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Shri Mahavir Jain Aradhana Kendra
www.kobatirth.org
Acharya Shri Kailassagarsuri Gyanmandir
Bibliographic Survey of Indian Manuscript Catalogues
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0376
- List of manuscripts of the Mahabharata available in India / prepared by Haraprasad Sastri. Calcutta: Office of the Superintendent of Government Printing, 1902. 10 p.
0377
Hoernle. A.F. Rudolf
Author collection of ancient manuscripts from Central Asia/ by A.F.R. Hoernle. In: Proceedings of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, 62 (Pt.2), 1893, 1-40. Location: ASC, MUDS, NL.
0378
-Three further collections of ancient manuscripts from Central Asia / by A.F. Rudolf Hoernle. Calcutta: Baptist Mission Press, 1897. 48 p.; xxiv plates.
Most of the mss. are in Sanskrit and a small number is in other languages and scripts. Arranged chronologically with exhaustive notes on manuscripts or manuscript fragments. 9 pieces of palm-leaf; 13 pieces of Birch bark and 123 pieces of paper. This collection, supposed to be of 5th or 8th century A.D. [BL,London:Or 6403-6404]
Location: ALRC, BLOU, CSL, DCPRI, NA, NL.
0379
-A report on the British collection of antiquities from Central Asia with thirteen facsimile plates, three tables and Six woodcuts, Pt. II / by A.F. Rudolf Hoernle. Calcutta: Baptist Mission Press, 1902. 55, 31, 7,2 p.
Published as: Extra number 1 to the Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, Vol. LXX, pt. 1, 1901.
Contents: Introductory remarks - Section III:Manuscript- group I: (a) Sanskrit (b) unknown languages; Group II: (a) Chinese (b) Persian (c) Uighur (d) Brahmi; Section IV: Pottery, terracottas, miscellaneous objects. Appendix; Pt. II: Transcript of Weber mss., Pt. IX and MacArtney mss.set I with two indexes - Supplement to pt. 1 ; Errata in pt. 1. The first part of the report deals with coins and block prints (published in JASB, 1899) and the second part deals with the manuscripts, pottery ... of the British collection. Altogether there are 13 pothis written on paper belongs to 3rd-7th century A.D. (7 pothis are of unidentified language; may belong to Tibetan, Turki or Mongol). Incomplete, not more than a few leaves or fragments of leaves exist. Described with extensive notes.
"The Hoernle collection in the India Office Library is the manuscripts portion of the collection of antiquities from Eastern Turkestan assembled between 1895 and the end of the century under the auspices of the Govt. of India by.A.F. Rudolf Hoernle, who gave a general account of the collection in this report. The mss. all of them fragmentary, are in Sanskrit, Kuchean and Khotanese” (Pearson, J.D.: Oriental manuscripts in Europe and North America: a survey, 1971 p. 397).
Location: DCPRI.
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