and was transferred in its entirety to Krakow’s large and important Biblioteka Jagiellonska, where today it comprises a part of the so-called “Berlinka”. At Krakow, the collection is shelved together and [...] (mainly Mandschu titles) and Eugen Pander (Tibetan titles), the inventory was developed into a pre-eminent working basis for those interested in China and East Asia. The last accession number in the book [...] (Neue Sammlung, i.e., new collection) dates back to 1939. Only about 24,000 volumes of the collection made their way back into the library which after the war found itself being situated in what by then had

Spree" when, during the second half of the 17th century, the first acquisitions of Chinese books were made by order of the Great Prince-Elector. In 1682/83, the holdings comprised 276 Chinese books. While [...] Berlin (West). Today, about 20,000 volumes of this collection are in the Biblioteka Jagiellonska in Krakow, Poland. Other parts ended up in the former Soviet Union. Today, about one third of the former collection [...] West, the support of the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft; DFG) after 1951 made it possible to establish the Special Subject Collection East- and South-East Asia (Sondersammelgebiet