New Arrivals to the Mongolian Collection at the Institute of Oriental Manuscripts, Russian Academy of Science

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Table of Contents 5
3. Prologue
4. Remembering Denis Sinor 8
5. Preface 11
6. I. Collections, Archives, Archaeology
7. Materials on Mongolia in “The Khmyrov Collection” 19
8. The Tungus-Manchus: an Ethnic History and Ethnic Genesis in Archaeological and Ethnographic Retrospectives 27
9. Linguistic and Ethnographic Materials of E. R. Schneider in the Archives of St. Petersburg 36
10. The Mongolian Aphorism in the Institute of Oriental Manuscripts, Russian Academy of Sciences (St. Petersburg) 42
11. The Unknown Portrait of a Member of the Qing Imperial Family in the Hermitage Collection, St. Petersburg 46
12. A Forgotten Mongolian Manuscript of the Erdeni-yin tobči: Wang Guojin and Lobsangčoyidan 52
13. Description of Mongolian Folktales Kept in the Institute of Oriental Manuscripts, Russian Academy of Sciences (St. Petersburg) 58
14. A Manchu Imperial Patent from the Collection of the Institute of Oriental Manuscripts, Russian Academy of Sciences 62
15. The Problems of Portrait Painting in Central Asian Art 67
16. About One Manuscript by D. Ravjaa 81
17. Mongγol uran zokijal-un degezi zaγun bilig orusibai, an Invaluable Treasure by its Concept, History and Destiny 85
18. The Pre-eminent Sūtra. New Traces of the Altun Yaruk Sudur 93
19. The Special Collection of Altaic Literature in the State and University Library Göttingen 114
20. The International Archive of Oral Folk Literature at the Northrhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences, Humanities and Arts in Düsseldorf/Germany 118
21. Images of the Goddess Tārā in a Private Hungarian Collection 125
22. Archaeological Finds Reflecting Folklore-Motifs from Central Asian Traditions 138
23. The Buriat Buddhism in Agaton Giller’s Memoirs 149
24. The Meritorious Officers Revisited: The Portrait of Cemcukjab 170
25. New Arrivals to the Mongolian Collection at the Institute of Oriental Manuscripts, Russian Academy of Science 177
26. A Brāhmaṇa Painting from Bäzäklik in the Hermitage of St. Petersburg and Its Inscriptions 181
27. II. Historiography
28. An Insufficiently Known Structure in the Çu Basin (Kazakhstan): Ak Kesene 197
29. Some Remarks on the Oghuz Kaghan Epics 213
30. “Namtar” by Milaraiba in Buryatia 219
31. Legal Documents in Armeno-Kipchak and the Töre Bitigi (Code of Law) 226
32. Green Knowledge. An Ottoman Manuscript on Horticulture 236
33. Karaim mejumas in Eupatoria 245
34. The Mistery of Coloured Vapours as Good Omina of the Manchu Khan Nurhaci’s Empire-building 263
35. Cosmic Tree and Its Reflections on Anatolian Turkish Art 268
36. Looking for an Unknown Source of a Familiar Plot 281
37. III. Linguistics
38. The Significance of S. A. Starostin’s Works for the Altaic Studies 293
39. Consten’s Universal Dictionary (Hs or. Sim. 7264) 303
40. Some Remarks on the Editorial Status of the Beijing and London Mss of the Wu Ti Qingwenjian 322
41. The Proximity Between the Middle Mongol and Classical Manchu Languages as Typologically, Ethnohistorically and Areally Motivated 329
42. Grammar Books: One of the Oldest Resources of Anatolian and Rumelian Dialects 350
43. Secluded in the Valleys of Kubsugul and Forgotten in Mongolian Libraries: The Uyghur-Uriankhay Language and Its Speakers 358
44. The Dictionary of Sumatiratna 364
45. Terminative Case Suffix in Middle Mongol 371
46. A Comparative Analysis of the Altaic Nomenclature Related to the Five Main Livestock 376
47. Zu den Namen türkischer Christen in verlorengegangenen altuigurischen Urkunden 384
48. On the Syntactic Status of the Uyghur Functional Category K (Case) 396