University of Pennsylvania, LJS 197

Metadata

DS ID:

DS30261

Shelfmark:

LJS 197

Title:

Funeral chant pictographs

Place:

China

China TGN

Date:

between 1885 and 1915

nineteenth century (dates CE) AAT

twentieth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Naxi

Naxi WIKIDATA

Material:

paper

Paper AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 11 leaves : paper ; 93 x 286 mm bound to 93 x 286 mm

Former Owner(s):

Stanitz, John D

John D. Stanitz WIKIDATA

Schoenberg, Lawrence J

Lawrence J. Schoenberg WIKIDATA

Note:

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.
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.

Keyword:

codices (bound manuscripts)

pictographs

Manuscripts, Naxi

Texts

Specimens

Manuscripts, Digital

Naxi (Chinese people)--Rites and ceremonies

China

Naxi language--Writing

China--Yulong Naxizu Zizhixian

Naxi (Chinese people)

Picture-writing

Funeral rites and ceremonies

Naxi language

Institutional Record:

https://find.library.upenn.edu/catalog/9957630163503681

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania