György Kara (descr.): The Mongol and Manchu Manuscripts and Blockprints in the Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
The Mongol Collection
Mong. 222 Vetâiapaficavimsati-Fragment (Siddhi-tü küür) Oirat manuscript, 19th century pothi leaf of (now greyish) white, hand-made paper (pasted from soft layers), 48.7 : 10.8 cm (text in almost invisible frame, 41 : 9.5 cm), Oirat pagination in the left margin (recto, beyond frame): yucin yesun [!; = 39]; 41 lines, calamus, black ink; pieces of textile are pasted to the unwritten verso (= lower cover) protecting the paper. Found under the rocks of Ulaan Zendmn near Ulaangom in 1957. End of tale XXVI; the fragment begins: O xatun tötlni tized miSéji ine[=é]bei: tödtli xân inu xatundán eyin ögütlle=bei: namai töüdüi [!] jil boltolo eldeb zü=yil-yér you üyiledbecigi ci íilü iné=deq belei: ene mou kümiini nâdundu youni tula inébe kémén, etc.,... tere caqtu Nayanjuna baqSiyin dergede [line 35] siddhi-tü küüri kürgeji ireqsen bölügé :.... End, lines 39-41:... tötlni xoyino kü=müni nasun xutuq nemed üyiles inu delgeji tö=rö sajin xamuq züqtü delgereqseni uéir teyimei [beyond frame:] bölügé : Cf. Vladimircov, Volsebnyj mertvec; Lőrincz, Fragments d'une version oirate du Cadavre ensorcelé: Acta Orient. Hung. XVII (1964), pp. 293-321 (fragments of tales XIV-XV, XVII-XIX), Les "Contes du Cadavre ensorcelé" dans la littérature et le folklore mongols: Acta Orient. Hung. XX (1967), pp. 203-238. See also here Mong. 130. Mong. 223 Guide to the Wutaishan Peking blockprint of 1721, cf. PLB no. 7 (1667), pothi of greyish-yellowish Chinese paper, 40.5 : 10.6 (36.3 : 7.6) cm, Mongol pagination recto/verso on the left margin (with degedii/dooradu, within frame), Chinese pagination in the right margin, within frame, under marginal mark Wenshu zhi; 15 lines/page, black print; orthography usually without diacriticals (but vişai, kiilasa), medial J= c, Uigur Z for final s. Tibetan interlinear glosses to proper names. Ff. la-2a are printed red, with icons in the side-"boxes": Şâkyamuni bhûmisparsa and Con-kha-pa with Mafljusri's attributes (la left and right), Mafljusri and Avalokitesvara caturbhuja (2a left and right). Hardly visible, pale red print of the four lokapâla-mahârâjas (sitting), on the inside of the back cover. Title printed black in rectangular double-lined frame (14.9 : 3.3 cm) on the yellow cover: Uta-yin / tabun/ a yulan-u/ orosil/ Süsüg=ten-ü/ cikin[-ü] ämeg/ orosiba "[Here] is The Introduction to the Five Mountains of Wutai, [a guide called] The Ear-Ornament of the Faithful." See also below, f. 71a, "The Eulogy of the Supreme Place of the Mountain with Five Peaks, [the Book] called The Joyful Garden Garland of Kumuda-Flower" and f. 73a, "A Guide [garca y, Tib. dkar-áiags] to the Mountain of Five Peaks." Inc. f. la (nigen degedü = cover verso)-2a: namó guru Mag[=fllju-ghó-sa-ya : tegüs buyan bolbasuran belge bileg-i suduluysan-u küéü-ber yirtincüs-i geyigülügői Badm-a-yin sadun 285
