New Catalogus Catalogorum
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The New Catalogus Catalogorum is an alphabetical register in 42 volumes[1] of all extant manuscripts written in Sanskrit, Pali, Prakrit and Apabhramsa, providing information about texts and authors and cataloguing available references. It is an updated version of the original Catalogus Catalogorum by Theodor Aufrecht.
Its Latin name refers to its nature as a "(master) catalogue of catalogues", as it draws from around 1000 catalogues and around 500 reference books and journals as its sources, resulting in several very long entries. For example, the entry for the Bhagavad Gita is 62 pages long and references 223 commentaries from 8 different schools, while entries under the letter व (Va) cover 6 volumes.[2]
History[edit]
In 1933 the All India Oriental Conference in Lahor decided to expand Theodor Aufrecht's Catalogus Catalogorum to include more recently discovered manuscripts as well as manuscripts in languages other than but related to Sanskrit.
In 1935, the University of Madras appointed Prof. Mm. Kuppuswami Sastri, Prof. P. P. Subrahmanya Sastri and Dr. C. Kunhan Rajato an editorial board for this task.
A provisional first volume of 55 pages covering the letter अ (A) was published in 1937.
In 1938 the project was transferred to the Department of Sanskrit.
Most of the work ceased during World War II, but Dr. V. Raghavan published the first volume covering the letter अ (A) in 1949.[3] In its 1969 revised form it is 569 pages long.
From 2001 onwards, the project received funding from the National Mission for Manuscripts (NMM) under the Ministry of Culture, Government of India.[3]
The final volume, volume 42, was published in 2019.
A digitization of the NCC is in progress.
References[edit]
- ↑ "Catalogus Catallogurum | National Mission for Manuscripts". www.namami.gov.in. Retrieved 2022-02-10.
- ↑ New Catalogus Catalogorum: A Status Report by Siniruddha Dash
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 A Short History of New Catalogus Catalogorum by S. Padmanabhan
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