György Kara (descr.): The Mongol and Manchu Manuscripts and Blockprints in the Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
The Mongol Collection
9. Manuscript, one torn piece of muutuu (26.5 : 25 cm) with a protective diagram and brushwritten black lines: ene Ğayan boyodol-un biéig-i Şalamyayilan sayid beyise-ün [=yin] dergedeki tüsimel bayatur-tur kürgegülüy-e bull qojidayulul sayatayuluğtun., etc. 10. Manuscript, perhaps the right two thirds of a 18th/19th century long pothi leaf of Chinese paper pasted of several layers (30.6 : 9 cm; text height: 7.2 cm), written on one side (recto) only; no pagination preserved, 29 lines + the rest of another, the upper part of the "first" three lines missing. Inc.: [...] olan ajiyu: [,..]i-bar amidu-yin toyolal [...]lel mengge terigilten-dllr: ükügsen-il ür-e-yin éiyulyan<u>-iyar delgerenggüi bürkügsen-ü: sil-ün önggeyi singqun=iyar urbayulugsan ulayan geril-ttir: quriéaysan olan amitan endegtlrejü edeger uyidbai* :• [with yellow overpaint:] tegün-ü tulada Degedü-yin kijayalal ügei tayalal [black:] yosun-i: dayayci merged-ün udaqui [?] yosun: tegünce olan buyu: mungqay=ud mungqaraju öber-iyen uralaysan qarangyuy-yin kijayar anu baraydaŞi ügey-yi: üjebesü minu metü door-a-du oyutan erin yayiqamui: teyin bolba<s>cu Zangas kim (kemekü) kijayari sinjilegéi egülen-ü jabsar-un qubéad=iyar: masi üjesküleng-tü medeküi kiéi=ye[n]ggüy-yin sim-e quriyağsan-u küclln=iyer: ülü qoliéalduyul-un öbere öbere ilya'n cidayci sayin sambay-a=yin qoyolai-tu: yalayud-un qayan metü ergüjü ügüleküi-dür erketü ber: Kitad Töbed-ün Jang'sgyam [?; MS: z'yk'sky'm] kemeküy-yin dotor-a-aca qamuy berke onisun-i qocorli ügei quriyaysan ba ese<n> bögesü yaryaysan metü: yool yosunnuyud kiged [MS: ke°] ayimay saba-yin tayalal udq-aII Mong. 311 The Bunch of White Lotus Flowers Buryat blockprint, 1867-1868, pothi of Russian paper (with relief-mark inscribed: Fabriki/ naslednikov/ Sumkina/ no. 7), 44.5 : 9 (text in double frame, 37.5 : 6.2) cm, Mongol pagination separate for each chapter (recto, left-hand "ear"); 28 lines/recto, 29 lines/verso (in a number of cases half lines only, e.g., Ill, f. 11,21; 8 chapters of vol. I; each chapter has its own title-page and the printer's colophon. Orthography with diacriticals, Q and K with dots render q and k; Uigur Z for final s; § marked before Y. Title of Chapter One (terigtln bölüg) in double-lined title-frame (32.7 : 2.6 cm, with empty side-"boxes"): O Mergen/ teneg-i/ Sinjilektl/ sayin/ nomlal Cayan/ lingqus-un/ baylay-a / kemegdekü/ Sastir=aca terigün/ bölüg/ orosi=ba: "[Here] is Chapter One from the Good Teaching That Discerns [What Is] Wise and [What Is] Foolish entitled 'The Bunch of White Lotus Flowers'". Title-frames of the other chapters: (II, qoyaduyar) 31.9 : 2.2, (III, yutayar) 31.1: 2.4, (IV, dötöger) 28.9 : 2.5, (V, tabtayar) 32 : 2.7, (VI, jiryuduyar) 30 : 2.3, (VII, doloduyar) 28.7 : 2.3, (VIII, naimaduyar) 30 : 2.5 cm. The beginnings of the chapters, their ends and end-titles: I, la: ilaju tegüs nögcigsen Qoos yosun-u ejen-dür mürgümü • 369
