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 , there begins the catalogue of the Burnouf collection. My questions are:

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 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)?
Finally, how can one distinguish books from manuscripts in this listing?

Thanks!

Dominik

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