Transcription of Benjamin Schultze’s Telugu-English Conversation Book

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 is 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.