[INDOLOGY] question about mixed oral/manuscript transmission

[Manu Francis]

Instead of
"a scribe not writing a text that he knows by heart"

You should understand
"a scribe writing a text that he knows by heart"

In the French version: "pas écrit" should be "par écrit"

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Emmanuel Francis
Chargé de recherche CNRS, Centre d'étude de l'Inde et de l'Asie du Sud (UMR
8564, EHESS-CNRS, Paris)
http://ceias.ehess.fr/
http://ceias.ehess.fr/index.php?1725
http://rcsi.hypotheses.org/
Associate member, Centre for the Study of Manuscript Culture (SFB 950,
Universität Hamburg)
http://www.manuscript-cultures.uni-hamburg.de/index_e.html
https://cnrs.academia.edu/emmanuelfrancis

2017-04-10 12:23 GMT+02:00 Nagaraj Paturi via INDOLOGY <
indology at list.indology.info>:

> His question: For comparison with the Sejarah Melayu, is there in the
> Indian tradition (Vedic or epic, for example) texts transmitted on the one
> hand in a written form (copies of manuscript in manuscript), on the other
> hand Without written support (a scribe not writing a text that he knows by
> heart)? I think that this has happened for the SM: some variants (eg the
> displacement of episodes) can only be explained by a stage of memory. Do
> you have the reference of an article on the subject, or do you have a book
> that talks about it?
>
> On Mon, Apr 10, 2017 at 3:24 PM, Arlo Griffiths via INDOLOGY <
> indology at list.indology.info> wrote:
>
>> Colleagues,
>>
>>
>> My friend Henri Chambert-Loir, specialist of classical Malay literature,
>> who is currently working again on the Sulalat al-Salatin (a.k.a. Sejarah
>> Melayu, or 'Malay Annals'), has asked me a question that I would like to
>> relay to the learned assembly:
>>
>>
>> ------------
>>
>> Ma question : pour comparaison avec le Sejarah Melayu, existe-t-il dans
>> la tradition indienne (vedique ou epique p.ex.) des textes qui se sont
>> transmis d’une part de facon ecrite (copies de manuscrit en manuscrit),
>> d’autre part sans support ecrit (un scribe mettant pas ecrit un texte qu’il
>> connait par coeur) ? Je pense que cela s’est produit pour le SM : certaines
>> variantes (ex. le deplacement d’episodes) ne peuvent s’expliquer que par un
>> stade de memoire. As-tu la reference d’un article sur le sujet, ou
>> possedes-tu un livre qui en parle ?
>>
>> ------------
>>
>>
>> Would anyone have potentially useful philogogical comparanda in mind, and
>> references (preferably with pdfs) to share that I could transmit to Prof.
>> Chambert-Loir?
>>
>>
>> Thank you!
>>
>>
>> Arlo Griffiths
>>
>>
>>
>>
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