A few e-manuscripts from the state library Munich available now

There is some progress at the Bavarian state library / Bayerische Staatsbibliothek (BSB) in the digitalization of items of their Sanskrit manuscripts stocks (“Cod.sanscr.” in the collection Südasiatische Handschriften, a part of their catalogue (the first volume of their catalogue [no. 222 in Janert's Annotated bibliography, no. 693 at Biswas], Aufrecht 1909, which covers the Haug collection [predominantly Vedica], is online here; the second volume, Jolly 1912, is online here).

The items appear in line of their signatures, so that there some continuous scanning of this collection might be going on these days. So far there are the numbers 328-44 (from the Jolly collection) available – check them out here. All items are downloadable in pdf format. Additions could be tracked through this RSS-feed, but unfortunately only among all the other mss scans, more detailed it isn’t getting (cf. their RSS-feed page here).

I’ve got no time to examine anything, but the scans are made quite decent. Among them available so far there is a copy of Īśvarakṛṣṇa’s Sāṃkhyākārikās (342). There are also two scans of mss of Kauṭilya’s Ārthaśāstra (334 & 35) which are obviously the ones in which Jolly and Hillebrandt discovered the text in or about 1908 (Cf. Hillebrandt’s Das älteste Lehrbuch der indischen Politik, das in zwei Handschriften der Kgl. Hof- und Staatsbibliothek in München vorliegt und sich als der lange vermisste Text des Kauṭilya’s erweist. In: Kleine Schriften, pp. 355-84).

Towards the Munich collections in general cf. BSB: Das Buch im Orient. Handschriften und kostbare Drucke aus zwei Jahrtausenden. Ausstellung 16.11.1982-5.2.1983. Wiesbaden: Reichert 1982, esp. pp. 21-29: Kaltwasser: Die orientalischen Sammlungen der Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek (towards the Sanskrit collections p. 25), and this handlist.