[Y-Indology] Kashmiri Atharvaveda fully digitised

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on 6/4/01 12:10 PM, gm at gm wrote:

 

> Dear colleagues,

> as many of you might already know from the previous Indology list,

> e-ternals.com is the digitisation project protecting and publishing

> manuscripts, drawings, miniatures and other world heritage documents.

> We are currently digitising the entire Indian manuscripts in the

> Tuebingen University Library. The first manuscripts from Tuebingen

> are now available as digital facsimile editions.

>

> First priority was of course Rudolph Roth's famous birch-bark

> Atharvaveda manuscript (Kashmiri Paippalada recension), which

> we have now fully digitised at true 800 dpi and in 24-bit colour.

> While we were digitising this huge manuscript, we realised that

> this is actually the *** first complete edition ever. ***

> (There is a two-colour reproduction from 1901 which omits

> several folio pages and the nine pages of fragments.)

>

> Our edition is of superb digital quality, permitting the most stringent

> critical text edition work, much better even than with a magnification

> glass

> over the original. Digitisation was performed at true 800 dpi and 24-bit

>

> colour, using the most advanced optoelectronic cold-system technology.

> We are now making this world heritage document available worldwide to

> all universities, libraries, archives and individual scholars.

> This very large manuscript (553 folio pages plus 9 pages of so-far

> unpublished

> fragments) is now available on 153 normed archive-quality CD-ROMs

> for only US$ 1530.--. This includes the licence for unlimited use within

>

> your university/institution, including reproduction for internal use

> within your organisation. We are publishing the authentic, unreduced

> data,

> in uncompressed TIFF format, adhering to our stringent Archive Quality

> long-term archiving standard, fully in line with ISO norms for

> platform-independent useability.

> A booklet containing meta-data and referencing between the folio pages

> and the CD-ROMs is also included.

>

> Many more so far unpublished or little published manuscripts are now

> also becoming available in quick succession. For instance, we are in the

>

> process of publishing some very interesting palm-leaf and other

> manuscripts on

> religion/ritual law, Vedic manuscripts, grammars (Sanskrit, Prakrit, . .

> .),

> dictionaries, prosody, poetry and drama, philosophy, Puranas, rhetoric,

> history, astrology etc.

> Some of these manuscripts are extremely old and valuable and were so

> far unpublished. Some of them were not known to exist. We are now

> making them available world-wide for every interested scholar to read.

> We only charge US$ 10.-- per CD-ROM plus postage and shipping.

> Some manuscripts only fill two or three CD-ROMs, so that it is

> possible to get university-wide unlimited usage rights for only a few

> dollars,

> whereas previously a trip to Tuebingen would have been a necessity.

> The material is very varied and useful in many departments.

> Many scripts (Sharada, various types of Grantha, many sub-types of

> Devanagari, Bengali, . . .), many languages, many materials (birch bark,

>

> many types of paper, northern ink-written palm leaves, southern incised

> palm leaves, colour miniatures on wood . . .).

>

> To bring in some revenue for further digitisation, we are also

> publishing

> very beautiful facsimile bookmarks (laminated), framed facsimile prints

> in many sizes, and other nice paraphernalia.

> There are also multimedia editions with special zooming and browsing

> software for Windows and Macintosh. In the pipeline: interactive

> teaching software for Sharada and Grantha.

>

> Please let us know if you would like to receive full printed information

>

> on what is becoming available.

> Please support our world-wide culturally independent effort to preserve

> and publish valuable documents.

>

> With kind regards,

> sincerely,

>

> Gunthard Mueller

> (Dir.)

> e-ternals.com/Anthos Imprint Ltd.

> Unter den Linden 15

> 72762 Reutlingen

> Germany

> Tel.: +49 7121 38113-40

> Fax: +49 7121 38113-20

> info

>

>

>

>

>

>

> indology

>

>

>

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>

>

Yes, I would like to have this. Please send it to my home address: Prof.

George Cardona, 72 Woodside Drive, Mount Holly, NJ 08060 USA

[Guest guest]

Dear Mr. Mueller,

 

Can you please inform about the make and model of

this scanner?

 

regards

 

Sanjay Goel,

IGNCA, New Delhi

 

--- george <cardonagj wrote:

> on 6/4/01 12:10 PM, gm at

> gm wrote:

>

> > Dear colleagues,

> > as many of you might already know from the

> previous Indology list,

> > e-ternals.com is the digitisation project

> protecting and publishing

> > manuscripts, drawings, miniatures and other world

> heritage documents.

> > We are currently digitising the entire Indian

> manuscripts in the

> > Tuebingen University Library. The first

> manuscripts from Tuebingen

> > are now available as digital facsimile editions.

> >

> > First priority was of course Rudolph Roth's famous

> birch-bark

> > Atharvaveda manuscript (Kashmiri Paippalada

> recension), which

> > we have now fully digitised at true 800 dpi and in

> 24-bit colour.

> > While we were digitising this huge manuscript, we

> realised that

> > this is actually the *** first complete edition

> ever. ***

> > (There is a two-colour reproduction from 1901

> which omits

> > several folio pages and the nine pages of

> fragments.)

> >

> > Our edition is of superb digital quality,

> permitting the most stringent

> > critical text edition work, much better even than

> with a magnification

> > glass

> > over the original. Digitisation was performed at

> true 800 dpi and 24-bit

> >

> > colour, using the most advanced optoelectronic

> cold-system technology.

> > We are now making this world heritage document

> available worldwide to

> > all universities, libraries, archives and

> individual scholars.

> > This very large manuscript (553 folio pages plus 9

> pages of so-far

> > unpublished

> > fragments) is now available on 153 normed

> archive-quality CD-ROMs

> > for only US$ 1530.--. This includes the licence

> for unlimited use within

> >

> > your university/institution, including

> reproduction for internal use

> > within your organisation. We are publishing the

> authentic, unreduced

> > data,

> > in uncompressed TIFF format, adhering to our

> stringent Archive Quality

> > long-term archiving standard, fully in line with

> ISO norms for

> > platform-independent useability.

> > A booklet containing meta-data and referencing

> between the folio pages

> > and the CD-ROMs is also included.

> >

> > Many more so far unpublished or little published

> manuscripts are now

> > also becoming available in quick succession. For

> instance, we are in the

> >

> > process of publishing some very interesting

> palm-leaf and other

> > manuscripts on

> > religion/ritual law, Vedic manuscripts, grammars

> (Sanskrit, Prakrit, . .

> > .),

> > dictionaries, prosody, poetry and drama,

> philosophy, Puranas, rhetoric,

> > history, astrology etc.

> > Some of these manuscripts are extremely old and

> valuable and were so

> > far unpublished. Some of them were not known to

> exist. We are now

> > making them available world-wide for every

> interested scholar to read.

> > We only charge US$ 10.-- per CD-ROM plus postage

> and shipping.

> > Some manuscripts only fill two or three CD-ROMs,

> so that it is

> > possible to get university-wide unlimited usage

> rights for only a few

> > dollars,

> > whereas previously a trip to Tuebingen would have

> been a necessity.

> > The material is very varied and useful in many

> departments.

> > Many scripts (Sharada, various types of Grantha,

> many sub-types of

> > Devanagari, Bengali, . . .), many languages, many

> materials (birch bark,

> >

> > many types of paper, northern ink-written palm

> leaves, southern incised

> > palm leaves, colour miniatures on wood . . .).

> >

> > To bring in some revenue for further digitisation,

> we are also

> > publishing

> > very beautiful facsimile bookmarks (laminated),

> framed facsimile prints

> > in many sizes, and other nice paraphernalia.

> > There are also multimedia editions with special

> zooming and browsing

> > software for Windows and Macintosh. In the

> pipeline: interactive

> > teaching software for Sharada and Grantha.

> >

> > Please let us know if you would like to receive

> full printed information

> >

> > on what is becoming available.

> > Please support our world-wide culturally

> independent effort to preserve

> > and publish valuable documents.

> >

> > With kind regards,

> > sincerely,

> >

> > Gunthard Mueller

> > (Dir.)

> > e-ternals.com/Anthos Imprint Ltd.

> > Unter den Linden 15

> > 72762 Reutlingen

> > Germany

> > Tel.: +49 7121 38113-40

> > Fax: +49 7121 38113-20

> > info

> >

> >

> >

> >

> >

> >

> > indology

> >

> >

> >

> > Your use of is subject to

>

> >

> >

> Yes, I would like to have this. Please send it to

> my home address: Prof.

> George Cardona, 72 Woodside Drive, Mount Holly, NJ

> 08060 USA

>

>

 

 

 

 

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[Guest guest]

Hello, Dr. Goel,

 

we use a special system assembled by ourselves

using state-of-the-art cold-system components.

With kind regards,

yours,

Gunthard Mueller

 

 

Sanjay Goel schrieb:

 

> Dear Mr. Mueller,

>

> Can you please inform about the make and model of

> this scanner?

>

> regards

>

> Sanjay Goel,

> IGNCA, New Delhi

>

> --- george <cardonagj wrote:

> > on 6/4/01 12:10 PM, gm at

> > gm wrote:

> >

> > > Dear colleagues,

> > > as many of you might already know from the

> > previous Indology list,

> > > e-ternals.com is the digitisation project

> > protecting and publishing

> > > manuscripts, drawings, miniatures and other world

> > heritage documents.

> > > We are currently digitising the entire Indian

> > manuscripts in the

> > > Tuebingen University Library. The first

> > manuscripts from Tuebingen

> > > are now available as digital facsimile editions.

> > >

> > > First priority was of course Rudolph Roth's famous

> > birch-bark

> > > Atharvaveda manuscript (Kashmiri Paippalada

> > recension), which

> > > we have now fully digitised at true 800 dpi and in

> > 24-bit colour.

> > > While we were digitising this huge manuscript, we

> > realised that

> > > this is actually the *** first complete edition

> > ever. ***

> > > (There is a two-colour reproduction from 1901

> > which omits

> > > several folio pages and the nine pages of

> > fragments.)

> > >

> > > Our edition is of superb digital quality,

> > permitting the most stringent

> > > critical text edition work, much better even than

> > with a magnification

> > > glass

> > > over the original. Digitisation was performed at

> > true 800 dpi and 24-bit

> > >

> > > colour, using the most advanced optoelectronic

> > cold-system technology.

> > > We are now making this world heritage document

> > available worldwide to

> > > all universities, libraries, archives and

> > individual scholars.

> > > This very large manuscript (553 folio pages plus 9

> > pages of so-far

> > > unpublished

> > > fragments) is now available on 153 normed

> > archive-quality CD-ROMs

> > > for only US$ 1530.--. This includes the licence

> > for unlimited use within

> > >

> > > your university/institution, including

> > reproduction for internal use

> > > within your organisation. We are publishing the

> > authentic, unreduced

> > > data,

> > > in uncompressed TIFF format, adhering to our

> > stringent Archive Quality

> > > long-term archiving standard, fully in line with

> > ISO norms for

> > > platform-independent useability.

> > > A booklet containing meta-data and referencing

> > between the folio pages

> > > and the CD-ROMs is also included.

> > >

> > > Many more so far unpublished or little published

> > manuscripts are now

> > > also becoming available in quick succession. For

> > instance, we are in the

> > >

> > > process of publishing some very interesting

> > palm-leaf and other

> > > manuscripts on

> > > religion/ritual law, Vedic manuscripts, grammars

> > (Sanskrit, Prakrit, . .

> > > .),

> > > dictionaries, prosody, poetry and drama,

> > philosophy, Puranas, rhetoric,

> > > history, astrology etc.

> > > Some of these manuscripts are extremely old and

> > valuable and were so

> > > far unpublished. Some of them were not known to

> > exist. We are now

> > > making them available world-wide for every

> > interested scholar to read.

> > > We only charge US$ 10.-- per CD-ROM plus postage

> > and shipping.

> > > Some manuscripts only fill two or three CD-ROMs,

> > so that it is

> > > possible to get university-wide unlimited usage

> > rights for only a few

> > > dollars,

> > > whereas previously a trip to Tuebingen would have

> > been a necessity.

> > > The material is very varied and useful in many

> > departments.

> > > Many scripts (Sharada, various types of Grantha,

> > many sub-types of

> > > Devanagari, Bengali, . . .), many languages, many

> > materials (birch bark,

> > >

> > > many types of paper, northern ink-written palm

> > leaves, southern incised

> > > palm leaves, colour miniatures on wood . . .).

> > >

> > > To bring in some revenue for further digitisation,

> > we are also

> > > publishing

> > > very beautiful facsimile bookmarks (laminated),

> > framed facsimile prints

> > > in many sizes, and other nice paraphernalia.

> > > There are also multimedia editions with special

> > zooming and browsing

> > > software for Windows and Macintosh. In the

> > pipeline: interactive

> > > teaching software for Sharada and Grantha.

> > >

> > > Please let us know if you would like to receive

> > full printed information

> > >

> > > on what is becoming available.

> > > Please support our world-wide culturally

> > independent effort to preserve

> > > and publish valuable documents.

> > >

> > > With kind regards,

> > > sincerely,

> > >

> > > Gunthard Mueller

> > > (Dir.)

> > > e-ternals.com/Anthos Imprint Ltd.

> > > Unter den Linden 15

> > > 72762 Reutlingen

> > > Germany

> > > Tel.: +49 7121 38113-40

> > > Fax: +49 7121 38113-20

> > > info

> > >

> > >

> > >

> > >

> > >

> > >

> > > indology

> > >

> > >

> > >

> > > Your use of is subject to

> >

> > >

> > >

> > Yes, I would like to have this. Please send it to

> > my home address: Prof.

> > George Cardona, 72 Woodside Drive, Mount Holly, NJ

> > 08060 USA

> >

> >

>

>

>

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