Digital facsimile of manuscript Jarring Prov. 406

Annotated Turki Manuscripts from the Jarring Collection Online (ATMO)

Test edition 2022-05-10

Lund University Library Jarring Prov. 406

Composite volume of Eastern Turki manuscript

Old number 7. The ms. belongs to the category of books being used by the soothsayers and magicians (duakhon) in their profession. Contents

1) ff. 1b-4b Various prayers

2) ff. 5b-20a An explanation of the risale of the farmers. Other copies: Prov. 2:2, 396:4, 400:5

3) ff. 20b-31b Other copies: Prov. 405:5

4) ff. 32a-42a Containing interpretations of the magic meaning of the days of the months, amulets etc

5) ff. 42b-48b

6) ff. 49a-54b Other copies: Zetterstéen 550

7) ff. 54b-55b Incantations of the Moslem genii

8) ff. 53b-56b Incantations of the Christian genii

9) ff. 56b-57a Incantations of the genii of the fire-worshippers

10) ff. 57b-58b Incantations of the genii of the infidels (heathens). For 406:7-10 cf. Katanov and Menges, Volkskundliche Texte aus Ost-Türkistan I (1933), p. 92-99 with similar texts. I suspect Menges' dzohot "Jewish" (p. 96) to be a mistake for mogh "fire-worshippers" especially as the texts speaks of fires and flames

11) ff. 58b-77a Prayers against headache, prayers to be read when someone has been unable to sell a certain thing etc. etc.; various formula and amulets

Language: Uighur

Physical description

Support: paper, coarse, white or brownish, unpolished, Khotan-paper

Extent: ff. 78 135 × 85mm.

Foliation: The ms. is foliated by G. Jarring.

Condition: Poor

Decoration

Binding

Brown leather binding without decorations

History

Origin

Place of origin: Eastern Turkistan

Date of origin: 19th century, late (?)

No date indicated, probably late 19th century. Evidently several different copyists.

Provenance: Bought by Gunnar Jarring in Kashghar in January 29, 1930, from the itinerant book peddler Roze Akhon. Price paid: 1 sar.

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%3A406

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Digital facsimile of manuscript Jarring Prov. 406. 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, 2022-05-10. On the Web at https://uyghur.ittc.ku.edu/manuscripts/Jarring_Prov_406.df.xml. Last examined dd Mmmmmm YYYY.

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