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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 December 2009
The manuscript numbered S. 788 in the Stein Collection at the British Museum is a fragment, only about a foot square, containing on one side of the paper part of two ballads descriptive of fighting in the frontier regions, the second of which is entitled 
“the Ballad of Yen,”. Both the writing and the paper point to a date in the late ninth or beginning of the tenth century.
1 For this apt rendering of 
, I am indebted to my friend Mr. L. C. Hopkins.
1 Near Ning-hsia, Kansu, in A.D. 756.
2 Chiu wu tai shih narrows the margin to 836–840.
1 Reigned 324–345. The actual year when Sha-chou is first mentioned is 335.
1 Part of the Kua-chou district.
1 Chavannes gives the year wrongly as 852.
1 
I-tsê in T'ung chien, 
I-wei in T'ai p'ing hnan yu chi.
1 The passage in T'ang shu is really ccxvi B, 14 r°, and it is I-ch'ao's death that is chronicled, though a careless reader might take the words to refer to Huai-shên. Correct also Chavannes, , “Dix Inscriptions,” p. 80, n. 1.Google Scholar
2 Again we see that the reigns of Yuan-tê, Yuan-shên, and Yen-kung are omitted.
1 Evidently the change of dynasty which took place in the 6th moon of this year had not yet been reported in Tunhuang.
