AW: Request for help with manuscript

[Gruenendahl, Reinhold]

Thanks again to everyone for your comments, which have been most helpful.
 
 
Here are some more samples:
 
www.sub.uni-goettingen.de/ebene_1/fiindolo/temp/1_07.jpg
<http://www.sub.uni-goettingen.de/ebene_1/fiindolo/temp/1_07.jpg> 
www.sub.uni-goettingen.de/ebene_1/fiindolo/temp/1_08.jpg
<http://www.sub.uni-goettingen.de/ebene_1/fiindolo/temp/1_08.jpg> 
www.sub.uni-goettingen.de/ebene_1/fiindolo/temp/1_09.jpg
<http://www.sub.uni-goettingen.de/ebene_1/fiindolo/temp/1_09.jpg> 
www.sub.uni-goettingen.de/ebene_1/fiindolo/temp/1_10.jpg
<http://www.sub.uni-goettingen.de/ebene_1/fiindolo/temp/1_10.jpg> 
 
That's all I have to hand at present.
 
I'd appreciate any suggestions concerning the identity of the main figure in
07 and 09.
 
 
Best wishes
Reinhold Grünendahl
 
 
 
 
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Dr. Reinhold Gruenendahl
Niedersaechsische Staats- und Universitaetsbibliothek
Fachreferat sued- und suedostasiatische Philologien
(Dept. of Indology)
 
37070 Goettingen, Germany
Tel (+49) (0)5 51 / 39 52 83
 
gruenen at sub.uni-goettingen.de
 
FACH-INFORMATIONEN INDOLOGIE, GOETTINGEN:
http://www.sub.uni-goettingen.de/ebene_1/fiindolo/fiindolo.htm
In English:
http://www.sub.uni-goettingen.de/ebene_1/fiindolo/fiindole.htm
 
GRETIL - Goettingen Register of Electronic Texts in Indian Languages:
http://www.sub.uni-goettingen.de/ebene_1/fiindolo/gretil.htm
 
GRETIL e-library:
http://www.sub.uni-goettingen.de/ebene_1/fiindolo/gr_elib.htm
 

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Von: Indology im Auftrag von John C. Huntington
Gesendet: Mo 29.09.2008 17:37
An: INDOLOGY at liverpool.ac.uk
Betreff: Re: AW: Request for help with manuscript



Dear Reinhold,

In the study of Asian incunabula, we usually cite a leporello as an 
"accordion-fold" book. In Nepal Bhasa (Newar) they are called 
thyasaphu and can be anything from very small to about about 100 
folds or more. Frequently they have an arsenic coating on one side, 
which gives it a characteristic yellow cast,  to keep the insects at 
bay.

  An important example of an iconographic model book in the thyasaphu 
format is at:

http://huntingtonarchive.osu.edu/exhib/CircleofBliss/ChakraBook02A.html
  from the Circle of Bliss Exhibition

Another with the arsenic coating is at:

http://huntingtonarchive.osu.edu/exhib/CircleofBliss/
ChakraRitual02A.html

Also from the CoB

While the Model books are often called sketch books they are usually 
not. True sketchbooks were an artist is learning something are known 
(the Jivarama sketch book of NS 555) (see my  "Nevar Artist 
Jivarama's Sketch Book," in Indian Art Treasures: Suresh Neotia 
Collection. Varanasi; Jñana-Pravaha (Center for Cultural Studies and 
Research) with Mosaic Books 2006, pp. 74-85) it may be downloaded at:

http://tiny.cc/NZbUs

This is actually one of the most complete studies of a "sketch book" 
to date.

The four complete and two fragmentary designs you have posted, 
suggest that this is a model book of designs for the ornamentation of 
a shrine or temple of some sort. However, since it is clearly not 
Buddhist, I am at a loss to say what it might be.

One interesting aside, is that the figure fighting the lion has 
twisted the lion around into the "broken-back" position of many 
central Asian animals motifs of the first millennium BCE and first 
half of the first millennium CE

Given the Bhujimo characters and their relationship to the 
Inscriptions of Jivarama,, I would date this to ca 1450 ± 30.

I hope this is useful. I would love to see more if you would be 
willing to share them.

All the best

John