather binding, with simple decorations

Foliation

The ms. is foliated by G. Jarring.

Condition

Fair

History

Origin

Date according to f. 159b 1265/1848-1849.

Provenance

Bought by Rev. David Gustafsson in Yarkand in the 1920's. Later sold to Gunnar Jarring.

Acquisition

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

Prov. no. 66 of 557. Go to: 1 ... 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 ... 557

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