Verzeichnis der Orientalischen Handschriften VOHD-Band XVIII,4 (Mitteliranische Handschriften, Teil 4)

1902年至1914年，德国四次吐鲁番探险队从中国突厥人带到德国的手稿收藏中包括大量叙利亚文基督教手稿。维吾尔土耳其语，粟特语。中波斯语和新波斯语。到目前为止，这些基督教手稿还没有被编入目录，尽管同样的探险队发现的佛教和摩尼教材料的目录已经存在。目前的工作，有史以来第一个目录的基督教文本从吐鲁番绿洲，涵盖了所有的伊朗手稿叙利亚文。总共有近500个碎片，从完整的碎片（甚至是双碎片）到微小的碎片。大部分文献是粟特语的，少数是新波斯语的。在目录中，所有的碎片都根据他们的笔迹，格式和内容进行了分类，并以系统的顺序呈现，从圣经和礼仪文本开始，以杂项和世俗材料结束。它表明，在某些情况下，大量的碎片属于一个单一的手稿，其中许多可以连接在一起，形成更实质性的单位。大多数文本都是从叙利亚文翻译过来的，只要有可能，叙利亚文原件都被识别出来。在已全部或部分出版的片段的情况下，完整的书目详细信息，并在出版的来源发现错误的读数进行了系统的纠正。目录以大量的索引和索引结束，包括碎片中提到的人名和地名的完整索引。因此，本书将为对教会历史和叙利亚文学感兴趣的学者提供大量材料，以及对中伊朗语言和中亚和中国西部历史感兴趣的学者。

The collection of manuscripts brought from Chinese Turkistan to Germany by the four German Turfan expeditions of 1902 to 1914 includes a significant number of Christian manuscripts in Syriac. Uygur Turkish, Sogdian. Middle Persian and New Persian. So far none of these Christian manuscripts have been catalogued, although catalogues already exist for much of the Buddhist and Manichaean material found by the same expeditions. The present work, the first ever catalogue of Christian texts from the Turfan oasis, covers all the Iranian manuscripts in Syriac script. In total nearly 500 fragments ranging from complete folios (or even double-folios) to tiny scraps. Most of the texts dve in Sogdian a few in New Persian. In the catalogue, all of the fragments have been sorted according to their handwriting, format and contents, and are presented in a systematic sequence, beginning with biblical and liturgical texts and ending with miscellaneous and secular material. It is shown that in some cases a large number of fragments belong to a single manuscript, and that many of them can be joined together to form more substantial units. Most of the texts being translated from Syriac, the Syriac originals are identified wherever possible. In the case of fragments which have been wholly or partially published, full bibliographical details are given, and wrong readings found in published sources are systematically corrected. The catalogue ends with a large number of indexes and concordances, including a complete index of names of people and places mentioned in the fragments. Thus this volume will provide a mass of material for scholars interested in church history and Syriac literature as well as in Middle Iranian languages and the history of Central Asia and Western China.