Names

MIK III 35a+b (TM 327)

Location

Stored in Museum für Indische Kunst, Berlin, Germany.

Specification

Fragment of a brochure.

Manuscript: in Old Turkic.

Paper: rough, light-beige.

Quantity of lines: 12 lines and the heading on the front side; 9 lines and the heading on the back side.

Characteristics: on edges of the text there is a grey vertical line; colon marks are circled in red; lines 3-5 in front and a line 4 on the back side are red; the heading on the back side is blue; the symbols in lines 4-5 are smaller; between lines 3 and 4 there is empty place.

Size

Distance between lines: between heading and the first line: 1.3 cm; between lines 3-5 in front: 0.5 cm; in the others: 0.8 cm.

12.0 cm (height) x 7.5 cm (width).

Researches

L.Clark ⁴²² claims that it could be a fragment of “Bilingual hymn (Persian and Turkic)”. W.Radloff ⁵³⁰ believed that it had been a prayer book fragment. Also А.Lе Coq ⁴²⁵ conducted researches.

Reference: [422] [X]

Clark, Larry: The Turkic Manichaean Literature. In: Emerging from Darkness. Studies in the Recovery of Manichaean Sources. Edd. Paul Mirecki und Jason BeDuhn. Leiden/New York/Köln 1997. 89-141.

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Reference: [530] [X]

Radloff W. Alttürkische Studien I // Izvestija Imperatorskoj Akademii Nauk (Bulletin de l'Académie Impériale des Sciences de St.-Pétersbourg), 1909. 1202-1218.

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Reference: [425] [X]

Le Coq, Albert von: Köktürkisches aus Turfan (Manuscriptfragmente in köktürkischen "Runen" aus Toyoq und Idiqut Schähri). SPAW. Phil.-hist. Kl. 1909. 1047-1061.

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