TY - JOUR

T1 - Mongolian Golden Kanjur Fragments in the Collection of the IOM, RAS

AU - Alekseev, Kirill

AU - Turanskaya, Anna

AU - Yampolskaya, Natalia

PY - 2016

Y1 - 2016

N2 - The collection of the IOM, RAS contains a number of odd folios from the Mongolian Kanjur, the history of whose entry into the collection is unknown. The text is written in golden ink on blue paper. Handwriting and orthography are characteristic of the first half of the 17th c. Appearance and ductus reveal a striking similarity to the Golden Kanjur of Ligdan Khan kept in Hohhot. In the article the folios from IOM, RAS are compared with the Golden Kanjur. An attempt to trace back the history of these manuscript fragments leads to the conclusion that they could be among the first Mongolian manuscripts brought to St. Petersburg at the time of Peter the Great.

AB - The collection of the IOM, RAS contains a number of odd folios from the Mongolian Kanjur, the history of whose entry into the collection is unknown. The text is written in golden ink on blue paper. Handwriting and orthography are characteristic of the first half of the 17th c. Appearance and ductus reveal a striking similarity to the Golden Kanjur of Ligdan Khan kept in Hohhot. In the article the folios from IOM, RAS are compared with the Golden Kanjur. An attempt to trace back the history of these manuscript fragments leads to the conclusion that they could be among the first Mongolian manuscripts brought to St. Petersburg at the time of Peter the Great.

KW - Ablai Keyid

KW - Kanjur

KW - “golden” manuscripts

KW - codicology

KW - manuscript collection of IOM

KW - RAS

M3 - Article

SP - 85

EP - 105

JO - Written Monuments of the Orient

JF - Written Monuments of the Orient

SN - 2410-0145

IS - 1

ER -