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A descriptive catalogue of Tamil palm leaf manuscripts: sample entries

Type
Descriptive catalogue
Languages
Tamil
Manuscripts
40
Collections
Institute of Asian Studies, Chennai
Online
No online copy known
Sources
Attested in:
  • Biswas 1998 no. 0651
Not independently checked

Description (Biswas 1998)

Provisional Fascicules. Proposed to be brought out in print in about 20 volumes of all the available Tamil palm-leaf mss. in India and abroad, either preserved in institutions or in private collections. As per rough estimate about 30,000 palm-leaf mss. are available in Tamil. Description of 40 Tamil mss. with extracts and notes.

From S. C. Biswas, Bibliographic Survey of Indian Manuscript Catalogues (Delhi, 1998), no. 0651, as printed; OCR text, may contain errors.

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