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Material manuscript, ink on paper

Pressmark Or.8212/79

Item type paper fragment
Manuscript fragment with Sogdian Buddhist text.

Title Manuscript fragment with Sogdian Buddhist text.

Material manuscript, ink on paper

Pressmark Or.8212/80(B)

Item type scroll
Fragment with Sogdian text on one side and Chinese on the other. The Sogdian is probably the same text as Or.8212/83.

Title Fragment with Sogdian text on one side…

Material manuscript, ink on paper

Pressmark Or.8212/82

Item type paper fragment
Fragment of a scroll with a Chinese Buddhist text on one side and a Sogdian text on other. Possibly same Sogdian text as Or.8212/82.

Title Fragment of a scroll with a Chinese…

Material manuscript, ink on paper

Pressmark Or.8212/83

Item type scroll
no image available

Title Manuscript containing Dhyana in Sogdian with Chinese…

Material manuscript, ink on paper

Pressmark Or.8212/85

Item type scroll
Manuscript fragment with Sogdian on one side and Chinese on the other.

Title Manuscript fragment with Sogdian on one side…

Material manuscript, ink on paper

Pressmark Or.8212/87

Item type paper fragment
Manuscript fragment containing Sogdian Buddhist text.

Title Manuscript fragment containing Sogdian Buddhist text.

Material manuscript, ink on paper

Pressmark Or.8212/88

Item type scroll
Sogdian Ancient Letter 1 written by Miwnay, a Sogdian woman abandoned in Dunhuang by her merchant husband Nanai-dhat and sent to her mother Chatis.

Title Sogdian Ancient Letter 1 written by Miwnay,…

Material manuscript, ink on paper

Pressmark Or.8212/92(1)

Item type paper fragment
no image available

Title Fragment of Sogdian Ancient Letter 1 (Or.8212/92(1)).

Material manuscript, ink on paper

Pressmark Or.8212/92(2)

Item type paper fragment
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Title Fragment of Sogdian Ancient Letter 1 (Or.8212/92(1)).

Material manuscript, ink on paper

Pressmark Or.8212/92(3)

Item type paper fragment
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Title Fragment of Sogdian Ancient Letter 1 (Or.8212/92(1)).

Material manuscript, ink on paper

Pressmark Or.8212/92(4)

Item type paper fragment
no image available

Title Sogdian Ancient Letter 4

Material manuscript, ink on paper

Pressmark Or.8212/93

Item type paper fragment
no image available

Title Sogdian Ancient Letter 5 from Fri-khwataw in…

Material manuscript, ink on paper

Pressmark Or.8212/94(A)

Item type paper fragment
no image available

Title Sogdian Ancient Letter 5 from Fri-khwataw in…

Material manuscript, ink on paper

Pressmark or.8212/94(B)

Item type paper fragment
no image available

Title String from Sodgian Ancient Letter 5

Material manuscript, ink on paper

Pressmark Or.8212/94(C)

Item type booklet: thread
Sogdian Ancient Letter 2 from Nanai-vandak to 'the noble lord Varzakk' in Samarkand concerning news in China.

Title Sogdian Ancient Letter 2 from Nanai-vandak to…

Material manuscript, ink on paper

Pressmark Or.8212/95

Item type paper fragment
no image available

Title Sogdian Ancient Letter 7

Material manuscript, ink on paper

Pressmark Or.8212/96

Item type paper fragment
Sogdian Ancient Letter 6

Title Sogdian Ancient Letter 6

Material manuscript, ink on paper

Pressmark Or.8212/97

Item type paper fragment
Sogdian Ancient Letter 3

Title Sogdian Ancient Letter 3

Material manuscript, ink on paper

Pressmark Or.8212/98

Item type paper fragment
no image available

Title Part of hemp wrapping of Sogdian Ancient…

Material manuscript, ink on paper

Pressmark Or.8212/99(1)

Item type textile
no image available

Title Fragment, possibly belonging to Sogdian Ancient Letter…

Material manuscript, ink on paper

Pressmark Or.8212/99(3a)

Item type paper fragment
no image available

Title Fragment, posibly belong to Sogdian Ancient Letter…

Material manuscript, ink on paper

Pressmark Or.8212/99(3b)

Item type paper fragment
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Title Fragment, posibly belong to Sogdian Ancient Letter…

Material manuscript, ink on paper

Pressmark Or.8212/99(3c)

Item type paper fragment
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Title String, possibly used to tie the Sogdian…

Material manuscript, ink on paper

Pressmark Or.8212/99(4)

Item type string

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Manuscript (inc. blockprint) 57 Artefact 1 Textile 1
paper fragment 40 scroll 10 booklet: thread 1 pothi 1 silk fragment 1 string 1 textile 1
manuscript, ink on paper 57 ink on wood 1 silk 1
Buddhism 10 Manicheanism 4 Sponsored 3 letter 3 Social and Economic 2 Astronomy and Divination 1 Christian 1 Illustrated 1 Official 1 Prayers 1
Dunhuang Mogao 20 Dunhuang Limes 18 Mazar Tagh 2 Dandan Uiliq 1 Endere Fort 1 Khadalik 1 Miran 1 Toyuk 1
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Sogdian (lang.) 28 Sogdian (script) 25 Uyghur (script) 21 Chinese (lang.) 15 Chinese (script) 15 Old Turkic (lang.) 5 Kok Turkic (script) 2 not applicable 2 Brahmi (script) 1 Gandhari Prakrit (lang.) 1 Hebrew (script) 1 Judaeo-Persian (lang.) 1 Kharosthi (script) 1 Khotanese (lang.) 1 Manichaean (script) 1 Sanskrit (lang.) 1 Tibetan (lang.) 1 Tibetan (script) 1
Stein 1913-16 29 Stein 1906-8 28 Stein 1900-01 2
List of Manuscripts in Languages of Central Asia and Sanskrit (Barnett) 59 The Sogdian Letters 1, 2, 3, 5 (Sims-Williams) 6 A Few of Our Favourite Things (IDP20) 2 Buddhism: Art and Faith (Zwalf) 1 Khotanese Manuscripts in the British Library (Skjaervø) 1 Old Tibetan Documents Online (link list) 1

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