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Nosov D.A. A Manuscript of the Mongolian Folk Tale “About old Borontai” from the IOM, RAS Collection // Written Monuments of the Orient. 2(6), 2017. P. 111–118.

Nosov, Dmitry Alekseevich

The manuscript “About Old Borontai” kept in IOM, RAS, is one of the earliest written fixations of the cumulative tale common among Mongolian people and well known to scholars working in the field. The present paper contains the first ever publication of the manuscript in transcription and translation of the text written in old Mongolian script based on the Uighur alphabet.

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Keywords

cumulative tales
Mongolian folklore
Mongolian manuscripts

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