Uigurica from dunhuang

Since the early years of this century, there has been a steady flow of publications containing editions of Uigur texts found in the Turfan region and brought to Germany. Not so the Uigur MSS of Dunhuang, which are kept in London and Paris. A good start was made by Le Coq, Thomsen and Pelliot in 1911-1914. Twenty years later, Bang, Gabain and Rachmati published the 'Sūtra of Eight Heaps'. Another forty years were to elapse before the appearance of further material. Moriyasu mentions hundreds of MSS found in the cave which was given the number 181. There have, on the other hand, been multiple editions: The ' Story of the Two Princes' was edited three times; recently, an Uigur text in Tibetan script was published-twice

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