Collection Area: Endangered Archives Programme / Subject: Commentaries - British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue Search Results

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1039/1/38
Title:: പ്രപഞ്ചസാരം
Scope & Content:: A popular Tantric work, with strong Advaitic leanings, generally ascribed to Śaṅkara; numerous copies of this text and its commentaries are found in the Thrissur collection. The copy is complete, and contains all 30 chapters (paṭala) of this work, divided as follows: 16r: end of 5th paṭala; 37v:...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Sanskrit
Date Range:: 1700-1850
Extent:: 242 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1039/1/39
Title:: വേദാന്തകല്പതരുപരിമളം
Scope & Content:: An incomplete copy of Appayya Dīkṣita's 16th-century masterwork on Vedānta, a commentary on Amalānanda's Kalpataru. The copy contains the three initial pādas of the first adhyāya, divided as follows: 1 to 131r: 1st pāda; 132r to 151r: 2nd pāda; 151r to 170: 3rd pāda. Custodial history: Former o...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Sanskrit
Date Range:: 1700-1850
Extent:: 346 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1039/1/40
Title:: സംബന്ധോക്തി
Scope & Content:: Incomplete copy of a rare, unpublished commentary on Sureśvara's Bṛhadāraṇyakopaniṣadbhāṣyavārttika. The author of the commentary is one Viśvānubhava, none of whose works have been published so far. According to Thangaswami (1980), Viśvānubhava is a disciple of one Pratyagbodha Bhagavant. Copies...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Sanskrit
Date Range:: 1700-1850
Extent:: 210 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1039/1/41
Title:: ന്യായനിർണ്ണയം
Scope & Content:: An incomplete copy of Ānandagiri's classical commentary on Śaṅkara's Brahmasūtrabhāṣya. The copy is in a very poor state of conservation. 28 leaves are missing at the beginning of the bundle. The text is otherwise divided following the four sections (adhyāyas) of the Brahmasūtras, as follows: 29...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Sanskrit
Date Range:: 1700-1850
Extent:: 130 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1039/1/42
Title:: ശങ്കരവ്യാഖ്യാനത്തോടു കുടിയ ബൃഹദാരണ്യകോപനിഷത് ഗ്രന്ഥം
Scope & Content:: A bundle containing the oldest known Upaniṣad, together with its commentary by Śaṅkara. Some folios are missing in the second part, and the manuscript has suffered some damage, but the copy is overall quite extensive. Custodial history: Former ownership is not known. Extent and format of origi...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Sanskrit
Date Range:: 1700-1850
Extent:: 558 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1039/1/44
Title:: രഘുവംശപ്രകാശികാ
Scope & Content:: One of the rare bundles in the Thrissur collection containing a commentary on kāvya, namely Aruṇagirinātha's commentary on Kālidāsa's Raghuvaṃśa. The manuscript covers sargas 2 to 13 (the last incomplete), howver with important lacunas. Divisions of the text are as follows: 29 to 33v: 2nd sarga;...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Sanskrit
Date Range:: 1700-1850
Extent:: 131 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1039/1/46
Title:: അദ്വൈത കൃതികളുടേ ഗ്രന്ഥം
Scope & Content:: A composite bundle containing several important Advaita works, as well as ritual instructions for saṃnyāsin and an epic poem. Some parts of the manuscript are heavily damaged. Custodial history: Former ownership is not known. Extent and format of original material: 92 leaves. Physical charact...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Sanskrit
Date Range:: 1700-1850
Extent:: 299 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1039/1/49
Title:: ഉച്ചാരണശാസ്ത്ര സംബന്ധിയായ കൃതികളുടേ ഗ്രന്ഥം
Scope & Content:: The bundle contains a work on śikṣā (phonetics), one of the six vedāṅgas, and its anonymous commentary. Custodial history: Former ownership is not known. Extent and format of original material: 72 leaves. Physical characteristics: Size: W 3 L 11.5. 2 string holes; 2 wooden covers; 1 string (m...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Sanskrit
Date Range:: 1700-1850
Extent:: 147 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1042/1
Title:: Abdou Khadre Cisse Collection
Scope & Content:: The collection consists of three sets of manuscripts. The first is a poem that celebrates Prophet Muḥammad’s virtues and retraces his life and the history of his family. The poem is written in Arabic with interlinear and marginal glosses. A few glosses are vocalized and are written in Soninke Aj...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Arabic, Mandinka, and Soninke
Date Range:: 19th century-20th century
Extent:: 502 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1042/1/2
Title:: الاخضري
Scope & Content:: Transliterated title: Al-Akhdarī in Mandinka Ajami. The manuscript is a Mandinka Ajami exegesis of the popular Mālikī jurisprudence text known as Al-Akhdarī, which is used across Muslim West Africa. Al-Akhdarī, is based on the name of the Algerian scholar, Abū Yazīd ʿAbd al-Raḥmān bin Muḥammad ...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Arabic and Mandinka
Date Range:: 20th century
Extent:: 84 TIFF images

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