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

[Claudius Teodorescu]

Hi,

I started a small document for the data referring to type foundries and
presses at
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/139AmJfV611kR8S5tw0_9m6Fbrxq2f-leNRONQB7iTHw/edit?usp=sharing,
with a model that has for sure to be improved.

Claudius Teodorescu



On Mon, 12 May 2025 at 09:45, Philipp Maas via INDOLOGY <
indology at list.indology.info> wrote:

> 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
>
> __________________________
>
> PD Dr. Philipp A. Maas
> Institute of Indology and Central Asian Studies
> University of Leipzig
> ___________________________
>
> 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
>>
>> [image: image.png]
>>
>>>
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Cu stimă,
Claudius Teodorescu
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