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Śramana, Vol. 54, No. 1-3/January-March 2003
0. Manuscript search Report- giving general account of the availability of mss. in particular area with list of titles acquired.
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1. Bare list containing authors and title; sometimes only the titles are listed.
2. Alphabetical catalogue- listed by author or titlež contains author, title, commentator, script, date, extent, etc.; sometimes only the short title and corresponding accession
number.
3. Catalogue in tabular form - classified arrangement; data, information, are tabulated under separate columns / heads. 4. Descriptive catalogue in tabular form this type of catalogue contains number, subject, accession or collection number, title, author, commentator, script, scribe, language, size, and number of folios, leaves, lines per page and number of letters per line, extent, condition, date, additional particulars, beginning and ending lines, colophons of select manuscripts only.
5. Descriptive catalogue- provides full physical description (as listed in 5 above); post colophons select portions from the text, notes on author and work.
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6. General register of works (on the basis of the
catalogues of manuscripts) - contains short information on author and title with source of availability.
In the above format, the entries have been recorded title- wise as well as subject -wise. The lack of uniform practice and consistency in the compilation of catalogues of manuscripts prepared is due to the different approaches adopted by the compilers.
Indian manuscript catalogues are, generally, the result of teamwork efforts under the supervision of one or two principal editors. But their counter parts in European countries are the result of personal efforts by scholars. The practice adopted in bringing out the manuscript catalogues is generally the same. Institutions,
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