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Introductory essay and tools by Nalini Balbir
p. III [116] "six reports by Peterson": Peterson P., [Six Reports]: Report of Operations in Search of Sanskrit Mss. in the Bombay Circle, Deccan College, Bombay-London, 1. 1882/83, published 1883; 2. 1883/84, published 1884; 3. 1884/86, published 1887; 4. 1886/92, published 1894; 5. 1892/95, published 1896; 6. 1895/98, published 1899. These extremely valuable volumes contain reports as such, but also several extracts of manuscripts. "Bombay circle” means Bombay Presidency, Rajputana, Central India, Central Provinces. For further details see Janert 1965: No. 274.
p. III [II] “Bhandarkar report”: Report on the Search for Sanskrit Manuscripts during the year 1882-83; ... during the year 1883-84; ... during the year 1884-87; ... during the year 1887-91.
p. III [II] "British Museum": see now Balbir, Sheth, Tripathi 2006. Jacobi's collection was added to the then British Museum in June 1897. The Indian manuscripts kept in the then British Museum were later transferred to the British Library, only art objects being kept in the Museum.
p. III [II] "Cambridge": A preliminary list of the manuscripts brought from India by Cecil Bendall and kept in the Cambridge University Library is available in C. Bendall, A Journey of Literary and Archaeological Research in Nepal and Northern India during the Winter of 1884-5, Cambridge University Press, 1886.
p. III [II] "Florence": see P.E. Pavolini, “I manoscritti Indiani della Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Firenze' (non compresi nel Catalogo dell'Aufrecht)”, Giornale della Società Asiatica Italiana 20 (1907), pp. 63-157.
p. IV [114] "Göttingen": The "Verzeichnis" referred to here was published in Berlin: Bath, 1894. See Janert, Annotated Bibliography No. 99 for more details.
P. IV [II] "India Office": see A.B. Keith, Catalogue of the Sanskrit (and Prakrit] Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office. Vol. 2 Brahmanical and Jaina Manuscripts. In two parts, London, 1887-1935 (critically reviewed by W. Schubring in Orientalistische Literaturzeitung 39, 1936, columns 177-180, reprinted in W. Schubring, Kleine Schriften, Wiesbaden, 1977, pp. 452-453). The Jaina manuscripts have been described anew in Balbir, Sheth, Tripathi 2006.
p. IV [II) “Rājendralāla Mitra's Notices of Sanskrit MSS”: see above note on p. I [1°37-40)
P. IV [II] "Oxford (Bodleiana)": See A.B. Keith, Catalogue of Prākrit Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library with a Preface by E.W.B. Nicholson, Oxford, 1911.
p. IV [11] "Royal Asiatic Society, London, 'Todd [sic] Collection”": see now L.D. Barnett, "Catalogue of the Tod Collection of Indian Manuscripts in the Possession of the Royal Asiatic Society", Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society (1940), Part II, April, pp. 129-178.
p. IV [II") "Strassburg": preliminary lists of Digambara manuscripts by Leumann himself; list of Svetāmbara mss. in the Übersicht p. III-IV. The definitive catalogue
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