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

The Mongol Collection

Mong. 6 The Vowels and the Consonants Peking blockprint, PLB no. 101, 18th century pothi, 7 ff. of 55 :1

1.2 ([2a] 47.5 : 7.2, [2b] 46.7 : 7.3) cm, two bands of Sanskrit, Tibetan, and Mongolian parallel texts per side; Mongolian in short vertical lines under the horizontal Tibetan line. Pagination on the recto in Sanskrit., Tibetan, Chinese and Mongolian in the left "ear" of the frame; on the verso, in the left "ear" beyond the double-lined frame, pagination in Chinese only. (On recto sides the "ear" is separated from the text space by a triple, thin-bold-thin, rule. Black print on Chinese laid paper of several layers, now greyish and fragile.) Title on cover, printed in black in double-lined frame (13.9 : 4.8 cm, with two blank "ears"): [Lanja/Rafica script] Âlikâli bijahâram [Tib. dbu-can] Dbyans gsal bzugs\\ [Mong.] Egesig üsüg kiged

: geyigü=legä üsüg=üd or o-sib a • Inc. f. la ([Skr.] eka [Tib. dbu-can] gcig [Mong.] nige [Chin.] shang yi) with the Lafija alphabet and its Tibetan and Mongolian equivalents. F. 5b3: monograms in Lafija characters with Tibetan and Mongolian transcription; beginning of the Vartu (Vardu) alphabet. F. 6a: end of the Vartu alphabet, then parallel Tibeto-Mongol text in poorly written small characters; colophon: [Tib.] |mchog gyur [x: gyud] Chan-ba'i yi-ge dan| |Bod dan Hor-sog ri-mo-rnams |ma-'dres so-sor no-sprod-la| |fler-mkho phran-bus brgyan-ba 'di| |snon-med 'gon-ma chos-kyi rgyal| |§en-cu-i rigs sras bcu-drug-pa| |Thob cin-dban-gis ched-mnags-kyis| |dag khul phyi-mos gzi-rten byas| |sbrul-ba'i sku-mĞhog gzal-sdan sa| |Nag-dban blo-bzan rgyal-ba'i bstan| |rgya-mcho'i mthar sbel thugs-bskyed-can| |gan-g[i]s zus-dag gnan bzin bris| |chos-sbyin sbel phyir dban-fiid-kyis| |sbar-du bsgrubs-pas dg[e]-legs 'phel | j 11 [Mong.] tisüg=ün erkim Esrun-u üsüg=lüge : Töbed kiged Mongyol üsüg=ild=i

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