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243:, Chief Executive Officer of the British Library, put forward the International Dunhuang Project as a good example of the sort of complex, collaborative, and international digitisation projects that the British Library was increasingly engaged in. She explained that none of the individual institutions participating in the project had the resources or facilities to allow scholars full access to all of the manuscripts in their collections, but by joining together and sharing knowledge and resources the institutions would be able to offer access to the combined collections of all the institutions by means of high-quality digital images. She noted that a digitisation project such as the IDP benefits both the institutions involved, who are often able to obtain more substantial funding than they would for an internal project, and also the scholarly community, who are given access through the digital images to fragile and often inaccessible items that might previously have been difficult or impossible to view. 201:, has noted that there are many advantages of the IDP providing high resolution digital images of Dunhuang manuscripts online for access to all. Whereas in years gone by scholars often needed to travel long distances to access the original manuscripts, or could only access them by means of low quality reproductions, now anyone can access images from the convenience of their computer, wherever they are in the world. This not only makes research into these manuscripts easier, but helps in their conservation as there is far less need for them to be handled in person. Moreover, the high quality images provided by the IDP often show up details that would be difficult to see with the human eye. 210: 1055:(1841–1918), is a collection of Central Asian manuscripts collected by the Indian government. 22 consignments were sent to Hoernle in Calcutta between 1895 and 1899, and these were sent to the British Museum in 1902. A further ten consignments were sent to Hoernle in London after his retirement in 1899. The Hoernle Collection, which comprises over 2,000 Sanskrit manuscripts, 1,200 Tocharian manuscripts, and about 250 Khotanese manuscripts, as well as a few Chinese, Persian and Uyghur manuscripts, is now held by the British Library. 874: 331: 1064: 1356:, Kyoto holds 8,000 miscellaneous items found in two wooden chests at Villa Niraku after Ōtani's death. These include manuscript scrolls, manuscript booklets, printed texts, wooden slips, silk paintings, textiles, plant specimens, coins, and rubbings. As well as Chinese texts, the collection includes documents written in 15 different languages and 13 different scripts, covering secular subjects as well as 1254:(1866–1940) persuaded the Ministry of Education to recover the 8,000 or so remaining manuscripts. In 1910 Fu Baoshu 傅寶書 was dispatched to Dunhuang to bring the remaining manuscripts back to Beijing, although he left the Tibetan manuscripts behind. Some of the manuscripts were stolen by the minister Li Shengduo 李盛鐸 shortly after they had arrived at the Ministry of Education, but soon after the 1428:(1860–1930). These expeditions brought back to Berlin a huge amount of material, including murals and other artefacts, as well as about 40,000 manuscript and woodblock fragments written in more than twenty different scripts and languages. The items collected during these four expeditions are now divided between two institutions in Berlin. 1181:(1863–1934), who was the first director of the Institute of Oriental Studies (formerly the Asiatic Museum) in St Petersburg, made two expeditions to Central Asia (1909–1910 and 1914–1915), which were to become known as the 'Russian Turkestan expeditions'. During the first expedition Oldenburg explored a number of sites around 604:. Each centre is responsible for the conservation, cataloguing, and digitisation of manuscripts in its country. The staff at these centres help train participating institutions in the use of digitisation equipment and computer software, as well as providing training in conservation and research techniques. 292:
In order to better understand how to conserve the fragile materials that most of the items in the IDP database are made from (paper, textile, and wood), the IDP has supported a number of conservation projects (such as the analysis of paper and textile fibres), and has organised regular conferences on
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Each online catalogue record incorporates a physical description of the item, catalogue records from existing print sources, translations if available, and bibliographic references. The IDP also encourages scholarly users to submit their own catalogue entries and research results on individual items
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The main activities of the IDP are the conserving, cataloguing, and digitising of manuscripts, woodblock prints, paintings, photographs and other artefacts in the collections material from Dunhuang and other Eastern Silk Road sites held by participating institutions. Digitised images of the items in
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The 8,697 manuscripts that Fu Baoshu brought back from Dunhuang form the core of the Dunhuang collection in the National Library of China, but they have since been augmented by various purchases and donations over the years, so that the library collection now amounts to some 16,000 items, including
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The British Museum holds a collection of over 1,500 archaeological artefacts collected from various Silk Road sites by Stein, as well as non-literary items from Dunhuang Cave 17, comprising more than 240 paintings on silk or paper, 200 textiles, and about 30 woodblock prints. The museum also holds
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The International Dunhuang Project has centres in seven countries. The London centre, based at the British Library, acts as the directorate for the IDP, and is responsible for maintaining the IDP database and the main English-language website. The other centres maintain local-language versions of
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In addition to developing techniques for the conservation and preservation of documents and artefacts, the IDP hopes to foster good conservation practices and common standards amongst participating institutes, ensuring that artefacts are stored under the most suitable conditions, and are handled as
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The removal by Stein of so much cultural and archaeological material from China has caused anger in China, and there have been calls for the texts and artefacts collected by Stein from Dunhuang that are now in the British Museum and British Library to be repatriated to China. Although the Chinese
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database management tool. Records can be searched for by means of an online search form that allows users to restrict the search on the basis of a number of different criteria, such as type of artefact, holding institute, archaeological site, and language or script. The database was updated to
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The Hermitage Museum holds artefacts from both of Oldenburg's expeditions, including 66 Buddhist banners and banner-tops, 137 fragments of Buddhist silk paintings, 43 fragments of Buddhist paintings on paper, 24 murals, 38 pieces of textile, and eight manuscript fragments. Oldenburg's personal
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the IDP database are made available to the public on the IDP website. The digital images are intended to be at least as legible as the original manuscripts, and allow scholars to access the material from anywhere in the world without causing any more damage to the fragile items themselves.
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To facilitate the locating of items on the IDP database the project has also digitised a large number of catalogues and bibliographic sources, and made them available online, with links from the original catalogue entries to the corresponding online catalogue entry in the IDP database.
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at Dunhuang, and revisited some of the sites in Turpan that he had visited during his first expedition. He found a large number of artefacts and manuscript fragments (nearly 20,000 fragments, some of them tiny) at Dunhuang, and also purchased about 300 scrolls from local people.
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at Dunhuang during his second expedition. Some of the material that he collected, including murals, paintings, artefacts and manuscripts, was sent to India as his first three expeditions had been sponsored by the Indian government. Most of this material is now held at the
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over 4,000 coins collected by Stein, about three quarters of which are Chinese, and most of the rest are Islamic. Images of all of the paintings and some of the artefacts are now included in the IDP database, and the coins may be added at a future date.
892:(1862–1943) made four expeditions to Central Asia (1900–1901, 1906–1908, 1913–1916, and 1930–1931), during which he collected a vast amount of material, including a large number of manuscripts that he acquired from the 'Library Cave' (Cave 17) of the 150:
in 1994, and now includes twenty-two institutions in twelve countries. As of 18 February 2021 the online IDP database comprised 143,290 catalogue entries and 538,821 images. Most of the manuscripts in the IDP database are texts written in
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In 2004 the IDP organised a major exhibition entitled "The Silk Road: Trade, Travel, War and Faith", which was held at the British Library. This was the most successful exhibition ever held at the British Library, and attracted 155,000 visitors.
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government has not formally requested their return, in 2003 an official at the Chinese Embassy in London stated that "ittle by little, we will expect to see the return of items taken from Dunhuang — they should go back to their original place".
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priest and self-proclaimed guardian of the Mogao Caves. News of the discovery of these manuscripts was brought to the attention of Chinese scholars when Pelliot visited Beijing in 1909, and the renowned scholar and antiquarian
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during 1907–1909. The city had been abandoned in the late 14th century, and had been largely buried in sand for several hundred years. Kozlov unearthed thousands of manuscripts and woodblock prints, mostly written in the dead
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The IDP centre at the British Library set up a digitisation studio in 2001, and now similar studios have been established at IDP centres across Europe and Asia. In addition to making high-quality digital images of items,
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The site of Khara-Khoto was excavated by Aurel Stein in 1917, during his third expedition, and several thousand Tangut manuscript fragments recovered by Stein are in the Stein Collection of the British Library.
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The IDP has digitised over 14,000 items from these collection, mostly the Chinese, Brahmi and Sanskrit fragments. The Middle Persian, Old Turkic and Mongolian fragments have been digitised as part of the
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The British Library holds over 45,000 items collected by Stein, mostly comprising manuscripts, printed texts, and inscribed pieces of wood, written in a wide variety of scripts and languages, including
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holds various items from the Ōtani expeditions, including Chinese and Uyghur manuscripts and woodslips from Turpan, Dunhuang and elsewhere, as well as paintings from Dunhuang and Turpan.
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himself from a Buddhist perspective. In 1902 he left England to return to Japan overland via St Petersburg, and together with four other returning Japanese students he made his way to
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The Victoria and Albert Museum holds a collection of more than 650 textiles collected by Stein from various Silk Road sites, all of which have now been added to the IDP database.
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in Pakistan. The rest of the material collected by Stein was taken to England, and is now shared between the British Library, British Museum, and the Victoria and Albert Museum.
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The British Library Stein Collection also includes some artefacts such as textile fragments, sutra wrappers and paste brushes, as well as over 10,000 photographs, negatives and
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in St Petersburg. In addition to the several thousand Tangut texts, the Kozlov Collection includes about 660 manuscripts and printed books in Chinese, mostly Buddhist texts.
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fragments (formerly in the collection of the Mainz Academy of Sciences and Literature), 3,500 Manichaean fragments in various languages (primarily Middle Persian,
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Monastery in Kyoto on his father's death in 1903, and so was unable to personally take part in any further expeditions, but he financed further expeditions to
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In addition to these centres, it is planned to open an IDP centre in Sweden, and digitise the Central Asian collections held in Swedish institutions.
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were added to the database. By 2004 the IDP database included images of some 50,000 manuscripts, paintings, artefacts, and historical photographs.
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IDP Centres were opened in Beijing in 2001, in St. Petersburg and Kyoto in 2004, in Berlin in 2005, in Dunhuang in 2007, in Paris in 2008, and in
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fragments, about 300 Syriac fragments, about 200 Tibetan fragments, about 4,000 Tocharian fragments, and about 8,000 Sanskrit fragments.
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The central core of the project is the online database of catalogue records and images. This is intended to serve three main purposes:
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Also hosts images for those institutions that do not have their own IDP website, such as the British Museum and Princeton University.
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hosted by the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, and the Tocharian fragments have been digitised as part of the
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The IDP also engages in various educational activities, organising exhibitions, workshops, and educational events for schools.
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was appointed to edit the newsletter. The first meeting of the IDP steering group was held on 11 April 1994, when the name
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Pelliot Chinese : about 3,000 scrolls, booklets, paintings and woodblock prints, and around 700 fragments, in Chinese
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The IDP database includes material from a number of important collections held by participating institutions of the IDP.
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During 1907–1908 Stein and Pelliot had visited Dunhuang, and had both purchased large quantities of manuscripts from
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were made in the years 1902–1903, 1904–1905, 1905–1907, and 1913–1914, the first and third expeditions led by
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from most of the ancient and modern scripts found in the manuscripts to be added to the catalogue records.
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Translating Chinese Tradition and Teaching Tangut Culture: Manuscripts and Printed Books from Khara-Khoto
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to act as a replacement for the offline catalogues previously used by scholars to access the collections;
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The National Library of China in Beijing holds 621 Dunhuang scrolls transferred from the Lüshun Museum.
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he collected hundreds of woodslips with inscriptions in Sanskrit and Tocharian. Pelliot arrived at the
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in 1911 the manuscripts were deposited in the newly founded Metropolitan Library (later to become the
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papers, diaries, maps and photographs relating to the two expeditions are also held at the Hermitage.
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during 1909–1910, and some 183 Uyghur manuscripts collected by N. N. Krotkov, the Russian Consul in
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Many of Stein's personal papers and diaries are held at the Western Manuscript Department of the
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in St Petersburg, but were transferred to the Asiatic Museum in 1911. They are now held at the
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allowed the hiring of a part-time research assistant to input catalogue data into the database.
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The first director of the IDP was Susan Whitfield, who retired from the position in July 2017.
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The foundations for the project were laid in October 1993 when an international conference on
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to act as a replacement for tools previously used by institutions to manage their collections;
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The three Ōtani expeditions produced a large collection of manuscripts (especially Buddhist
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is used for manuscripts with faded ink or which are otherwise hard to read in normal light.
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to provide additional functionality that will make the database an important scholarly tool.
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holds about 6,000 Old Uyghur fragments, about 1,600 Chinese and Old Uyghur fragments, 800
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about 5,000 paper fragments and 4,000 woodlsips in Chinese from sites other than Dunhuang
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at Dunhuang a year after Stein, where he acquired thousands of manuscripts from the '
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Towards the digital library: the British Library's Initiatives for Access programme
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One of the oldest existing Chinese Buddhist sutras, dated to the 5th century CE.
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and India, before returning to Japan; and the two others exploring the region of
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Pelliot Kuchean : about 2,000 woodslips and paper fragments in Tocharian
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Documents XiXia de Dunhuang conservés à la Bibliothèque nationale de France
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about 14,000 scrolls and paper fragments in Chinese from Dunhuang Cave 17
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Pelliot Tibetan : 4,174 manuscripts and woodblock prints in Tibetan
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manuscripts, printed texts, paintings, textiles and artefacts from the
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A semi-fictitious record from the 11th century of the early kings of
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and Chinese/Sogdian fragments, and about 300 Sogdian fragments in the
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about 50 scrolls, 2,000 paper fragments and 100 woodslips in Khotanese
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Institute of Oriental Manuscripts of the Russian Academy of Sciences
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Institute of Oriental Manuscripts of the Russian Academy of Sciences
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Institute of Oriental Manuscripts of the Russian Academy of Sciences
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The earliest known fragments of an account of the establishment of
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The following are some of the notable items in the IDP database.
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was adopted. The first newsletter was published on 16 May 1994.
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and various other archaeological sites at the eastern end of the
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holds about 1,700 artefacts and 60 fragments of murals from the
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in 1908–1909 and 1910–1914. The final expedition excavated the
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The first known graphical representation of stars from ancient
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and Dunhuang between 1906 and 1908. In Kucha and elsewhere in
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Cave of the Thousand Buddhas: Chinese art from the Silk Route
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The following institutions are participating in the project.
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A 9th-century manuscript book on divination written in the
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Cave Temples of Dunhuang: Art and History on the Silk Road
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during the years 650 to 764, dated back to 11th century.
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Pelliot Sanskrit : about 4,000 fragments in Sanskrit
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The IDP was initially founded with 3-year grant from the
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Handbook to the Collections of Sir Aurel Stein in the UK
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Carpenter, Leona; Shaw, Simon; Prescott, Andrew (1998).
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in 2010, and the IDP website is now fully encoded using
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about 3,100 scrolls and pages in Tibetan from Dunhuang
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The New Yorker: A Secret Library, Digitally Excavated
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Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities
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Dunhuang Collections at the National Library of China
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about 700 paper fragments in Tibetan from other sites
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Responsible for manuscripts held by institutions in
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The International Dunhuang Project official website
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Pelliot Sogdian : about 40 Sogdian manuscripts
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Archived from 2084: 1758:National Library of France Pelliot tibétain 1288 1738:National Library of France Pelliot tibétain 1287 1658:A unique 12th-century manuscript translation in 1411: 1376:holds a number of items from Ōtani's collection. 1126:Pelliot Xixia : more than 200 items in the 293:conservation issues at venues across the world. 2860: 2403: 2192: 2190: 2188: 2186: 2184: 2182: 1890: 1888: 1694:National Library of France Pelliot chinois 3532 1668:National Library of France Pelliot chinois 4504 1582:The earliest surviving manual on the strategic 1463:holds about 6,000 Chinese fragments, about 100 1205:Oldenburg's collections are shared between the 544:, (Gest Library and Art Museum), Princeton, USA 474:(prior to 2007 the St Petersburg branch of the 2880:Whitfield, Roderick; Whitfield, Susan (2000). 2746: 2216: 2214: 2109: 1927:(36–37). International Dunhuang Project: 4–5. 1773:A year-by-year account of important events in 1123:Pelliot Khotanais : Khotanese manuscripts 2500: 2333:(49–50). International Dunhuang Project: 15. 2267: 2154: 1070:examining manuscripts in the 'Library Cave' ( 532:, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, USA 420: 217:兔園策府, a Tang dynasty manuscript from Dunhuang 2756:. Casa Asia. 2 November 2010. Archived from 2558: 2300: 2298: 2296: 2179: 1885: 1173: 981:about 1,000 paper fragments in Tibetan from 16:International archeology conservation effort 2945:Preservation (library and archival science) 2839: 2600: 2494: 2482: 2470: 2458: 2446: 2211: 2163:The silk road: trade, travel, war and faith 1866: 1864: 1862: 1853: 1831:Preservation (library and archival science) 399:In 2001, with substantial support from the 392:In 1997, with funding of £148,000 from the 213:Digitisation at the British Library of the 2861:Whitfield, Roderick; Farrer, Anne (1990). 2329:(2017). "Farewell from the IDP Director". 2245: 2243: 2014: 2325: 2293: 2254:, Library Association Pub., p. 188, 2160: 1919: 1788:In November 2010 the IDP was awarded the 1133:Pelliot divers : miscellaneous items 1058: 1046: 994:about 7,000 items in Brahmi and Kharosthi 159:and languages are represented, including 2780: 2564: 1960: 1859: 1792:by the Spanish governmental consortium, 1269: 1137: 1062: 1006:about 400 items in Old Turkic and Uyghur 872: 868: 845: 818:Research Institute of Korean Studies at 329: 208: 2240: 1896:"Silk Road treasures united on the web" 1448:, Old Turkic and Sogdian), about 1,000 536:University of California at Los Angeles 2922: 2506: 1145:(1863–1935) made an expedition to the 974:about 2,300 woodslips in Tibetan from 215:Rabbit Garden Imperial Book Repository 146:. The project was established by the 1972: 1039:have been added to the IDP database. 997:about 6,000 paper fragments in Tangut 1051:The Hoernle Collection, named after 554:Research Institute of Korean Studies 2840:Wang, Helen; Perkins, John (2008). 2249: 1946:Carpenter, Shaw & Prescott 1998 1674:Sutra of the Great Virtue of Wisdom 13: 2507:George, Marcus (22 October 2003). 1615:in Tibet during the reign of King 1285:(1865–1952) he decided to explore 1266:4,000 small manuscript fragments. 155:, but more than fifteen different 14: 2971: 2930:Organizations established in 1994 2899: 2359:. 2 December 2010. Archived from 1488:Notable items in the IDP database 1207:Institute of Oriental Manuscripts 1164:Institute of Oriental Manuscripts 1081:(1878–1945) led an expedition to 472:Institute of Oriental Manuscripts 2735:. International Dunhuang Project 2714:. International Dunhuang Project 2693:. International Dunhuang Project 2669:. International Dunhuang Project 2645:. 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