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

1902年至1914年德国吐鲁番四次远征从中国突厥斯坦带到德国的手稿收藏中包括相当数量的叙利亚语基督教手稿。维吾尔族土耳其语，Sogdian语。中波斯和新波斯。到目前为止，这些基督教手稿还没有被编目，尽管在同一次探险中发现的大部分佛教和摩尼教材料已经有了编目。这部作品是吐鲁番绿洲有史以来第一部基督教经文目录，涵盖了所有叙利亚文字的伊朗手稿。总共有近500个碎片，从完整的对开本(甚至是对开本)到微小的碎片。大部分文本是用Sogdian写的，少数是用新波斯文写的。在目录中，所有碎片都根据笔迹、格式和内容进行了分类，并按系统顺序排列，从圣经和礼仪文本开始，以杂项和世俗材料结束。结果表明，在某些情况下，大量碎片属于一份手稿，其中许多碎片可以连接在一起形成更多的实体单位。大多数翻译自叙利亚语的文本，只要有可能就会识别出叙利亚语的原文。在片段已经全部或部分出版的情况下，给出完整的参考书目细节，并系统地纠正在出版来源中发现的错误读数。目录以大量索引和和谐词结尾，包括片段中提到的人名和地名的完整索引。因此，这一卷将为对教会历史和叙利亚文学感兴趣的学者以及对中伊朗语言、中亚和西方中国历史感兴趣的学者提供大量材料。

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.