Bent Lerbæk Pedersen

This essential reference to the Korean rare book and manuscript holdings at the Royal Library, Copenhagen, gives a description of 110 Korean manuscripts and rare books. Detailed entries include transcriptions and illustrations enabling scholars to identify material.

This massive work is a representative selection of 335 items from the vast holdings of Chinese manuscripts and rare books held at the Royal Library, Copenhagen, most of these from its Chinese Museum Collection. Designed especially as an essential source of reference for scholars working in all aspects of manuscript and rare book studies, the catalogue includes over 290 full-page illustrations (90 in colour) that help identify most of the books and manuscripts listed.