[INDOLOGY] Manuscript collections on archive.org

Wed Jul 26 19:32:46 UTC 2023

Ron is not kidding. I searched for "Buddhist," nothing, then "bauddha" and
got --I'm not making this up:
Bauddha Gamartha Samgraha.

bauddhāgama... okaaay

On Wed, Jul 26, 2023 at 9:20 PM Davidson, Ronald M. <RDavidson at fairfield.edu>
wrote:

> I appreciate everyone’s input on manuscript collections.
>
> Perhaps I overlooked it’s notice by others, but this rather idiosyncratic
> collection came to my attention some time ago:
> http://indianmanuscripts.com/
>
> It bills itself as the largest collection of Indian manuscripts and
> antique books. There are some valuable items, but the romanization is via
> the North Indian/Hindi pronunciation one sometimes finds in Archive.org as
> well. Consequently, items are a bit challenging to spot from time to time.
>
> Best wishes,
> Ron
>
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> From: INDOLOGY <indology-bounces at list.indology.info> on behalf of Dominik
> Wujastyk via INDOLOGY <indology at list.indology.info>
> Reply-To: Dominik Wujastyk <wujastyk at gmail.com>
> Date: Wednesday, July 26, 2023 at 1:19 PM
> To: Timothy Cahill <tccahill at loyno.edu>
> Cc: "Indology (indology at list.indology.info)" <indology at list.indology.info>
> Subject: Re: [INDOLOGY] Manuscript collections on archive.org
>
> Thanks for this Tim. Links to the resources you mention are already there
> in the listing at http: //indology. info/external-resources, afaik. The way
> information is presented is far from clear: I'm trying to get an upgrade to
> the Wordpress
>
> Thanks for this Tim.  Links to the resources you mention are already there
> in the listing at http://indology.info/external-resources<
> https://urldefense.com/v3/__http:/indology.info/external-resources__;!!KIFmrYtlezdzESbnm_I!G8N2kAYTlbp44IXQeE_dWSczSMHlu4_dQk7xroKmRRFSNT8rZx8uf2raVorV_Sk8cyA49ulYrhFwovqCowh-Ze5CSllw06S9$>,
> afaik.  The way information is presented is far from clear: I'm trying to
> get an upgrade to the Wordpress plugin, in the hope of improving
> presentation.
>
> About the Asiatic Society of Mumbai, some of their MSS could be found at
> archive.org<
> https://urldefense.com/v3/__http:/archive.org__;!!KIFmrYtlezdzESbnm_I!G8N2kAYTlbp44IXQeE_dWSczSMHlu4_dQk7xroKmRRFSNT8rZx8uf2raVorV_Sk8cyA49ulYrhFwovqCowh-Ze5CSuTMMfsO$>
> by searching in Devanagari, but I think they have been taken down.
>
> Best,
> Dominik
>
> On Tue, 25 Jul 2023 at 17:37, Timothy Cahill <tccahill at loyno.edu<mailto:
> tccahill at loyno.edu>> wrote:
> Greetings,
>    The  Lalcand Research Library (originally in Lāhore) of D.A.V. College,
> Chandigarh has a large collection, some of which was previously available
> on archive.org<
> https://urldefense.com/v3/__http:/archive.org__;!!KIFmrYtlezdzESbnm_I!G8N2kAYTlbp44IXQeE_dWSczSMHlu4_dQk7xroKmRRFSNT8rZx8uf2raVorV_Sk8cyA49ulYrhFwovqCowh-Ze5CSuTMMfsO$>.
> The manuscripts that I downloaded a few years back came with a full roman
> transcription as well as translations. Current web site:
> https://www.davchd.ac.in/lcrl<
> https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.davchd.ac.in/lcrl__;!!KIFmrYtlezdzESbnm_I!G8N2kAYTlbp44IXQeE_dWSczSMHlu4_dQk7xroKmRRFSNT8rZx8uf2raVorV_Sk8cyA49ulYrhFwovqCowh-Ze5CSpaa1g5t$
> >
>     A MS from the Asiatic Society of Mumbai was also available on
> archive.org<
> https://urldefense.com/v3/__http:/archive.org__;!!KIFmrYtlezdzESbnm_I!G8N2kAYTlbp44IXQeE_dWSczSMHlu4_dQk7xroKmRRFSNT8rZx8uf2raVorV_Sk8cyA49ulYrhFwovqCowh-Ze5CSuTMMfsO$>
> some years back, but it too has disappeared from there and (likely) been
> integrated into their new site at:
> https://www.asiaticsociety.org.in/index.php/holdings/manuscripts<
> https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.asiaticsociety.org.in/index.php/holdings/manuscripts__;!!KIFmrYtlezdzESbnm_I!G8N2kAYTlbp44IXQeE_dWSczSMHlu4_dQk7xroKmRRFSNT8rZx8uf2raVorV_Sk8cyA49ulYrhFwovqCowh-Ze5CSvyP8Ipm$
> >
> This site requires registration and the payment of a fee as an annual
> subscription.
>    One note about the Penn collection: it is integrated into the worldcat
> site, so a search for a book will also bring up notices of the Penn
> collection, plus links that bring you directly to the digitized images.
> Best wishes,
> Tim Cahill
>
>
> On Tue, Jul 25, 2023 at 3:25 PM Dominik Wujastyk via INDOLOGY <
> indology at list.indology.info<mailto:indology at list.indology.info>> wrote:
> Deepest thanks to everyone who has sent me further links for the list of
> "Online Libraries of Scanned Manuscripts" at INDOLOGY.info.  I'm using a
> cheap-and-cheerful plugin for Wordpress that doesn't allow manual
> rearrangement of the list items.  So it's a bit of a grab-bag.
>
> Best,
> Dominik
>
>
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> On Tue, 25 Jul 2023 at 13:23, Dominik Wujastyk <wujastyk at gmail.com<mailto:
> wujastyk at gmail.com>> wrote:
> already there, via Colenda.  What is the relationship between UPenn's
> Colenda and OPenn?
>
> On Tue, 25 Jul 2023 at 08:50, Eric Moses Gurevitch via INDOLOGY <
> indology at list.indology.info<mailto:indology at list.indology.info>> wrote:
> In addition to the already-mentioned repositories, Penn Libraries has
> digitized almost 3000 South Asian manuscripts:
> https://openn.library.upenn.edu/html/indic_contents.html<
> https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/openn.library.upenn.edu/html/indic_contents.html__;!!KIFmrYtlezdzESbnm_I!G8N2kAYTlbp44IXQeE_dWSczSMHlu4_dQk7xroKmRRFSNT8rZx8uf2raVorV_Sk8cyA49ulYrhFwovqCowh-Ze5CSmm83kw7$
> >
>
> Take care,
> Eric
>
> On Tue, Jul 25, 2023 at 9:13 AM Matthew Kapstein via INDOLOGY <
> indology at list.indology.info<mailto:indology at list.indology.info>> wrote:
> There's also a nice collection of Sanskrit mss. from Cambridge U. :
> https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/sanskrit/1<
> https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/sanskrit/1__;!!KIFmrYtlezdzESbnm_I!G8N2kAYTlbp44IXQeE_dWSczSMHlu4_dQk7xroKmRRFSNT8rZx8uf2raVorV_Sk8cyA49ulYrhFwovqCowh-Ze5CShcl01D3$
> >
>
> The Gallica database of the Bibliotheque nationale de France also includes
> scans of many Skt. and other Indic mss., but I haven't found an easy way to
> globally search Skt. alone. Here's the general site:
> https://gallica.bnf.fr/accueil/en/content/accueil-en?mode=desktop<
> https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/gallica.bnf.fr/accueil/en/content/accueil-en?mode=desktop__;!!KIFmrYtlezdzESbnm_I!G8N2kAYTlbp44IXQeE_dWSczSMHlu4_dQk7xroKmRRFSNT8rZx8uf2raVorV_Sk8cyA49ulYrhFwovqCowh-Ze5CSoB8mRef$
> >
>
> And, if anyone cares to look up the details and post them, the Endangered
> Archives programme of the British Library (https://eap.bl.uk/<
> https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/eap.bl.uk/__;!!KIFmrYtlezdzESbnm_I!G8N2kAYTlbp44IXQeE_dWSczSMHlu4_dQk7xroKmRRFSNT8rZx8uf2raVorV_Sk8cyA49ulYrhFwovqCowh-Ze5CSl4EoJt9$>)
> has scanned quite a lot of Pali and probably some Sanskrit as well (not to
> mention Tibetan, Mongolian, etc.).
>
> The Buddhist Digital Archives (https://library.bdrc.io/<
> https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/library.bdrc.io/__;!!KIFmrYtlezdzESbnm_I!G8N2kAYTlbp44IXQeE_dWSczSMHlu4_dQk7xroKmRRFSNT8rZx8uf2raVorV_Sk8cyA49ulYrhFwovqCowh-Ze5CSnNHHHR3$>),
> though specializing in Tibetan, has recently branched out to include Pali,
> Sanskrit, and SE Asian languages, though I am not yet clear about what part
> of these additions are redirects to other databases.
>
> Matthew T. Kapstein
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> On Tuesday, July 25th, 2023 at 3:48 PM, Giovanni Ciotti via INDOLOGY <
> indology at list.indology.info<mailto:indology at list.indology.info>> wrote:
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>
> Dear all,
>
> I've recently become aware of this one (registration required):
> https://lucknowdigitallibrary.com/publication-category/manuscripts<
> https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/lucknowdigitallibrary.com/publication-category/manuscripts__;!!KIFmrYtlezdzESbnm_I!G8N2kAYTlbp44IXQeE_dWSczSMHlu4_dQk7xroKmRRFSNT8rZx8uf2raVorV_Sk8cyA49ulYrhFwovqCowh-Ze5CSjduIswz$
> >
>
> All best,
> Giovanni
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> On Tue, 25 Jul 2023 at 10:56, Royce Wiles via INDOLOGY <
> indology at list.indology.info<mailto:indology at list.indology.info>> wrote:
> Admittedly NOT on archive.org<
> https://urldefense.com/v3/__http:/archive.org__;!!KIFmrYtlezdzESbnm_I!G8N2kAYTlbp44IXQeE_dWSczSMHlu4_dQk7xroKmRRFSNT8rZx8uf2raVorV_Sk8cyA49ulYrhFwovqCowh-Ze5CSuTMMfsO$>,
> however, the Jain elibrary
>
> https://jainelibrary.org/<
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> >
>
> (free registration required for full access)
>
> has scanned and uploaded around 800 manuscripts (seemingly exclusively
> Jain texts) (findable in the category on the left of the site) as well as
> the 16,899 ‘books’ on the site and 6,000+ ‘articles’
>
>
>
> On 25 Jul 2023, at 20:25, Christophe Vielle via INDOLOGY <
> indology at list.indology.info<mailto:indology at list.indology.info>> wrote:
>
> There is also
> Chunilal Gandhi Vidyabhavan, Surat, Pandit Shivadatta Shukla collection
>
> https://archive.org/search?query=creator%3A%22Chunilal+Gandhi+Vidyabhavan+Surat%22
> <
> https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/archive.org/search?query=creator*3A*22Chunilal*Gandhi*Vidyabhavan*Surat*22__;JSUrKysl!!KIFmrYtlezdzESbnm_I!G8N2kAYTlbp44IXQeE_dWSczSMHlu4_dQk7xroKmRRFSNT8rZx8uf2raVorV_Sk8cyA49ulYrhFwovqCowh-Ze5CSvg4hoGj$
> >
>
>
> Le 24 juil. 2023 à 22:38, Harry Spier via INDOLOGY <
> indology at list.indology.info<mailto:indology at list.indology.info>> a écrit :
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> Dear list members,
> Has anyone compiled a list of manuscript collections on archive.org<
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> I'm of course aware of egangotri, but I would appreciate it if members
> could give me references to other collections of original manuscripts.
> Thanks,
> Harry Spier
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