Pang T.A. The Imperial Patent of the Kangxi Period in the Collection of the
Institute of Oriental Manuscripts, Russian Academy of Sciences // Written Monuments of the Orient. 1(7), 2018. P. 88–95.
The article presents publication of the earliest imperial patent kept in the
Manchu collection of the IOM, RAS. The patent is dated by the 55th year of Kangxi
(1716) and was conferred to the member of the imperial family. That fact explains
unusual decoration of the scroll — a hand painted frame with dargons. The patent was
given to Urcen, a son of the Manchu dignitary Sunu, devoted associate of the emperor
Kangxi. Sunu was known as one of the highest Manchu officials who adopted
Christianity, and his sons were also baptized. The patent conferred Urcen a title “general
of the third grade, who protects the state” and the text was written in Manchu and
Chinese.
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