György Kara (descr.): The Mongol and Manchu Manuscripts and Blockprints in the Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
The Mongol Collection
Mong. 85 Romanized Daur Reader Modem booklet of 1931, lithographed handwriting on white paper, 13 : 19 cm; weak print, here and there hard to read; originally paper-back, now bound. 2 illustrations; 44 pp., partly without pagination. Title in black on the pink cover: SINKEZ MOXGOL / BITER / NEK DEBTER /, on the title-page: SINKEZ MOXGOL В1ТЕГ / NEK DEBTER. [= sineken Mongyol bitxe/bicig] "New Mongol Writing. One Book." Dated on the title-page: 1931.1. 15. / Darji garyacez. "Printed on January 15, 1931." Folded sheet before preface bears DArOR MOXGOL DAOLO, 1930.8.27. Q.D. hicez, Tokyo. "Dagur-Mongolian Hymn. Made [=word and music? written] by Q.D., August 27, 1930, in Tókyó", text with melody, the latter noted in both the usual Western way and in numbers. Pages [1-4]: Orosul "Preface" written (gixgulji hicez) by Qokbatur. Pages [5-6]: Tobsyo "Contents" (Nekder juile, Hoirdar juile, Gwarbdar juile, etc.). Inc. p. (1): Eki bitey. End, p. (43): Eni twalla ayei cainini ucoji alibucez. Deu ... bitey 1931.1.15. Colophon on p. [44] in double frame: hicez hu "Qokbatur" / Narikaji ujicez hu "Dinterbuku" / Daiji garyacez hu "Nairelt" / "Qokbatur": compiled [= kigsen kümün] by Chokbaatur [= Coybayatur], supervised [= nariqa(la)ju üjegsen kümün] by D., printed by N. [= Nayiraltu]; it is followed by brush-written Chinese characters (writing exercise). The pink back cover bears an emblem of three child-heads and brush-written Chinese characters, Guo Shouchang, etc. Cf. Ligeti, Rapport préliminaire (pp. 41-43) and pl. IX; Merse Guo Daofu's Daur Latin alphabet used by the editors of this booklet is also dealt with in N. Poppe's Dagurskoe nareäe (Leningrad 1930), but the meaning of letter Z, which marks here the nasal character of the preceding vowel, is wrongly defined as z. Cf. also here Man. 18. Cf. Ligeti' s review of N. Poppe's Dagurskoe nareäe in: NyK XLVIII (1931), pp. 148-159. 131
