A Manuscript of the Mongolian Folk Tale “About Old Borontai” from the IOM, RAS Collection


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The manuscript “About Old Borontai” kept in IOM, RAS, is one of the earliest written fixations of the cumulative tale common among Mongolian people and well known to scholars working in the field. The present paper contains the first ever publication of the manuscript in transcription and translation of the text written in old Mongolian script based on the Uighur alphabet.

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Dmitrii Nosov

Institute of Oriental Manuscripts, Russian Academy of Sciences

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