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

The Manchu Collection

Vol. VII inc.

... nadaéi debtelin

. ...juan zhi qi, f. Ia3: je sere xergen . [line 4] O jebele meyiren [small script, Chin.:] er jia la, etc. End, f. 48a6: gim sere xergen . [line 7] O gimSu [small script, Chin.:] jie O xiong/ chun yue I [normal size, Man.:] gimda [small script, Chin.:] juemujiao ershi/ba su zhi yi [normal size, Man.:] gimda toqdongyo kiru [small script, Chin:] juesuqi fuxiu/juesuxiang O an [line 8] ershiba su you /qi ershiba gan. Vol. VIII inc. ... jaqöä debtelin . ...juan zhi ba, f. Ia3: xi sere xergen . [line 4] O xita [small script, Chin.:] hao O fen Hang ming shi hai wei yi [Man.:] mai [Chin.:] li shi [Man.:] sun} [Chin.:] si wei yi hao [line 5] O xida [small script, Chin.:] zhulian weilian, etc. End, f. 57b6:

... xaSSume xamambi small script, Chin.:] guaidai. Appendix to vol. VIII, postscript ba, f. [58ab, no pagination] in Chinese only: Qingwen buhui Yi Guibu xiansheng suo zhushu ye, etc. End, verso, line 4: Jiaqing suici renxu zhongchun xu Fakejing'e jinba "the son-in-law Faqjingya respectfully wrote the postscript in the mid-spring month of the water dog year of Jiaqing [=1802]", with two blockprinted seals, one black on white, inscribed xinyou jinben, the other white on black, inscribed Xiye zhuren, both in xiaozhuan characters. Here and there throughout the book, red and black brush dots mark the entries. This is one of the supplements to the Manchu Language Mirror; the entries are arranged in Manchu alphabetic and syllabic order. Preface by the compiler Yi Xing alias Yi Guibu dated Qianlong 51 = 1786; postscript written by his son-in-law Faqjingya in Jiaqing renwu = 1802, sealed by him (?) as the Lord of the Western Wilderness, and also with the seal indicating another date, 1801, the year in which the work on this edition begun (?). Cf. Poppe-Hurvitz-Okada, nos. 297-298 (ed. 1890); Simon-Nelson, no. II.7.A-G; Puyraimond, nos. 74-76 (nos. 75-76 with F.'s postscript of 1802); Stary, Opere, nos. 14, 33; Volkova-Pan, I, nos. 281-287 (with further bibliography). Man. 2 Ancient Literary Texts Manchu-Chinese blockprint of 1851, volumes (fascicles) VII, IX-XI of a 16-volume series, now in one case (tao); (2+52)+(l+50)+(l+44) +(1+29) ff., 14.9 : 22.6 (14.5 : 19) cm, 10 lines/page, odd lines (from the right) in Manchu, even lines in Chinese; Chinese pagination and marginal mark in the middle margin; black print on thin Chinese paper. Title on the margin: Guwen "Old Literature," title at the beginning of the text in each volume: Julgei su fiyelen. No title printed on the now isabel covers, only the number of the volume appears written in small script (with pen?) on the right upper corner: nadaci, uyuä, juwanői, and juwan juweci, respectively. Traces of red imprints of seals on vols. VII and IX. Each volume contains a table of contents, with separate pagination. 405