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Catalogue of Pali, Sinhalese and Sanskrit manuscripts in the Colombo Museum Library

Type
Descriptive catalogue
Languages
Khmer, Burmese, Pali, Sanskrit, Sinhala
Collections
Colombo Museum Library
Online
No online copy known
Sources
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Description (Biswas 1998)

Cover title: Catalogue of the Colombo Museum Library: Short description of 411 volumes of Ola mss. comprising to 407 works (372 Sinhalese, 35 Burmese and 4 Cambodian) Sometimes with short note on author or Contents: Ola mss. in the Government Oriental Library / by. G.A. Joseph (p. i-ix) - Catalogue of manuscripts in English (p. 1-38). Index (p. 39-42). List of manuscripts in Sinhalese (p. 43-47). List of Ola mss... was issued in March 1892... in view of the many mss. since added and the necessity for a descriptive catalogue, this has been compiled by Mr. H.M. Gunasekeran -Preface.

From S. C. Biswas, Bibliographic Survey of Indian Manuscript Catalogues (Delhi, 1998), no. 0244, as printed; OCR text, may contain errors.

Annotation (Janert 1965)

(Catalogue of the Colombo Museum Library. Part 1.) (Alphabetical list of titles with short notices. 2 Indices. "The Library contains 411 volumes of ola Mss. constituting 407 separate works."}

From K. L. Janert, An Annotated Bibliography of the Catalogues of Indian Manuscripts (Wiesbaden, 1965), no. 76, as printed; OCR text, may contain errors.

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