International Dunhuang Project
Access: Publicly available resource
Description: IDP contains information and images of more than 100,000 manuscripts, paintings, textiles and artefacts from Dunhuang and other Silk Road sites. IDP contains images of printed documents on paper and silk dating from 400-1000 AD, including the world's earliest dated printed book (868 AD). Colour images and historically accurate information are searchable on the IDP DATABASE. Items are shown in context, with bibliographies, maps, photographs, site plans and other information relating to their provenance, history and present condition.
The majority of documents found were in Chinese, but there is a large collection of Tibetan documents as well as items in Turkic Uighur and several other languages. See the IDP News: Newsletter of the International Dunhuang Project , for current developments. Based at the British Library.
Coverage: Various Dates
Subject(s):
Digital Archives & Collections
Publicly Available Resources
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Bibliography of Asian Studies
