Sazykin A. [Review:] Tatiana A. Pang, Descriptive Catalogue of Manchu Manuscripts and Blockprints in the St. Petersburg Branch of the Institute of Oriental Studies. Russian Academy of Sciences. Issue 2 — Описание маньчжурских рукописей u ксилографов Санкт-Петербургского филиала Института востоковедения Российской Академии наук. Вып. 2. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2001, 218 pp, plus facsimiles. — Aetas Manjurica, 9 // Manuscripta Orientalia. Vol. 8. No. 2. June 2002. P. 71—72.
T. Pang’s work is a closing one which crowns years long
labours of Russian specialists in Manchu studies who
were engaged in the cataloguing and scholarly description
of Manchu manuscripts and xylographs kept in the
St. Petersburg Branch of the Institute of Oriental Studies
collection. These materials are justly considered to be the
richest in the world, not to count Manchu manuscripts and
xylographs preserved in the collections of China. The catalogue
is marked as Issue 2 to indicate that it is the continuation
of M. P. Volkova’s catalogues of Manchu manuscripts
and blockprints preserved in the St. Petersburg Branch of
the Institute of Oriental Studies collection...