[INDOLOGY] Indic Script identification: Another MS with similar script
Justin Fifield
aksobhya.buddha at gmail.com
Mon Oct 26 17:45:42 UTC 2015
Dear Colleagues,
If I may please interject my own question into this thread, I have a
similar manuscript whose script I have not been able to identify.
The ms was purchased in Chiang Mai (almost two decades ago), but may
have come from somewhere else. One colleague suggested a Burmese script
(Shan?), but now I am thinking Lanna after seeing the posted sites.
Could anyone please offer a suggestion? Close-up picture attached.
Thank you!
- Justin Fifield
Ph.D. Candidate
Harvard University
fifield at fas.harvard.edu
On 10/26/2015 3:56 AM, Manu Francis wrote:
> On Lanna manuscripts, see:
> http://lanna-manuscripts.efeo.fr/
> --
>
> Emmanuel Francis
> Chargé de recherche CNRS, Centre d'étude de l'Inde et de l'Asie du Sud
> (UMR 8564, EHESS-CNRS, Paris)
> http://ceias.ehess.fr/
> http://ceias.ehess.fr/index.php?1725
> http://rcsi.hypotheses.org/
> Associate member, Centre for the Study of Manuscript Culture (SFB 950,
> Universität Hamburg)
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>
> 2015-10-26 0:48 GMT+01:00 Nathan McGovern <nmcgover at fandm.edu
> <mailto:nmcgover at fandm.edu>>:
>
> It was clear to me as soon as I looked at the first two pictures
> that they are some sort of Tai script, since many of the aksaras
> are similar if not identical to those found in modern standard
> Thai. I'm not very familiar with other Tai scripts, however, so I
> showed the pictures to Justin McDaniel of Penn, and he said that
> they are written in the Lanna script, i.e., the script of the
> Lanna kingdom of Chiang Mai. There are, however, some modern
> features probably borrowed from Lao.
>
> Best,
>
> Nathan McGovern
> Dalhousie University
>
> On 10/25/2015 10:49 AM, Arlo Griffiths wrote:
>> I concur with Dr. Kieffer-Pülz. Definitely a Southeast Asian
>> script, although not one I have direct experience with.
>>
>> Consult François Lagirarde (EFEO/Chiang Mai):
>> francois.lagirarde at efeo.net <mailto:francois.lagirarde at efeo.net>
>>
>> Arlo Griffiths
>> EFEO/Paris
>>
>>
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> From: kauzeya at gmail.com <mailto:kauzeya at gmail.com>
>> Date: Sat, 24 Oct 2015 20:44:36 +0200
>> To: dnreigle at gmail.com <mailto:dnreigle at gmail.com>
>> Subject: Re: [INDOLOGY] Indic Script identification: De Jong
>> Collection Manuscripts
>> CC: indology at list.indology.info <mailto:indology at list.indology.info>
>>
>> ha ha, well, according to my friend Petra Kieffer-Pülz, I *am*
>> totally wrong! She writes:"It looks more like some type of Khom
>> script."
>>
>> On Sat, Oct 24, 2015 at 3:09 PM, David and Nancy Reigle
>> <dnreigle at gmail.com <mailto:dnreigle at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>> Dear Clemency,
>>
>> The two images that you have labelled Tibetan Manuscript 1
>> and Tibetan Manuscript 2 are definitely in Tibetan. Possibly
>> if we had a scan of the other side of the folio in Tibetan
>> Manuscript 2 we could determine the title. After the first
>> phrase, which continues a sentence from the other side, it
>> gives a series of homages: homage to the Buddha, homage to
>> the dharma, homage to the sangha, etc.
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>> David Reigle
>> Colorado, U.S.A.
>>
>> On Sat, Oct 24, 2015 at 1:03 AM, Clemency Montelle
>> <clemency.montelle at canterbury.ac.nz
>> <mailto:clemency.montelle at canterbury.ac.nz>> wrote:
>>
>> Dear Colleagues,
>>
>> I'm preparing a small exhibition on the De Jong
>> collection that is now held by the University of
>> Canterbury in New Zealand
>> (http://library.canterbury.ac.nz/collserv/dejong.shtml)
>> as part of initiatives to make this scholarly asset more
>> visible to the research community (and university
>> officials so they are reminded of its worth and importance!)
>>
>> I found in some of the archival boxes several manuscripts
>> that I would like to put on display, but I'm having
>> trouble identifying the scripts of them.
>>
>> Two images appear to be from a Palm Leaf manuscript in
>> some sort of South Indian script but I can't put my
>> finger on it exactly.
>>
>> The other two images appear to be in Tibetan. Could
>> someone kindly confirm this for me?
>>
>> (I'm busy getting the librarians to take images of the
>> final folia in case I can make out a colophon...)
>>
>> Any help greatly appreciated!
>>
>> With best wishes,
>> Clemency
>>
>> ---
>>
>> Dr Clemency Montelle
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