[INDOLOGY] help with Cabaton catalogue of Paris BnF

Tue Dec 30 17:08:52 UTC 2025

Dear Jonathan,

Thank you for your interest!
You can freely read the book on the OpenEdition website. If you want to
read the PDF version, you will have to pay, as for the printed version.
https://books.openedition.org/ephe/3603 (XML version, open access)
https://www.7switch.com/fr/ebook/9782492861253/from/openedition (PDF
version, 11,99 euros)
https://i6doc.com/fr/book/?GCOI=28001100998300 (printed version, 28 euros)

All my best wishes,

Jérôme

Le mar. 30 déc. 2025 à 10:24, Jonathan Silk <kauzeya at gmail.com> a écrit :

> Dear Jérôme,
>
> Thank you for the details about the BnF collection.
> And, congratulations on your book!
> One question: when I follow the link it asks me to pay €11.99 for the PDF.
> I would happily pay for a paper copy, but when I see OpenAccess I rather
> expect gratis download, but I seem indeed somewhere to have misunderstood...
>
> Avec mes meilleurs vœux pour une belle année nouvelle,
>
> Jonathan
>
> On Tue, Dec 30, 2025 at 9:33 AM Jérôme Petit via INDOLOGY <
> indology at list.indology.info> wrote:
>
>> Dear Dominik,
>>
>> Curator of the South-Asian manuscript collection in Paris, I am answering
>> your questions below:
>>
>>
>>    1. What is the meaning of the numbering?  The first number is just a
>>    serial number in Cabaton's catalogue, but the Burnouf materials have a
>>    second number in parentheses.  What's that number? It's also
>>    sequential.
>>
>> The first numbering is the BnF shelfmark, like “Sanscrit 1046”. The
>> second one in brackets is the numbering given during the sale of the
>> Burnouf collection (see below). Cabaton’s catalogues have been XML-encoded
>> and published on the “BnF Archives et manuscrits” website.
>>
>> https://archivesetmanuscrits.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cc97327n
>>
>>
>>
>>    2. The footnote on p. 181 refers to a published list of materials in
>>    a fire (I can't find that publication).  Was Burnouf's collection
>>    destroyed?  Are we looking at a list of books and manuscripts that *used*
>>    to exist?  Or were merely singed (like Zaehner's books in Oxford)?
>>
>> Some printed books of the Burnouf collection had been bought by the
>> National Library during the 1854 sale. They form the shelfmarks “Sanscrit
>> 1046 to 1102”. You will find below the link to the digital version of this
>> publication. The numbering in brackets in Cabaton refers to the numbering
>> in this catalogue.
>>
>> https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k5804580x
>>
>>
>>
>>    3. Finally, how can one distinguish books from manuscripts in this
>>    listing?
>>
>> When references of an edition are given (“Calcutta, 1818”), the book is
>> printed or lithographed. If not, it is “autographed”. But most of the
>> manuscripts of the Burnouf collection were directly integrated to the
>> “Sanscrit” collection which had been thematically classified by Cabaton
>> (Buddhism, Vedism, Purāṇa, Grammar, etc.). You can ask the online
>> catalogue: Recherche avancée / Cote = ancienne cote = « Burnouf ».
>>
>> https://archivesetmanuscrits.bnf.fr/
>>
>>
>>
>> Another ensemble should be considered. The scientific archives of Eugène
>> Burnouf are gathered under the “Papiers Burnouf” collection. They were
>> catalogued by Léon Feer in 1899.
>>
>> https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k2557127
>>
>>
>>
>> I take this opportunity to announce the recent publication of my book
>> devoted to the history of the Indian manuscript collection of the National
>> Library of France, with a particular focus on the Charles d’Ochoa
>> collection. The book (in French) is open access.
>>
>> https://books.openedition.org/ephe/3603
>>
>>
>>
>> Kind regards,
>>
>> Jérôme Petit
>>
>> --
>> Curator of South and Southeast Asian manuscript collections at the
>> National Library of France (BnF)
>> Professor for manuscript cultures of the Indian world at the École
>> pratique des hautes études (EPHE-PSL)
>> BnF Richelieu - 5 rue Vivienne 75002 Paris
>> https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8622-1087
>> https://cv.hal.science/jerome-petit
>>
>>
>>
>> Le mar. 30 déc. 2025 à 00:44, Dominik Wujastyk via INDOLOGY <
>> indology at list.indology.info> a écrit :
>>
>>>
>>> Can someone familiar with the Paris collections help me with this?  In
>>> vol. 1 (1907) of Cabaton's *Catalogue sommaire des manuscrits sanscrits
>>> et palis*, on page 181
>>> <https://archive.org/details/in.gov.ignca.6175/page/n187/mode/1up> ,
>>> there begins the catalogue of the Burnouf collection.  My questions are:
>>>
>>>    1. What is the meaning of the numbering?  The first number is just a
>>>    serial number in Cabaton's catalogue, but the Burnouf materials have a
>>>    second number in parentheses.  What's that number? It's also sequential.
>>>    2. The footnote on p. 181 refers to a published list of materials in
>>>    a fire (I can't find that publication).  Was Burnouf's collection
>>>    destroyed?  Are we looking at a list of books and manuscripts that *used*
>>>    to exist?  Or were merely singed (like Zaehner's books in Oxford)?
>>>    3. Finally, how can one distinguish books from manuscripts in this
>>>    listing?
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>> Dominik
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Dominik Wujastyk, Professor Emeritus, Classical Indian History
>>> University of Alberta
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