“The Brosset Collection”: how the Korean collection of the IOM RAS (Asiatic Museum) began to form

The article deals with the history of early acquisitions of Korean books by the Asiatic Museum — namely, nine texts from the so-called “Brosset collection”. This collection includes books from various collectors mentioned in the handwritten catalogue of Chinese, Manchu, multilingual, Japanese and Korean books from the collection of the Asiatic Museum compiled by Academician Marie-Félicité Brosset. The paper centers on the identification of records from this catalogue with books currently kept at the Institute of Oriental Manuscripts, proving their origin from the libraries of Paul Ludwig Schilling von Canstadt and Stepan Vasilievich Lipovtsov on the basis of archival data, and substantiating the assumption that those collectors most likely obtained them from members of the Russian Orthodox Mission in Beijing (including Hyacinth Bichurin).