Dear Colleagues and Friends,
I would like to share some information with you on a new specialist Jaina library in Bonn which is open to students and scholar wishing to access the publications, and on a lecture series on Jaina manuscripts organised to inaugurate this new research centre.
With best wishes,
Julia Hegewald.
PIANAROSA JAINA LIBRARY, Bonn
The Pianarosa Jaina Library is a specialist collection on Jaina art and architecture, literature, religion and philosophy. Since 2011, it is housed in a separate room forming an integral part of the library of the Department of Asian and Islamic Art History at the University of Bonn. The roughly 1,600 scholarly monographs, edited volumes, traditional Jaina ma- nuscripts and periodicals in European and Indian languages (e.g. Sanskrit, Hindi, Gujarati, Kannada etc.) were donated by the family of the late Paolo Pianarosa (1949 - 2010).
Mr Pianarosa, a specialist librarian from Turin (Italy) worked for the Soprintendenza Beni Librari della Regione Piemonte. He developed an interest in Jainism, particularly in Karnataka. He started taking private classes in Sanskrit in 1983 and continued studying the laguge for the next tweve years. In the early 1980s, Paolo Pianarosa commenced gathering books on Jaina subjects and from 2001 visited India regularly.
The more than one and a half thousand publications of the original Pianarosa private collection have been supplemented by additional books on Jaina art and architecture from the library of the Department of Asian and Islamic Art History. Further volumes will join the collection from the Gritli von Mitterwallner bequest (2012).
The aims of the Pianarosa library are to preserve the present collections, supplement them with further texts on Jainism and provide easy access for on-site study to scholars wishing to work with the material. The bibliographic records of
the growing collection are being catalogued. A full list is available via a link on the departmental webpage (www.aik. uni-bonn.de).
The Pianarosa Library Bonn will be inaugurated with a lecture series by international scholars from Germany, Italy, Belgium, France and Great Britain and opened officially with two scientific presentations and a public reception by the end of June 2012 (please see information below or back of flyer for further details).
If you would like further information on the work of the Pianarosa Library, wish to access the publications or would like to make a book gift or financial donation to aid the running and enlargement of the library, please contact the Depart- ment of Asian and Islamic Art History (aikinfo@uni-bonn.de, 0049-228-73 72 12).
We are striving to further enhance the collections and to make the Pianarosa Library Bonn one of the world’s most comprehensive research and resource centres for material on Jaina studies.
Inaugural Lecture Series
Text, Image and Circulation:
Jaina Art in India and the Pianarosa Library in Bonn
Department of Asian and Islamic Art History, University of Bonn
Thursdays, 6pm
Departmental seminar room, Adenaueralle 10 (ground floor)
26.04.2012 Julia A. B. Hegewald (University of Bonn)
The Role of Sacred Manuscripts in Jaina Religion, Art and Space
03.05.2012 Andrea Luithle-Hardenberg (University of Tübingen)
Die Stationen der Pilgerschaft zum Berg Shatrunjaya: Paththas
als mnemotechnische Abbildungen der Pilgerrituale
10.05.2012 Jennifer Howes (British Library, London)
Early documentation on Jainism: The Mackenzie Collection in the British
Library
24.05.2012 Richard Fynes (De Montfort University, Leicester)
The Songs of Anandghan: Text, Image and Reception?
14.06.2012 Nick Barnard (V&A Museum, London)
Jaina manuscripts and paintings in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London
21.06.2012 Eva De Clercq (University of Gent)
Medieval Digambara Jainism in North India: Bhattarakas, merchants and art
28.06.2012 Nalini Balbir (University of Paris-3)
Illustrated Jaina Manuscripts
Tiziana Ripepi (University of Turin)
Studying Jainism: The Life and Library of Paolo Pianarosa, Turin
Official opening of the Pianarosa Library
All are welcome!
If you would like to receive printed versions of the library information flyer (and lecture series programme) and/or a copy of the Pianarosa Library poster, please send us your mailing address.
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Prof. Dr. Julia A. B. Hegewald
Professor of Oriental Art History
Head of Department
University of Bonn
Institut fuer Orient- und Asienwissenschaften (IOA)
Abteilung fuer Asiatische und Islamische Kunstgeschichte
Adenauerallee 10
D – 53113 Bonn
Germany
Email: julia.hegewald@uni-bonn.de
www.aik.uni-bonn.de
Tel. 0049-228-73 7213
Fax. 0049-228-73 4042