Study of the Old Tibetan Texts from Turkestan

大英图书馆的史坦馆藏除了敦煌的文献外，还有相当数量的古藏文纸质文献和东突厥斯坦丝绸之路沿线其他古迹的伍德简。然而，这些文献分布在图书馆的各个地方，没有编目。因此，除了以前出版的有限数量的文本外，这些文本大多仍然是未知的和无法获取的。因此，本研究项目的目的是对现存的所有文献进行定位，进行适当的保护操作，并编制一份详尽的目录。在三年的项目中，我们能够找到和描述600多篇文献，其中包括近400篇以前未知和未研究的文献。然后为所有文本分配了连贯的目录号。新的申购单编号在OR15000以下也发给了那些没有申购单编号的人。这些手稿随后被送到图书馆的保护部，根据我们的指示进行必要的操作。在结束该项目时，竹内(首席调查员)和Shaw先生(大英图书馆调查员)就以下几点达成了协议：1.武口将在1996年底之前完成目录的最终草案。2.大英图书馆将在不迟于1996年8月对编入目录的所有文本进行拍照。描述目录将于1997年联合出版，其中包括文本的完整描述(第一卷)及其照相复制品(第二卷)。

The Stein Collection in the British Library is known to contain, besides texts from Dunhuang, a considerable number of Old Tibetan paper documents and woodes slips from other old sites along the Silk Road in East Turkestan.These texts are however located in various places within the library, and no catalog has been made. Thus, except for a limitted number of previously published texts, the texts remained mostly unknown and unaccessible. The purposes of this research project, therefore, are to locate all the extant texts, to make due operations for conservation, and to compile an exhausitive catalog.During the three years of project, we were able to find and describe over 600 texts, including nearly 400 texts that were previously unknown and unstudied. Coherent catalog numbers were then assigned to all the texts. New requisition numbers under Or15000 were also given to those bearing no requisition numbers. The manuscripts were then sent to the Conservation Department of the library to undergo necessary operations according to our instruction.In concluding the project, Takeuchi(Head Investigator)and Mr.Shaw(Investigator of the British Library)have reached an agreement on the following points regarding the publication of the research result.1.Takeuchi is to complete the final draft for the catalog by the end of 1996. Takeuchi will also publish a preliminary list as a journal article in 1995(cf.*10).2.The British Library is to photograph all the texts to be included in the catalog no later than August, 1996.3.The descriptive catalog in two volumes, consisting of the full description of the texts(volume one)and their photographic reproductions(volume two), is to be published jointly in 1997(cf.*10[BOOK]).