Funeral chant pictographs
Author not recorded
- First published:
- 19th century
- Content type: ManuscriptPrimary source
Rare Book & Manuscript Library, LJS 197. China, 1885. Prompts for chants performed from memory by a priest (tombra or dongba) at funeral ceremonies. Penn Libraries Catalog: go to Find
Provenance
Why this book is in the catalog
Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Rock art, geoglyphs, and ancient symbols.
Controlled discovery queries from internet-archive matched “Pictographs”. Retained metadata contains “Pictographs” in the title, “Pictographs” in the subject metadata, and “Pictographs” in the edition title.
- “Pictographs”· via Internet Archive
- “Pictographs”· in title
- “Pictographs”· in subject
- “Pictographs”· in edition title
Membership records how this book met the catalog’s discovery criteria — relevance to a tradition, not a judgment of the book’s claims.
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Editions
One edition cataloged here.
| Edition | Date | Publisher | Language | ISBN | Access | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Internet Archive unrestricted pre-1900 PDF scan | 1885-01-01T00:00:00Z | — | — | — | Public digitized item |
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Identifiers & provenance
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Identifiers
- Internet Archive
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- Internet Archiveprimaryljs197 (opens in a new tab)
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Cataloging notes
- Contributing institution: University of Pennsylvania Libraries
- Discovery required Internet Archive search metadata to report a PDF format; the exact direct-file URL is added only after the item's file listing confirms an unrestricted PDF filename.
- Scanner: Internet Archive Python library 1.9.5
- Source-reported rights: Public Domain
- Catalog id
- internet-archive:ljs197
- Edition coverage
- Internet archive source record
- Retrieved




