[INDOLOGY] Clarification: Early 20th century Indian publishers and fonts

[Philipp Maas]

Dear Harry,
Please see
Graheli, Alessandro: The Choice of Devanāgarī, in Maas, Philipp A. und
Cerulli, Anthony (eds.): *Suhṛdayasaṃhitā: A Compendium of Studies on South
Asian Culture, Phi­losophy, and Religion. Dedicated to Dominik Wujastyk*,
Heidelberg: Heidelberg Asian Studies Publishing, 2024 (Studia Indologica
Universitatis Halensis, Band 28), p. 263–293.
https://doi.org/10.11588/hasp.1386.c20163
<https://doi.org/10.11588/hasp.1386.c20163>
Best wishes,

Philipp

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PD Dr. Philipp A. Maas
Institute of Indology and Central Asian Studies
University of Leipzig
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https://spp1448.academia.edu/PhilippMaas


On Mon, 12 May 2025 at 03:02, Harry Spier via INDOLOGY <
indology at list.indology.info> wrote:

>
> Hi Madhav,
>>
> You wrote:
>
>> Another useful Marathi book [342+Photographs] by Bapurao Naik is a
>> general account of the evolution of Devanagari from Brahmi upto modern
>> Devanagari printing: देवनागरी मुद्राक्षरलेखनकला, Vol 1, 1982, Mumbai.
>>
> Is this a Marathi and newer version of Naik, B. S. (1971). Typography of
> Devanagari. Bombay: Directorate of Languages (noted by Birgit Kellner)..
>
> Note:  "Typography of Devanagari ( can be downloaded (in 9 parts) from
> https://disk.yandex.com/d/rDIogm1J3WjKp4 . In addition to all the
> infomation it gives, it has photographic plates  and samples of devanagari
> from the earliest copper plate printing  (from Hortus Indicus Malabaricus
> ,Amsterdam, 1678 ,copied below)  up to and including samples from different
> fonderies from what it calls "the Nirnaya Sagar era".
>
> Harry Spier
>
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>
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