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TAMIL LANGUAGE / FOLK TALES: கதாமஞ்சரியும் கதாமஞ்சரி நீதிசார வாக்கியம் [Katamancari]

960.00€

Unique item

 

A collection of folk tales, printed in the Tamil language by the state school for education of civil servants.

 

12°, [4 pp.], 176 pp., contemporary marble paper boards, brown goat spine with traces of a paper label (binding slightly rubbed, inside in a good and clean condition, old annotations in pencil and brown ink to the front blank endpapers).

 

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Description

The text was edited by a specialist in Tamil language, Tantavaraya Mutaliyar with a goal to improve reading skills of the students through locally exceedingly popular storytelling. In 1820, Katamancari was one of the first books to be printed by the College of Fort St. George, which housed the school for the city officials, and was reprinted later in enlarged editions.

The book comes from the collection of a French orientalist, translator and collector Charles-Henri-Auguste Schefer (1820 – 1898) with his annotation on the first front loose endpaper.

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