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Catalogue of the Sinhalese mss. in the British Museum

Type
Descriptive catalogue
Languages
Sinhala
Manuscripts
140
Collections
British Library, India Office Collections
Sources
Attested in: Not independently checked

Description (Biswas 1998)

Description of 140 Sinhalese mss. with extracts and notes. Also includes 31 Buddhist mss. in Sinhalese script. Introduction on Sinhalese literature. Indices.

From S. C. Biswas, Bibliographic Survey of Indian Manuscript Catalogues (Delhi, 1998), no. 0563, as printed; OCR text, may contain errors.

Annotation (Janert 1965)

(152 (numbered 1 -140) entries of Mss. containing one or more PaliSinhalese, Skt. - Sinhalese and Sinhalese texts. Ample quotation from beg. and endings; introduction on Sinhalese literature. 3 Indices. 1 Concordance.)

From K. L. Janert, An Annotated Bibliography of the Catalogues of Indian Manuscripts (Wiesbaden, 1965), no. 156, as printed; OCR text, may contain errors.

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