In a paper recently published in Manuscripta Orientalia by Park Songgu, Ch’oe Tŏksu, Chŏng Ubong and Hŏ Sunch’ŏl on Korean manuscripts, block-prints, and old-print books in the collection of Russia, I drew the authors' attention to the absence of a list of characters in it. In my view, such a list is indispensable in such an article devoted to manuscripts and books. Following is a list of characters to complement the paper of our Korean colleagues. We publish it here, together with a transliteration, in the hope that it will ease the task of scholars in the discipline of Korean studies whose interests lead them to the valuable materials found in Russian collections, and in particular in the collection of the St. Petersburg Branch of the Institute of Oriental Studies and of St. Petersburg State University...
The 5th International Academic Conference “The Written Heritage of the Orient” dedicated to the 240th Anniversary of P.L. Schilling von Canstadt (1786–1837) will be held at the IOM RAS on April 20–22, 2026.
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