Dear Dominik, See also this: https://tst-project.github.io/collections/bnf/burnouf/
With very best wishes. ----------------------------------------- *Emmanuel FRANCIS-GONZE* Chargé de recherche CNRS Centre d’études sud-asiatiques et himalayennes 2 Cours des Humanités 93322 AUBERVILLIERS bureau A222 ✆ 01 88 12 01 82 Online CV HAL <https://cv.archives-ouvertes.fr/emmanuel-francis> Le mar. 30 déc. 2025 à 10:25, Jonathan Silk via INDOLOGY < [email protected]> a écrit : > Dear Jérôme, > > Thank you for the details about the BnF collection. > And, congratulations on your book! > One question: when I follow the link it asks me to pay €11.99 for the PDF. > I would happily pay for a paper copy, but when I see OpenAccess I rather > expect gratis download, but I seem indeed somewhere to have misunderstood... > > Avec mes meilleurs vœux pour une belle année nouvelle, > > Jonathan > > On Tue, Dec 30, 2025 at 9:33 AM Jérôme Petit via INDOLOGY < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Dear Dominik, >> >> Curator of the South-Asian manuscript collection in Paris, I am answering >> your questions below: >> >> >> 1. 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 first numbering is the BnF shelfmark, like “Sanscrit 1046”. The >> second one in brackets is the numbering given during the sale of the >> Burnouf collection (see below). Cabaton’s catalogues have been XML-encoded >> and published on the “BnF Archives et manuscrits” website. >> >> https://archivesetmanuscrits.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cc97327n >> >> >> >> 2. 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)? >> >> Some printed books of the Burnouf collection had been bought by the >> National Library during the 1854 sale. They form the shelfmarks “Sanscrit >> 1046 to 1102”. You will find below the link to the digital version of this >> publication. The numbering in brackets in Cabaton refers to the numbering >> in this catalogue. >> >> https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k5804580x >> >> >> >> 3. Finally, how can one distinguish books from manuscripts in this >> listing? >> >> When references of an edition are given (“Calcutta, 1818”), the book is >> printed or lithographed. If not, it is “autographed”. But most of the >> manuscripts of the Burnouf collection were directly integrated to the >> “Sanscrit” collection which had been thematically classified by Cabaton >> (Buddhism, Vedism, Purāṇa, Grammar, etc.). You can ask the online >> catalogue: Recherche avancée / Cote = ancienne cote = « Burnouf ». >> >> https://archivesetmanuscrits.bnf.fr/ >> >> >> >> Another ensemble should be considered. The scientific archives of Eugène >> Burnouf are gathered under the “Papiers Burnouf” collection. They were >> catalogued by Léon Feer in 1899. >> >> https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k2557127 >> >> >> >> I take this opportunity to announce the recent publication of my book >> devoted to the history of the Indian manuscript collection of the National >> Library of France, with a particular focus on the Charles d’Ochoa >> collection. The book (in French) is open access. >> >> https://books.openedition.org/ephe/3603 >> >> >> >> Kind regards, >> >> Jérôme Petit >> >> -- >> Curator of South and Southeast Asian manuscript collections at the >> National Library of France (BnF) >> Professor for manuscript cultures of the Indian world at the École >> pratique des hautes études (EPHE-PSL) >> BnF Richelieu - 5 rue Vivienne 75002 Paris >> https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8622-1087 >> https://cv.hal.science/jerome-petit >> >> >> >> Le mar. 30 déc. 2025 à 00:44, Dominik Wujastyk via INDOLOGY < >> [email protected]> a écrit : >> >>> >>> 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 >>> <https://archive.org/details/in.gov.ignca.6175/page/n187/mode/1up> , >>> there begins the catalogue of the Burnouf collection. My questions are: >>> >>> 1. 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. >>> 2. 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)? >>> 3. Finally, how can one distinguish books from manuscripts in this >>> listing? >>> >>> Thanks! >>> Dominik >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Dominik Wujastyk, Professor Emeritus, Classical Indian History >>> University of Alberta >>> >>> "The University of Alberta is committed to the pursuit of truth, >>> the advancement of learning, and the dissemination of knowledge >>> through teaching, research and other scholarly and creative activities >>> and service." >>> -- Collective Agreement >>> <https://www.ualberta.ca/human-resources-health-safety-environment/media-library/my-employment/agreements/2020-2024-collective-agreement---working-version.pdf> >>> 3.01 >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> INDOLOGY mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://list.indology.info/mailman/listinfo/indology >>> >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> INDOLOGY mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://list.indology.info/mailman/listinfo/indology >> > > > -- > Prof. dr. 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