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Nova N 176 is an undeciphered manuscript codex held at the Institute of Oriental Manuscripts (IOM) of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Saint Petersburg, Russia. The manuscript, of uncertain provenance, entered the collection of the IOM in 1954, and for more than fifty years nobody was able to identify with certainty what language or script the text of the manuscript was written in. It was only in 2010 that IOM researcher Viacheslav Zaytsev was able to demonstrate that the manuscript is written in the Khitan large script, one of two largely undeciphered writing systems used for the now-extinct Khitan language during the 10th–12th centuries by the Khitan people, who founded the Liao Empire in north-eastern China. ==Description== The manuscript is stored in the Nova fonds of Chinese manuscripts in the IOM (call number N 176, inventory number 1055), and comprises nine quires sewn together, one loose quire, and seven loose folios, in total 63½ folios (127 leaves), together with a piece of cloth cover with Khitan characters on it. The codex is enclosed in a brown leather binding of an Islamic type, which may or may not be the original binding. * Quire 1: 6 folios (leaves 1–12). * Quire 2: 6 folios (leaves 13–24). * Quire 3: 6 folios (leaves 25–36). * Quire 4: 5 folios (leaves 37–46). * Quire 5: 6 folios (leaves 47–58). * Quire 6: 6 folios (leaves 59–70). * Quire 7: 5 folios (leaves 71–80). * Quire 8: 6 folios (leaves 81–92). * Quire 9: 6 folios (leaves 93–104). * Loose quire: 4½ folios (leaves 105–113). Missing one leaf between leaves 112 and 113. * 7 loose folios (14 leaves, separately numbered). Each page of the manuscript has six ruled columns of text, each column comprising between 17 and 26 characters written in ink in cursive handwriting. Most of the manuscript appears to be written in a single hand. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Nova N 176」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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