György Kara (descr.): The Mongol and Manchu Manuscripts and Blockprints in the Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
The Mongol Collection
word is marked red] qaburun ekin bars sara<-aĞa> kemen tayalamui : Markasir modun [!] tergel bolbasu ile=güü sara ügei : : End, f. 3: eéige eke-yin nökögülügsen [?] [3b] bayuu serigün-luy-a doloyan : [the next word is marked red] tendece / mengge-yin dörben qarsi-dur jilün mengge=dür uciraqui-(tur) qarsi : oytaryui-tur qoyar / qara mengge orobasu qarsi : öberün törög=sen mengge-yin dayisundur uciraysan-luy-a / dörben : yisün nüke-yi toyolaqui inu / yisün qoyar : qoyar yisiin : terigüten-i / jerge-ber medeküi : [marked red] tendece kegür-tür oroqui toyolaqui inu : modun-u kegür / qoni : yal-un kegür noqai : temürün kegür [ms: kw'kwr] / ügei : siroi usu luu-tu kegür-tür / oroysan buyu : yesün nlike kegür-dür / oroqu-yin öber öberün ary-a jasal / kereg-i kilgegdeküi : tere-kü jiruqay-yin / döcin doloyan cilayu : oyoyata sayitur / nereyidügsen buyu • : • Mong. 148 "The Number of the Seed" Manuscript, probably early 19th century pothi of yellowish brown Russian paper with wires and traces of water-mark (f. 52), greasy leaves with worn-out, rounded corners and burned (f. 1: also damaged) edges, 27.2 : 6.3 cm; double-lined red frame (17 : 4.3; 16.8 : 4.4 cm) on ff. lb, 2a) with narrow "ears" on the left and the right sides; pagination in Mongolian words or, mostly, in Tibetan figures in the left margin of the recto, beyond the frame; black and red ink (ff. lb-2a, and most of 2b: red), calamus, 26 lines/page; Oirat-like D also initially and finally, Oirat-like T also medially; Manchu Y; aleph + yod for medial YY; medial tsadi, both angular and smooth, for 6 and /, final Uigur S; almost no diacriticals. Red and yellow highlighting. From f. 43: less greasy and less dark leaves. Title on the cover in double-lined frame with two "ears" (21.9 : 1.1 cm): O Cayarı firu=qay-yin / olan-u / dotor=aca / quri=ya ysan : / iire=yin to y-a / sudur / oro=sa[=i]bai • "[Here] is the Book of the Number of the Seed, Collected from Many [Books] of White Reckoning." Cf. also in the colophon: Bükü [firuqay-yin] quriyangyui "The Summary of All Kinds of Reckoning/Divination." Inc. f. la: O namö gürü Mafíju=Sari-a ilayuysad-un / ecige bolbasu ber jalayu / biy-e-tü [!] nigüleskü-yin / usun-u : urusqali / bayulbacu qoyar / tüidkeri tülegci : / amitan-nuyud-i asar=qui-bar tedküjü / Simnuş-nuyud-i [2a] ayuyuluyéi:, etc. F. 62a: ([Tib.] zla-nag) [line 1, two words marked red] qara sara-gi qara edür / metü qalqala • ([Tib.] dbul-lag) [the next word marked red] ögekün-ü / qoyosun үаг-tur : qota-yin ... End, f. 62b26-64b: yajar-un [63a] ejed-nuyud-un üre-yi sayin / mayu-yi ügülegsen sayitur nomlaysan naimaduyar öljei / qutuy-un toy-a-luy-a tegüsüy=sen [!] bolai • : • [red:] bi ber [black:] cögektln [!] sonoscu : oyun / ciqul tula : jiruqay-yin / yosun-i surul üéüküge=dejü: teyimü-yin tula / endegü ba buruyu nomlaysan / gem-üd-i namancilan öcimü / blam-a yurban erdeni-yin / gegen-e : sayitur boluysan / egüber ekilen : öber busud=un 234
