Digital facsimile of manuscript Jarring Prov. 351

Annotated Turki Manuscripts from the Jarring Collection Online (ATMO)

Test edition 2015-12-11

Lund University Library Jarring Prov. 351

Handbook of Medicine

Old number 31. An anonymous treatise, being a practical handbook of medicine and the treatment of different diseases, to which is added, beginning with f. 45b prescriptions of other kinds, e.g. methods against thieving and dealing with thiefs, and furthermore drawings of various kinds of amulets (f. 46b-47a). On f. 52b-53a an eulogy of the qualities of the book, quoting i.e. the holy Luqman. Cf. Prov. 357

Language: Uighur

Physical description

Support: paper, very coarse, primitive Khotan-paper of bad quality, greyish-white, unpolished. As the paper is very thin the leaves have been folded.

Extent: ff. 54 230 × 185mm.

Foliation: The ms. is foliated by Gunnar Jarring.

Condition: Good

Decoration

Binding

Cardboard binding, the whole book is covered with blue cloth with flower pattern

History

Origin

Place of origin: Eastern Turkistan

Date of origin: 20th century, early (?)

Eastern Turkistan (?). There is no date in the book but there is a receipt glued on to f. 2a carrying the date 1331/1912-13 which may roughly indicate the year of the copying of the book.

Provenance: There is a name of a former owner on f. 53b probably to be read: Molla 'Abd-ul-Hamid. Acquired in Kashghar in 1929 by Gunnar Jarring from the itinerant book peddler Roze Akhon.

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

Catalog record of Lund University Library: http://www.alvin-portal.org/alvin/view.jsf?pid=alvin-record%3A351

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Digital facsimile of manuscript Jarring Prov. 351. By Annotated Turki Manuscripts from the Jarring Collection Online (ATMO). (Principal investigators: Arienne M. Dwyer and C. M. Sperberg-McQueen.) Manuscript held and scanned by Lund University Library . Funded by the Henry Luce Foundation. Lawrence, Kansas: Annotated Turki Manuscripts from the Jarring Collection Online, 2015-12-11. On the Web at https://uyghur.ittc.ku.edu/manuscripts/Jarring_Prov_351.df.xml. Last examined dd Mmmmmm YYYY.

2015-12-11

Digital facsimile of manuscript Jarring Prov. 351