Mantira-ccuvaṭi
Subtitle: itile vēta-ppiṟamāṇattiṉ paṭiye paṭikka vēṇṭiya añcu mantiraṅkaḷum atukaḷiṉ viyāṟatikaḷum antanta vēḷaikaḷile cevikkappaṭattakka cepaṅkaḷum aṭaṅkiyirukkutu
Publisher: Dansk-hallensiske mission
Published: 1730
Place of publication: Tranquebar
Language: tam
Number of pages: 24
Subjects: Tamil language; Texts; Tamil Prayer books; Tamil Catechisms; Missions; Danish Missions; Lutheran Church; Dansk-hallensiske mission (Tranquebar, India)
Notes: By C.T. Walther. Cf. Jevaraj.

The Houghton Library copy is imperfect; title and imprint transcribed in part from facsimile t.p. in: A. Lehman, Es begann in Tranquebar (Berlin, 1955), p. 165.

Imprint on title page: Kirīṣattu-ppiṟantu 1730 varu[ṣat]tile Taraṅkaṉpāṭi-yaccile nālām vicai patikkappaṭṭatu.

Signature: A¹².

Jevaraj, D. Inkulturation in Tranquebar, p. 344.

Purchase; Thomas-Scheler; 21 August 2002; 2002-509; $2944.92 (Streeter fd.).

From the library of the Jesuit missionary Clément César Dauphin, with ms. inscriptions concerning his life, and his death at Toulouse on 25 August 1749, age 42.

Imperfect: wormed, with some text loss.

Bound with ca. 400 p. of prayers in Tamil in contemporary ms.

Bound in contemporary red striped cloth, edges stained red; in protective case, 16 cm.