[INDOLOGY] Manuscript collections on archive.org

[Matthew Kapstein]

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

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The University of Chicago Divinity School

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On Tuesday, July 25th, 2023 at 3:48 PM, Giovanni Ciotti via INDOLOGY <indology at 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
>
> - - -
> Dr. Giovanni Ciotti
> Spokesperson
> The Palm-Leaf Manuscript Profiling Initiative (PLMPI)
> (https://www.csmc.uni-hamburg.de/written-artefacts/working-groups/plmpi.html)
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> On Tue, 25 Jul 2023 at 10:56, Royce Wiles via INDOLOGY <indology at 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 at 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 at list.indology.info> a écrit :
>>>>
>>>> Dear list members,
>>>> Has anyone compiled a list of manuscript collections on [archive.org](http://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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