György Kara (descr.): The Mongol and Manchu Manuscripts and Blockprints in the Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
The Mongol Collection
[= °lér] aldâr [= aldar] By[a]ngyariyin orőd nutuq boly[â]d dolo[= ó]n bum ceregiyin[e]n daxolád [= °xuu°] yabuulba boqdo By[a]ngyarin// Mong. 300 Fragments of the Great Manchu-Mongol Lexicon Blockprint, 18th/19th century double-leaved book, 28.4 : 18.8 cm (text height between upper and lower margins: 20.9 cm), Sino-Manchu pagination, black print, 12 lines/page. Four fragments from fasc. 15, tofogoi debtelin / arban tabudu yar debter of Manju gisun-i buleku bitxe "Lexicon of the Manchu Language"/ Mongyol ügen-ü toli bicig "Lexicon of the Mongolian Language": (1) f. 21, xacingya boőo-i xaöin / jtlil büri öngge-yin jüil: "The various colours" (Inc.: nioxon boco-be. niowanggiyan sembi : / noyobtur öngge-yi. noyoyan kememüi: (2) f. 22a?, xacingya boco-i xacin (3) f. 13b, subeliyen kubun-i xaőin / yongqor köbüng-ün jüil "Silk and Cotton Fibres" (4) f. [?]b, tory-a bös-ün jüil "Silk and Cotton Textiles" Mong. 301 The Easy Guide to the Tibetan Language A ruined copy of the double-leaved Peking blockprint, Töbed kelen-i kilbar surqu, see here Mong. 95. In dark greenish grey textile cover (20.5 : 32 cm), the size of the book: 20 : 30.7 (17 : 26) cm, originally Chinese pagination; the leaves of the introduction badly damaged, the last leaves torn. Now in an old European wrapper. Kept together with five narrow and long sheets of a Tibetan prayer-wheel text, four dbu-can lines/pages (the same text repeated four times), blockprinted between an upper and a lower frame-line on very thin, white Chinese paper (7 : 63.6 cm, folded in 4); the first text begins: rgyal-ba'i mjad-ba fte-bar bsgrub-mjad-pa'i |, etc.; the fourth text ends: myur-zin myur-ba fiid-du reg gyur-cig | bla-ma mchog-gsum bden-pa'i byin-rlabs dan | Ğhos-dbyins 'gyur-med rten-'brel bslu-med mthu 11 Mong. 302 The Jade Box with Various Uses, Newly Translated A ruined copy of the double-leaved Peking blockprint, calendar and manual of astrology and divination, Sine oräyuluysan Eldeb keregtü Qas qayurcay neretü biőig, see here Mong. 15. Short Chinese title in the middle margin: Yu xia ji. Chinese pagination. No cover, binding destroyed, loose leaves, most of them split into two "pages"; late Manchu-style, degenerated script. End of vol. I, f. 69b (now "p. 127"):... QaS qayurcay neretü bicig-ün/ terigün debter tegüsbei; beginning of vol. II, f. la (now "p. 128"): Sin-e orőiyuluysan eldeb keregtü QaS qayurőay neretü biőig (qoyaduyar/ debter.) mör yarqu-yi songyuju üjekü anu. Numerous figures and diagrams in the text. Now 238 "pages" + 5 half-leaves with smaller fragments. 363
