Elements of South-Indian Palæography, from the Fourth to the Seventeenth Century A.D. c5.s2.t4.16

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² There are some MSS. in this hand, among those I presented to the India Office Library in 1870; including one of the Mādhavīya Dhātuvṛitti. The types used to print books at Trevandrum follow this model. The first printed specimen of the Ārya-eḻuttu that I have seen is in the preface of vol. i. of Rheede's "Hortus Malabaricus". But Malayāḷam was printed already in 1577 when J. Gonçalves, a Spanish lay-brother of the Jesuits, cut type with which a Catechism was printed at Vaypicota near Cranganore. (Sousa, "Oriente Conquistado", ii., p. 110). The complete alphabet was printed by the Propaganda at Rome in 1772, 8º. "Alphabetum Grandonico-Malabaricum."