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Palm leaf (palmyra palm)
From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
About this work
Palm-leaf manuscript consisting of 18 leaves with text in Tamil and Portuguese. The first 6 leaves contain more or less the same text, namely fragments of the catechism in two languages: in a variant of spoken Tamil and in Portuguese. The next 6 leaves contain fragments of the catechism in Tamil. On the remaining 6 leaves, one is blank, are exercises for learning the Tamil alphabet. The manuscript was probably intended for didactic purposes among the Christian Tamil community on the coast of Tamil Nadu, India.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own descriptionSubjects
Credit linePalmblad (palmyra palm). c. 1700 - c. 1800. anonymous. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
