The date of the composition of Bolor toli — one of the most important Mongolian chronicles of the early 19th century — has been for a long time an unsettled question. This paper proposes to throw some light on this problem. For this purpose we have used the manuscript F 305 t. Sh. of the Bolor toli (further Bolor toli I) preserved in the Institute of the Asiatic Peoples, Academy of Science of the USSR and the South-Gobi version of the same work (further Bolor toli II)…
On November 14–15, 2023, the 1st All-Russia conference of young orientalists “Army and military traditions of the Near East” will be held at the Institute of Oriental Manuscripts, RAS. The program of the conference is now available.