[INDOLOGY] Premodern Indian libraries and archives

Tue Feb 1 09:59:27 UTC 2022

Dear Christian,

thank you for collecting together all the information that you received and for circulating them to all of us!

Best wishes,

Marco
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> Il giorno 1 feb 2022, alle ore 08:41, Christian Ferstl via INDOLOGY <indology at list.indology.info> ha scritto:
> 
> 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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>> From: INDOLOGY <indology-bounces at list.indology.info> on behalf of
>> Christian Ferstl via INDOLOGY <indology at list.indology.info>
>> Sent: Monday, January 31, 2022 4:39 AM
>> To: Indology <indology at list.indology.info>
>> 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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