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Tamil manuscripts from Italy

August 7 , 2023 470 days 621 0
  • Palm manuscripts from the 18th Century titled Gnanamuyarchi have been discovered in an Armenian monastery in Northern Italy.
  • Tamil Bharathan, a doctoral scholar, was allowed access to the manuscripts.
  • It could be a copy of the first translation of Ignatius’ Spiritual Exercise in Tamil.
  • This translation is most likely by Michele Bertoldi, known in Tamil as Gnanaprakasasamy.
  • This is a prose text from the early 18th Century (likely the 1720s).
  • It has been printed several times in the 19th Century by the Mission Press in Puducherry.
  • The library had categorised the manuscripts as ‘Indian Papyrus Lamulic Language–XIII Century’.

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