Dear Friends and Colleagues,
many many thanks to everyone who answered my query - Timothy Cahill,
Charles DiSimone, Eli Franco, Matthew Kapstein, Suhas Mahesh, Jonathan
Silk, Péter-Dániel Szántó, and Herman Tull! I forward an impressing list
of your collected suggestions on the topic:
- Gérard Fussman, "Dans quel type de bâtiment furent trouvés les
manuscrits de Gilgit?", in: Journal Asiatique, 292.1-2 (2004): 101-150;
- Martin Delhey, The Library at the East Indian Buddhist Monastery of
Vikramaśīla: an Attempt to Identify Its Himalayan Remains, in:
Manuscript Cultures 8 (2015): 1-24;
- O.v. Hinüber: The Gilgit Manuscripts. An Ancient Buddhist Library in
Modern Research: Introduction, in: From Birch Bark to Digital Data:
Recent Advances in Buddhist Manuscript Research, ed. Paul Harrison and
Jens-Uwe Hartmann, Vienna 2013.
- Gregory Schopen: On the absence of Urtext and Otiose Ācāryas: Books,
Buildings, and Lay Buddhist Ritual at Gilgit, in: Gérard Colas and Gerdi
Gerschheimer (eds.), Écrire et transmettre en Inde classique. (École
française d'Extrême-Orient. Études thématiques 23) Paris 2009;
- Ludo Rocher, in: Journal of the American Oriental Society 131 (2011):
133-135;
- Jahnabi Barooah Chanchani, "History from the Margins: Literary Culture
and Manuscript Production in Western India in the Vernacular
Millennium," Manuscript Studies: A Journal of the Schoenberg Institute
for Manuscript Studies, Volume 6, Number 2, Fall 2021, pp. 197-222
(https://www.academia.edu/67281775/History_from_the_Margins_Literary_Culture_and_Manuscript_Production_in_Western_India_in_the_Vernacular_Millennium);
- Noriyuki Kudo, "On and around the Gilgit Manuscripts in the National
Archives of India", in: The Journal of Oriental Studies 29 (2019):
168–181;
- Muni Jambuvijay (ed.), A catalogue of manuscripts in Jaisalmer Jain
Bhandaras, Delhi 2000;
- Bimal Kumar Datta, Libraries and Librarianship of Ancient and Medieval
India
(https://archive.org/details/librariesandlibrarianshipofancientandmedievalindiabimalkumardatta_794_o/page/n5/mode/2up);
- Jeremiah Losty, Art of the Book in India
(https://archive.org/details/artofthebookinindiajeremiahlostyp.bookonprintinghistory_705_f/page/74/mode/2up);
- Barua Pulinbihari, Monastic Libraries in Ancient India as depicted in
Buddhist and Jaina texts
(https://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/handle/10603/156523?mode=full);
- Kavīndrācārya List: A list of books in the private library of the
famous Kavīndrācārya Sarasvatī (~1600 CE)
(https://archive.org/details/kavindracaryasuc00kaviuoft);
- Christopher Minkowski, "Sanskrit Scientific Libraries and Their Uses:
Examples and Problems of the Early Modern Period", in: F. Bretelle and
C. Proust (eds.), Looking at it from Asia: The Processes that shaped the
sources of the History of Science, Boston Studies in Philosophy of
Science 206 (2010): 81-114.
Yours,
Christian
Am 31.01.2022 11:49, schrieb Matthew Kapstein:
Dear Christian,
I recall that Gerard Fussmann had some interesting reflections on the
Gilgit manuscripts in this respect, but I cannot locate the reference
just now. Perhaps if this jogs the memory of someone else on the list,
it can be located.
I do hope that you post the results of this query to the list as a
whole - it is a most important topic.
best regards,
Matthew
Matthew Kapstein
Directeur d'études, émérite
Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris
Numata Visiting Professor of Buddhist Studies,
The University of Chicago
https://brill.com/view/title/60949
https://ephe.academia.edu/MatthewKapstein
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Christian Ferstl via INDOLOGY <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, January 31, 2022 4:39 AM
To: Indology <[email protected]>
Subject: [INDOLOGY] Premodern Indian libraries and archives
Dear Friends and Colleagues,
on behalf of an MA student I would like to ask whether you can
recommend
literature on ancient Indian libraries and archives, their
organisation,
structure, storage etc. in courts, monasteries and in private.
Thanks in advance,
Christian Ferstl
University of Vienna
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