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[Funeral chant pictographs].
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Manuscripts LJS 197
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- Format:
- Book
- Manuscript
- Author/Creator:
- Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection (University of Pennsylvania) PU
- Language:
- Sino-Tibetan (Other)
- Subjects (All):
- Funeral rites and ceremonies--China.
- Funeral rites and ceremonies.
- Picture-writing.
- Naxi language--Writing.
- Naxi language.
- Naxi (Chinese people)--Rites and ceremonies.
- Naxi (Chinese people).
- China.
- Naxi language--Texts.
- Picture-writing--Specimens.
- Yulong Naxizu Zizhixian (China).
- Genre:
- codices (bound manuscripts)
- pictographs
- Manuscripts, Naxi.
- Manuscripts, Digital.
- Specimens.
- Texts.
- Penn Provenance:
- Formerly owned by John D. Stanitz (Cleveland, Ohio), Ms. 28.
- Acquired by Lawrence J. Schoenberg with other Stanitz manuscripts, Sept. 1997.
- Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2012.
- Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2016.
- Physical Description:
- 11 leaves : paper ; 93 x 286 mm bound to 93 x 286 mm
- Place of Publication:
- [China], [between 1885 and 1915]
- Language Note:
- Naxi.
- Summary:
- Prompts for chants performed from memory by a priest (tombra or dongba) at funeral ceremonies.
- Notes:
- Ms. codex.
- Title supplied by cataloger.
- Collation: Paper, 11; 1-11¹.
- Layout: Each page divided into 3 rows of cells, with each cell containing multiple pictographs; ruled in ink.
- Script: Written in pictographs.
- Decoration: Ornamental border in black ink around pictographs on cover (f. 1r).
- Binding: Sewn at left edge.
- Origin: Written in southwest China in the late 19th or early 20th century.
- Local Notes:
- Lawrence J. Schoenberg & Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative.
- Cited as:
- UPenn LJS 197.
- OCLC:
- 795375766
- Online:
- The Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative Fund Home Page
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