Digital facsimile of manuscript Jarring Prov. 463
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
2016-05-25
Sweden
Lund
Lund University Library
Jarring Prov. 463
Collection of Eastern Turki manuscripts
Contents
1) ff. 1-8 An anonymous piece of poetry which could well be given the title "The Contest of Paradise and Hell", very close to the literature called munazara. According to a note by Raquette on f. 1a this text was taken down from the dictation of a blind woman in Kashghar, in December 1916
2) f. 9 A tale of a rich man and his wife
3) ff. 10-11 A confession on sins (according to Raquette) in Eastern Turki
Uighur
paper, white of Russian make; f. 9 ruled
ff. 11
365
220
mm.
The ms. (ff. 1-8) is foliated by G. Jarring.
Poor
The ms. is not bound.
Place of origin: Eastern Turkistan (Kashghar)
Date of origin: 1916
Among Gustaf Raquette's papers.
The ms. was presented by Gustaf Raquette's widow, Mrs. Hanna Raquette to the Lund University Library in the 1960's.
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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