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 | | The first collection, at the St. Petersburg Branch of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, contains approximately 25,000 volumes, representing up to 200,000 titlesÑalthough we do expect a good number of repeat titles by the time we are finished. |
 | | As a final note, the Catalog Project in St. Petersburg has generated an intriguing side-effort, which is a growing graphics collection of all the exquisite monastic and other seals found stamped on the wood-block manuscripts of the collections. |
 | | The presence of a seal is recorded in the St. Petersburg Catalog, and the seals each have their own unique identification number under the "GSP" file series in the ACIP Graphics Collections. |
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