Texts Surrounding Texts: Satellite Stanzas, Prefaces and Colophons in South-Indian Manuscripts(collections of the Paris BnF and Hamburg Stabi)

近年来，印度手稿的数字化和法典学领域都取得了进展，为编目设定了新的标准。现在的趋势是把图片连同详细的目录放到网上。编目良好的数字馆藏的一个重要方面是，它们为统计相关研究提供了可能性，这些研究既涉及文字发展问题，也涉及日期确定问题，还涉及各种副文本元素，如版主、序言和卫星节，其中包含有关物品来源和传播的丰富信息。汉堡和巴黎仍然收藏着重要的印度手稿，这些手稿或多或少处于休眠状态。法国国家图书馆（BnF）拥有欧洲最引人注目的藏品，大约有700份泰米尔手稿，以及一些较小的梵文和各种当地语言的藏品。汉堡国家和大学图书馆（Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Carl von Ossietzky，即Stabi）也有类似的近500份手稿，大部分来自印度南部，大部分是梵文，但也有一些是泰米尔语和其他方言。由于现有的当地和欧洲的资助，两个嵌入国际专家网络的团队已经在这两个地方建立起来，并致力于开放这两个收藏，以进行进一步的历史研究。该项目的目的是将重要的部分与它们的目录一起在网上提供，并参与对非文本材料的大规模调查。一方面，这将大大提高我们对生产这些物品的时代、地点和社区的理解。另一方面，出土的材料将使我们能够更密切地关注文学和口头传统之间的交集，因为像序言和助记诗这样的子体裁徘徊在既定的文学惯例和当地的口头传统之间。虽然各自的图书馆、学术界和公众将受益于图书馆在线数据库的扩展，但两个研讨会将为至少一卷案例研究提供框架，这些案例研究来自经典泰米尔文学和语法研究，来自梵语学习传统的各个领域和其他较小的语言，以及以传教士文件形式记录的西方和印度传统的充分相遇。

In recent years, progress has been made both in the digitisation of Indian manuscripts as well as in the field of codicology, setting new standards for cataloguing. The trend is towards putting online the images along with elaborate catalogues. One important aspect of well-catalogued digital collections is the possibilities they offer for statistically relevant research both with respect to questions of script development as well as dating and with respect to the various paratextual elements such as colophons, prefaces and satellite stanzas with their wealth of information on the provenance and transmission of the objects in question. Both Hamburg and Paris still house important collections of Indian manuscripts which have been lying more or less dormant. The Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF) holds Europe’s most remarkable collection of some 700 Tamil manuscripts, along with several smaller collections in Sanskrit and various local languages. The state and university library of Hamburg (Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Carl von Ossietzky, i.e. Stabi) has a similar collection of almost 500 manuscripts, most from Southern India, the majority in Sanskrit, but also some in Tamil and other vernaculars. Thanks to existing local and European funding, two teams, embedded in an international network of specialists, have already been established in both places and work towards opening up both collections for further historical research.The project aim is to make significant portions available online along with their catalogues and to engage into the large-scale investigation of paratextual materials. On the one hand, this will significantly improve our understanding of the times, places and communities who produced the objects. On the other hand, the material unearthed will allow us to focus more closely on the intersection between the literary and the oral tradition, because sub-genres like prefaces and mnemonic verses hover between established literary convention and local, often oral traditions. While the respective libraries, the scholarly community, and the general public will benefit from the extension of the libraries' online databases, two workshops will produce the frame for at least one volume of case studies from classical Tamil literary and grammatical studies, from various fields of Sanskrit learned traditions and from further smaller languages, but also from the amply documented encounter of Western and Indian traditions in the form of missionary documents.