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@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

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

And, if anyone cares to look up the details and post them, the Endangered Archives programme of the British Library (https://eap.bl.uk/) 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/), 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

Professor emeritus

Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, PSL Research University, Paris

Associate

The University of Chicago Divinity School

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On Tuesday, July 25th, 2023 at 3:48 PM, Giovanni Ciotti via INDOLOGY <indology@list.indology.info> wrote:

Dear all,

I've recently become aware of this one (registration required): https://lucknowdigitallibrary.com/publication-category/manuscripts

All best,

Giovanni

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Dr. Giovanni Ciotti
Spokesperson
The Palm-Leaf Manuscript Profiling Initiative (PLMPI)
(https://www.csmc.uni-hamburg.de/written-artefacts/working-groups/plmpi.html)
Cluster of Excellence - Understanding Written Artefacts
Warburgstraße 26
20354 Hamburg
Germany

On Tue, 25 Jul 2023 at 10:56, Royce Wiles via INDOLOGY <indology@list.indology.info> wrote:

Admittedly NOT on archive.org, however, the Jain elibrary

https://jainelibrary.org/

(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@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

Le 24 juil. 2023 à 22:38, Harry Spier via INDOLOGY <indology@list.indology.info> a écrit :

Dear list members,

Has anyone compiled a list of manuscript collections on archive.org. 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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