Regarding the question about Penn’s collection of South Asian manuscripts: there is essentially no relationship between OPenn and Colenda—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@list.indology.info> on behalf of Dominik Wujastyk via INDOLOGY <indology@list.indology.info>
Date: Wednesday, July 26, 2023 at 1:19 PM
To: Timothy Cahill <tccahill@loyno.edu>
Cc: Indology (indology@list.indology.info) <indology@list.indology.info>
Subject: Re: [INDOLOGY] Manuscript collections on archive.orgThanks 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 plugin, in the hope of improving presentation.
About the Asiatic Society of Mumbai, some of their MSS could be found at archive.org 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@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. 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
A MS from the Asiatic Society of Mumbai was also available on archive.org 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
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@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@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@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@list.indology.info> wrote:
There's also a nice collection of Sanskrit mss. from Cambridge U. :
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:
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.
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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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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
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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
(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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