There is even more on the topic,
which I could collect thanks to the references provided by Hartmut
Buescher, Jinesh Sheth, and Richard Salomon:
An illustrated two volume publication by
Hartmut Buescher, Catalogue of Sanskrit Manuscripts: The Paṇḍit
Collection, Copenhagen 2019;
another book by
A.K. Mukherjee, Librarianship: its Philosophy and History, London 1966.
remarks on (hypothetical) libraries in Buddhist Gandhara by Richard G.
Salomon in his book
Ancient Buddhist Scrolls from Gandhara, 1999;
a paper on traditional Jain libraries:
John E. Cort, The Jain Knowledge Warehouses: Traditional Libraries in
India, in: Journal of the American Oriental Society 115/1 (1995):
p.77-87.
two papers on a Digambara Manuscript Repository in Jaipur:
Ulrich Timme Kragh and Abhishek Jain, A Preliminary Study on the Indian
Grammar Manuscripts of the Āmer Śāstrabhaṇḍār in Jaipur, in: Przegląd
Orientalistyczny 1 (2019): 3-21;
Ulrich Timme Kragh, "Localized Literary History: Sub-Text and Cultural
Heritage in the Amer Sastrabhandar, A Digambara Manuscript Repository in
Jaipur", in: International Journal of Jaina Studies (Online) Vol. 9,
No. 3 (2013) 1-53;
and
Dominik Wujastyk, "La bibliothèque de Thanjavur", in: Espaces et
Communautes, ed. Christian Jacob, Paris 2007
(https://www.academia.edu/209091/La_biblioth%C3%A8que_de_Thanjavur);
Best,
Christian
Am 01.02.2022 10:59, schrieb Marco Franceschini:
Dear Christian,
thank you for collecting together all the information that you
received and for circulating them to all of us!
Best wishes,
Marco
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University of Bologna
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Il giorno 1 feb 2022, alle ore 08:41, Christian Ferstl via INDOLOGY
<[email protected]> ha scritto:
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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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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