[INDOLOGY] Premodern Indian libraries and archives

Wed Feb 2 07:41:56 UTC 2022

There is even more on the topic,
which I could collect thanks to the references provided by Hartmut 
Buescher, Jinesh Sheth, and Richard Salomon:

An illustrated two volume publication by
Hartmut Buescher, Catalogue of Sanskrit Manuscripts: The Paṇḍit 
Collection, Copenhagen 2019;

another book by
A.K. Mukherjee, Librarianship: its Philosophy and History, London 1966.

remarks on (hypothetical) libraries in Buddhist Gandhara by Richard G. 
Salomon in his book
Ancient Buddhist Scrolls from Gandhara, 1999;

a paper on traditional Jain libraries:
John E. Cort, The Jain Knowledge Warehouses: Traditional Libraries in 
India, in: Journal of the American Oriental Society 115/1 (1995): 
p.77-87.

two papers on a Digambara Manuscript Repository in Jaipur:
Ulrich Timme Kragh and Abhishek Jain, A Preliminary Study on the Indian 
Grammar Manuscripts of the Āmer Śāstrabhaṇḍār in Jaipur, in: Przegląd 
Orientalistyczny 1 (2019): 3-21;

Ulrich Timme Kragh, "Localized Literary History: Sub-Text and Cultural 
Heritage in the Amer Sastrabhandar, A Digambara Manuscript Repository in 
Jaipur", in:  International Journal of Jaina Studies (Online) Vol. 9, 
No. 3 (2013) 1-53;

and
Dominik Wujastyk, "La bibliothèque de Thanjavur", in: Espaces et 
Communautes, ed. Christian Jacob, Paris 2007 
(https://www.academia.edu/209091/La_biblioth%C3%A8que_de_Thanjavur);

Best,
Christian

Am 01.02.2022 10:59, schrieb Marco Franceschini:
> 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
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>>> 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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