The Royal Library in Copenhagen received a minor collection
of Dunhuang manuscripts nearly 80 years ago. The donator,
Arthur Bollerup Sorensen, was chief telegraphist in
Shanghai in the Great Northern Telegraph Company. In
1915, during his second voyage from China to Central
Asia, he acquired 15 Buddhist manuscripts and 1 Daoist
scripture in Dunhuang, just a few months after the departure
of the Russian expedition headed by Sergei Oldenburg.
Information about this minor collection of Dunhuang
manuscripts in Denmark may be of interest for the International
Dunhuang Project. The 200 sheets of handmade
paper can provide important data on the early Chinese paper
technology which deserves special investigation. The
following notes are the preliminary results of the analysis
of the paper of the Dunhuang manuscripts...
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