British Library EAP1450 — surviving Tamil ola-leaf manuscript material

British Library Endangered Archives Programme (EAP1450) · British Library — eap.bl.uk

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Endangered Archives Programme project digitising surviving Tamil ola-leaf manuscript material — a critical custodial source for Tamil legal memory after the 1981 burning of the Jaffna Public Library destroyed approximately 97,000 volumes including ola-leaf legal manuscripts. The Recorded Legal Memory Desk uses EAP1450 as the Tamil-produced counter-source paired with Dutch VOC colonial records (UNESCO MoW VOC, NL-NA 1.04.02).

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