ИВР РАН (Санкт-Петербург)

Vorobyova-Desyatovskaya M., Tyomkin E. [Review:] T. K. Posova, K. L. Chizhikova. A Brief Catalogue of Indian Manuscripts at the Russian Academy of Sciences Institute of Oriental Studies. Moscow: “Vostochnaya Literatura” Publishing House, 1999, 168 pp. // Manuscripta Orientalia. Vol. 6. No. 1. March 2000. P. 69—70.

The St. Petersburg Branch of the Institute of Oriental Studies’ collection of Indian manuscripts is not very extensive. It began to take shape in the late eighteenth – early nineteenth century, and a major part of the manuscripts dates to the late nineteenth century. It also lacks rare or unique works, being represented by the copies of well-known compositions in traditional fields of knowledge most widespread in India. With few exceptions, the collection was gathered by non-specialists or copied by Russian scholars in European collections, primarily in England. Typical in this regard are the copies brought from Europe in 1836 by R. Lenz. However, the collection does contain some intriguing and fairly valuable manuscripts which will be discussed below. The “Brief Catalogue of Indian Manuscripts” which has finally appeared and which is under review here can be viewed as the completion of work begun by scholars in the late eighteenth century...

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