14. Administrative documents from the Qing Dynasty. 1788

These are various fragmented administrative documents from 1788. The documents deal with i.a. the hunt for highwaymen and with trade issues. They give a unique insight into the administration in Central Mongolia towards the end of the 1700s.

The manuscript is done on rice paper and was purchased by professor Kaare Grønbeck in Tsakhar, Central Mongolia on the Second Danish Central Asian Expedition 1938-1939 in which also Henning Haslund-Christensen and Werner Jacobsen took part. The expedition returned with a Mongolian book collection for The Royal Library, about 2,000 items of ethnographica for the National Museum as well as music recordings for the National Folklore Collection.