The many documents conserved at the «Vincenzo Joppi» Municipal Library in Udine and at the residence of Tessitori’s nephew at Reana del Rojale bear eloquent witness to the activities of the Italian Indological scholar.
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The collection at the «Vincenzo Joppi» Municipal Library, called Fondo Tessitori, is a heritage of immense interest to all branches of Indological studies. The collection, donated in 1923, comprises 225 manuscripts, in Sanskrit, Prakrits, Apabhraṃśa and Old Mārwāṛī, acquired by Luigi Pio Tessitori in Rajasthan from 1914 to 1919. Of these documents, MS. 4510 deserves a special mention. Written in Sanskrit and illuminated with miniatures in the Rajput style, the manuscript recounts the Devī-Māhātmya, an episode from the Mārkaṇḍeya Purāṇa.
The unpublished documents of Luigi Pio Tessitori are kept today at Reana del Rojale, a small village near Udine, in the residence of Dr. Guido Peano, Tessitori’s nephew. Over the past two years, the archive, known as the Archivio Peano, has been sorted and arranged into seven sections, each organized in chronological order: I: Florentine period; II: Drafts of published works; III: Documents from the Bardic and Historical Survey of Rajputana; IV: Diary; V: Correspondence; VI: Photographic plates; VII: Unpublished works.
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