VATEC CD 1.0
Contributors: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft; Nevskaya, Irina; Erdal, Marcel; Gippert, Jost; Roehrborn, Klaus; Zieme, Peter; Gehrke, Ralf; Knueppel, Michael; Taube, Jakob
Publisher: [s.n.]
Published: 2001
Place of publication: [s.l.]
Language: tur
Format: [electronic resource]
Subjects: Turkic Manuscripts; Old Turkic language; Texts
Other titles: VATEC; Vorislamische Alttürkische Texte Elektronisches Corpus
Notes: Title from disc surface.

"Date: 30.6.2001."

"Ser. No. 10271027."

The results of the pilot phase of the VATEC project ("Vorislamische Alttuerkische Texte: Elektronisches Corpus" - Pre-Islamic Old Turkic Texts: Electronic Corpus) -- the digitalization of Old Turkic manuscripts stored in the Turfan Collection of the Berlin- Brandeburg Academy.

The VATEC project is carried out at the Frankfurt and Göttingen Universities and at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and financed by the German Research Foundation. The heads of the project are Marcel Erdal, Jost Gippert (Frankfurt), Klaus Roehrborn (Göttingen), Peter Zieme (Berlin). Participants include Irina Nevskaya, Ralf Gehrke (Frankfurt), Michael Knueppel (Goettingen), Jakob Taube (Berlin).
Table of contents: title: 1. Manuscripts of the Chuastuanift (Manichaean Confession of Sins); title: 2. Irk Bitig (A Book of Omens) in the runiform script; title: 3. A Nestorian Old Turkic text: Wedding blessings (Syriac script); title: 4. Manichaean Old Turkic texts (51 fragments, Manichaean and Uighur scripts); title: 5. A fragment of a cosmogonic lapidary (runiform script); title: 6. Buddhist texts in Sogdian script (34 fragments); title: 7. Panchatantra fragments (Fables, Uighur script); title: 8. The third book of the Xuanzang biography in Old Turkic; title: 9. Manuscripts of Altun Yarok (an Uighur translation of the Suvarnaprabhasottamasutra) and a compiled text; title: 10. Manuscripts first edited by Peter Zieme in Berliner Turfantexte 13.