Details

Subjects:

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).

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Pictographs.
Manuscripts, Naxi.
Manuscripts, Digital.
Specimens.
Texts.

Language:

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.

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.

Cited as:

UPenn LJS 197.

Contributor:

Stanitz, John D., former owner.
Schoenberg, Lawrence J., former owner.
Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

OCLC:

795375766

Web link:

The Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative Fund Home Page