A Few Suggestions as to the Best Way of Making and Utilizing Copies of Indian Inscriptions |
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2nd Edition 30 years ago 3rd Edition Açoka inscriptions Amendment Act VIII Anglo-Tamil Appasawmy applicable to inscriptions Asiatic Society Bengal BHAU DAJI BROWN'S Canarese Catechism chief town Civil Code clear of dust cloth Code of Criminal collection of copies Commentaries containing the result COPIES OF INDIAN Copies of inscriptions cowries Criminal Code Criminal Procedure DAYA VIBHAGA decipherers Dravidian estampages Gilby Hand-book HIGGINBOTHAM High Court Reports Hindoo Hindoostan Hindu Law History impres Index INDIAN INSCRIPTIONS inscriptions collected inscriptions on stone Kapur-di-giri l'enal Law of Evidence Law of Inheritance M.SS Madras High Court Madras Presidency Mahomedan Law Malabar Manual Mofussil Mysore native Nearly Ready Neilgherries Norton's notes Old Tamil ordinary copper plate Orme's paper Pillay Pillay's Prices include Postage Primer PRINSEP Revenue revised to July Rules Digest Sanskrit scriptions Southern India Student's Tamil and English Tamil inscriptions Telugu temple Test Book Tibetan tions trict Trübner UTILIZING COPIES vols Ziegenbalg
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Page 4 - ... trustworthy; one applicable to inscriptions on stone, and the other to those on metal. Firstly for inscriptions on stone, I recommend impressions on stout unsized paper, such as is now manufactured at Paris for the use of Egyptologists. The inscription must first of all be quite cleared of dust or mud or other obstructions, and this may be best done by a hard clothes-brush. The paper is then to be rapidly but uniformly wetted in a tub of water, and applied to the inscription and forced into the...
Page 5 - From this impression another may be taken by means of an ordinary copper-plate press; and with a little practice a perfect facsimile may be thus obtained, the letters being white, and the rest of the plate appearing a dark grey. Photozincography and many other methods exist by which " estampages " and fascimiles made by the last process may be multiplied to any extent.
Page 4 - ... should never be resorted to, as it invariably injures them fatally. From the cleaned plate an impression (reverse) is to be next taken by passing a roller charged with ink over the plate, and then printing from it as from an ordinary copper plate. From this impression another may be...
Page 1 - Trübner and Co., 1869. 3. A few Suggestions as to the best way of making and utilizing Copies of Indian Inscriptions. 8°. Madras, 1870. 4. The Law of Partition and Succession from the MS. Sanskrit Text of Varadaraja's Vy avahäranirnay a.
Page 4 - ... these methods, are defective, and that only two ways are really trustworthy; one applicable to inscriptions on stone, and the other to those on metal. Firstly for inscriptions on stone, I recommend impressions on stout unsized paper, such as is now manufactured at Paris for the use of Egyptologists. The inscription must first of all be quite cleared of dust or mud or other obstructions, and this may be best done by a hard clothes-brush. The paper is then to be rapidly but uniformly wetted in...
Page 4 - When property dried, copies made in this way ( in French estampages ), may be rolled up or put in blank books without the slightest injury, and even will stand damp." The second process is applicable to inscriptions on plates of metal; I devised it several years ago and never found it fail. The plate or plates should be carefully cleaned with a dry brush and the letters occasionally must be cleared out with a blunt graver. The native process of rubbing the plates with, acid, and then putting them...
Page 4 - ... had ; in the case of very large ones, it is necessary to lap over the edges of the sheets and apply a little gum and water or weak paste to them, and also to prevent those sheets first applied from falling, and thus spoiling the rest. A few poles or sticks leaning against the corners in large, or the gum used for joining in small inscriptions, will be found enough. When properly dried copies made in this way (in French, " estampages"), may be rolled up or put in blank books without the slightest...