Dear all,
It is my pleasure to announce the following publication:
Emmanuel Francis, Eva Wilden (eds.). 2025.
South-Indian Manuscripts in Hamburg
and Paris: Paratexts and Provenance, TST project (ANR & DFG,
2019-2023). Dept. of Indian and Tibetan Studies, Universität Hamburg. 574 pp.
⟨hal-05272678⟩
Printed copies can be ordered here:
OA soft copies will soon be available.
And here is the ToC:
Introduction by Emmanuel Francis and Eva Wilden 1
Part I: Paratexts
Emmanuel Francis: Blessings in Tamil Manuscripts 25
Eva Wilden: Tables of Content — What For? 57
Neela Bhaskar: Invocatory Verses of Nampi’s Tiruviḷaiyāṭaṟ
Purāṇam: A Comparison of Two Versions 75
Eva Wilden: The Distribution of Satellite Stanzas in Kuṟaḷ,
Nālaṭiyār, and Paḻamoḻi 97
Giulia Buriola Meneghin, in collaboration with Giovanni
Ciotti and Marco Franceschini: Marking up the Edges: XML
TEI Encoding Strategies for Indic Colophon Collections 129
Part II: History of the Collections
Emmanuel Francis: Towards a History of the BnF Collection
of Tamil Manuscripts 163
Jérôme Petit: The Ochoa Collection at the BnF 193
Charles Li: Scribes, Editors, & Librarians: Between Tradition
and Modernity in Late Colonial India 221
Suganya Anandakichenin: An Aperçu of Palm-Leaf Manuscripts
of Śrīvaiṣṇava Provenance from the the Collection of the State
and University Library in Hamburg 243
Camillo Formigatti: From the Shelves to Printed Page:
Cataloguing Sanskrit Manuscripts in the Analogue Era 273
Camillo Formigatti: From the Shelves to the Web: Cataloguing
Sanskrit Manuscripts in the Digital Era 309
Part III: Particular Manuscripts
T. Rajeswari: Paratexts in Kalittokai, Kuṟiñcippāṭṭu, Patiṟṟuppattu
and Pārata Māvintam Manuscripts 331
S. Saravanan: Paratextual Elements Manuscripts of the
Collatikāram of the Tolkāppiyam 361
Indra Manuel: Manuscripts of the Poruḷatikāram of the
Tolkāppiyam in the UVS Library: A Survey 373
K. Nachimuthu: Teyvaccilaiyār’s Commentary on the
Tolkāppiyam Collatikāram and the Role of Paratexts 403
Victor B. D’Avella: Formal Translations: The Advent of
Citrakāvya in Tamil 425
Cristina Muru: A Missionary Grammar of Tamil of the Early
17th Century: Its History, Its Connections, and Its Main
Linguistic Features 469
Margherita Trento & Jean-Luc Chevillard: Fishing for Words
with Beschi in Tamil Traditional Poetical Vocabularies 501
Contributors 569
With very best wishes.
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Emmanuel
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