György Kara (descr.): The Mongol and Manchu Manuscripts and Blockprints in the Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences

The Mongol Collection

Mong. 132 Spell Against Calumny Oirat manuscript, early 19th century pothi of old, white (now pale brown) Russian paper with fine wires and traces of water-mark, 35 : 10.8 (text width: 31.3 cm; no space left on upper and lower margins), text between two double-lined vertical bars; Oirat pagination (recto, left margin), digit and word; 27 lines/page; calamus, black ink; beginning 3 ff. missing. Title: as quoted below. Inc. f. 4 (4 dörbön): O nökod selte-yin zarliq tlnen : yeke iinen-ni adis=tid-yer : takil öq=ligö nökod selte-yin dayisuni emnel taraxan tlyiled todxoriyin emnel e=bden üyiled : SumnuSiyin emnel kemkelün üyiled :, etc. End, f. 19: ... Xara aman ke=le xari(u)luqci toqtöl dousbai • Xara aman kele mou iro bügüdey-gi amuriulaluqci [!] sudur öüni amitani uduriduqci tal[a]qci Axai cöílkur dur[a]duqsan-du : bandida rab='by[a]m corji mongyoléilon orőiul=bai • : • sarva mamgha-lam •: • Tränslated from the Tibetan apocryphal sûtra 'Phags-pa Kha-mchu nag-po zi-bar byed-pa zes bya-ba'i theg-pa Ğhen-po'i mdo by the Oirat Jaya pandita for Axai cöükür, see in the list of his translations made after 1648 according to Ratnabhadra's work (ed. Rincen; ed. Damdinsürüng; ed. Coloo), cf. Heissig-Sagaster, MHBL no. 396; Lubsangbaldan, Tod iiseg, p. 135 (on the translations made for Axai Ğüüker, but without mentioning this work). It corresponds to the Mong. (Qutuytu) Qara aman kelen-i ariyuluyci/amurliyuluYci neretü sudur/tarni, cf. Heissig-Sagaster, MHBL no. 398, (Qutuytu) Qara yala-yi amurliyuluyci neretü yeke kölgen sudur, and AyuSi guuSi's translation, Qara kelen sudur, ibid., nos. 399-400. Mong. 133 The Stories of the Thirty-Two Wooden Men Manuscript, early 19th century pothi on old Russian paper with wires and water-marks ([17]91, [17]92, VSFG in Cyrillic letters; [17] from f. 2b on), 32.8 : 10.2 cm (text width: 29 cm, between two black, double-lined bars; height of lines: 8 cm), pagination on recto, left margin, Tibetan numbers above Mongol numerals; 22-25 lines/page, calamus and brush, only calamus from f. 47a on, black ink; yellow and pink spots highlighting chapter finals; bold calamus on f. 70, fine calamus from f. 71a on, brush again from 148a); f. 249a with addition on a piece of a late 19th century Russian paper, 15 brush-written lines; numerous elements of vulgar orthography; Manchu initial Y and a'i, etc. for older ayi-, final S are used; some Tibetan interlinear glosses. 205