“Newly Compiled Selections from the Nine Classics,” one scroll 新集文詞九經鈔一卷 (end title, one sheet or more missing from the beginning). “Text inscribed and copied by Yin Hsien-chün” 陰賢君書記本. Colophon (on v°): “Copying completed at about 2 p.m. on the seventeenth day of the fourth month of the year 883. Copied by Yin Hsien-chün.” 中和參廿四月時期日未侍(→時)書了 陰賢君書. Lightly ruled paper but copyist does not stay within top and bottom margins. Fairly good hand; few corrections, additions, and erasures. Doggerel. Practice characters.
Miscellaneous text, including one linking Buddhism and the city god cult at Tun-huang. Drawings of dogs and deity on a pedestal next to several incomplete lay society circulars. Poor to very poor hands.
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