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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