Digital facsimile of manuscript Jarring Prov. 365
Annotated Turki Manuscripts from the Jarring Collection Online (ATMO)
Arienne M. Dwyer
C. M. Sperberg-McQueen
Manuscript held and scanned by
Lund University Library
Henry Luce Foundation
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C. M. Sperberg-McQueen
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Annotated Turki Manuscripts from the Jarring Collection Online
2016-03-12
Sweden
Lund
Lund University Library
Jarring Prov. 365
Poetry
Old number 41. An anonymous treatise in poetry dealing with the obligations of Islam. On f. 130b a charm consisting of a prayer to be written on a piece of bread for seven days, whereafter one is able to learn what one wants to learn and to remember what one hears etc
Uighur
paper, indigenous, white-yellowish, unpolished or slightly polished
ff. 131
210
125
mm.
The ms. is foliated by G. Jarring.
Poor
Brown leather binding, without decorations
Place of origin: Eastern Turkistan
Date of origin: 19th century, late
Date: on f. 130a it is said by the anonymous author that the book was composed in the year 928/1521-1522. There is no indication as to the date of the present copy but it probably belongs to late 19th century.
Bought in Kashghar, December 1929, by Gunnar Jarring.
The ms. was part of the Jarring collection of Eastern Turkistan manuscripts donated to the Lund University Library in 1982.
This msDesc manuscript description was derived automatically
from the manuscript description prepared by the Lund University Library
conforming to the Master Project DTD.
The manuscript description in the Master vocabulary was derived
from Gunnar Jarring's manuscript catalog of the collection, which read:
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