161

GDC Mong N1 : 2

ET_85

Beijing xyl., pothi, 61,5 : 20,8cm (47 : 13,8), parts I-III, V-VII with separate pagination: fol.1-52v, 1-5r, 1-12r, 1-69v, 1-7r, 1-5r; 25-26 lines, left margin r from top to bottom: Chinese marginal entry san-guo-shi, Mongolian marginal entry terigün, qoyaduγar etc., followed by Mongolian and Chinese pagination; left margin v: Chinese pagination; right margin fol. 2r: Chinese pagination; part I, fol. 1: red script; fol. 1 of other parts: alternating red and black script set in red ornamental frame. Part I, fol 1: left side illustration of Qormusta tngri, inscription to the right: Qormusta tngri; right side illustration of Gesar accompanied by two of his warriors, inscription to the left: Geser qaγan, inscriptions underneath the warrior to the left of Geser qaγan: Üjesküleng-tü mergen kiy-a, inscription underneath the warrior to the right of Geser qaγan: Bara baγatur; back cover: red illustration of four men in Chinese dress and hair-style, inscriptions beneath (from left to right): Γuumir, Jasa Sikir, Buyidung, last name missing because part of the fol. is torn away. Thick, brownish paper, badly stained, some fols. badly damaged and edges frayed; part II, fol. 4: partly torn away; text within wooden cover boards; incomplete.

Part I, fol. 1 and 2v, part VII, cover side and fol. 1, 2r, 5r: red Mongolian seal: Багш Нарын мэргэжлийн Дээшлγγлэх, Институт Номын САН (“Library of the Institute for Teacher Training”). This text will be restituted to Mongolia.