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⟩ <https://hal.science/hal-05272678v1> Printed copies can be ordered here: https://www.bibliaimpex.com/index.php?p=sr&format=fullpage&Field=bookcode&String=9783945151167&Book=South-Indian%20manuscripts%20in%20Hamburg%20and%20Paris:%20Paratexts%20and%20Provenance,%20TST%20project%20(ANR%20&%20DFG,%202019-2023) 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. ----------------------------------------- *Emmanuel FRANCIS-GONZE* Chargé de recherche CNRS Centre d’études sud-asiatiques et himalayennes 2 Cours des Humanités 93322 AUBERVILLIERS bureau A222 ✆ 01 88 12 01 82 Online CV HAL <https://cv.archives-ouvertes.fr/emmanuel-francis>
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