%D 2016 %T Reading the Middle Mongol Translation of 'Phags-pa's Shes-bya rab-gsal in the St. Petersburg Manuscript and in a Print Fragment from Qaraqota %! Reading the Middle Mongol Translation of 'Phags-pa's Shes-bya rab-gsal in the St. Petersburg Manuscript and in a Print Fragment from Qaraqota %X This article deals with a recently discovered fragment from Qaraqota, to date the only remainder of a medieval Mongol book printed in square script. Without any doubt it was produced during the Yuan period. We do not know if the Mongol text was first written in square script or in Uygur letters, but the square script print fragment found in Qaraqota is a further proof of the authenticity and significance of the St. Petersburg manuscript, this precious and rich monument of the Middle Mongol language, the medieval Tibetan-Mongol literary relations, and the history of Mongol culture. %U https://doi.org/10.13173/centasiaj.59.1-2.0043 %0 Journal Article %R 10.13173/centasiaj.59.1-2.0043 %J Central Asiatic Journal %V 59 %N 1-2