十三世纪蒙古文献




Letter by the Ilkhan of Persia Aryun to Pope Nicholas IV (1290)
ASV, A.A., Arm. I-XVIII, 1801, 3r

  DOCUMENTS WRITTEN IN MONGOLIAN LANGUAGE OF THE XIII CENTURY
The documents preserved in the Vatican Secret Archives often cross the geographical borders of what used to be the temporal and spiritual dominion of the Church, once, main producer and addressee of the papers kept there, thus reaching beyond the orbis christianus.

The Archives preserve, for instance, the most ancient monument of the Mongolian language in our possession is the so-called “stone of Genghiz – Khān”kept at St. Petersburg, engraved around 1225 to commemorate a bow contest on the occasion of a diet held in Eastern Mongolia; the second one is the seal of Güyük – Khān put twice on the famous letter of 1246 that Giovanni da Pian del Carpine took to Innocent IV the following year (only the seal bears Mongolian characters, the letter was written in Persian, with a preface in Turkish and the date in Arabic). Along with the letters of Aryun of 1289 and of Oljeitü of 1305 addressed to Phillip the Fair and found at the Archives Nationales de France by Abel-Rémusat, you have, due to their importance, the three documents preserved by the Vatican Secret Archives dating between 1267 and 1302, written in uighuric characters, found in 1921 by Father Cyrille Korolevskyj and Archivist and Librarian Cardinal Tisserant in the fond Archivum Arcis, Arm. I-XVIII where they were indexed under the generic expression of "Chaldaica quaedam". The three documents written by the chancery of the Mongolian Ilkhans of Persia are respectively: a safe-conduct of 1267 (or at latest of 1279) issued by Abaya to a papal embassy on his way back to the West; a letter by Aryun to Pope Nicholas IV "the fifth day of the new moon of the first month of the Summer of the year of the Tiger " (14th May 1290) and a letter by Gasan to Pope Boniface VIII of 1302 on the negotiations for the common attack plans against the Mamelukes of Egypt, who then were also the lords of Syria.

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