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The Jarring Collection – Manuscripts from Eastern Turkestan
The Jarring Collection consists of 560 manuscripts from Eastern Turkestan, today's Chinese province of Xinjiang. The books date from the 16th to the 20th centuries. The collection not only mirrors Eastern Turkestan society and culture with its classic and folk literature, Islamic religious manuscripts, judicial and historic documents, manuals of medicine, trades and mysticism etc., but also contains documents from the Mission Covenant Church of Sweden in Eastern Turkestan.
The manuscripts were donated to the library by the Swedish diplomat and philologist Dr. Gunnar Jarring (1907-2002), who also supplied a summary catalogue of the collection in English. His handwritten catalogue has now been digitised as well as some of the unique manuscripts.
Kashghar Newspaper:
Vol. 1 - 5 for printing:
Vol. 1 (PDF 94 MB - New window)
Vol. 2 (PDF 520 MB - New window)
Vol. 3 (PDF 410 MB - New window)
Vol. 4 (PDF 54 MB - New window)
The risale of the dyers. Late 18th century (?).
Funders of the digitisation: