Apor Éva (szerk.): Magyar Tudományos Akadémia Könyvtára Keleti Gyűjtemény.

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ver the history of the Oriental Collection spanning some a half century, it has grown continuously via purchase and international exchanges, as well as donations. Its holdings amount to some 100,000 volumes of books, 1,100 various periodicals including about 400 current ones, and around 5,000 manuscripts. The most recent major acquisition was the purchase of the 10,000 volume Scheiber library, the Judaica collection of the late Sándor Scheiber, the scholarly director of the Jewish Theological Seminary of Hungary. Nowadays the Oriental Collection of the Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences applies modern up-to-date library techniques in acquisition and cataloguing processes alike. The traditional card-catalogues are preserved, and post1986 acquisitions are accessible online as well. Its two series: Keleti Tanulmányok - Oriental Studies and Budapest Oriental Reprints, include 30 Kínai selyemfestmény Chinese silk painting publications by the most outstanding Hungarian scholars of Oriental research. So far, nineteen volumes have appeared in the two series. As regards special collections, the Kaufmann collection (Miksa Weisz, 1906), the Persian manuscripts of the Vámbéry bequest (Éva Apor, 1971), and the Scheiber library (1992) have their published catalogues; the catalogue of the Mongol-Manchu manuscripts and blockprints by György Kara is in press. MS Szanszkrit O. 1. m