Woolner
Project
On behalf of the Woolner Project team
at the University of Vienna, I am pleased to announce the public
release of a new database of information about the manuscripts
of the Woolner Collection in Lahore.
Many of you will already be aware of the 9000 or so Indic MSS
owned by the Punjab University Library, that were collected
from 1913 onwards by Prof.
Banarsi Das (lecturer in Hindi at the Oriental College, Lahore)
and his colleagues, to form a memorial library for the Principal
of the Oriental College, Prof. A. C. Woolner. Two volumes
of a catalogue were published (1932, 1941). Since that
time, more manuscripts were added, and the collection has been
kept in good condition. A small number of scholars have
visited the collection in Lahore over the years. However,
the Punjab University Library has not routinely employed a specialist
librarian with skills in Devanagari, Sanskrit, and related languages,
so the collection has remained hard to access for those unable
to visit in person. It also became difficult, with the
passage of years, to match the catalogue numbers with the accession
numbers and shelf numbers of the manuscripts.
Three years ago, a joint project was begun between the University
of the Punjab, the University of Vienna, and Geumgang University,
S. Korea. The goal was to study and digitally preserve
the philosophical manuscripts in the Woolner Collection, and
to bring access and information about the collection up to date.
The project was initiated and led by Prof. Karin Preisendanz,
of the University of Vienna. Two major goals of that
project were to photograph the manuscripts digitally, and to
create a database of up-to-date information about the manuscripts,
with a strong prosopographical dimension.
The Woolner manuscript database has been under intensive development,
and yesterday, the Department of South Asian, Tibetan and Buddhist
Studies of
the University of Vienna was pleased to be able to launch the
database publicly, at this address:
http://www.istb.univie.ac.at/swc
Due to copyright restrictions, the digital images of the manuscripts
cannot be shared at this time. We hope that negotiations
with the University of the Punjab on this matter may be fruitful
in the future. At the present time, only registered users
with a login ID and password may see the images (approximately
6500 images, covering beginnings and endings of manuscripts).
For further background information about the project, and contact
details, see also:
- http://www.istb.univie.ac.at/woolner/
(= http://woolnerproject.org)
All enquiries, please, to
- woolnerproject@gmail.com
Some mss. Relate to:
(Laghu)Vimarśinī on Utpala's Īśvarapratyabhijñākārikā ;
see Abhinavagupta
Adhyātmarāmāyaṇa; see 0360, 0594, 0740, 4982, Adhyātmarāmāyaṇasetu, Brahmāṇḍapurāṇa
Adhyātmarāmāyaṇasetu; see 0389, 0594, Adhyātmarāmāyaṇa, Rāmavarman
Advaitasiddhi; see 0281, Madhusūdana Sarasvatī
Arthadīpikā; see 0333
Brahmāṇḍapurāṇa; see Adhyātmarāmāyaṇa
Commentary on Rāmagītā section of Brahmapurāṇa; see 0186, Mahīdhara
Hahayogapradīpikā; see 0403, 0894, 1204, 3066, Jyotsnā, Svātmārāma
Īśvarapratyabhijñākārikā; see Abhinavagupta
Jyotsnā; see Hahayogapradīpikā, Brahmānanda
Mārtaṇḍa; see 0280, Rāmadatta, Tarkasaṃgraha
Mīmāṃsānyāyaprakāśa; see 0603
Pāñcadaśī; see 0267, Mādhava
Pātañjalayogasūtravṛtti; see 7192, Nāgeśa Bhaa
Pāvanavijayasvarodaya; see 0128
Rājamārtaṇḍa; see 1376, 2360, Bhojarāja, Dhārā
Sāṅkhyatattvakaumudī; see 0036, 0335
Śivatattvaprakāśa; see Bhojarāja
Subodhinī on Sadānanda Yogīndra's Vedāntasāra; see 0263, Nṛsiṃhāśrama
Tarkasaṃgraha; see Mārtaṇḍa, Annambhaa
Tātparyabodhinī on Vidyāraṇya's Pañcadaśī; see 0267, Rāmakṛṣṇa
Tattvānusaṃdhāna; see 0299
Vedāntaparibhāṣā; see 0333
Vedāntasāra; see Sadānanda Yogīndra
Yogacandrikā; see 0307, Anantadeva
Yogacintāmaṇi; see 6922, Śivānanda Sarasvatī
Yogamaṇiprabhā; see 0705, 0814, 4271, Rāmānanda Sarasvatī
Yogasūtra; see Patañjali
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