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Descriptive catalogue of Assamese manuscripts

Type
Descriptive catalogue
Languages
Assamese, Sanskrit
Collections
Collection of Hemchandra Goswami, Assam
Online
No online copy known
Sources
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Description (Biswas 1998)

Alphabetical detailed descriptions of 156 Assamese and 77 Sanskrit mss. with beginning - endings, contents, notes. Pt. I Assamese mss. (p. 1-184); Pt.II Sanskrit mss. (p. 185-256). Index. Goswami surveyed Assam, Asiatic Society, Indian Museum, and Cooch Behar state in search of Assamese mss. during 1912-1913. He also noted in his dairy about other collections of mss. available in Assam. These mss. were handed over to Kamarup Anusandhan Samiti for preservation till the establishment of the Provincial Museum at Gauhati.

From S. C. Biswas, Bibliographic Survey of Indian Manuscript Catalogues (Delhi, 1998), no. 0058, as printed; OCR text, may contain errors.

Annotation (Janert 1965)

(Detailed descriptions of the Mss., deposited in several libraries, with beg., endings, contents, and notes. General Index.) Gauh-Goet 95-9 '7

From K. L. Janert, An Annotated Bibliography of the Catalogues of Indian Manuscripts (Wiesbaden, 1965), no. 94, as printed; OCR text, may contain errors.

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