7/25/2023 0 Comments Decorative manuscript writing![]() Some leaves have centered holes, circular or ovoid in shape, inset within the text, for stringing in a group as a unit. Their texts comprise single columns of long lines, bordered by vertical bounding lines and/or contained within rectangular frames. Some have illustrations and decorative features. Their leaves stand on palm-leaf or on paper. The samples represent Sanskrit and Jain manuscripts of various ages and texts. Without further ado, here are a few of the images that we had intended to present, with generous permission of the owner, who is aware that our wide range of interests about scripts, texts, written sources might gather a broad range of spectators and experts. In the transition from our first (Drupal) website to the second (WordPress), I encountered so many difficulties regarding any advance with the Galleries and Media, ensuring an inevitably cumbersome transition from one to the other. This private collection of many varieties of scripts, texts, languages, formats across the ages and across many cultures - see our Galleries - has generously allowed us to display, study, and publish them, along with discoveries that this collaboration permits.įor some time, I have meant to present these images on a Gallery of one kind or another on our nonprofit website. ![]() Inspired by some recent communications, as scholars, collectors, and devotees of manuscripts around the world recognize a welcome on our website, we present some fragments from palm-leaf and paper manuscripts which have joined a collection willing to welcome them.
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