EAP1551 — "Sri Lankan Tamil Palm-Leaf Manuscript Library

[Project team, British Library EAP] · British Library Endangered Archives Programme

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A further British Library EAP project focused on Sri Lanka's tradition of palm-leaf manuscript recording (local history, medicine, astrology, astronomy, literature, mathematics) — the precise category of material destroyed at Jaffna in 1981. Its aims statement notes that "these manuscripts are endangered," confirming ongoing fragility of the surviving corpus.

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