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Catalogue raisonne of Oriental manuscripts in the library of the former College Fort Saint George now in charge of the examiner

Type
Descriptive catalogue
Volumes
3 vols., 1857–1862
Languages
Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Oriya, Sanskrit, Tamil, Telugu
Collections
Government Oriental Manuscripts Library, Chennai
Sources
Attested in: Not independently checked

Description (Biswas 1998)

Vol.1 (East India House Manuscripts). 1857. - xxviii, viii, v, xxii, 678 p. Vol.II (Donatated manuscripts: Mr. Brown's Collection) 1860. xxiii-xciii, xiv, 902 p. Description of 1309 Sanskrit, 1116 Telugu, 18 Kannada, 3 Malayalam mss. with notes. Vol.III (Mackenzie Manuscripts) 1862. liv, 802 p. The Mackenzie collection was first described by Wilson in 1828, which contains 1568 Indic mss., 264 vols. of local tracts, 77 vols. of inscriptions 75 vols. of translations, maps, 75 plans, 2630 drawing, 6218 coins, 106 images and 40 antiquities. Out of these huge collection only 274 Tamil, 176 Telugu, 182 Kannada,6 Malayalam,23 Oriya,16 Marathi and 20 Hindi mss. were forwarded to Madras Presidency and deposited in the College library in 1828, are described in the present volume. The rest had been transmitted to England during 1823-1825. Presently the Mackenzie collection is located in London, Calcutta and Madras. Description of 1304 Sanskrit, 108 Telugu, 56 Tamil, 528 Kannada, 11 Malayalam and 9 Oriya mss. with notes. The College and the Literary Society's manuscripts (p. 749-802) contain description of 40 Sanskrit, 23 Telugu, 2 Kannada and 90 Tamil mss. Title varies. Vol. 2 and 3 published as: A catalogue raisonne' Oriental manuscripts in the Government Library. Description of about 5515 Indic mss. with copious notes, index.

From S. C. Biswas, Bibliographic Survey of Indian Manuscript Catalogues (Delhi, 1998), no. 0627, as printed; OCR text, may contain errors.

Annotation (Janert 1965)

(Description of Mss. in Skt. and Dravidian languages from several collections with notes concerning the contents of the works, etc.)

From K. L. Janert, An Annotated Bibliography of the Catalogues of Indian Manuscripts (Wiesbaden, 1965), no. 195, as printed; OCR text, may contain errors.

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