Livshits V. Sogdian Buddhist Fragment KRIV/879 No. 4263 from the Manuscript Collection of the St. Petersburg Branch of the Institute of Oriental Studies // Manuscripta Orientalia. Vol. 2, No 2, June 1996. Pp. 3-8.
The fragment published here is one of the largest in the Sogdian fund of the Manuscript department of the St. Petersburg Branch of the Institute of Oriental Studies. The fragment was identified as Sogdian in 1952. It came from the collection of N. N. Krotkov, Russian consul in Urumchi. In 1908—1912 a number of manuscripts and works of art were donated by N. N. Krotkov to the Russian Committee for the Study of Central and Eastern Asia. The manuscripts were later transferred to the Asiatic Museum...
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