Dear colleagues,
You are warmly invited to the 2nd Text Surrounding Texts workshop, which will take place on the 7th & 8th October, 2021, in Paris and online. The workshop will feature discussions on and around paratexts in South Asian manuscripts, as well as presentations on collections and collectors of manuscripts. The full programme, as well as a link to register to attend online, is available via our website:
An abbreviated schedule follows.
Thursday, 7th October
9:30 – 17:30 CET (13:00 – 21:00 IST)
Opening remarks
Isabelle LE MASNE DE CHERMONT (Director of the manuscripts department, Bibliothèque nationale de France)
TST progress report
Emmanuel FRANCIS (CNRS, CEIAS, UMR 8564)
A survey of paratexts in Tamil manuscripts
T. V. RAJESWARI (EFEO, Pondicherry)
The history of Sanskrit manuscript collections as a testimony to the collaboration between European and Indian Sanskrit scholars
Iris Iran FARKHONDEH (EA 2120 GREI, EPHE/Sorbonne Nouvelle)
Tables of Content – What For?
Eva WILDEN (Universität Hamburg)
The invocatory verses of Nampi’s Tiruviḷaiyāṭaṟ Purāṇam
Neela BHASKAR (Universität Hamburg)
MS Stein Or.d.72, an old birch-bark fragment of the Haravijaya: what marginal annotation can tell us about the composition of kāvya commentaries
Peter PASEDACH (Universität Hamburg)
Svaraprakriyā: Exclusive text on accent
Anuja AJOTIKAR (Universität Hamburg)
Friday, 8th October
9:30 – 17:00 CET (13:00 – 20:30 IST)
The Ducler Collection of Manuscripts (BnF)
Emmanuel FRANCIS (CNRS, CEIAS, UMR 8564)
Of BL-EAP 1294 and paratextual material
Suganya ANANDAKICHENIN (Universität Hamburg)
Recent advancements in the analysis of colophons
Giovanni CIOTTI (Universität Hamburg)
Marco FRANCESCHINI (Università di Bologna)
Tamil methods for the representation of large numbers, as attested in manuscript BnF Indien 203
Jean-Luc CHEVILLARD (CNRS, Université Paris-Diderot)
Networks and battlegrounds in the margins of the Amarakoṣa
Charles LI (CNRS, CEIAS, UMR 8564)
A Collection Between Libraries: the Hodgson Manuscripts in the Bibliothèque nationale de France, the Bodleian Library, the Royal Asiatic Society, and the British Library
Camillo FORMIGATTI (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)