É. Apor (ed.): Jubilee Volume of the Oriental Collection, 1951–1976. Papers Presented on the Occasion of the 25th Anniversary of the Oriental Collection of the Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

L. BESE: On the Mongolian and Manchu Collections in the Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences

55 This brief handlist does not include untitled items, which number over fifty. Around half of the untitled works and the various fragments are on Buddhist subjects or are not at present easy to identify. I hope that the planned descriptive catalogue will be completed in the near future, thus making the Mongolian collection of the Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences available in its entirely, as a whole, for Mongolian studies. II. On the Manchu books and manuscripts in the Oriental Collection The 25th anniversary of the Oriental Collection presents us with an excellent opportunity to discuss the rich and valuable collection of oriental manuscripts in the possession of the Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Somewhat overshadowed by the main body of Hebrew, Turkish, Mongolian, Arabic and Persian manuscripts in a quantitatively smaller collection, that of Manchu manuscripts and rare books. It would seem to me worthwhile and necessary to take the opportunity of the anniversary to mention a few words about this collection, particularly as its existence is not generally known to Manchu scholars. The list of titles which we publish below is intended to provide preliminary information on the provenance of many well-known works and also to publicize the existence of a number of hitherto unknown items. As such it will be of use to Manchu philologist. The Oriental Collection at present possesses 36 Manchu items. There are a further 22 works in the Mongolian manuscripts and xylographs section which by right ought to belong in the Manchu collection. Thus there are altogether 58 Manchu items in the Oriental Collection. We present the items according to the classification of Prof. Walter FUCHS, Chinesische und mandjurische Handschriften und seltene Drucke, Wiesbaden 1966. (Verzeichnis der orientalischen Handschriften in Deutschland 12, 1. ). Items or fragments which have not yet been identified have been grouped under the heading of miscellaneous works. As it is our wish to describe and classify the items as simply as possible, in general, we publish only the Manchu titles of multilingual works, and references reduced to the minimum compatible with clarity. To facilitate the usage of the catalogue we refer to the item-number of two other catalogues. They are as follows: Nicholas POPPE - Leon HURVITZ - Hidehiro OKADA,