10th century, East Syriac lectionary (Luke 16), found at Bulayïq Bulayïq (traditional Chinese : 葡萄溝 ; simplified Chinese : 葡萄沟 ; pinyin : Pútáogōu Xinjiang province in western China . It is located 10km north of Turpan city in the foothills of the Tien-shan Mountains .[ 1] [ 2]
The site in the Tapin basin is arid. The remains there include a Tell with mud brick ruins protruding from the desert sands. The ruins were excavated by a German team in 1905, led by Albert von Le Coq .[ 3] [ 4] [ 5]
Among the ruins was found a monastic library, where a trove of ancient manuscripts in various Iranian languages were found.[ 6] Orthodox and Nestorian Churches. Almost all known Christian religious texts in the ancient Sogdian language are from the Bīlayuq library.[ 7] Christianity in Central Asia .[ 8]
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References
^ Nicholas Sims-Williams, BULAYÏQ , Encyclopedea Iranica.
^ P. Zieme, Türk dili araştırma yıllığı belleten ; 1978-79, Ankara, 1981, p. 90
^ Le Coq, Albert von Auf Hellas Spuren in Ost-Turkestan. Berichte und Abenteuer der II. und III. deutschen Expeditionen , Leipzig , 1926, p. 88
^ JRAS, 1909, pp. 319 and 321
^ Adrien Pitea, St. Isaac of Nineveh’s Gnostic Chapters in Sogdian: The Identification of an Anonymous Text from Bulayïq 2020.
^ Erica C. D. Hunter, Syriac Sogdian and Old Uyghur manuscripts from Bulayiq .
^ Scott Fitzgerald Johnson, The Oxford Handbook of Late Antiquity (Oxford
University Press, 2015) page 1021 .
^ Nicola Di Cosmo; Michael Maas, Empires and Exchanges in Eurasian Late Antiquity: Rome, China, Iran, and the Steppe, ca. 250–750 (Cambridge University Press, 26 Apr. 2018 ) p 211-213
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