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20. Mongolian chronicle in nine volumes. 1774-1775

The Mongolian chronicle is written in a rare and very beautiful style.

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.

The manuscript is written on rice paper and sewn together with a so-called Chinese stitching.