Eva Nylander
Bibliotekarie
Return to Kashgar – the Jarring Collection of Uyghur manuscripts
Författare
Summary, in English
Return to Kashgar – the Jarring Collection of Uyghur Manuscripts Kashgar was a major crossroads for trade and culture along the Eurasian Silk Route for thousands of years, a place where Turkic, Persian, Arab, Chinese and other groups interacted. The Lund University Library is privileged to hold some 600 handwritten books from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries from cities in this region like Kashgar, Urumchi and Yarkand. Containing about 1500 titles, presumably the largest collection in the world, this so-called Jarring Collection was mostly acquired in Kashgar in 1929-1930 by the Swedish philologist and career diplomat Gunnar Jarring (1907-2002), while doing research for his doctoral thesis on Turkic languages. (Ambassador Jarring served later as a UN peace negotiator in both the Palestine and the Kashmir conflict.) In an attempt to return, as it were, these books, this cultural heritage, to Kashgar, the Lund University Library has undertaken an ambitious ongoing digitization and cataloguing program; the digitized books are free to access and download from the library portal. There are, however, other borders to cross and different problems to solve to meet the demands of global research and the free transmission of knowledge. The paper will deal with some of these problems
Avdelning/ar
- Department of Collections
- Avdelningen för bokhistoria
Publiceringsår
2017
Språk
Engelska
Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie
IFLA WLIC 2017 – Wrocław, Poland – Libraries. Solidarity. Society
Länkar
Dokumenttyp
Konferensbidrag
Förlag
IFLA
Ämne
- Specific Languages
Nyckelord
- Lund University Library, Gunnar Jarring, Kashgar, Yyghur manuscripts, Chaghatay
Conference name
IFLA World Library and Information Congress 2017. Libraries. Solidarity. Society.
Conference date
2017-08-19
Conference place
Wroclaw, Poland
Status
Published