Author: Malov, Sergei Efimovich.
Title: Pamyatniki drevnetyurkskoy pis'mennosti. Teksty i issledovaniya. [= Monuments of Ancient Turkic Writing: Texts and Research].
Description: Moscow, Leningrad, Academy of Sciences (Institute of Linguistics) "Nauka", 1951. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Quarto. Pp. 451. Plus numerous plates outside the pagination, some folding. Title-page loose. HARDCOVER, bound in the original publisher's full cloth gilt, broken spine and title-page rudimentary reattached, extremities worn. In good internal condition, fine plates and clean text. ~ FIRST EDITION. Very rare. Sergei Efimovich Malov (1880-1957), Russian and Soviet linguist, Orientalist, Turkologist. Initially intended as an academic manual for university courses on the history of the Turkic languages, Malov's book soon became a standard work on the subject. It examines texts on Turkic monuments from about the 5th to the 15th centuries, preserved on stones, in what Malov termed "Graveyard Poetry". Turkic texts are given in runic, Uyghur or Arabic letters, as well as in transcription into Russian or Latin letters with translation, and are accompanied by remarks of a historical-literary-bibliographic-linguistic nature. At the end of the book, a dictionary is provided to all the words on the monuments. Each section is enlarged with a bibliography. [Provenance:] At the beginning of the book there are scattered small stamps. Previously at the libraries of the State University Utrecht and the Institution for Eastern and Slavic Languages, and finally in the private collection of Leiden University Turkologist, Dr. A. Spaans from whose collection the book currently comes. Extensive annotations on loose leaves of paper, as well as other material related to the subject, loosely inserted. 010-4 .

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