Livshits V.A. Manichaica in the Asiatic Museum // Russian Expeditions to Central Asia at the Turn of the 20th Century / Collected articles. Edited by I.F. Popova. St Petersburg, Slavia Publishers, 2008. P. 82-87.
The first researcher of the Manichaean texts kept in the Asiatic Museum was it director (from 1890 to 1916) Academician Carl Germanovich
Salemann (1849 - 1916). From the beginning of the 20th century
up to his demise, he studied the Manichaean
texts from Eastern Turkestan in the
Middle Iranian languages: Middle Persian,
Parthian and Sogdian. The collection
of the Asiatic Museum (IOM RAS)
included a considerable number of fragments
of Manichaean texts in those languages,
as well as in Chinese and
Uighur...
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