TY - BOOK AU - R. Ilakkuvan AU - Will Sweetman AU - Bartholomaus AB - 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 fascinating insight into Tamil literary works in wide circulation on the eve of colonialism. The introduction assesses the character of Ziegenbalg’s library in the context of the sources from which he obtained manuscripts. Will Sweetman’s translation is then augmented by annotations which identify the works and comment on Ziegenbalg’s view of them. It identifies for the first time one text — the Tirikāla cakkaram — which was formative for Ziegenbalg’s view of Hinduism from his earliest letters from India to his magnum opus, the Genealogia der malabarischen Götter (1713). A concluding chapter considers other Tamil works mentioned in Ziegenbalg's writings after 1708. DO - 10.4000/books.ifp.580 ID - OAPEN ID: 47437 KW - manuscript culture KW - Orientalism KW - Tamil literature KW - mission history L1 - http://books.openedition.org/ifp/580 LA - English LK - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/42057 PB - Institut Français de Pondichéry PY - 2012 SN - 9791036544279 TI - Bibliotheca Malabarica : Bartholomäus Ziegenbalg's Tamil Librarynull ER -