Dear list members, 

the following book (dedicated to the Dutch orientalist Johan van Manen 1877-1943) was published on 20 July. 

See alo on the indologica.de website: 

Rath, Saraju [ed.]:

Aspects of Manuscript Culture in South India / ed. by Saraju Rath. - Leiden, etc. : Brill, 2012. - ca. 320 S. : Ill. - (Brill's Indological Library ; 40)

Contents: 

Jan E.M. Houben and Saraju Rath:

Manuscript culture and its impact in "India" : contours and parameters. 1–53

Saraju Rath:

On the Johan van Manen Collection : its origin and background. 55–67

Gerard Colas:

A cultural encounter in the early 18th century : the collection of South Indian manuscripts by the French Jesuit fathers of the Carnatic Mission. 69–80

Anna Aurelia Esposito:

The South Indian drama manuscripts. 81–97

Masato Fujii:

The Jaiminīya Sāmaveda traditions and manuscripts in South India. 99–118

Cezary Galewicz:

Texts and communities : the manuscripts of the lost Yāmalāṣṭakatantra. 119–138

Heike Moser:

From palmleaves to a multimedia databank : a note on the 'Bhāsa-Project'. 139–155

P. Perumal:

The Sanskrit manuscripts in Tamilnadu. 157–172

Kim Plofker:

Indian exact sciences in Sanskrit manuscripts and their colophons. 173–185

Saraju Rath:

Varieties of Grantha script : the date and place of origin of manuscripts. 187–206

Sreeramula Rajeswara Sarma:

From my grandfather's chest of palm leaf books. 207–233

Dominik Wujastyk:

Rāmasubrahmaṇya's manuscripts : intellectual networks in the Kaveri delta, 1693-1922. 235–252

Kenneth G. Zysk:

The use of manuscript catalogues as sources of regional intellectual history in India's early modern period. 253–287.