[INDOLOGY] Nirnaya Sagar Press and hebrew

[Matthew Kapstein]

Dear Harry,

The Valmadonna Collection is where I would look for this. Here are some basic search results,

https://www.google.com/search?q=valmadonna+collection+india&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en-fr&client=safari

But you’ll have to dig deeper to gain access. In any case, it’s certainly one of the besr, perhaps the best collection, of Hebrew printing from India.

good luck, בהצלחה
Matthew

On Mon, May 12, 2025 at 14:58, Harry Spier via INDOLOGY < [indology at list.indology.info](mailto:On Mon, May 12, 2025 at 14:58, Harry Spier via INDOLOGY <<a href=)> wrote:

> Dear list members,
>
> First thank you to Madhav,Deshpande, Birgit Kellner, Phillip Maas and Andrew Ollett for the indian printer and devanagari references. Madhav has confirmed off-list that देवनागरी मुद्राक्षरलेखनकला is a Marathi version by Naik of his "Typography of Devanagari".
>
> In the reference Madhav gave for the history of Nirnaya Sagar Press
> https://archive.org/details/NirnayaSagarACenturyOfTypeCastingPrintingAndPublishingVinayakYKulkarni
>
> it says about the founder Jawaji Dadaji that he cast 7 varieties of types for Vedic Sanskrit, 20 of Devanagari, 15 of Gurajarati,  two of Hebrew and one of Kannada. It also includes this printed page of hebrew (presumably from Nirnaya Sagar Press) copied below. From the little hebrew I remember from over half a century ago, it appears to some kind of sample page with each line repeated. With the first occurance without vowel markers (the usual way of writing hebrew) immediately followed by the same line with vowel markers (how you write hebrew for beginners). The larger type is a line from one of the psalms followed by Genesis 1:3 with I think a spelling error.
>
> Does anyone know the story of this hebrew type cast by Nirnaya Sagar Press? Did Nirnaya Sagar Press print a book or books for a Jewish community in India?
>
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> Thanks,
> Harry Spier
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