British Academy: The UK's National Academy for the Humanities and Social Sciences
A HUNDRED YEARS OF DUNHUANG, 1907-2007
Abstracts
Stein Collections and Stein Projects in the Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Eva Apor, Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
The Hungarian burn Sir Aurel Stein donated his Kashmiri library to the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 1921 and 1925. In his will he bequeathed the second part of his books to the Hungarian Academy with his personal documents and photographs. Books were incorporated into the current catalogue of the library. Manuscripts, documents and c. 6,500 photographs were processed recently in two phases. The 1st phase finished in 2002 publishing the Catalogue of the Collections of Sir Aurel Stein in the Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences jointly by the British Museum and the Library of HAS editing by Helen Wang and Eva Apor. The 2nd phase finished this year publishing the Supplement to the Catalogue by the Library of HAS. Digitisations of photographs are in process in IDP project.