[INDOLOGY] Manuscript collections on archive.org

Thu Jul 27 19:54:00 UTC 2023

Thank you, Jef, this is extremely helpful and clear.

Best regards,
Dominik

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On Wed, 26 Jul 2023 at 13:18, Pierce, James F <jfpierce at pobox.upenn.edu>
wrote:

> Regarding the question about Penn’s collection of South Asian manuscripts:
> there is essentially no relationship between OPenn
> <https://openn.library.upenn.edu/> and Colenda
> <https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/>—they are not integrated, but for the
> most part contain the same content. The primary difference is user
> experience. Colenda is much more user-friendly for the average researcher;
> OPenn is more appropriate for large scale downloading and machine reading.
>
>
>
> That said, Colenda will likely grow to include more manuscript content
> that will not be added to OPenn due to CC license agreements. We partnered
> with the Rāmamālā Library several years ago to digitize approximately 100
> manuscripts which are only available in Colenda, and we’re currently
> working on a substantial manuscript digitization project in partnership
> with the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences Calcutta, which again will
> be ingested into Colenda but probably not added to OPenn.
>
>
>
> Nearly all of Penn’s historical collection of Indic manuscripts has been
> digitized and is openly available. However, we have about 250 manuscripts
> which weren’t digitized for various reasons when we were completing the
> project several years back, so if there’s a manuscript you think we have
> but isn’t available online, please be in touch with myself and/or Senior
> Curator, Mitch Fraas (cc’ed).
>
>
>
> All Best,
>
> Jef Pierce
>
>
>
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> *From: *INDOLOGY <indology-bounces at list.indology.info> on behalf of
> Dominik Wujastyk via INDOLOGY <indology at list.indology.info>
> *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
> <https://urldefense.com/v3/__http:/indology.info/external-resources__;!!IBzWLUs!RnQuPA2BhiHd8Jf9ADLmKOUYlSAtxHoQU3mSZYf_5cujMBcIAuOVycQIS7yhgzJIil53ETL2DK7d0ftSECuZD10GDeiX$>,
> afaik.  The way information is presented is far from clear: I'm trying to
> get an upgrade to the Wordpress plugin, in the hope of improving
> presentation.
>
>
>
> About the Asiatic Society of Mumbai, some of their MSS could be found at
> archive.org
> <https://urldefense.com/v3/__http:/archive.org__;!!IBzWLUs!RnQuPA2BhiHd8Jf9ADLmKOUYlSAtxHoQU3mSZYf_5cujMBcIAuOVycQIS7yhgzJIil53ETL2DK7d0ftSECuZD9ORVrXH$>
> 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> 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__;!!IBzWLUs!RnQuPA2BhiHd8Jf9ADLmKOUYlSAtxHoQU3mSZYf_5cujMBcIAuOVycQIS7yhgzJIil53ETL2DK7d0ftSECuZD9ORVrXH$>.
> The manuscripts that I downloaded a few years back came with a full roman
> transcription as well as translations. Current web site:
> https://www.davchd.ac.in/lcrl
> <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.davchd.ac.in/lcrl__;!!IBzWLUs!RnQuPA2BhiHd8Jf9ADLmKOUYlSAtxHoQU3mSZYf_5cujMBcIAuOVycQIS7yhgzJIil53ETL2DK7d0ftSECuZD8ed3GWH$>
>
>     A MS from the Asiatic Society of Mumbai was also available on
> archive.org
> <https://urldefense.com/v3/__http:/archive.org__;!!IBzWLUs!RnQuPA2BhiHd8Jf9ADLmKOUYlSAtxHoQU3mSZYf_5cujMBcIAuOVycQIS7yhgzJIil53ETL2DK7d0ftSECuZD9ORVrXH$>
> some years back, but it too has disappeared from there and (likely) been
> integrated into their new site at:
>
> https://www.asiaticsociety.org.in/index.php/holdings/manuscripts
> <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.asiaticsociety.org.in/index.php/holdings/manuscripts__;!!IBzWLUs!RnQuPA2BhiHd8Jf9ADLmKOUYlSAtxHoQU3mSZYf_5cujMBcIAuOVycQIS7yhgzJIil53ETL2DK7d0ftSECuZD7zrXJhr$>
>
> 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> 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> 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> 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
>
>
>
> Take care,
>
> Eric
>
>
>
> On Tue, Jul 25, 2023 at 9:13 AM Matthew Kapstein via INDOLOGY <
> 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__;!!IBzWLUs!RnQuPA2BhiHd8Jf9ADLmKOUYlSAtxHoQU3mSZYf_5cujMBcIAuOVycQIS7yhgzJIil53ETL2DK7d0ftSECuZD8RvJOEO$>
>
>
>
> The Gallica database of the Bibliotheque nationale de France also includes
> scans of many Skt. and other Indic mss., but I haven't found an easy way to
> globally search Skt. alone. Here's the general site:
>
> https://gallica.bnf.fr/accueil/en/content/accueil-en?mode=desktop
> <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/gallica.bnf.fr/accueil/en/content/accueil-en?mode=desktop__;!!IBzWLUs!RnQuPA2BhiHd8Jf9ADLmKOUYlSAtxHoQU3mSZYf_5cujMBcIAuOVycQIS7yhgzJIil53ETL2DK7d0ftSECuZD9Nib1Cq$>
>
>
>
> 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/__;!!IBzWLUs!RnQuPA2BhiHd8Jf9ADLmKOUYlSAtxHoQU3mSZYf_5cujMBcIAuOVycQIS7yhgzJIil53ETL2DK7d0ftSECuZD65XmZ6P$>)
> has scanned quite a lot of Pali and probably some Sanskrit as well (not to
> mention Tibetan, Mongolian, etc.).
>
>
>
> The Buddhist Digital Archives (https://library.bdrc.io/
> <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/library.bdrc.io/__;!!IBzWLUs!RnQuPA2BhiHd8Jf9ADLmKOUYlSAtxHoQU3mSZYf_5cujMBcIAuOVycQIS7yhgzJIil53ETL2DK7d0ftSECuZDzImGcl3$>),
> 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> 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__;!!IBzWLUs!RnQuPA2BhiHd8Jf9ADLmKOUYlSAtxHoQU3mSZYf_5cujMBcIAuOVycQIS7yhgzJIil53ETL2DK7d0ftSECuZD-ttI7Mr$>
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> All best,
>
> Giovanni
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>
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> On Tue, 25 Jul 2023 at 10:56, Royce Wiles via INDOLOGY <
> indology at list.indology.info> wrote:
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> Admittedly NOT on archive.org
> <https://urldefense.com/v3/__http:/archive.org__;!!IBzWLUs!RnQuPA2BhiHd8Jf9ADLmKOUYlSAtxHoQU3mSZYf_5cujMBcIAuOVycQIS7yhgzJIil53ETL2DK7d0ftSECuZD9ORVrXH$>,
> however, the Jain elibrary
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>
> 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> 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!!IBzWLUs!RnQuPA2BhiHd8Jf9ADLmKOUYlSAtxHoQU3mSZYf_5cujMBcIAuOVycQIS7yhgzJIil53ETL2DK7d0ftSECuZD1ZSTyJH$>
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>
>
> Le 24 juil. 2023 à 22:38, Harry Spier via INDOLOGY <
> indology at list.indology.info> a écrit :
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>
>
> Dear list members,
>
> Has anyone compiled a list of manuscript collections on archive.org
> <https://urldefense.com/v3/__http:/archive.org/__;!!IBzWLUs!RnQuPA2BhiHd8Jf9ADLmKOUYlSAtxHoQU3mSZYf_5cujMBcIAuOVycQIS7yhgzJIil53ETL2DK7d0ftSECuZD0jLAAOU$>.
> 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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