Tibetan and Himalayan Library - THL

Description: A photoreproduction of an original Manchu-Tibetan (in Tibetan and Manchu scripts)-Mongol-Turki (in Arabic and Manchu scripts)-Chinese dictionary. A large Qing dynasty polyglot dictionary. This work takes the entire vocabulary of the preceding four-language work of the same title and adds to it the Turki equivalents, as well as the phonetic transcriptions for two of the languages. (Michael Walter and Manfred Taube 2006-05-15, revised by Bill McGrath 2008-01-03) A Manchu, Mongolian, Chinese, Tibetan, Uighur dictionary compiled by order of the Qian Long Emperor (1735-1795) organized topically. Three copies are known to exist: 1. A copy in the Old Palace at Fen dian, a photo reprint of which is kept at Kyoto University and the Toyo Bunko. 2. A copy in the Old Palace at Beijing. A photo-reprint of which was published in 1957. 3. A copy in the British Library. MIMAKI Katsumi provides general comments, the Tibetan table of contents and advertises a complete Tibetan index in (“A Tibetan Index to the Pentaglot Dictionary from the Qing Dynasty” Tibetan Studies: Proceedings of the 4th Seminar of the International Association for Tibetan Studies. Eds. Helga Uebach and Jampa L. Panglung. Studia Tibetica 2. München: Kommission für Zentralasiatische Studien Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1988. 279-292). I am unaware of where the Tibetan index was finally published. (Nathan Hill 2007-12-13, revised by Bill McGrath 2008-02-06)

Other Editions: 梵西番滿蒙漢集要 (Fan Xifan Man Meng Han ji yao), 1st ed.

Fan, Si-fan, Man, Meng, Han tsi yao ou Recueil necessaire des mots sanskrits, tangoutains, mandchous, mongols et chinois, French reprint ed.

Fan, Si-fan, Man, Meng, Han tsi yao ou Recueil necessaire des mots sanskrits, tangoutains, mandchous, mongols et chinois, French abridged reprint ed.

Man Han Si-tan tsyeh-yao, British reprint ed.

རྒྱལ་པོས་མཛད་པའི་སྐད་བཞི་ཤན་སྦྱར་གྱི་ མཉྫུའི་སྐད་གསལ་བའི་མེ་ལོང་། (rgyal pos mdzad pa’i skad bzhi shan sbyar gyi many+dzu’i skad gsal ba’i me long /), quadraglot ed.

རྒྱལ་པོས་མཛད་པའི་སྐད་ལྔ་ཤན་སྦྱར་གྱི་མཉྫུའི་སྐད་གསལ་བའི་མེ་ལོང་། (rgyal pos mdzad pa’i skad lnga shan sbyar gyi many+dzu’i skad gsal ba’i me long /), photoreproduction.

Yü Chih Wu T’i Ch’ing Wen Chien, Chinese reprint ed.

Wu T’i Ch’ing Wen Chien, British reprint ed.