Third in the Scripta Mongolica series, this book reproduces a rare printed text of the Bolor Erike or Chaplet of Crystals, written in the 18th century but preserving a number of recitals, some unknown elsewhere, relating to Chinggis Qaghan and his line and to the history of the Mongols under the Chinese Ming dynasty. The dean of the world’s Mongolists provides a thorough textual and historical analysis.

This volume, beginning the new Scripta Mongolica Monograph Series, presents two remarkable documents—the letters of 1289 and 1305 from the Mongolian potentates Ilkhan Argun and Ilkhan Olje'itu to Philip the Fair of France. The texts and their implications are thoughtfully discussed with generous annotation. Both documents are fully reproduced in a sequence of excellent plates; the text is transliterated. These valuable materials, along with the volume's enlightening discussion, will be of great value to scholars in the field.

This volume reproduces a nineteenth-century manuscript on astrology that belonged to a Mongolian petty official whom many Mongols consulted on such questions as the outcome of illnesses, and auspicious days for marriage, burying the deceased, and lodging complaints on legal matters. The manuscript contains sixty-one leaves. In his introduction, in French, the eminent Belgian scholar Antoine Mostaert describes the content of the manuscript, noting matters of special interest and translating large portions.