Bibliotheca Malabarica : Bartholomäus Ziegenbalg's Tamil Library

• Main Author: R. Ilakkuvan (auth)
• Other Authors: Will Sweetman (auth), Bartholomaus (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Institut Français de Pondichéry 2012
• Subjects: Biography & True Stories; manuscript culture; Orientalism; Tamil literature; mission history
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

The Bibliotheca Malabarica is an annotated catalogue of Tamil manuscripts collected by the missionary Bartholomäus Ziegenbalg during his first two years in India (1706-1708). The third section of this catalogue, consisting of 119 entries covering works of Hindu and Jaina provenance, provides a fasc...