Old Uyghur Fragments in the Serindia Collection: Provenance, Acquisition and Processing

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The first expeditions to Eastern Turkestan that discovered Old Uyghur manuscripts and block prints were from Russia. A number of the Old Uyghur fragments were found already in the course of the Turfan expedition in 1889–1890. These fragments, along with the ones in other languages and scripts, were subsequently acquired by the Russian officials N. Petrovsky and N. Krotkov and the expeditions headed by S. Oldenburg (1909–1910; 1914–1915) and S. Malov (1909–1911; 1913–1914). They formed the so-called Serindia (formerly known as Central Asian) collection kept nowadays at the IOM, RAS. The major part of the Serindia collection consists of the Old Uyghur fragments. Obtained by the expeditions to Eastern Turkestan, according to the customary tradition they were transferred to the Asiatic Museum. This paper presents the results of our study of the provenance, aquisition and processing history of the Old Uyghur fragments.

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Olga V. Lundysheva

Institute of Oriental Manuscripts RAS

Author for correspondence.
Email: olgavecholga@gmail.com
Russian Federation

Anna A. Turanskaya

Institute of Oriental Manuscripts RAS, St-Petersburg

Email: turanskaya@mail.ru
SPIN-code: 5660-3135
Russian Federation

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