György Kara (descr.): The Mongol and Manchu Manuscripts and Blockprints in the Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
The Mongol Collection
Mong. 213 Libation of the Mares Manuscript, 19th/20th century booklet (horizontal bengse/debter) sewn and pasted from soft, white (now yellowish) Russian paper, 34.7 : 10 cm, Tibetan pagination (figures) on recto, 25 (f. la: 28) lines/page, brush, black ink; fore and back (= upper and lower) covers unwritten. Late classical orthography mostly with diacriticals; Manchu Y for y; some colloquial elements. From Rinchen, December 1958. Title on f. la: Geü-\n]ü saculi-yin sudur orosiba . "[Here] is the Book of the Libation of the Mares." Inc. f. lb: O emüg[-]ün degedü erketü Möngke tngri . qamuy-un degedü qan yajar usun. tümen odun. tögörükei sara . aliman nara. altan odud-ud-tu :, etc., ... yeke ösüg éayan [2a]0 yeke saculi-cini sacun sayunam : delekey-yi mandayuluysan erketü Maliy-a tengri-tü yisü éoqoyéid-un stln(-ü) yisün yistln sacu ., ete. End, f. 4Ы2-15: .jayun-u eke mingyan-u eke . tümün-i slirüg (bolqu) boltuyai mangjşlam . Similar text in Damdinsürüng's Ja yun bilig, no. 13; cf. also Poppe, Opisanie, pp. 188-189 (Sazykin, Katalog, I, no. 1260), etc., Rintchen, Les matériaux, I, no. XXVIII; Heissig, Mongolische volksreligiöse undfolkloristische Texte, no. LXVI; H. Serruys, Kumiss, p. 3, on the 'Aspersion with mare's milk' of the Yuan court; etc. Mong. 214 The Book of the Tree Tibeto-Mongol manuscript, 19th/20th century pothi of Russian paper (with the relief-mark of the paper-mill on ff. 12, 27: "fabriki naslednikov Sumkina No. 7"), 34.1 : 8.5 (pale red or colorless frame: 29.4 : 6.5) cm, Mongol pagination (spelled out and figures) on the left margin, recto, beyond frame; edges torn; 13 lines/page, Tibetan dbu-can text between the Mongolian lines; late, near-classical orthography in the Mongolian text (like in Mong. 211-213). Red imprints of two seals, one rectangular (Tibetan dbu-éan "a) and one round (inscribed Tib. éhos ?), on the upper cover. From Rinchen. Title in red frame (21 : 3.3 cm) on the cover, [Mong.] Modun-u sasidar neretü/sayin nomlal qoyar/yosun-u nayiyuysan / jayun möär-tü kemekü orosiba*/ [Tib.] Legs-par bSad-pa Siri-gi bstan-Öhos lugs-ghis yal- 'dab brgya-ldan zes bya-ba bzugs-so "[Here] is the Good Teaching named The Book of the Tree, called The One with Hundred Twigs Swayed, of the Two Orders." (Tib.: "... Twigs [of] the Two Orders.") Inc. f. la (= cover verso): 6m suvasdi bhaa-<l>vandu • 6m sayin amuyulang boltuyai • asaraqui bodi sedkil-iin ündüsün batud[u]yad : asuru yeke qabaéitu qoyar éiyulyan-u möéir 278
