Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin has a long history. As early as 1683, the first catalogue of Chinese titles, containing 25 entries, was printed for the Elector Friedrich Wilhelm von Brandenburg (1620-1688) (cf [...] collection had already been pointed out by Julius Klaproth (1783-1835). Klaproth was the author of the Berlin China-Catalogue, published in print in 1822. Today, out of the nearly 70,000 Chinese and Manchurian [...] which had been relocated due to the war, only about one third is still in the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin. A new and renewed inventory has been built up since 1951 with the support of the German Research
held in trust by the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin MIK Manuscripts on permanent loan from the Museum of Indian Art Turfan partly deposit of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, partly [...] variations. It is divided into shelf mark groups. The shelf mark group Ms. or. In the Royal Library of Berlin, the oriental manuscripts were sorted, provided with shelf marks and entered into an inventory from [...] Second World War, the Public Scientific Library, which later became the German State Library in East Berlin, did the same. In 1929, the collection "Manuscripta simulata orientalia" was created for photomechanical
Bernd Dreesmann/Berlin - financing of the Restaurierung of Sefer ha-Sohar manufactured 1623 in Lublin 2011 - Wüstenrot Foundation, Berliner headquarter of Siemens AG, friends of the Berlin State Library [...] Gruyter Foundation, Schleiermachersche Foundation, Evangelical Church Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Upper Lusatia, Friends of the Berlin State Library e.V. - co-financing of the acquisition of three manuscripts [...] 1871“ (Berlin 1871) and „Gedenkblätter der Venus-Expedition 1874: Seiner Maj. Dem Kaiser Wilhelm I … dargebracht von den Mitgliedern der Expeditionen zur Beobachtung des Venusdurchganges 1874“ (Berlin 1877)
Turfan Collection The Turfan collection of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities as a deposit at the Oriental Department of the Berlin State Library includes about 40,000 fragments of [...] database of oriental manuscripts of the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin Qalamos . The collection of Yemeni manuscripts at the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin initially comprises 264 volumes, which the South Arabian [...] University (Montreal), the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (Berlin), about 500 volumes of Arabic manuscripts from the Berlin State Library from the fields of natural sciences, medicine and philosophy
had to be relocated due to the war, was not returned to Berlin. Only 24,000 items found their way back to the Oriental Department of the East Berlin Staatsbibliothek (since 1969: Asia-Africa-Department) [...] Today, about one third of the former collection is in Berlin while the rest is destroyed or considered lost. Both departments in East and West Berlin developed quite differently until 1991, shortly after [...] in Kiel . Cooperation with other Departments of the State Library in Berlin The East Asia Department of the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin maintains a working cooperation with other departments in the area of
in Berlin (East) and the Staatsbibliothek Preußischer Kulturbesitz in Berlin (West). First return of the collections After the end of the war around 1.5 million volumes were returned to West Berlin and [...] in the French occupation zone 1948 - 1968 - Tübinger Depot Berlin (West) 1964 - 1968 - Move of the holdings from Marburg and Tübingen to Berlin (West) 1968 - 1991 - Staatsbibliothek Preußischer Kulturbesitz [...] d building Potsdamer Straße, bringing together of all holdings located in Berlin (West) Since 1992 Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz, a ccording to the Unification Treaty the Deutsche
