The Oriental Collection of the University Library, founded by
the famous Hungarian mongolist, turcologist and tibetologist
Lajos Ligeti was opened at the end of 1987 in order to help the
establishment of an international research centre on Altaistics
in Szeged.
The collection contains 11 thousand documents (books,
offprints and periodicals). Most of them - according to Ligeti's
field of interest - deal with mongolistics, turcology, tibetology
and sinology.
The collection is strong in Turkic, Mongolian and Chinese
linguistics, Hungarian prehistory, history of Eurasian nomadic
peoples, Buddhism, Shamanism. Visitors also can find text-books
and dictionaries in different oriental languages (Turkish,
Mongolian, Chinese, Sanskrit, Arabic, Hebrew etc.)
Altough the cataloguing of the material is not finished yet,
visitors can use all documents of the collection and they can
search in a printed catalouge of monographs on Altaistics (with
subject heading index in English). Web-users can search in our
database which contains monographs and collective volumes on Altaistics
catalogued by that time.
