[Funeral chant pictographs]

Contributor:

Stanitz, John D. (former owner); Schoenberg, Lawrence J. (former owner)

Date:

1885

Description:

Prompts for chants performed from memory by a priest (tombra or dongba) at funeral ceremonies.

Language:

Sino-Tibetan languages

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.

Relation:

The Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative Fund Home Page: http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/366278; Digital facsimile for download (OPenn): https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0001/html/ljs197.html

Subject:

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); Naxi language -- Texts; Picture-writing -- Specimens

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

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

Physical Description:

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

Geographic Subject:

China; Yulong Naxizu Zizhixian (China)

Rights:

https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

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.; Lawrence J. Schoenberg & Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative.; Naxi.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, LJS 197

Collection:

Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection (University of Pennsylvania)