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THT 421.1

Known as:THT 421.1; B 421 fragment 1; THT 421.a; Bleistiftnummer 2401
Cite this page as:"THT 421.1". 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-tht421 (accessed 06 Oct. 2024).

Provenience

Main find spot:Murtuk
Expedition code:T III M 146.5a
Collection:Berlin Turfan Collection

Language and Script

Language:TB
Linguistic stage:late
Script:classical

Text contents

Title of the work:History of Kuchean kings
Text genre:Literary
Text subgenre:History
Verse/Prose:prose; verse

Object

Manuscript:THT 415-421
Material: ink on paper
Form:Poṭhī
Number of lines:2=5

Images

Transliteration

a1/// ye s̝paka ntwā ṣṣe śa rī¯ ¯r cau pa tne te ssa • 10 4 || ///
a2/// ///
b1/// ///
b2/// ktma no lypo ke ssa nte tā wma¯ ¯t śpā lmeṃ tsā ra ne • sa ṅ[kr]ā ///

Transcription

a1/// …ye ṣpäkäntwāṣṣe śarīr cau patne tessa • 10-4 ॥ ///
a2/// ///
b1/// ///
b2/// (o)k tman= olypo kessante tāw mat śpālmeṃ tsāranesaṅkrā(m) ///

Other

b2Mehr als 80.000 erloschen in d[ies]em so vortrefflichen Kloster. (Schmidt 1974: 126)

Commentary

Remarks

This fragment has been partly edited apud no. 421 fragment 1 in Sieg and Siegling 1953: 280 and has now the pressmark THT 421.a.

Alternative linguistic/paleographic classifications

Peyrot 2008L
Tamai 2011C1
Tamai 2011C14

References

Online access

IDP: THT 421a; TITUS: THT 421

Edition

Sieg and Siegling 1953: 280

Translations

Carling 2000: a1 (52); Couvreur 1954c: a1 a2 b1 b2 (116); Schmidt 1974: b2 (126)

Bibliography

Carling 2000

Carling, Gerd. 2000. Die Funktion der lokalen Kasus im Tocharischen. Berlin/New York: de Gruyter.

Couvreur 1954c

Couvreur, Walter. 1954c. “Koetsjische literaire fragmenten uit de Berlijnse verzameling (naar aanleiding van Sieg & Siegling’s Tocharische Sprachreste).” Handelingen VIII der Zuidnederlandse Maatschappij voor Taal- en Letterkunde en Geschiedenis, 97–117.

IDP

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

Peyrot 2008

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

Schmidt 1974

Schmidt, Klaus T. 1974. “Die Gebrauchsweisen des Mediums im Tocharischen.” PhD, Universität Göttingen.

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 2011

Tamai, Tatsushi. 2011. 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.” http://titus.fkidg1.uni-frankfurt.de/texte/tocharic/thtframe.htm.