A Catalogue of the Mongolian Manuscripts and Xylographs of the Ernst-Collection
Karénina Kollmar-Paulenz, BOP Books 2025
CC BY 4.0 International License
https://doi.org/10.36950/kat-mon-2025.155

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GDC Mong M1 : 3

ET_762

Ms, pothi, 34,7 : 10,5 cm (32 : 8,7), fol. 6r-34v, 38r-49v, fol. 6r-34v: astrological charts, fol. 38r-49v: 34-35 lines, right margin r: Mongolian pagination with pencil and in Arabic numerals in green biro, alternating black and red script, text framed in red. The fols. are sewn together with cord. The text contains numerous colourful illustrations of the nine sMe ba and the Par kha. Fols. 38v and 43r contain Tibetan glosses; incomplete.

Inc. (6r) (1) jün-ü ečüs (2) qonin sara: (3) büriyeged odun

Term. (49v) (24) baras irbis-dur: yegüleküi negüküi tebči: (25) ebedbesü tabun üčüken yüm ügei::

Seven Tibetan lines follow: (1) stag rta khyi gsum rlung rta ser po bris/ sprel (2) nyin sprel dus spen ba nub phyogs dar/ phag lug (3) yos 3 ljang la bris/ sprul nyin sprul dus zla ba lho (4) phyogs dar/ byi ’brug spre’u rlung rta sngon la bris/ (5) stag nyin stag dus mig mar shar phyogs dar/ (6) bya blang sprul 3 rlung rta dkar la bris/ phag nyin (7) phag dus phur bu byang phyogs dar//

Astrological and divinatory almanac which explains the bad and good days for various enterprises as well as for the performance of religious rituals.