[INDOLOGY] Indian Manuscripts from Switzerland

[Manu Francis]

Dear Colleagues,

Claire Brizon (cc-ed), a colleague from the Bern University, recently sent
me photographs of palm-leaf manuscripts brought in the 18th century from
India to Switzerland by Swiss mercenaries (Polier, Villaret).

I could identify the language and script of 2 Tamil manuscripts. There are
4 other items: in Malayalam, Singhalese and Telugu/Kannada, it seems.

Could knowledgeable ones kindly confirm/infirm my guesses and say more
about the contents of the manuscripts?

Here are the pictures:

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/gt6knv3ojp3p2g0/AACYn4j4qeV9yjO2nvj4y_ETa?dl=0

Please contact directly Claire Brizon <claire.brizon at ikg.unibe.ch>.

If you are interested in studying these manuscripts, Claire Brizon will do
her best to get more pictures.

With very best wishes.
Emmanuel FRANCIS <http://ceias.ehess.fr/index.php?1725>
Chargé de recherche CNRS, Centre d'études de l'Inde et de l'Asie du Sud
<http://ceias.ehess.fr/> (UMR 8564, EHESS-CNRS, Paris)
Online CV HAL <https://cv.archives-ouvertes.fr/emmanuel-francis>
Regionalism & Cosmopolitism: South India <http://rcsi.hypotheses.org/>
Associate member, Centre for the Study of Manuscript Culture
<http://www.manuscript-cultures.uni-hamburg.de/index_e.html> (SFB 950,
Universität Hamburg)


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