In the margins of the text: annotated manuscripts from Northern India and Nepal

梵语手稿差异的一个很少被研究的方面是是否存在，以及形式和内容，如果存在的话，对复制文本的边缘和/或行间注释。这种注释在某些情况下可以捕捉到从口头到书面传播的转变时刻，抄写员同时也是一个文本的学生，他记录了老师对文本的口头解释。这个子项目的目的是调查来自北方印度和尼泊尔的梵语手稿中的这种边缘和线间注释，这些手稿是各种体裁的作品。在一个选择的个人手稿的注释将被转录和详细研究，不同类型的注释分类将作出，对边缘注释和线间注释的研究有助于阐明文本转换动力学的各种要素（例如，最初的边缘材料被添加到后续副本中的“正文”中的过程）。它还将揭示在梵语文化传统中手稿的生产者和使用者的“工作方法”。

A little-studied aspect of variance in Sanskrit manuscripts is the presence or not, and form and content, if present, of marginal and/or interlinear annotation to the text copied. This annotation can in some cases capture the moment of change from an oral to a written transmission, with a scribe who is simultaneously a student of a text setting down oral explanations of it by a teacher.The aim of this sub-project is to investigate such marginal and interlinear annotation in Sanskrit manuscripts from Northern India and Nepal of works in a range of genres. The annotation in a selection of individual manuscripts will be transcribed and studied in detail, a classification of different types of annotation will be made, and the relationship between this material and commentatorial literature 'proper' will be investigated.The study of marginal and interlinear annotation will help to clarify various elements of the dynamics of text-transformation (for instance the process by which originally marginal material is added into the 'main text' in subsequent copies). It will also shed important light on the 'working methods' of both producers and users of manuscripts in the Sanskritic cultural traditions.