An Old Uigur medical fragment in Syriac script

Abstract

The Museum of Asian Art in Berlin holds a single-folio fragment (shelf-mark M 152) of an Old Uigur medical text written in the Syriac script. It is the only known manuscript in the entire collection of Old Uigur texts of the Church of the East that deals with medicine. The present article provides a new edition of the fragment including a transliteration, transcription, English translation, commentary and glossary.

Keywords

• Old Uigur
• Church of the East
• Syriac script
• medicine