Avery, Martha mss.

Series:

Physical Description: 8 x 32 cm

Scope and Contents:

1. Tibetan
2. Some beautiful illustrations
3. Three-wheel turning table
4. Front cover: sewn over with yellow cloth
5. Little card with contents: 1) a yun 'opening of time 2) go cha 'armor' 3) rda mgrin skyabs 'horse neck amulet' (horse neck is a kind of demon; cf. Jaschke, 211) 4) zhan gyi mi thub 'the weak man becomes mighty' 5) pan thag 6) mgon po rdo rje 7) sgrol ma - Tara
6. Other side of card: 1) zad dug dre bsad 2) dkan mdan gsum 3) mdan lda 4) klu sman brtsa sman - dragon remedy love potion 5) bkra shis chan 'bebs - blessed rain of barley 6) bstan 'gyur gnas skyogs
7. Tables for understanding the planets, etc.; the eight trigrams; a very nice illustration of the Chinese zodiac; another set of illustrations of the Chinese zodiac; the twelve figures of the Western zodiac; then Chinese zodiac again; this time beginning with the Tiger; diagram of three spinning wheels
8. Cover title of one of the mss: 'bras rtsis ddul gyi me long sogs las gris so
9. Medical diagram of the body
10. Magic square
11. Horse pelages in Mongolian: cagan, qula, köke, ulagan, kegere, boro cagan, qaldar, qonggor, kegere, cagan
12. Jiruqai sudur orosibai
13. Back cover: rainbow colors, seems to be made of sheep or goat hide

Physical Description: 13 x 26 cm

Scope and Contents:

1. Chinese book format
2. Engke Amugulang qagan-u üy-e-tü mengdüjü olan yaar? tustai üiles-i olangda bütügegsen: nigen Mer[e]gen [corrected in text as mergen] tüsimel-ün situgegsen kereg-ün eki togataga yabugsan yabudal-un ayultai ucar [=ucir] ba ayiladgagsan jüil-ün udq-a gün? böged dabtay-a bogda Mer[e]ged-ün tagalal uqagan-du [=tu] jokicagsan anu magad tula tegüni sitgügsen kereg ucir-i kitad üsüg-iyer keb seyilejü delekei-dekin-dür teüke bolgan tarqagsan ajiguu egüni Monggol üsüg üge-ber orcigulaquy-yi dürimene? demi [=demei?] tagamagaciju? nigur masi jujagan-iyar bicigsen merged er[e]demten sigüjilged jasargulaquy-i guyuy-a

Scope and Contents: Card: Shi mergen noyany (khuul'ch tüshmel) shiitgegsen khergiin ekh adag Khyatad romany ?-dugar devter

Scope and Contents:

1. a) 16 x 14.5 cm; green cover; Chinese string binding; 3000 tug.; Takimdagu degüji [=degeji?] [on filial piety]; Sengzu örüsiyeltü quwangdi
2. b) blue cover; stapled; Minggan üsüg-ün bicig; also given as ciyan si win for Chinese qian zi wen 千字文; gives Chinese with Mongolian/Manchu transcription and then Mongolian translation; Dumdadu irgen ulus-un arban tabudugar on jirgugan sarayin qorin qoyar-un edür-e [the 22nd day of the sixth month of the 15th year of the Chinese Republic]
3. c) gayili-yin dürim ene bolai [Customs regulations]; blue cover; sewn binding
4. d) Sung ulus-un mergen sayid qagan-dur

Physical Description: 16.5 x 27 cm

Scope and Contents:

1. Chinese book style
2. Chinese string binding
3. Outer cover: Bügüde nayiramdaqu Monggol arad ulus-un gadagadu dotugadu Manju Monggol üsüg-iyer qabsurul
4. Inner cover: Manju Monggol üaüg-iyer qabsurul tayilugsan san ji geg [=ging]-ün bicig
5. First page: in Manchu, Monggol, Chinese - Manchu: Manju Monggu-i qamcime uhe san zi ging ni bitkei sioi; Mongol: Manju Monggol üsüg-iyer qabsurun tayilugsan san ji ging bicig-ün orosil; Chinese: Man Meng hebi sanzi jing zhujie xu (滿蒙合璧三字經註解序)
6. Preface to the Sanzijing annotated in Manchu and Mongolian

Physical Description: 27.5 x 17 cm

Scope and Contents:

1. Chinese book format
2. Looped stitched binding
3. Cover torn
4. Thin folded paper
5. Tri-lingual Manchu, Mongol, Chinese - Manchu: Zung ni jui Jong Zung-ba [=be]: eme Usi naqabufi doro-be ejelefi orin aniya oho manggi; Mong.: Züng-ün köbegün Jüng Cüng [=Züng]-i: eke Usi bayilgagad törö-yi ejelejü qorin jil bolugsun-u qoyin-a; Chinese: 子中宗 (zi Zhong Zong); 為母武氏所廢 ? 制 (wei mu WuShi suo fei ? zhi); 二十年 (er shi nian)
6. "His mother, Wu Shi, had Zong's son, Zhong Zong, abrogate and took over the government; twenty years later . . . etc.; 289 years passed; then the Liang dynasty (Mong. Liyang ulus) was extinguished; then the Tang replaced it;" the history moves quickly to the Liao and Jin (金, written 晉); 17 works (十七史); 4th is the Three Kingdom Annals (三國志) by Chen Shou (陳壽) of the Jin (晉); 5th work by Taizung of the Tang; 6th chronicle called the Book of the Song (Mong. SongUlus-un bicig; Chin. 宋書) by Shen? (Ch. 浣? Huan) Yue (約) of Liang (梁)

Physical Description: 17 x 26.5 cm

Scope and Contents:

1. a) all Manchu; Hesei togtobuqa tulergi golo be tasara jurgan-i kooli hacin-i bitke [The law established by imperial decree of the Court of Colonial Dependencies (Lifan yuan)]
2. b) Tetragolot Manchu dictionary; Manchu-Mongolian title: Manchu: Han araha toyin hacin-i kergen qamciha manju gisun-i bulegu bitke//Mong.: Qagan-u bicigsen dörben jüil-ün üsüg-iyer qabsuragsan Manj ügen-ü toli bicig; gives Manchu, Tibetan, Mongolian, and Chinese

Physical Description: 8 x 30 cm

Scope and Contents:

1. Tibetan with blue lacquer
2. Thar ba chen po bzhugs so "The Great Redeemer"

Physical Description: 11.5 x 30.5 cm

Scope and Contents:

1. Cover with BNMAU coin from 1970
2. 2 möngö
3. 1700 tug.
4. Tibetan
5. First is facsimile with stamp of Erdeni juu keyed

Physical Description: 11 x 31 cm

Physical Description: 7 x 26 cm

Scope and Contents:

1. Kereyen [=keriyen]-ü kelen qamug yoro-yin sudur orosibai [Herein lies the all omens of the raven's tongue sutra]
2. Very fragile matted paper
3. If the call is from x direction at y hour z will occur
4. Uses Chinese 12 animals
5. At the end one finds seven different stamps or symbols: 1. snake; 2. various birds; 3. sheep; 4. dog; 5. camel, horse, and ox; 6. horse, ox, and mule; 7. demons (cödkir [=cidkör]-ün buu)

Physical Description: 9.5 x 26 cm

Scope and Contents:

1. Indigo back with lacquer
2. Rtan 'brel bstong pa lab sa bshed snyar po bzhugs so
3. Dembereldodov 35,000 tug.
4. Cyrillic intro: Burkhan bagshiin magtaal XIX zuuny üyeiin gar bichmel

Scope and Contents:

1. a) Dalai blam-a Daranada [with Manchu da, i.e. dotted back-vowel tau followed by aleph] gegen tan-u lüngdün [Prophecy of his eminence, the Dalai Lama Taranatha]; 10 x 25.5; one piece of paper glued together and folded back in on itself to make the pages; the cover flap folded back and glued to the backside; the back page is folded in so as to leave the back cover blank; all in all looks like a pamphlet or brochure; 9 pages; Bragun [=Drepüng] juu gajarca; naimdugar üy-e-yin Küriyen-ü blam-a Lubsangisi; Suyibun blam-a Germ? [=Karma?]: jayisang blam-a Ceringdu[n]gdub nar-tur: Dalai blam-a-yin gegen tan-u lüngdün bologsan anu;
2. a (cont.)) Qoortu cag . . . simun [=simnus], tngri, luu, naiman ayimag, etc. bujarlaju qamag amitan-dur qamag magu yiro-a irejü: tetegsen kümün bükün cu nasun-u ecüs-tür kürel ügei: ükün yiküdgegsen? [=yekedgegsen?] cag-tagan arban naiman tamu-dur unaju; ecüs-tür tamu-aca tonilqu-yin mör-yi oyitu ülü olumui: etc.; blam-a gurban erdeni-dür edür söni-yin cagtu; jalibariqu-yin egüden-ece ürgüljid-e kiciyegdün; tamiki tatugsan kümün ükün yiküdgeküi? [=yekedgeküi?]-yin cagtu; dotorban? imagta tamiki tegüni sanaju bayiqu ba mön tamiki tamiki kemen barigrag [=barkirag-a] dagudasagar bayiju üküged; saca arban naiman tamu-dur buyu barid [=preta]. adagusun-u nigen-dür töröjü. masi olan jobulang-iyar nigen agsin-dur amuskiquy-yin cilüge ügei . . . . tamiki tataqu-yi qorigsan bui;
3. a (cont.)) Against smoking, smoking opium presumably; no date
4. b) various Tibetan text fragments
5. c) another Tibetan ms; incomplete; no title
6. d) kha rag sgom chung gi tho cos dang yang/ang yig bdun cu rga gnyis ma bzhugs so
7. e) incomplete ms of: Chinggis bogda-yin nomlagsan oyun tülkegür [=tülkigür]; oldish looking ms; 19th c.
8. f) fragment of: Qutugtu kijagar-a kürügsen vcar [=vcir] eb=degci neretü yeke kölgen sudur; in red and black; this might be Siregetü güüsi's translation
9. g) fragments of the Four Pillars of Medicine: Anagaqu uqagan-u dörben ündüsün
10. h) a mathematical/astrological text; title and ending both missing; fol. 2-42

Scope and Contents:

1. a) Myur mdzad ye shes kyi mgon po phyag drug ba'i…
2. b) Rgyal ba kun gyi mkhyen brtse nus

Scope and Contents:

1. 35,000 tug.
2. a) Coqtu ocir nomun eke kemeküi sudur orshibui; in Oirat Clear Script
3. b) Sab[a]-yin gurban gem-ü[n] nomlagsan sudur orosigulbai
4. c) Möri-yin sang orosiba
5. d) Bagsi buyan sadun-i sitükü-yin yosu-nugud orosimu
6. e) Itegel-ün sudur orosibai
7. f) Cadan [=Jandan] juyu-yin domog ergiküi kemjiy-e aci tusa-lug-a amtu [=qamtu] tobcila[n] qoriy[a]gsan erdeni erike neretü orosiba:: later: Jadan joyau kemen aldarsigsan sitügen-ü domog ergiküi kemjiy-e aci tusa-lug-a qamtu tobcilan qoriyagsan erdeni erike neretü; with colophon

Physical Description: 10 x 31 cm

Scope and Contents:

1. Woodblock cover
2. Block carved out with illustration inserted
3. Lacquered over indigo
4. Gold letters
5. Two Shakyamunis, one in earth-touching mudra, holding alms bowl; other teaching the dharma; Mongol-un keleber: Qutugtu vcir-iyar ogtalugci belig [= bilig]-ün cinad[i]u kijagar-a kürügsen neretü yeke kölgen sudur 55 folio, no colophon

Physical Description: 11 x 32 cm

Scope and Contents:

1. 20th century blue hard cardboard cover
2. Manuscript of old writing style
3. Mongolian with Tibetan interlinear translation
4. Monggol-un keleber: Qutugtu yeke-de tonilgagci jüd-üd-dür delgeregsen gemsin gasigutaqui-bar nigül-i arilgaju burqan-i bütügegül-ün joqiyagcu nere-tü Yeke kölgen sudur; this is a very distorted Mongolian rendering; brittle paper; old style writing; but likely not so old; early 19th c.; 190 folio; 189r colophon: ene Qutug-tu yekede tonilgagci jüg-üd-dür delgeregsen sudur egün-ece urida bükü busu merged-ün orcigulugsan: ene Monggol gajar-a delgereju olan buu [=bui] bögesü ber: esergü tesergü üge udqas anu jokilduqu busu-yin tulada:: degüde [=degedü] gerel ügei süsüg-tü Bayas[q]ulang neretü Ditsi? temdeg-tey-e orcigul kemen basa basa duradqagsan-dur-i: tede merged-ün orcigulugsad-i burugu seyi[l]ju burciju jasabasu ele: teres=leküi? neyiteng? qui ber? üile=dügsen kemegdekü bükü-yin tulada:: tel kele-tü Altan Gerel Ubasi: Töbed-ün olan eke bicigüd-i tokiyaldugulju tüs=lejü? medeg=sen-iyen cinige-ber [=cinege-ber] Monggol-un ayalgu-dur: tegüsgen jasaju orcigulju (orosi) [inserted] – gulbai bi:: egün-ece bolugsan kedüi bükü buyan-iyar: ene ba qoyici töröl-dür bata bügüdeger endegsen nigül-iyen gemsin arilgaqui sedkil-tü bolju: ene sudur-i biciküi [190r] ungsiquy-aca ülü anggijiraqu boltugai:: tere metü üiledügsen caglasi ügei buyan-iyar: terigü=lesi ügei ni bolugsan amitan ?? ger? temdeg büküy-e nasu ürgülji-tei Yeke kölgen-iyer ??buju: tedüikü [=tedüiken] ?? burqan-u qutug-i üter [=üdter] olqu boltugai

Scope and Contents:

1. 1959 coin
2. Price: 1200 tug. for each or 4497 for all eight
3. a) 'jigs byed dpa' bog cig pa zhes bya ba bzhugs so
4. b) rje btsun sgrol ma la brten pa'i 'chi blu'i gdams pa tshe srog skyob byed zhes bya ba bzhugs so

Physical Description: 8 x 25 cm

Scope and Contents:

1. Indigo and black lacquer
2. 'Phags ba tse dang ye shes dbag tu med pa zhes bya ba theg pa chen bo'i mdo bzhugs so

Physical Description: 8 x 23 cm

Scope and Contents:

1. First folio with title looks oldish and well-worn but it's written in pen
2. Remainder of text with stylus, not as old as first folio
3. Very poorly written first folio: killing darcii [=darugci] kker [=kkir] ügei qotala tegüsügsen cag-iyar tusay-i [=tusa-yi] bütügeeci [=bütügegci] tüges? amtar ene bolui; canadmini [=cindamuni] erdeni ene bölüge; remainder of text very nicely written
4. Little card says, Sonsgood khemeekh ikh khölgön sudar (Mongol khel deer)
5. 3000 tug.

Physical Description: 9.5 x 31 cm

Scope and Contents:

1. Red and black
2. Beautifully printed with red frame
3. Old style but relatively recent, 19th century
4. Jaguradu sonosugad yekede tonilgagci-aca jaguradu-yin soyol üges-i bey-e-ten-i tonilgan üiledügci sonosugad tonilgagci neretü ubidis [=ubadis]-un jirüken-ü tolta tegüsbe; Engke amugulang-un tabdagar [=tabdugar] on-u cagagcin taulai jilün dörben sara-yin arban qoyar-tu ekilejü bicibe:: tabun sara-yin sine-yin naiman tegüsgejü bicibei [Begun on the 12th day of the fourth month of the female-white-Hare year in the fifth year of Kangxi [1666] and completed on the 8th day of the fifth month]

Scope and Contents:

1. Cover is a cloth with symbols galore: seven precious jewels, animals, implements, musical instruments; in center is temple system in Pure-land fashion; before it appear to various offerings: baling, etc.; some hell: dog eating skeleton, upside down victim, etc.
2. a) tiny text; 6 x 11 cm; two folio; cover says in Cyrillic: Tsend (khuraangui); 500 tug.; Tibetan title: tshe de sdus pa
3. b) Altan gerel (sudryn khuraangui); 500 tug.; 'phags pa shes ns 'od dam pa bzhug soha
4. c) Dogsom (khuraangui); rta gzungs [horse magic]; 500 tug.
5. d) khar domyn sudar; 9 x 22 cm; 2000 tug.; Mongolian text; title: qar-a dom-un sudur oro=sibai; domna[m]uy-yin jüil; an omen text full of –basu/besü forms and with 'basa' in red
6. e) 10 x 23.5 cm; especially soft pulpy paper; accordion style; 2300 tug.; yor-a kemekü orosibai; the Cyrillic cover has: Otocyn khan yalagdashgui amyn yerööl orshvoi; yerööl for yor-a is a mistake
7. f) a package; gift to Martha Avery by three ladies in the bookstore; F/96; Badargultu törö-yin qorin naimdugar on namur cag; Bogda Jibjundamba qutugtu-yin gegegen [=gegen] tan-a [=tan-u] naimdugar düri-yin bagulgugsan lüngden jarlig anu; in same accordion style writing as Dalai lama's lüngden]
8. g) mgon po phyag dug ba'i chogs mcod bzhugs sdo; three folios; 7 x 22 cm
9. h) Enelengküy-yi aragagci saran-u gerel kemekü sôdar-a [=sudur] orosibai; Gelung Lubsangbaldan-bar bicigsen bolai
10. i) fragment of a medical diagram in Tibetan
11. j) 10 x 25 cm; accordion style; like previous lüngden texts; Vacardar-a Bogda gegegen tan-u naimdugar dürin-ü qayiqamsigtu lüngdüng orosibai:: a 20th c. text; addresses Qalq-a; says the Chinese are destroying Buddhism and insulting the clergy; mentions sufferings of hell (tamu)
12. k) naiman tümen dörben minggan [84,000]; 10 x 25 cm; like other prophecy texts but fragmentary; cagan morin jil-ün namur-un segül sarayin qorin qoyar [the 22nd day of the final month of autumn in the white-horse year (1870)]; arban qara nigül-i arilgad arban cagan buyan-i delgerigülüged
13. l) 13 x 25.5 cm; Chinese book style-looped binding; cover worn off; title illegible; begins: gurban erden-dür itegemüi; 13 fols.; title: ene cag-un jims-i todorgulugci cagasun sibagu kemegdekü tegüsbei:: [The Paper Bird]

Physical Description: 10 x 33 cm

Scope and Contents: Darker, greenish, rather thick paper

Physical Description: 8.5 x 21.5 cm

Scope and Contents:

1. Mantra in Tibetan over Mongolian sutra
2. In lacquer
3. Qutug-tu vacir-iyar ogtulugci belig [=bilig]-ün cinadu kijigar-a [=kijagar-a] kürügsen kemegdekü Yeke kölgen sudur orosibai; grey writing; 50 folio; after end of sutra there's a dharani: ilisi ilisi: milisi milisi; etc.; then: Vacir-iyar ogtulugci-yin jirüken ?? nigen-de uribisu [=uribasu]: vacir-iyar ogtulugci-yi yisün tümen nige mingg-a ungsigsan-lug-a sacagu bolqu boluyu:: mangghalam
4. No colophon; in places the silver color is coming off leaving a dull grey; writing bordered by yellow lines; no illustrations

Scope and Contents: 800 tug.; 3500 tug. total

Physical Description: 13.5 x 20 cm

Scope and Contents:

1. yuwen (語文) [Chinese language]
2. With a stamp from 1969
3. In simplified characters
4. Fayang zuyao yichan (发扬祖药遗产) [Making the most of the heritage of traditional medicine]
5. In middle, upside down: Shanxisheng Pingyaoxian yaocai gongci (山西省平遥县药材公司) [The medical corporation of Pingyou county of Shanxi province]

Physical Description: 10 x 22 cm

Scope and Contents:

1. 1959 coin
2. a) tölge – idam burqan-dur mürgün jalbarimui . . . . niguca dar[a]nis-un ejen cag-un kürdün-e mürgün jalbarimui
3. b) Dang san blam-a orosibai; another divination text
4. c) Mai nii-yin tölöge ene bolai
5. d) Itegel-ün eke-ün [=yin] sudur orosibai
6. e) An older ms?
7. f) Jöng ciger üjikü [=üjekü] togt[a]mal orosibai [Constants for viewing presages and taboos??]; a little divination text
8. g) Ene Manii-yin udq-a-i ken kümün sonosbasu burqan-u qutug-i olqu sudur orosibai [Herein lies the sutra by which anyone who hears the idea of Mani attains the sanctity of Buddhahood]
9. All texts are divination works
10. 16,000 tug.

Physical Description: 10 x 25.5 cm

Scope and Contents:

1. a) Well worn astrological illustrations
2. b) Tibetan; accordion style; in pencil
3. c) Mgron bsang; lha do mi do 'phrod pa'i dga' ston bi dza ha ra tism
4. d-f) Tibetan
5. g) Mongolian; 10 nastai; oyan sain amugulang boltugai; 80 nasulbai; naiman ayimag-ud; delekey-yin ecid [=ejed]

Scope and Contents:

1. Woodblock
2. All Tibetan

Scope and Contents:

1. Cyrillic card says: Ochroor oglogch ikh khölgön sudar [The Diamond-cutter sutra – referring to b]
2. 20,000 tug.
3. a) 9 x 22 cm; Cogtu jandan sudur oro=sibai; 12 fols.; black and red; (red is almost purple); nicely carved; interesting writing; 19th c.; has round red seal on front and back cover
4. b) Qutug-tu vacar-iyar ogtalugci bilig-ün cinadu kijagar-a kürügsen neretü yeke kölgen sudur orosibai [The Diamond-cutter sutra]; 8.5 x 22 cm.; also nicely written; 19th c.; 103 fols.

Physical Description: 8 x 20 cm

Scope and Contents:

1. 400 tug.
2. Byang chub bde lam gyi dmigs skor cha tshad bar tshigs bcad du bsdeds la lam mchog snying po zhes bya ba bzhugs so

Physical Description: 7 x 18 cm

Scope and Contents:

1. Tibetan
2. Price: 1000 tug.

Physical Description: 8 x 20.5 cm

Scope and Contents: Lots of different colored writing

Scope and Contents:

1. 800 tug.
2. a) 'phags pa ce dang ye shes dpag tu med ba zhes byab theg ba chen po'i mad bzhugs so
3. b) shes rab kyi pha rol tu…
4. c) 'phags b ashes rab…
5. d) rdo rje…
6. e) po bstod bstod ba shel dkar me lod bzhugs so
7. f) 'go…

Scope and Contents:

1. a) 'phags ba gcug tu…
2. b) bstan 'bar ma bzhugs so
3. c) Indigo with black lacquer; golden letters; Diamond-cutter?; 'phags bs shes rab kyi . . .; 8.5 x 24 cm; this one's 10,000 tug.; altogether 13,409 tug.

Physical Description: 9 x 23 cm

Scope and Contents: 1000 tug.

Physical Description: 9 x 23 cm

Scope and Contents:

1. a) Qarsi jasaqu naiman gegen neretü sudur orosiba [Herein lies the sutra named the eight brilliant ones that order the palace, i.e. protect from harm]; with red swastikas; introit in Mong. transcription with Tibetan interlinear; below says: Monggol-un keleber: Qutugtu ogtargui gajar-un naiman gegegen neretü yeke kölgen sudur [The eight lights of heaven and earth]; this is the proper title
2. b) Gal-un takilg-a orosiba [Fire offering]; 1-3 fol.
3. c) Gal-un takilga sunder? [=sudur??] yeke takilga orisiiba [=orosiba]; 6 fol. modern, lined paper
4. d) Temegen-ü engiy-e? orosiba; with Chinese stamp on title page
5. e) Corji blam-a Agwangdorji-bar jokiyagsan tngri delekie gajar oron-u sang takilg-a orosibai; with: tngri, luus, naiman ayimag; see above
6. f) Mongol üsüg-ün cagan tolugai kemekü sudur orosibai [Herein lies the sutra called the Mongolian alphabet]

Physical Description: 6.5 x 22 cm

Scope and Contents:

1. Title on cover in red
2. Illegible, faded
3. One bit of first folio taped
4. Qutug-tu sayin yabudal-tu küseküi mörön qagan qutug-tu jalagu bolugsan Manju=siri-dür mürgümüi; with watermark of the Russian paper mills; it's the Qutugtu sayin yabudal-un irüger-ün qagan
5. 2000 tug.

Physical Description: 8 x 22 cm

Scope and Contents:

1. 1959 coin
2. Cost of 8000 tug.
3. a) Bogda Dalai blam-a-yin jarlig-un bicig orosibai [Edict of the Holy Dalai Lama]; small accordion style; matted paper; ulam ulam tamu tamu-iyar bolgunjilen [=bolgumjilen] [5r]; ese ünemsigsen ese tarqagsan kümün tamu-dur magad unamui [5v]; no year or colophon
4. b) Yeke kümün-i odun-dur sarijin? ergüküy-yin yosu rasiyan sayin sim kemegdekü ner[e]tü sudur orosibai; small, accordion style; matted paper
5. c) Singdug?? minjin kemekü orosibai; accordion style; ulagan sal[a]kin; cinu-a; ariyatan; cögübüri cinu-a qulugai
6. d) ?
7. e) sonosugad tonilgagci-yin ?? ?? sudur orosibai; ends with illustr. of four stupas
8. f) durama [=durma; Tib. gtorma] üildekü-yin nomlal ke[m]egdegci orosibai
9. g) Yesün jogosun-sudur amui [Nine coin sutra]; divination; lined, modern paper
10. h) Sayin cag-yin [=un] minggan burqan-u tamg-a kemegdekü sudur orosibai [Herein lies the sutra known as the seal of the thousand buddhas of the Good Time]; written on lined modern paper
11. i) 93 folio ms
12. j) kümün-ü sülde[n]- ü orosil-un üsüg orosiba
13. k) Corji lam-a Ayayangdoraji [=Agwangdorji]-bar jokiyagsan tengeri del[e]kei gajar oron-u sang ta'kalag-a [=takilg-a] orosibai [Herein lies the incense offering to heaven and earth composed by Agwangdorji]; some Tibetan interlinear translation
14. l) lined modern paper
15. m) in Oirat script

Physical Description: 17 x 26.5 cm

Scope and Contents: Baragun juu-yin bügüde qauli [The full law of Lhasa]; degedü gadag[a]du Monggol-un törö-yi zasaqu yabudal-un yamun-u qauli; jiran nigedüger debter

Scope and Contents:

1. Chinese book format
2. Looped string binding
3. Fabric cover
4. Pages looped
5. Well-worn text, with tabs for easy reference

Physical Description: 13.5 x 26 cm

Scope and Contents:

1. White cover
2. Chinese pierced loop string binding
3. Bogda-yin surgal-yi senggeregülün badaragulugsan bicig-ün orosil: jasagtu nom-dur jilbüri qaburun terigün sar-a-dur tungagci qongq-a? kötelgejü jam-dur yabumui kemejüküi yosulaltu nom-dur sang-un erkin sayid jirgugan yosolal-yi jasaju irgen-üjang-yi kinamui; dologan surgal-yi todorqayilaju irgen-ü erdem-yi kögjigülümüi kemejüküi

Physical Description: 13 x 26 cm

Physical Description: 8 x 17 cm

Scope and Contents:

1. Qutugtu vacir-iyar ogtolugci ner-e-tü Yeke kölgen sudur orosibai
2. Red ink
3. Small, good condition, good paper

Physical Description: 9 x 23 cm

Scope and Contents:

1. Cost: 1800 tug.
2. Tibetan

Physical Description: 9 x 22.5 cm

Scope and Contents:

1. Woodblock
2. Black lacquered paper over indigo background
3. Tibetan
4. Gold letters
5. Title: 'phags pa thes rab kyi pha rol tu phyin ba rgyang stor pa bzhugs so

Physical Description: 9 x 13 cm

Scope and Contents:

1. Price: 800 tug./sutra
2. Tibetan
3. a) Dregs pa sde brgyad la gser skyems gtor ba'i co gab dud rtsi'i rlabs 'phreng zhes bya ba bzhugs so

Scope and Contents: Short, incomplete

Physical Description: 8 x 22 cm

Scope and Contents:

1. With five mongo coin from 1959
2. An astrological text: lo ma gyon ma'i gsa gsum gyi bsgom bzlas rgyun 'khyer ma bzhuks so

Scope and Contents: Oyu[n] tülkigür neretü sudur-a orosibai

Scope and Contents:

1. 2500 tug.
2. a) Vacir-iyar ogtulugci eke sudur orosibai; cover torn in half; small text 7.5 x 18 cm; written in dry black ink; 19th c.; 49 folio; Qutugtu bilig cinadu kijagara kürügsen ogtulugci vacir-a ner-e-tü yeke kölgen sudur Other texts all in Tibetan

Scope and Contents:

1. Tibetan texts
2. a) gso sbyod gyis mdo zhugs so [Rules for confession]

Physical Description: 10 x 22 cm

Scope and Contents: Tibetan

Physical Description: 8 x 19.5 cm

Scope and Contents: Contains another version of the Diamond-cutter Sutra

Physical Description: 5 x 18 cm

Scope and Contents:

1. Black lacquer
2. Tibetan
3. 'phags pa tse dang ye shes…
4. Cover has Qing time bronze coin

Physical Description: 6.5 x 18.5 cm

Scope and Contents:

1. Painted in black lacquer
2. Six blocks
3. Tibetan

Scope and Contents:

1. a) a Diamond-cutter sutra
2. b) paper has oval-shaped water mark of a particular Russian paper mill

Scope and Contents:

1. In silk cover
2. Some Tibetan, some Mongolian
3. a) 'phags pha shes rab kyi pha rol tu phyin pa stong phag brgya pa'i den ma nor bar gsdus pa bzhug[s] so [Prajnaparamita]
4. b) astrological sutra fragments; Mongolian; rather old; brittle paper; written in re pencil; 19th c. ms; unfinished
5. c) Tibetan work; a bit darker heavier paper
6. d) Tibetan ms; 5- the rest all in Tibetan

Physical Description: 12 x 44.5 cm

Scope and Contents:

1. Front and back covers have illustration of Eight Fortunate Symbols: canopy, fishes, flask, lotus, etc.
2. Ends with Four Maharajas: 1. yul 'gor ba ?; 2. 'phags skyes po; 3. sbyan mi dzad; 4. rnam thos sras

Physical Description: 15 x 46 cm

Scope and Contents:

1. Red silk wrap
2. Blockprint
3. Woodblock covers wrapped in silk
4. Inside front block cover carved out
5. Paper covered with black lacquer made of smear of brains and soot
6. Colored writing black background, colors: grey, green, red, white, yellow, blue, coral, malachite, lapis/azurite
7. Cover illustration: two Shakyamunis

Scope and Contents:

1. Ene anu üile-ber tamu birid-tü törökü ucir-i ilgan salgaju tusaburi jirug nom-i qamtu ta? üiledügsen-ece ayun anqarcu abubasu sayin mör-dür oroqu-yin ubidas orosiba; text is in order; it's parts labeled in Tibetan letters: k, kh, g, etc. and Mongolian Arabic numerals; 4r: jindamani; after 11r goes to Tibetan; sheets stuck together
2. k in Tibetan: sems can dmyal ba chen po dang po yang sos: First meditation-like hell, Yangso; dmyal ba = 'to cut up' or 'hell'; yang sos = name of a Hell; cf. Thangyan, scientific treatises
3. 1. illustr.: victims cut up with daggers and swords; run through with spears, etc. two demons on left and right with wild long hair holding beaters; a long-haired crow/raven-like figure in center; no text
4. 2. illustr.: three demons with long guns (flintlock rifles) shooting victims; first demon looks like a goat; second cat-like; third maybe a dog
5. text has balcig 'swamp, mire, ooze' and sibar 'mud, marsh, morass, mire'
6. 3. illustr.: denizens cut up
7. 4. illustr.: demonic human heads on animal (bovine) bodies: chimera cut up or caught in traps, shot with rifles (flintlocks) amidst bushes; also on ass/mule/donkey; qabag-a [for qabangg-a 'wild boar'?]; qay-a mi gtsang pa'i 'da 'unclean mire'; buu-ni sali [=sili]
8. 5. illustr.: deer head with human body; horse body with human head; arrows from bushes; then funny pictures of animals, dog it seems, one bound with a fetter, the other wrapped in a tube and fettered text: mi gtsang ba'i 'dam 'impure/filthy mire'; numun sali [=sili] dakin nökersci? nigedüger balcig shabar [= sibar] ?? tamu
9. k1. yangs so ski 'khor bcu drug las mi gtsang ba'i 'dam zhes bya ba'i dmyal ba 'the 16th circle of Yangs sos hell, the hell called 'Filthy Mire'
10. 1. illustr.: victims shot with flintlocks by a demon with cat/tiger head and demon with rat? head; man tied down; man with limbs cut off; flaming worms devouring corpses; vultures and birds eating corpses; two dogs eating corpses
11. text: dmyal ba mi gtsang ba'i 'dam 'Mire of hell impure'; nigedüger dakin gedegerigci [=edegeregci 'to revive']-yin nökör-ece balcig shabar [=sibar]-tu kemegci tamu ene; Tibetan text then Mongolian
12. illustr.: dakin edegeregci-yin nökör-?-ece qoyadugar temür-tü körbelgegci tamu-yin keb-i tal-a
13. k1. dakin edegegci tamu-yin nökör-olja qudaldug-a olqu tuqai-dur mese-ber busud-yi ami qagacagulugsan-aca ülü gemsin üiledügcid qoyardugar temüt-dür kör<übegülügegci kemegci tamu-dur törökü-yi nomlagsan orosiba
14. yang sos kyi 'khor bcu drug las: gsum bas nod du btsus ba'i dmyal ba
15. dakin edegegci tamu-yin nökör arban jirgug-a-aca gurbadugar sabg-a cinagdaqu kemekü tamu ene tal-a-tu amui
16. snod du btsos ba 'to boil in a vessel'
17. victims stirred in a vessel by ten demons in form of animals: 1. wolf? 2. tiger; 3. bird?; 4. bird?; 5. lion? 6. dog? 7. horse; 8. sheep; 9. goat; 10. bull
18. k1. the fourth level: dörbedüger qoorlal asuru ülü amurlagci kemekü tamu-yin tal-a
19. with an elephant
20. 5th level: tabudugar-daki qara[n]gqui-tu kemegci tamu ene
21. illustr.: brick furnace with people burned inside; turtle/tortoise [probably = Lyra] throwing in victims
22. 6. '>ebdegen? ülü bayasugci kemekü tamu
23. 7. mederel jobala[n]g dabaran arbiddugci tamu ene
24. Kh. qara sigum 'line'-tu tamu

Physical Description: 12 x 34 cm

Scope and Contents:

1. Tibetan-Mongolian Title
2. Mongolian text with red and black
3. Mila rasba toguji; translated by Siregetü güüsi corji in Kökeqota in 1618; qoladaki gajar-aca cing süsüg sedkil-iyer ene toguji orcigulun jalaju ir-e kemenilegegsen elci anu: Köndülen qoloci cingsang: Erdeni nomci sanding?; Jorigtu kiya ede gurbagula-yi ilegegsen bölüge:: uu [=wu] morin jil-ün cagan sara-yin tergel edür: qamug-dur aldarsigsan Köke qota-yin emün-e Nom-tu tiib neretü qarsi-dur tegüs-iyer orosigulun orcigulbai: ogtargui-lug-a saca qamug amitan orcigulugsan ene buyan-iyar: keb kejiy-e nom-un kögerge-yi deledüged amugulang-iyar orositugai:: manggalam

Physical Description: 8.5 x 30 cm

Scope and Contents:

1. Described in Cyrillic as "Sonsgood"
2. Yekede sonosugad tonilgagci ner-e-tü Yeke kölgen sudur
3. Red and black
4. 100 folio, complete

Physical Description: 8.5 x 22 cm

Scope and Contents:

1. a) zurkhai nom; 2500 tug.; fragile; Tibetan; fragmentary
2. b) zurkhai; 150 tug. Fragmentary
3. c) merge tölgiin gurvan nom; 3500 tug.; Tibetan

Physical Description: 9 x 28 cm

Physical Description: 7 x 22 cm

Scope and Contents: a) rtan ma' la zhe lda rca pa bzhugs so

Physical Description: 10 volumes

Scope and Contents: Dangzang?; Baragun gajar jorc[i]gsan-i tem[e]deglegsen [Journey to the West]; Chinese: 大唐西域記 (Da Tang xiyu ji); Sayisiyaltu irügeltü-0yin yisüdüger on-u qabur-un segül sarayin jurgan [6th day of the final month of spring in the 9th year of Jiaqing (1804)]; vols. 1-4, 8-14?

Scope and Contents:

1. a) Uta-yin tabun agulan-u orosil süsügen-ü cikin [cimeg] orosiba [Herein lies the guide to the five mountains of Wutai, an ornament to the ears of the faithful]; uses : diacritic for q and k as in qotala
2. b) Ubadis-un jirüken-ü tolta; black and red; oldish (early 19th, late 18th c.??); 13.5 x 50 cm

Physical Description: 14.5 x 51 cm

Scope and Contents:

1. Black lacquer
2. Tibetan
3. Illustration at end are the Four Maharajas

Physical Description: 11 x 35.5 cm

Scope and Contents:

1. With 1959 coin
2. Pink cover
3. Erdini [=Erdeni]-yin Coyijid dakini Erlig-ün gajar ocigad iregsen namutar mungqag-un qarangguy-i gi[=e]yigülügci bilig-ün jula kemegdekü bolai
4. 19th century
5. Red and black ink
6. Paper has interesting watermark from one of the mills
7. 66 fols.

Scope and Contents:

1. Very nice big silk cover
2. With Mongolian coin from 1959

Scope and Contents:

1. a) inserted card: Gongar – Tsambagarav – yn dallaga, tailga, khangalyn sudar orshvoi; yellow cover; 1000 tug.; inside is nice old Tibetan text; 9.5 x 36 cm; gka' ston dam can mched gsum…
2. b) card: üne 1000 tug.: Namsrain dallaga, takhilga khangal sudar orshvoi; another old ms; rgyal po chen po . . . 10.5 x 37.5 cm; red cover
3. c) card: 1000 tug.; Jalbi Dansran sudar orshvoi; rgyal pa'i btsan sung rgyal chen sde...

Physical Description: 11 x 36 cm

Scope and Contents:

1. 1959 coin
2. Woodblock
3. Front block covered with glued-on cloth, under unglued edge writing exposed on wood in ink with stylus
4. A palimpsest
5. Bogda geser qagan-u ning/niang tulamu? manggus-i darugsan cedege [=cedig, Skt. jataka] bolai; 9th Chp; folio 1-24

Scope and Contents:

1. 1959 coin
2. Intro card in Cyrillic has many errors trying to render titles in Cyrillic
3. a) 11 x 35.5 cm; Bogda juu Adisa-yin cadig orosibai [The Biography of Atisa]; Enedkeg-ün yeke bandida Dibanggar-a juu Adisa-yin ekin-ü toguji mön öber-ün jarlig kiged erdeni Brom bagsi-yin nayirgul-un jokiyagsan egüni: ende Monggol-un keleber orcigultugai kemen qošoi Kengse cin wang urida jarlig bolugsan kiged qoyina bas Cürem [=Culrim] gesül böged olan süsüg-ten-ü duraddugsan-dur: qoos kelen-i öcüken medegci Urad güüsi Bilig-ün dalai qutugtan merged-i sitüjü Monggolcilan orcigulbai: en[g]degür[e]jü burugu bolugsan bügüde-yi qocorli ügegüy-e erkin degedü gurban erdenis-e namancilan öcimü: egün-e jöb bolugsan buyan-iyar: eke qamug amitan erkilejü: Juu Adiša-yin mör-tür dagan oroldaqu boltugai:: Cürim gesül keb seyilgebei Subham:: [the biography of Atisa was composed by the guru Brom [Tib. 'Bron ston]; it was translated into Mongolian by the Urad Bilig-ün dalai at the request of a certain Culrim and others and at the order of Kengse cin wang; this Culrim also has the carving of the blockprint done]
4. b) 10.5 x 35 cm; Ene cag-un jims-i todorugulugci cag-a=sun siba=gu kemegdekü orosiba:: [the Paper Bird]; beautifully written; nisvanis with old final s; qogosun qumaki-yin [9r] togosun culgagsagar arbidbasu siroi bolumui: siroi arbidbasu agula bolumui: cing arbidbasu: usun bolumi: mana arbidb asu egüle bolumui: tupii?? arbidbasu balagad bolumui: tegüncilen bey-eügei qogosun sedkil burudabasu? nisvanis bolumui nisvanis arbidbasu tamu bolbasuramui: jöb dabasu buyan-tai mör bolumui: buyan arbidbasu burqan bolumui: no colophon
5. c) 10 x 35 cm; 20 fols.; Dara eke da-yin qubil=gan Jambal dorji-yin toguji orosiba
6. d) 11.5 x 35.5 cm; paper has water-mark of Russian paper mills; 28 fols.; Singju örösiyeltü Quwangdi-yin senggeregülün badargulugsan jarlig orosibai:: with Tibetan transcription of the Mongolian:'e tsed ni sur ka li [=ejen-ü surgal, i.e. a teaching of the Bogd khan]; written in charcoal it seems?; Bogda-yin surgal-yi senggeregülün badaragulugsan bicig-ün orosil jasagtu nom-dur jilbüri qabur-un teregün [=terigün] saradur tunggagci vicar [=vacir] ?? kötölgejü jam-dur yabumui kemejüküi: yosolal-tu nom-dur: sang-un erkin sayid jorgan yosulal-yi jasaju irgen-ü jang-yi erkemlemüi: dologan surgal-i todorqayilan irgen-ü erdem-yi kögjigülümüi kemejüküi; so it's like other "teachings"; ends with: öber öber-ün tariyan-u üile-yi kiciyen: öber öber-ün cereg-ün erdem-i bolbasurgulun: bös torg-a amu buurcag-bar keb-iyer sakiju sagu tübsin sidurgu-bar soyol-yi tegüsgekü-yi keciyegtün
7. e) 10.5 x 35 cm; 6 fols.; late 19th c. or early 20th c.; üniyen-ü üris [=üres]:: [1v] üniyen-ü üres gargaqui-dur: angqan-u tugulgagsan üniyen-ü süü-yi qagural ügei abugad: qoyin-a üniy-e tugulagsan cag-tur qoliju sacugu bui
8. Altogether sold for 45000 tug., about $30

Physical Description: 12.5 x 38 cm

Scope and Contents:

1. Tibetan
2. In plaid box

Physical Description: 12 x 44 cm

Scope and Contents:

1. Worn
2. stong chen mo rab du 'jams pa zhes bya pa'i mdo bzhugs so [the Pancaraksa]; later gives: Rig sdags kyi rgyal mo rma bya chen mo zhes bya ba'i mdo bzhugs so [the Golden Light]

Physical Description: 10 x 25 cm

Scope and Contents:

1. Lacquer
2. Gold, grey, white, red writing

Physical Description: 10 x 32 cm

Scope and Contents:

1. Black lacquer
2. Gold writing

Physical Description: 11 x 35 cm

Scope and Contents:

1. Black lacquer
2. Red, gold, white writing
3. Illustrated at beginning and end

Physical Description: 11 x 35 cm

Scope and Contents:

1. Comes with little tag in Cyrillic that says: Tarva chinbo (Tib. thar pa chen bo) ikh tonilgogch khölgön sudur (Mongoloor) – 7000 tug. [= 7000 tugrigs]
2. Cover has: Yeke-tü tonilγaγči köl[i]gen-ü sudur orosibai
3. Lots of hand-written insertions
4. Introduction has: Mongγol-un kel[e]ber qutuγ-tu yekede tonilγaγči jüg-üd-tür delgeregsen γasiγutan gemsiküi-ber kelinčes-i arilγaγad burqan bütügeküy-e tey[i]n böged jokiyaγsan neretü yeke köl[i]gen sudur
5. After folio 34 ends then handwritten section starting with 22
6. Lists Buddhas to be prayed to

Physical Description: 11 x 35 cm

Scope and Contents:

1. Gu ru bhi ra'i rgas ba'i spyin sreg dros brub 'byung gnas bdur rci chu rgyun zhes bya ba bzhugs so
2. Two lonely Mongolian transcriptions: jayibi and jiningsere[n]ge; otherwise all in Tibetan

Scope and Contents: Uchen/dbu-can script on bone

Series:

Physical Description: 22 x 31 cm

Scope and Contents: rgya gar skad du…

Physical Description: 10 x 10 cm

Scope and Contents:

1. Not quite square
2. Jewel horse image; zhes bya ba'i mi nor

Physical Description: 11.5 cm diameter

Scope and Contents: Round

Physical Description: 8 x 8 cm

Scope and Contents: Deity image; text: brgya byin; side two: deity image; king with vajra and staff on tiger; looks like one of the guardians; rnam sras

Scope and Contents: Image of a bodhisattva?

Scope and Contents: Stupa

Physical Description: 7 x 8.5 cm

Scope and Contents: Side a: a star; side b: lotus with eight petals; eight fortunate signs: canopy, knot, fishes, conch, wheel, lotus, etc.; in center is yin/yang

Physical Description: 20.5 x 17 cm

Scope and Contents:

1. On outside are names of the twelve animals
2. Bottom corners: khyud (horse/sign) and 'bruj (thunder/dragon)

Physical Description: 20 x 19 cm

Scope and Contents: various demons relating to the calling of the soul, i.e. death rituals; carved very nicely; one side has ten demons: 1) durg kha gang; 2. the'u rang sngo; 3. sa gri 'dri; 4. ban cha gas; 5. ma mo; 6. srin po so; 7. gza' bdung; 8. mu bdur khra; 9. mtshun 'dri so; 10. dhar khra' dra?; other side has twelve demons: 1. rgyal bo ?; 2. ka btsan mo; 3. ka lha bdu; 4. ma nyon bdud; 5. sa phung bdud; 6. na 'chi bdag [Lord of death]; 7. ??; 8. rgyal po; 9. sa gnong – spyin; 10. yi dags; dmar skya; 11. bdud nin; 12. smag; [come back to this one]

Physical Description: 21.5 x 22 cm

Scope and Contents:

1. Nothing about it is quite square
2. Backside has stars
3. phat om gri tu da ??

Physical Description: 20.5 x 24.5 cm

Scope and Contents:

1. Three deities: a) drang srong zhib dram sdap; b) ? c) drang srong drag po; gyal zhe
2. At bottom are eight fortunate symbols

Physical Description: 29.5 x 28 cm

Scope and Contents:

1. Divination turtle with eight trigrams
2. Other side has lots of text

Physical Description: 6 x 48 cm

Scope and Contents: On end: nad gong sgyad ba cu dgu; text: sgo gsum gyi skyon

Physical Description: 9 x 47 cm

Scope and Contents: Mantras

Physical Description: 49 x 6 cm

Scope and Contents: On end: na dgods rgyan . . . nyer ha cig

Physical Description: 9.5 x 46.5 cm

Scope and Contents: Five bodhisattva images, each with two attendants and with sun and moon

Physical Description: 14 x 40 cm

Scope and Contents: side a): fu (fortune); image; shou (longevity); b) male and female öljei utasun; four Mongolian words: 1. garid [=garuda]; 2. arslan (with indistinct late 19th c. s); 3. jigasun ?; 4. matar

Physical Description: 20.5 x 7.5 cm

Scope and Contents: Dagger and vajra