Workshop "Texts Surrounding Texts", University of Hamburg, April 8-10, 2019
On April 8-10, 2019, several team members of the Śivadharma Project — Florinda De Simini, Marco Franceschini, Rajarethinam and Margherita Trento — participated in the kick-off meeting of the Project “Texts Surrounding Texts. Satellite Stanzas, Prefaces and Colophons in South-Indian Manuscripts (collections of the Paris BnF and Hamburg Stabi)”. This is a Franco-German project financed by the ANR and the DFG, and is led by Eva Wilden (University of Hamburg, Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures) and Emmanuel Francis (CNRS, Paris). In the following 3 years (2019-2021), it will provide exhaustive catalogue entries of significant sections of the important collections of South Indian manuscripts preserved at the Staats- und Universitäts-Bibliothek Carl von Ossietzky (Stabi) in Hamburg and at the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF) in Paris. It will also make available online an important part of these collections, and stimulate research on the wealth of paratextual materials transmitted by these manuscripts.
In this framework, members of the Śivadharma team will give their contribution on a variety of topics, ranging from a historical study of colophons in Tamil manuscripts (Franceschini) to a study of early modern Christian manuscripts (Trento), from cataloguing Tamil grammar manuscripts at the BnF (Rajarethinam) to providing catalogue records of the 3 manuscripts of the Tamil Civatarumōttaram, the Tamil adaptation of the Śivadharmottara, preserved at the BnF (De Simini).
For more information about this ambitious project and updates on its progress, see the following link: https://tst.hypotheses.org/
The programme of the workshop can be downloaded here: TST Programme
