[TIBETAN - MONGOLIAN MANUSCRIPT]: - [TIBETAN - MONGOLIAN MANUSCRIPT]: "DBYANGS-GSAL-BZ'UG". A Calligrapher's Manual for Writing the 'Lan ca' Script. A Manuscript Giving the Alphabet and Ligatures of the Religious 'Lan ca' Script Used for Special Buddhist Texts in India, Mongolia

and Tibet. Mongolia, 19th century. Format: 10 x 31 cm. Lvs 9, numbered 1-9 in Tibetan. Containing one "title page", 16 pages of text and one page with closing text. Loose within later Oriental silk cloth covered boards. The text is written in rows comprising the alphabet and ligatures of 'Lan ca' in black ink; followed by regular Tibetan script in red ink and the transcription in Mongolian characters in black ink. First and last leaves mounted on old paper with some wear and marginal holes. Frayed at margins and a few leaves with marginal repairs. A charming specimen.
EUR 2200.00 [Appr.: US$ 3295.6 | £UK 1982.25 | JP¥ 291104] Booknumber: 37040

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