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

近年来，在印度手稿的数字化以及编纂学领域都取得了进展，为编目制定了新的标准。目前的趋势是将这些图片沿着精美的目录放到网上。编目良好的数字收藏品的一个重要方面是，它们提供了进行统计相关研究的可能性，这些研究涉及文字发展和年代测定问题，以及各种副文本元素，如版权页、序言和附属诗节，它们提供了有关物品出处和传播的丰富信息。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700多份泰米尔手稿，沿着几份较小的梵语和各种当地语言的收藏。汉堡的州立和大学图书馆（Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Carl von Ossietzky，即Stabi）也收藏了近500份手稿，大部分来自南印度，大部分是梵语，但也有一些泰米尔语和其他方言。由于现有的本地和欧洲资助，两个团队已经在两地建立了一个国际专家网络，致力于开放这两个收藏品以进行进一步的历史研究。该项目的目标是将重要部分与目录一起沿着在网上提供，并参与大规模的副文本材料调查。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传统和口头传统之间的交叉点，因为像序言和助记诗这样的子类型徘徊在既定的文学惯例和当地的口头传统之间。虽然各图书馆、学术界和公众将受益于图书馆在线数据库的扩展，但两个讲习班将为至少一卷案例研究制作框架，这些案例研究来自泰米尔古典文学和语法研究、梵语学习传统的各个领域以及其他较小的语言，也可以从传教士文件中充分记录的西方和印度传统的相遇中找到。

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.