[INDOLOGY] Manuscript collections on archive.org

Dominik Wujastyk wujastyk at gmail.com
Tue Jul 25 19:23:25 UTC 2023


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 at 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 at 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
>>
>> https://ephe.academia.edu/MatthewKapstein
>>
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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
>> )
>> Cluster of Excellence - Understanding Written Artefacts
>> Warburgstraße 26
>> 20354 Hamburg
>> Germany
>>
>>
>> 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.
>>> 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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