[INDOLOGY] Premodern Indian libraries and archives

[Christian Ferstl]

Dear Friends and Colleagues,

  many many thanks to everyone who answered my query - Timothy Cahill, 
Charles DiSimone, Eli Franco, Matthew Kapstein, Suhas Mahesh, Jonathan 
Silk, Péter-Dániel Szántó, and Herman Tull! I forward an impressing list 
of your collected suggestions on the topic:

- Gérard Fussman, "Dans quel type de bâtiment furent trouvés les 
manuscrits de Gilgit?", in: Journal Asiatique, 292.1-2 (2004): 101-150;
- Martin Delhey, The Library at the East Indian Buddhist Monastery of 
Vikramaśīla: an Attempt to Identify Its Himalayan Remains, in: 
Manuscript Cultures 8 (2015): 1-24;
- O.v. Hinüber: The Gilgit Manuscripts. An Ancient Buddhist Library in 
Modern Research: Introduction, in: From Birch Bark to Digital Data: 
Recent Advances in Buddhist Manuscript Research, ed. Paul Harrison and 
Jens-Uwe Hartmann, Vienna 2013.
- Gregory Schopen: On the absence of Urtext and Otiose Ācāryas: Books, 
Buildings, and Lay Buddhist Ritual at Gilgit, in: Gérard Colas and Gerdi 
Gerschheimer (eds.), Écrire et transmettre en Inde classique. (École 
française d'Extrême-Orient. Études thématiques 23) Paris 2009;
- Ludo Rocher, in: Journal of the American Oriental Society 131 (2011): 
133-135;
- Jahnabi Barooah Chanchani, "History from the Margins: Literary Culture 
and Manuscript Production in Western India in the Vernacular 
Millennium," Manuscript Studies: A Journal of the Schoenberg Institute 
for Manuscript Studies, Volume 6, Number 2, Fall 2021, pp. 197-222 
(https://www.academia.edu/67281775/History_from_the_Margins_Literary_Culture_and_Manuscript_Production_in_Western_India_in_the_Vernacular_Millennium);
- Noriyuki Kudo, "On and around the Gilgit Manuscripts in the National 
Archives of India", in: The Journal of Oriental Studies 29 (2019): 
168–181;
- Muni Jambuvijay (ed.), A catalogue of manuscripts in Jaisalmer Jain 
Bhandaras, Delhi 2000;
- Bimal Kumar Datta, Libraries and Librarianship of Ancient and Medieval 
India 
(https://archive.org/details/librariesandlibrarianshipofancientandmedievalindiabimalkumardatta_794_o/page/n5/mode/2up);
- Jeremiah Losty, Art of the Book in India 
(https://archive.org/details/artofthebookinindiajeremiahlostyp.bookonprintinghistory_705_f/page/74/mode/2up);
- Barua Pulinbihari, Monastic Libraries in Ancient India as depicted in 
Buddhist and Jaina texts 
(https://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/handle/10603/156523?mode=full);
- Kavīndrācārya List: A list of books in the private library of the 
famous Kavīndrācārya Sarasvatī (~1600 CE) 
(https://archive.org/details/kavindracaryasuc00kaviuoft);
- Christopher Minkowski, "Sanskrit Scientific Libraries and Their Uses: 
Examples and Problems of the Early Modern Period", in: F. Bretelle and 
C. Proust (eds.), Looking at it from Asia: The Processes that shaped the 
sources of the History of Science,  Boston Studies in Philosophy of 
Science 206 (2010): 81-114.

Yours,
Christian

Am 31.01.2022 11:49, schrieb Matthew Kapstein:
> Dear Christian,
> 
>  I recall that Gerard Fussmann had some interesting reflections on the
> Gilgit manuscripts in this respect, but I cannot locate the reference
> just now. Perhaps if this jogs the memory of someone else on the list,
> it can be located.
> 
>  I do hope that you post the results of this query to the list as a
> whole - it is a most important topic.
> 
>  best regards,
>  Matthew
> 
> Matthew Kapstein
> Directeur d'études, émérite
> Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris
> 
> Numata Visiting Professor of Buddhist Studies,
> The University of Chicago
> 
> https://brill.com/view/title/60949
> 
> https://ephe.academia.edu/MatthewKapstein
> 
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> Subject: [INDOLOGY] Premodern Indian libraries and archives
> 
> Dear Friends and Colleagues,
> 
> on behalf of an MA student I would like to ask whether you can
> recommend
> literature on ancient Indian libraries and archives, their
> organisation,
> structure, storage etc. in courts, monasteries and in private.
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Christian Ferstl
> 
> University of Vienna
> 
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