The Turfan Fragments of Subhāṣitaratnanidhi

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• Number in Tumurtogoo 2010	38
  Date	14th century
  Type	Buddhist text (block print, fragments)
  Script and language	'Phags-pa, Mongolian (Mongolian translation of Sa skya Paṇḍita's Subhāṣitaratnanidhi)
  Material	paper; block print
  Kept	Berlin Turfan Collection (fragment T III D 322 and others); a fragment from the Mannerheim collection (Helsinki)
  Discovery and first edition	Turfan; first publications: Ramstedt 1911–12 (Mannerheim fragment); Haenisch 1959 (facsimiles of the Berlin fragments)
  Text	transcription and translation in the corpus mongoliancorpus.org

  Contents

  Fragments of a printed book containing the Mongolian translation of Sa skya Paṇḍita's didactic poem Subhāṣitaratnanidhi ('Treasury of Aphorisms'); the first discovered evidence of book printing in 'Phags-pa script (Ramstedt 1911–12; identified by Aalto 1952–1959).

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  Literature (20)

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  Source of the data: Tumurtogoo 2010: 99–103, plates pp. 253–254; Tumurtogoo 2010: 3 (introduction); Janchiv 2002: no. LI; Rybatzki 2006: xxii; Poppe 1941: 56 (text XI)

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