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Levitt S. New Manuscripts from the Collection of W. Norman Brown Added to the Indic Manuscript Collection of the Library of the University of Pennsylvania // Manuscripta Orientalia. Vol. 7. No. 3. September 2001. P. 15—38.
The University of Pennsylvania Library’s Indic manuscript
collection is today the largest collection of native lndic
books in the Western hemisphere. The acquisition of this
collection was begun in 1930. Provost Penniman of the
University of Pennsylvania himself gave the first sum for
the purchase of Indic manuscripts, and shortly after obtained
additional funds from Mr. John Gribbel, Dr. Charles
W. Burr and the Faculty Research Committee. The man uscripts
obtained were added to gifts of a few manuscripts
which had been given the Library in previous years. and the
collection became at that time the second largest in the
United States and Canada. Further funds came from the
Library through its Colton Fund. By 1935, with the acquis ition
of an additional 1,800 Indic manuscripts, the University
of Pennsylvania Library’s Indic manuscript collection
became the largest such collection in North America. When
Horace I. Poleman’s Census of Indic Manuscripts in the
United States and Canada, American Oriental Series.
vol. 14 (New Haven: American Oriental Society, 1938) was
published, the 2,700-odd manuscripts then at the University
of Pennsylvania, together with the 2,400-odd catalogued
manuscripts at Harvard University Library, accounted for
most of the 7,273 individual entries in his catalogue. As an
individual manuscript often contains more than one text,
the total number of manuscripts at the University of Pennsylvania
Library and Harvard University Library account
for more than this number in the total number of entries in
Poleman’s Census. There is in the University of Pennsylvania
collection, for instance, a manuscript of Upaniṣads
which contains approximately 30 texts. Each of these texts
is a separate entry in Poleman’s Census. The number of
Indic manuscripts in the Western hemisphere outside the
United States and Canada is minimal...
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