[INDOLOGY] Mss. from Rotkuppelraum, Qyzyl

[Franco]

Hi Richard,
The Spitzer Manuscript was also found there. Schlingloff has a somewhat eccentric theory that further fragments are still buried just below this cave; I guess it is no longer possible to find out.
Best wishes,
Eli

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> On 13 Oct 2015, at 23:30, Richard Salomon <rsalomon at u.washington.edu> wrote:
> 
> Dear colleagues,
> 
> Many thanks to C. Dreyer, T. Lubin, G.-J. Pinault, and D. Gunkel for their prompt and very helpful reply to my query about the findspot of the Qyzyl manuscripts.
> 
> Richard Salomon
> 
>> On 10/10/2015 1:05 AM, Georges PINAULT wrote:
>> Dear Richard,  Dear Colleagues,    The short narrative about the
>> discovery of Sanskrit and Tocharian manuscripts can be found in A. von
>> Le Coq, Auf Hellas Spuren in Ost-Turkistan, Leipzig, 1926, p. 115. It
>> happened during the 3rd Turfan-Expedition. More information about the
>> Rotkuppelraum and the Rotkuppelhöhlen (present day numbers 66 and 67 in
>> the Chinese numbering of Qizil caves) can be found in M. Yaldiz,
>> Archäologie und Kunstgeschichte Chinesisch-Zentralasiens (Xinjiang),
>> Leiden, Brill, 1987, see the index. As far as Tocharian is concerned,
>> the Toch. B manuscripts that were found there have the finding
>> mark MQR (= Ming-öi Qizil, Rotkuppelraum) in the edition of Toch.
>> B Berlin fragments by E. Sieg and W. Siegling, Tocharische Sprachreste,
>> Sprache B. Heft 2: Fragmente Nr. 71-633, Göttingen, 1953, see the
>> introduction p. 8 and the concordance at the end of the book, p. 406.
>> Check also the paper by Melanie Malzahn, Tocharian texts and where to
>> find them, in M. Malzahn (ed.), Instrumenta Tocharica, Heidelberg, 2007,
>> p. 79-112, but no much details are provided about this issue.  I suppose
>> that a similar concordance is provided in the volumes of SHT published
>> originally under the direction of E. Waldschmidt, and now by Kl. Wille,
>> but I have no time today to check. One should also of course investigate
>> the book by Lore Sander, Paläographisches, etc.,  Wiesbaden, 1968.
>> 
>> This is a first answer which I can provide on the spot. If more
>> information is needed, I will look at other sources, and especially the
>> works of Grünwedel, which I have at home, but it will take some more time.
>> 
>> With best wishes,  Yours,   Georges-Jean Pinault
>> 
>>     > Message du 08/10/15 22:48
>>     > De : "Richard Salomon" <rsalomon at u.washington.edu>
>>     > A : indology at list.indology.info
>>     > Copie à :
>>     > Objet : [INDOLOGY] Mss. from Rotkuppelraum, Qyzyl
>>     >
>>     > Does anyone happen to know of a detailed description of the
>>     > circumstances of discovery of Sanskrit and Tocharian manuscripts
>>    in the
>>     > "Rotkuppelraum" at Qyzyl by A. von le Coq? (This is only very
>>    cursorily
>>     > described in his "Buried Treasures of Chinese Turkestan", p.126
>>    of the
>>     > English version.)
>>     >
>>     > Also, is there a convenient comprehensive list of the manuscripts
>>    that
>>     > came from this cave?
>>     >
>>     > Thanks
>>     > Rich Salomon
>>     >
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