Revisiting G. S. Lytkin’s Catalogue of Manuscripts Used by Faithful Oirats
https://doi.org/10.22162/2500-1523-2023-1-40-56
Abstract
Introduction. Oirat-language (Clear Script) sources have been cataloguized by A. G. Sazykin, V. L. Uspensky, N. S. Yakhontova, K. V. Orlova, D. N. Muzraeva, and others. The Mongolian Collection of the Gorky Scientific Library at St. Petersburg University is a most significant set of Clear Script books and manuscripts. Oirat manuscripts were delivered mainly from Kalmyk-inhabited steppes through the efforts of A. V. Popov, K. F. Golstunsky, A. M. Pozdneev, G. S. Lytkin who would repeatedly arrive in pursuit of scholarly research — to record folklore narratives and collect manuscripts. Goals. The article aims to introduce into scientific circulation a catalog of Oirat manuscripts compiled by G. S. Lytkin (1859–1860) and stored at the Gorky Scientific Library of St. Petersburg University, and attempts to trace correlations between the mentioned list and V. L. Uspensky’s catalogue of Mongolian manuscripts and woodcuts. Materials. The study deals with a total of nineteen Oirat-language sources supplemented with explanations and notes of the compiler. Results. The catalogue of G. S. Lytkin presents both canonical works, including ones translated by Ven. Zaya Pandita, and didactic, narrative, and ritual texts. The study reveals that V. L. Uspensky identifies no collection affiliation for some manuscripts included in G. S. Lytkin’s catalogue, while others are attributed by the former to collections of K. F. Golstunsky, A.V. Popov, A. M. Pozdneev, and Stepanov.
Keywords
catalogue of manuscripts,
Clear Script,
G. S. Lytkin,
Gorky Scientific Library of St. Petersburg University
Supporting agencies: The reported study was funded by Russian Science Foundation, project no. 22-78-10152 ‘Corpus of Old Kalmyk Clear Script Texts on the Lingvodoc Linguistic Platform: New Approaches to the Digitization of Written Heritage’.
About the Author
Aisa O. Doleeva
Kalmyk Scientific Center of the RAS (8, Ilishkin Str., 358000 Elista, Russian Federation)
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Junior Research Associate, Postgraduate Student
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Doleeva A.O. Revisiting G. S. Lytkin’s Catalogue of Manuscripts Used by Faithful Oirats. Mongolian Studies. 2023;15(1):40-56. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.22162/2500-1523-2023-1-40-56
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