IOL Toch 717
| Known as: | IOL Toch 717; Tb 021 |
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| Cite this page as: | Michaël Peyrot. "IOL Toch 717". In A Comprehensive Edition of Tocharian Manuscripts (CEToM). Created and maintained by Melanie Malzahn, Martin Braun, Hannes A. Fellner, and Bernhard Koller. https://cetom.univie.ac.at/?m-ioltoch717 (accessed 15 Feb. 2026). |
Edition | |
| Editor: | Michaël Peyrot |
Provenience | |
| Main find spot: | Unknown |
| Collection: | British Library (London) |
Language and Script | |
| Language: | TB |
| Linguistic stage: | classical |
| Script: | classical |
Text contents | |
| Title of the work: | Vinayavibhaṅga |
| Passage: | not identified |
| Text genre: | Literary |
| Text subgenre: | Vinaya |
| Verse/Prose: | prose |
Object | |
| Material: | ink on paper |
| Form: | Poṭhī |
| Size (h × w): | 3.7 × 3.1 cm |
| Number of lines: | 3 |
Images
Images from idp.bl.uk by courtesy of the International Dunhuang Project and the British Library.
Transliteration
| a1 | /// [m]· s̝pa cä m[e] /// |
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| a2 | /// ·s· • mā ka r·· /// |
| a3 | /// śtwā ra kla – /// |
| b1 | /// – ·ñ· pa /// |
| b2 | /// ta rka lñe : || /// |
| b3 | /// [r]ṣṣe yä kne ne /// |
Transcription
| a1 | /// m· ṣpä cäme° /// |
|---|---|
| a2 | /// ·s· • mā kär·· /// |
| a3 | /// śtwāra kla – /// |
| b1 | /// – ·ñ· pä /// |
| b2 | /// tarkalñe : ॥ /// |
| b3 | /// °rṣṣe yäkne ne /// |
Commentary
Philological commentary
| : The manuscript is written in an untutored hand. |
Alternative linguistic/paleographic classifications
| Malzahn 2007a | A4 |
| Tamai 2011 | C14 |
References
Identification
Ogihara 2009: 126
Online access
Edition
Peyrot 2007: №717; Peyrot 2007: №717; Ogihara 2009: 126, 413
Bibliography
“The International Dunhuang Project: The Silk Road Online.” n.d. http://idp.bl.uk.
Malzahn, Melanie. 2007a. “The most archaic manuscripts of Tocharian B and the varieties of the Tocharian B language.” In Instrumenta Tocharica, edited by Melanie Malzahn, 255–97. Heidelberg: Winter.
Ogihara, Hirotoshi. 2009. “Researches about Vinaya-texts in Tocharian A and B [Recherches sur le Vinaya en tokharien A et B].” PhD, Paris: École Pratique des Hautes Études.
Peyrot, Michaël. 2007. “An edition of the Tocharian fragments IOL Toch 1 – IOL Toch 822 in the India Office Library.” International Dunhuang Project. 2007. http://idp.bl.uk/database/oo_cat.a4d?shortref=Peyrot_2007.
Tamai, Tatsushi. 2011. Paläographische Untersuchungen zum B-Tocharischen. Innsbrucker Beiträge zur Sprachwissenschaft 138. Innsbruck: Institut für Sprachen und Literaturen.




