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THT 141

Known as:	THT 141; B 141; Bleistiftnummer 2692
Cite this page as:	"THT 141". 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-tht141 (accessed 05 Dec. 2023).
Provenience
Main find spot:	Qizil Miŋ-Öy
Specific find spot:	Rothkuppelraum
Expedition code:	T III MQR 49
Collection:	Berlin Turfan Collection (BBAW)
Language and Script
Language:	TB
Linguistic stage:	archaic
Script:	archaic
Text contents
Text genre:	Literary
Text subgenre:	Kāvya
Verse/Prose:	verse
Object
Manuscript:	THT 133-147
Material:	ink on paper
Form:	Poṭhī
Number of lines:	6

Images

Images from idp.bl.uk by courtesy of the International Dunhuang Project, the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften, and the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Orientabteilung.

Transliteration

a1	/// – – ///
a2	/// ñme yä tsī [c]·· ///
a3	/// lki ñä ma kte wä ///
a4	/// [r]mka tkaṃ krui ce¯ ¯u kā rmke ///
a5	/// ¯ñ mai ma ñcī : wä lo ///
a6	/// || || ·[e] ///
b1	/// [kl]y(·) wṣ(·) ṣ[o](·) r· ///
b2	/// cmī tra ma ke ktse nn[o] ///
b3	/// [tts]e śai ṣṣe se 3 kuce kwa ///
b4	/// k[ā] rsa nra kca ///
b5	/// ntsyä rttau se śai ///

Transcription

a1	/// – – ///
a2	/// ñme yätsī c·· ///
a3	/// lkiñä mäkte wä ///
a4	/// rm katkaṃ krui ceu kārm ke ///
a5	/// ñ maimäñcī : wälo ///
a6	/// ॥ ॥ ·e ///
b1	/// kly(e)wṣ(ā) ṣo(t)r· ///
b2	/// cmīträ ma kektsen no ///
b3	/// ttse śaiṣṣe se 3 kucek wa ///
b4	/// kārsan ra kca ///
b5	/// nts yärttau se śai ///

Commentary

Remarks

	In one frame with THT 144 and THT 145.

Alternative linguistic/paleographic classifications

Peyrot 2008b	A1
Malzahn 2007e	A4
Tamai 2011a	A2
Tamai 2011a	C14

References

Online access

IDP: THT 141; TITUS: THT 141

Edition

Sieg and Siegling 1953: 73-74

Bibliography

IDP

“The International Dunhuang Project: The Silk Road Online.” n.d. http://idp.bl.uk.

Malzahn 2007e

Malzahn, Melanie. 2007e. “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.

Peyrot 2008b

Peyrot, Michaël. 2008b. Variation and change in Tocharian B. Vol. 15. Leiden Studies in Indo-European. Amsterdam/New York: Rodopi.

Sieg and Siegling 1953

Sieg, Emil, and Wilhelm Siegling. 1953. Tocharische Sprachreste. Sprache B, Heft 2. Fragmente Nr. 71-633. Edited by Werner Thomas. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht.

Tamai 2011a

Tamai, Tatsushi. 2011a. Paläographische Untersuchungen zum B-Tocharischen. Innsbrucker Beiträge zur Sprachwissenschaft 138. Innsbruck: Institut für Sprachen und Literaturen.

TITUS

Gippert, Jost, Katharina Kupfer, Christiane Schaefer, and Tatsushi Tamai. n.d. “Thesaurus Indogermanischer Text- und Sprachmaterialien (TITUS): Tocharian Manuscripts from the Berlin Turfan Collection.”