I think the best and most comprehensive book not yet mentioned, which
covers more than its title suggests, is:

Katrin Einicke, Korrektur, Differenzierung und Abkürzung in indischen
Inschriften und Handschriften, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2009.

If I remember correctly, the author also discusses the use of sandhivigraha.

Best,
Lubomir


On 09.05.2023 1:35, Dominik Wujastyk via INDOLOGY wrote:
> I agree with Deepro about the absence of any good, comprehensive book. 
> But to add to the readings, I would mention some lesser-known sources:
>
>   *
>     Grierson, George Abraham. 1916. “On the Sarada Alphabet.” The
>     Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland,
>     677–708. http://www.jstor.org/stable/25189479
>     <http://www.jstor.org/stable/25189479>.
>   *
>     Murthy, R. S. Shivaganesha. 1996. Introduction to Manuscriptology.
>     Delhi: Sharada Publishing House.
>   *
>     Nair, K. Maheswaran. 1998. Manuscriptology. Trivandrum: Swantham Books.
>   *
>     Mukhopadhyaya, Bijayanath. 1985. Administration of Manuscript
>     Libraries with Special Reference to Sanskrit. Calcutta Sanskrit
>     College Research Series. Calcutta: Sanskrit College.
>   *
>     Tripāṭhī, Chandrabhāl. 1975. Catalogue of the Jaina Manuscripts at
>     Strasbourg. Indologia Berolinensis ; Bd. 4. Leiden: E. J. Brill.
>     (Introduction)
>
> Best,
> Dominik
>
> On Mon, 8 May 2023 at 17:11, Deepro Chakraborty via INDOLOGY
> <indology@list.indology.info <mailto:indology@list.indology.info>> wrote:
>
>     You are most welcome.
>
>     I cannot think of any single book that covers all such issues. You
>     can check some of the volumes of Studies in Manuscript Cultures
>     <https://www.csmc.uni-hamburg.de/publications/smc.html>. Some
>     volumes are particularly dedicated to Indic manuscripts, such as
>     Volume 10: Bidur Bhattarai's Dividing Texts: Conventions of Visual
>     Text-Organisation in Nepalese and North Indian Manuscripts
>     <https://www.csmc.uni-hamburg.de/publications/smc/smc10.html>. For
>     the Kashmiri manuscripts, I would recommend Michael Witzel's 1994
>     article "Kashmiri Manuscripts and Pronunciation
>     <https://archive.org/details/kashmiri-manuscripts-and-pronunciation-witzel>".
>
>     Deepro
>
>     On Mon, May 8, 2023 at 4:47 PM Harry Spier
>     <vasishtha.spier@gmail.com <mailto:vasishtha.spier@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>         Thank you Deepro,
>         What you say makes sense, that it is a copy of a Sharada
>         manuscript carrying over the characteristics of the original.
>         On a broader point, I've seen  courses on manuscriptology
>         advertised many places over the years, so I'm wondering if there
>         are any books that have been written on manuscriptology that
>         cover all these practical issues that come up when you look at
>         actual manuscripts.
>         Harry Spier
>         Harry Spier
>
>
>         On Mon, May 8, 2023 at 6:21 PM Deepro Chakraborty
>         <deepro@ualberta.ca <mailto:deepro@ualberta.ca>> wrote:
>
>             Dear Harry,
>
>             The /avagraha/ in the Devanāgari manuscript seems to follow
>             the trait of Sharada manuscripts in which the /avagraha/
>             functions as a sandhi mark <https://symbl.cc/en/111C9/>. So,
>             it has a broader use than just being used in cases of an
>             /abhinihita /sandhi.
>
>             Deepro Chakraborty
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