[INDOLOGY] Corrections in Manuscripts

[dhaval patel]

Respected scholar,
There is a very good book in Gujarati regarding the manuscriptology.
http://jainaelibrary.org/book.php?file=008464

Page 82 has some detail about the materials used for corrections in
manuscripts.

Similarly you can have a look at
http://jainaelibrary.org/book.php?file=003982
Here there are some sanskrit shlokas which show the method of preparation
of some of writing materials.


The materials which are used to strike off are known as "haritAla"
(sanskrit) and "safedo" (Gujarati - whitewash).
They are used to strike off letters.
The yellowish greenish tinge is most probably that of haritAla.

At the same time caution must be made regarding red (geru) colour. It is
usually used to highlight and not strike out the reading.





On Thu, Jul 3, 2014 at 9:56 AM, Clemency Montelle <
clemency.montelle at canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:

>  Dear All,
>
>
>
> I have been considering the ways in which scribes made corrections in the
> manuscripts they were copying, specifically in numerical tables.  Of
> course, there are a variety of practices that  (some are neater than
> others!).  One way of interest is the use of what appears to be (in the
> colour copies of manuscripts I have) a yellowish paste or paint (an early
> version of modern day “white-out” or “twink”?) which can then written over.
>
>
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> I attach a couple of examples. (The first example it has been used along
> several successive values in the third row, and in the second an entire
> column as well as individual entries.)
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> Does anybody know more about this technique?  What was the substance
> used?  How widespread is this?  Where can I read more about this?
>
>
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> With best wishes,
>
> Clemency
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> Dr Clemency Montelle
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Dr. Dhaval Patel, I.A.S
District Development Officer, Rajkot
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