Paul Pelliot
Paul Pelliot (1878–1945) led an expedition to Kucha and Dunhuang from 1906–1908. In Kucha and elsewhere in Chinese Turkestan he collected hundreds of woodslips with inscriptions in Sanskrit and Tocharian, whilst at Dunhuang, arriving a year after Stein, he acquired thousands of manuscripts from the 'Library Cave' (Cave 17). The items collected by Pelliot are held at the Bibliothèque nationale de France, and are divided into the following sub-collections: