Orients XXIII, ( Berlin, 1991 ) , pp. 171-174 and pls. XX-XXI, figs. 22-23. For Parthian parallels see W. Sundermann, " Anmerkungen zu : Th. Thilo, Einige Bemerkungen zu zwei chinesisch-manicha  ischen Textfragmenten der Berliner Turfan-Sammlung, " pp. 171-172. Ch. 258 ( T II T 1319 ) untitled fragment. Cf. Thilo, op. cit., pls. XXII-XXIII, figs. 24-25 b. Text-fragments in the Staatsbibliothek Ch 3138 ( T III T 132 ) ( fragment resembles but not identical to Traite  ) .
 
Cf. Y. Yoshida, " On the recently discovered Manichaean Chinese fragments, " Studies on the Inner Asian Languages, 12 ( 1997 ) : 36. Ch 3218 ( fragment resembles but not identical to Traite  ) .
 
Cf. Yoshida, op. cit., p. 36 The majority of these texts are translated from texts in Middle Iranian dialects, especially Parthian but the Compendium contains a number of Chinese elements and citations from Chinese texts which were clearly of Chinese origin. Secondly a large number of important references to the religion can be gleaned from a variety of Chinese sources, especially the Dynastic Histories of the T ' ang period and Buddhist historical works like the Fo-tsu t ' ung-chi 佛祖 統紀