The Chester Beatty Library. A Catalogue of the Tibetan Collection and A Catalogue of the Mongolian Collection.

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Cloth, 4to, 26 cm, 109 pp, plates (some colour). From the introduction to the Tibetan section: "Group A (items 1701-28) comprises Buddhist canonical works, namely texts translated from Sanskrit and included in Tibetan Canon (Kanjur) and Authorized Commentaries (Tenjur).; Group B (items 1729-57) comprises indigenous Tibetan works: (i) doctrinal and quasi-historical, (ii) medical, (iii) divination, (iv) musical notation…; Group C (items 1758-1805) comprises ritual texts. As can easily be seen, each item may comprise many more than one text; in one case as many as 28.; Group D (items 1815-1860) comprises painted scrolls. We have identified all the subsidiary as well as the main figures." From the introduction to the Mongolian section: "The Mongolian printed books and manuscripts of the Chester Beatty Library form a small but fairly representative collection of Mongol religious literature. As is to be expected, block-prints of Buddhist-lamaist texts originating from Peking form the bulk of the collection, and as these editions have been exhaustively described by Aalto, Heissig, and Farquhar, they have not been treated in the full detail accorded to the one block-print produced at a provincial monastery (no. 1936). Wherever possible, block-prints have been identified by reference to Heissig's manual, and this has also been done with manuscripts copied from block-prints. More unusual and valuable than the well- known texts of the official lamaist religion arc the popular religious texts, nos. 1937, 1938, 1939, and 1940, which are concerned with religious rites of an essentially non-Buddhist character, though they make use of the form and terminology of lamaist texts and incorporate references to the deities of lamaism. No texts of a purely secular nature are to be found in this collection." An ex-library copy with a bookplate on the front pastedown endpaper, some residue of a removed label on the front free endpaper, and library marks on the verso of the title-page, Covers partly sunned, otherwise Very Good. N° de ref. del artículo ABE-15008

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