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Catalogue of the Collections of Sir Aurel Stein in the Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences Catalogue of the Collections of Sir Aurel Stein in the Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences edited by Éva Apor and Helen Wang THE BRITISH MUSEUM Budapest 2002 CATALOGUE OF THE COLLECTIONS OF SIR AUREL STEIN IN THE LIBRARY OF THE HUNGARIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES KELETI TANULMÁNYOK ORIENTAL STUDIES 11 SERIES EDITOR: ÉVA APOR © Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences Sponsored by THE BRITISH ACADEMY THE BRITISH COUNCIL THE BRITISH MUSEUM THE HUNGARIAN SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH FUND (OTKA T029152) THE HUNGARIAN SCHOLARSHIP BOARD THE KOMATSU CHIKO FOUNDATION (KYOTO) ISBN: 963 7451 110 ISSN: 0133-6193 THE BRITISH MUSEUM CATALOGUE OF THE COLLECTIONS OF SIR AUREL STEIN IN THE LIBRARY OF THE HUNGARIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES Compiled by JOHN FALCONER - ÁGNES KÁRTESZI - ÁGNES KELECSÉNYI - LILLA RUSSELL-SMITH Edited by ÉVA APOR AND HELEN WANG Ml[ Ä 1826 K BUDAPEST 2002 Sir Aurel Stein (1862-1943) CONTENTS Editors' Preface KELECSÉNYI Ágnes: Sir Aurel Stein and the Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences 13 KELECSÉNYI Ágnes and KÁRTESZI Ágnes: Catalogue of Correspondence, Manuscripts, Documents and Reviews Relating to Sir Aurel Stein 33 Correspondence 33 Manuscripts and Documents 104 Articles, Offprints and Reviews 121 FALCONER John and RUSSELL-SMITH Lilla: Catalogue of Photographs Taken or Collected by Sir Aurel Stein .... 159 Photographs 161 Index to the Photograph Collections 339 EDITORS' PREFACE This volume is the result of a three year project to catalogue the collections of Sir Aurel Stein in the Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. The project was bom out of professional respect and friendly curiosity. It was well known that the Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences held collections relating to Sir Aurel Stein, but there was little indication of the scope of these collections. This was also true to some extent in England, until the publication of Helen Wang's Handbook to the Stein Collections in the UK (British Museum Occasional Paper, 1999). Keen to make the information in the Handbook as widely available as possible, Helen sent a copy to Éva Apor, whom she knew as the editor of the reprint of Stein's Old Routes of Western Iran, published by the Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 1994, a copy of which she had sent to the British Museum. The present project grew from these exchanges. Mrs Alojzia Domsa, Deputy Director-General of the Library, brought to Éva's attention the Hungarian-British Joint Academic and Research Programme. Sir Aurel Stein's work was of huge importance to both Hungary and the UK, and perhaps there might be a chance of international collaboration on the Stein collections? Thanks to Lilla Russell-Smith, who knew both Helen and Éva personally, we were able within two weeks to submit an application to the British Council Hungary and to the Hungarian Scholarship Board. We were delighted that they agreed to support our project. For the Hungarian side, this meant that old plans could at last be realised. Some time before, there had been plans to catalogue Stein's manuscripts, correspondence and documents, and the Hungarian Scientific Research Fund had made some fund- ing available. But this would cover only a small part of the entire Stein collections. The further task of surveying and processing the enormous quantity of photographic material was way beyond reach. Now this seemingly insurmountable obstacle could be tackled, and there would be additional support for the existing plans. We succeeded in assembling a superb team. On the Hungarian side were the Indologist Agnes Kelecsényi, and the bibliographer Ágnes Kárteszi, who catalogued the manuscripts, correspondence and documents, under the guidance of the Iranist 9 ÉVA APOR - HELEN WANG Éva Apor, Head of the Oriental Collection of the Library of HAS. In the UK, Helen Wang, Curator of East Asian Money, British Museum, headed an equally experi- enced team. John Falconer and Lilla Russell-Smith worked on the photographic material. John Falconer, Curator of Photographs, Oriental and India Office Collections, British Library, had already completed the vast database of Sir Aurel Stein's photographic collection at the British Library. Since completing her doctorate on Dunhuang paintings, Lilla Russell-Smith has been working on the digitization of the paintings in the Stein collection at the British Museum. Also on the UK team were Tim Rogers, Dept of Western Manuscripts, Bodleian Library, Oxford, and co- author of the Bodleian Library's Catalogue of the Papers of Sir (Marc) Aurel Stein (1862-1943), printed 1983; and Susan Whitfield, Director of the International Dunhuang Project, British Library. It has been a pleasure to work together. Respect for individual expertise and gen- uine enthusiasm for the project has created a very friendly and effective internation- al team. As leaders of the Hungarian and UK teams, we would like to thank our col- leagues for their commitment and total co-operation. We would also like to make a special note of thanks to Professor Gyula Wojtilla, Chairman of the Oriental Committee, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, who placed his earlier notes on the Stein collection entirely at our disposal. Initially the project aimed at producing a manuscript catalogue within three years. This was to include the manuscripts (eg correspondence, documents, cut- tings) and the photographic material in the Library. Sir Aurel Stein's personal library, given to the Academy, had previously been processed and incorporated into the main catalogue of the Library. As it no longer constituted a separate collection, it was not possible to include this in our catalogue. With financial support from the British Academy and the British Museum Central Asian Curators' Group, we had made such good progress by the end of the second year that we found ourselves ahead of schedule and in a position to consider publication. The Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences agreed to publish our work with the help of the Komatsu Chiko Foundation, and the British Museum generously agreed to share the costs. We are very pleased to have achieved this publication within three years of commencing the project. The Catalogue reveals especially how the material in the Library fills the con- spicuous 'holes' in the British collections. In this way, with our Catalogue and the Bodleian Catalogue, we now have the most complete inventory of Stein's exten- sive body of correspondence. Similarly, the c.4,500 Stein photographs in the Library of the HAS complement the c. 11,000 Stein photographs in the British Library collection. We now know that the photographs from Stein's first expedi- tion, whose whereabouts were unknown, are in the Library of the HAS. Our prin- ciple throughout has been to parallel the existing catalogues, and keep things sim- ple for future researchers. 10 EDITORS' PREFACE During the past three years, we have also considered the most appropriate con- servation of the Stein collections. The National Cultural Fund of Hungary has sup- ported us in our aim to protect, clean and restore where necessary the manuscripts and photographs. With the help of Judit Szabados, conservation specialist of the Oriental Collection, the entire Stein collection has now been placed in acid-free pal- lia and boxes. These achievements would not have been possible without the support and good- will of all who heard about the project. It is our hope that this catalogue will encour- age future scholars in the many fields explored by Sir Aurel Stein. Éva Apor Helen Wang Head of the Oriental Collection Department of Coins and Medals Library, HAS British Museum Project Leader, Hungary Project Leader, UK 11 SIR AUREL STEIN AND THE LIBRARY OF THE HUNGARIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES Ágnes Kelecsényi There are few tasks in this world more difficult and more fascinating than the explo- ration of Central-Asia, and in the last century more than one prominent Hungarian was attracted towards that distant region. The intricacies of the Tibetan language drew Csorna de Kőrös to the confines of Tibet and the excitements of political enter- prise carried Arminius Vámbéry through the Khanates of Turkestan. In these latter days a culture more catholic than that of Csoma and an enthusiasm more scholarly than that of Vámbéry have led another Hungarian, Marc Aurel Stein, to penetrate the further recesses of the mysterious tracts which occupy the centre of Asia.' These three eminent Hungarian explorers, Alexander Csoma de Kőrös (1784- 1842), Arminius Vámbéry (1832-1913) and Aurel Stein (1862-1943), share the further honour of having their libraries, together with other notable Hungarian ori- entalists, placed in the Oriental Collection of the Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. The Tibetan manuscripts and blockprints, correspondence and associated documents of Csoma de Kőrös, the founder of Tibetology, came to the Academy in 1885 as a result of the research work by his first biographer, Theodore Duka, himself a medical colonel in the Indian Army. Arminius Vámbéry's library was donated to the Library by his son, Rusztem Vámbéry in 1916. Sir Aurel Stein, the most prominent archaeological explorer in Asia in the twentieth century, is one of the most distinguished contributors to the Library. He actively sought to expand the Library, and in his will arranged a bequest to benefit the Library. The bond between Sir Aurel Stein and the Academy had deep roots. His child- hood home stood in the immediate vicinity of the Academy, and with an introduc- tion from his uncle, the ophthalmologist, Professor Dr Ignác Hirschler, a Corresponding Member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, the young Aurel Stein was able to visit the Library while still at secondary school. He later wrote: 1 Sir Edward Maclagan, 'Sir Marc Aurel Stein', Hungarian Quarterly, 1938, vol.4, no.2, p.273.
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