Com­piled by Georg Berke­mer
Year 2025
Sources AFSt/H J 69, Archiv der Franck­eschen Stiftun­gen, Halle
DOI 10.25360/01–2025-00000

Ben­jamin Schultze (1689–1760) was one of the most pro­lif­ic, but also most con­tro­ver­sial mis­sion­ar­ies of the Dan­ish-Eng­lish-Halle Mis­sion, which worked in South India in the 18th and ear­ly 19th cen­tu­ry. His con­ver­sa­tion book The Large And Renowned Town Of The Eng­lish Nation In The East-Indies Upon The Coast Of Coro­man­del, Madras Or Fort St. George, […] was orig­i­nal­ly writ­ten as a Tel­ugu-Eng­lish dia­log book in 1730. Lat­er, in 1750, it appeared in two print­ed ver­sions, one with a Ger­man, the oth­er with an Eng­lish text.

This resource offers a sen­tence-by-sen­tence lit­er­al tran­scrip­tion of the orig­i­nal man­u­script with remarks on spe­cif­ic spellings, miss­ing lines, or mis­takes. In the intro­duc­to­ry work­shop report the author explains how he approached the source, and which ques­tion arose dur­ing the transcription.

Note: This first ver­sion of the tran­scrip­tion dat­ed 12 Octo­ber 2024 is a work in progress. Future addi­tions and revi­sions will be pub­lished as ongo­ing ver­sions. The author would like to thank the Franck­esche Stiftun­gen for per­mis­sion to pub­lish this tran­scrip­tion online. The Franck­esche Stiftun­gen are the own­er and hold­er of the rights to the orig­i­nal man­u­script. The man­u­script can be found under the fol­low­ing link: https://digital.francke-halle.de/fsha/content/titleinfo/1206235.

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