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The Manichaean Turkish Texts of the Stein Collection at the British Library

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 June 2010

Peter Zieme
Peter Zieme*
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BBAW Berlin
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Abstract

In this article the author presents an overview of the British Library's Manichaean Turkish text fragments (written in Runic, Manichaean and Sogdo-Uigur script). Besides information on all fragments published so far several pieces of a confession text on the Blessed Small Feast Day are edited in full and compared to parallels in other collections.

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Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society , Volume 20 , Issue 3 , July 2010 , pp. 255 - 266
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Copyright © The Royal Asiatic Society 2010

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