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@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
Best wishes,

Philipp

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Institute of Indology and Central Asian Studies
University of Leipzig
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On Mon, 12 May 2025 at 03:02, Harry Spier via INDOLOGY <indology@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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