[INDOLOGY] Might anyone have an idea what this could be?

Tue Feb 8 09:22:08 UTC 2022

Dear Friends

I wrote to the dealer and received photos, which is exactly what Antonio
Ferreira-Jardim also did. The dealer sent photos to me last evening, and to
Antonio, and we both were able quickly to identify them.
A quick summary: there are photos of Tibetan texts, not Sanskrit I am
afraid, although the very first page says in large letters rgya gar skad
du; I wonder if someone told the then owner what this meant.
In any event, while the photos are not very easy to read, at least the end
(or the last photo I received) contains the short sdig pa thams cad bshags
pa’i mdo; but there must also be other contents which I did not ruin my
eyes trying to identify.
I have no idea what happened to the originals.
Antonio tracked down a newspaper article from 1922  which gives an
impression of a much greater volume of text, but I'm not sure what would
have happened to these documents.
Antonio concludes "Probably Mr Richard was sold a bundle of confessional
texts that he then conflated to be the Kanjur, Tanjur and indeed the answer
to the origin of the "Aryans" -"
This indeed seems likely.
In any event, there is no long-lost Sanskrit manuscript here, more's the
pity.

With thanks to all those who offered to track down the pamphlet itself;
this might still prove interesting, especially if it were possible thereby
to get good quality scans of the entire book. I suspect that the other
texts are also known, but who knows? Maybe there is value in finding out
what is there, even if the originals cannot now be traced.

Jonathan

On Sun, Feb 6, 2022 at 11:36 PM Richard Mahoney via INDOLOGY <
indology at list.indology.info> wrote:

> It looks like the the NYPL holds both:
>
>
> https://www.nypl.org/research/research-catalog/search?filters[creatorLiteral]=Richard,%20William%20L
> .
>
> And there's another copy of "The Tanjur ..." at Yale:
>
> https://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/2693489
>
>
> Best, Richard
>
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> *From*: Rosane Rocher via INDOLOGY <indology at list.indology.info
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> I don't know, but he published an open letter on international finance two
> years later at the same publisher:
>
> Valutasorgen; or, "The flight from the mark." An open letter to the
> president of the United States of America on the vexed problem of German
> exchange . Rosane Rocher
>
> On 2/6/22 10:16 AM, Jonathan Silk via INDOLOGY wrote:
>
>
> Friends
>
> I recently came across the following listing at
>
>
> https://www.zvab.com/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=22479990694&searchurl=n%3D100121503%26pt%3Dbook%26sortby%3D1%26kn%3Dsanskrit&cm_sp=snippet-_-srp6-_-title25
> <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.zvab.com/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=22479990694&searchurl=n*3D100121503*26pt*3Dbook*26sortby*3D1*26kn*3Dsanskrit&cm_sp=snippet-_-srp6-_-title25__;JSUlJSUlJQ!!IBzWLUs!AICqv4CyzZclsss9aouTFUeupnLCgalQ2sd_yPuRjR5t2_U84PkHZCeXChNUoX4JHQ$>
>
> I have no idea what this could be, do you?
>
> The Tanjur and The Kanjur: A Dissertation on Sanskrit, the Language of
> Antiquity, and on the corollary question, "Where was the Cradle of the
> Aryan race?"
> RICHARD, William L.
> Verlag: La Casa Amaraca, Freeport, N.Y., 1920
>
> described as follows:
>
> First edition. Oblong octavo. Printed wrapper: 7, [1]pp., photographic
> frontispiece portrait and unpaged (approximately forty-one) gelatin silver
> photographs of the Sanskrit manuscripts. Contemporary custom binding by the
> Atelier Bindery in full pale brown morocco with four raised bands and black
> morocco spine label with title and decorations of dragons and swastikas in
> gilt, dentelles in elaborate gilt floral pattern, all edges gilt, marbled
> endpapers. Top corners slightly bumped, very near fine in custom cloth
> slipcase. One of 500 numbered copies, this copy unnumbered. Brief
> dissertation about the author's copies of rare Tibetan Sanskrit
> manuscripts. Apparently issued as an eight page pamphlet, this copy has
> been enhanced with the photographs and seems likely to have been the
> author's own copy. Attractive and beautifully bound volume. *OCLC* locates
> two copies of the pamphlet, but nothing with accompanying illustrations.
> (Yale and NYPL). Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 408916
>
> it seems to me in the first place probable that the person who wrote this
> does not know the difference between Tibetan and Sanskrit, but maybe that
> is not true? Interesting, i think, and it makes me curious.
>
> Jonathan
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