18. Unique Mongolian almanac. Early 1800s.

This is a completely unique and very beautiful almanac in oblong format, written on oblong paper sheets with many coloured illustrations. A section for each month provides both astrological and astronomical information.

The manuscript is purchased by professor Kaare Grønbech in Tsakhar, Central Mongolia on the Second 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.