The Mongolian Newspaper Neyslel küriyen-ü sonin bičig in the Polish Collections and the Date of Its First Publication
The Mongolian Newspaper Neyslel küriyen-ü sonin bičig in the Polish Collections and the Date of Its First Publication

Summary/Abstract: The Neyslel küriyen-ü sonin bičig (“News of the Capital”) holds a significant position in the history of the Mongolian press. Regarding the history of its first publication, we know that in 1915 some Mongolian intellectuals started publishing it in the Classical Mongolian language on weekly basis in the printing office of the Russian Tsar’s Consulate’s Information and Technique Office. For the first time, the date of publication was briefly discussed by Deleg Gendenjamtsyn (1924–1992) in his book entitled “Brief History of Mongolian Periodicals” (Mong. Mongolyn togtmol khevleliin tüükhen toim, 1965). Thereafter, many scholars followed the publication date proposed by Deleg. This question is discussed further in this paper based on the specimens of Neyslel küriyen-ü sonin bičig kept in the Library of the Department of Turkic Studies and Inner Asian Peoples, Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Warsaw and in the Archive of Science of the Polish Academy of Sciences and the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences in Cracow, together with the detailed report on the collections of this newspaper in Poland.

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