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Chart 2
Brief material description of HH, AP, BZ, CJB and CTW
| Abbreviation & title |
Work Date & Metalanguage |
Type of text & nature of source |
Number of images (or pages) |
Magnitude as (plain) texts |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HH Arte em Malauar |
16th c. Portuguese |
Grammar. Undated MS discovered by Thani Nayagam [1913-1980] and critically edited in 1982 by H.J. Vermeer [1930-2010]. |
159 folios (recto & verso) |
ca. 160.000 signs |
| AP Vocabulario Tamulico |
1679 Portuguese |
Vocabulary (not lemmatized). Printed posthumously in Ambalacatta (1966 Facsimilé Reprint by Thani Nayagam, Kuala Lumpur). |
18 + 508 pp | ca. 500.000 signs |
| BZ Grammatica Damulica |
1716 Latin |
Grammar. Printed in Halle. |
15+128 pp. | ca. 93.000 signs (on the 128pp) |
| CJB Grammatica Latino-Tamulica |
1738 Latin |
Grammar. Composed in 1728 [cf. Preface]. Printed in 1738 in Tranquebar. Reprinted in 1813 (Fort St George) and in 1843 (Pondicherry). |
175 pp. | ca. 220.000 signs |
| CTW Observationes |
1739 Latin |
Grammar. Printed in 1739 in Tranquebara. |
56 pp. | ca. 70.000 signs |