The archaeology of Tibetan books /

The archaeology of Tibetan books /

"In The Archaeology of Tibetan Books, Agnieszka Helman-Ważny explores the varieties of artistic expression, materials, and tools that have shaped Tibetan books over the millennia. Digging into the history of the bookmaking craft, the author approaches these ancient texts primarily through the l...

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Main Author: Helman-Ważny, Agnieszka (Author)
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Language:English
Published: Leiden : Brill, 2014
Series:Brill's Tibetan studies library ; v. 36.
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505 0 |a 1. Introduction -- The starting point -- Borrowing the term "archaeology" -- Books written in Tibetan -- Statistics in book history -- My fieldworks, sources, and experiments -- 2. Methods : an uneasy alliance of science and history -- Many typologies of book features -- Tools to read what is not written -- Survey of disciplines used for dating -- Study of paper in books -- 3. Tibetan books : a craft and artistry -- 4. Indigo, gold, and human blood : Tibetan illuminated manuscripts -- Manuscripts versus prints -- Patronage and ownership -- Gold manuscripts -- Format and book binding style -- Illuminations and decorations -- Calligraphy -- Page layout -- Ink -- Writing tools -- Paper -- 5. Tibetan woodblock printing culture -- Origin of new technology and the early Tibetan woodblock -- Prints -- Production of the Tibetan Buddhist canon -- Edition, re-edition, and reprint : technical identity of hundred-volume sets -- Early editions of Tibetan Kanjur produced in Beijing -- Mongolian Kanjurs -- Tibetan Kanjurs produced in Tibet and Tibetan borderland -- Patterns of physical features in selected editions of Tibetan Kanjur in a regional and temporal perspective -- 6. A survey of Tibetan paper -- History of paper in Central Asia and Tibet -- Himalayan papermaking plants and the localization of Tibetan paper and book origins -- Papermaking methods in Tibet traceable in books -- Papermaking tools and technology -- 7. Conservation -- Typical damage to Tibetan books -- Selected procedures of conservation treatment -- Appendix 1: Descriptions of studied books from the British Library -- Appendix 2: Features of paper in particular sets of Tibetan Kanjur -- Appendix 3: Transcription of the Yongle covers inscriptions -- Appendix 4: List of studied items from the Berlin State Library, Tibetan Collection -- Appendix 5: List of studied items from the Library of Congress, washington DC, the Asian Reading Room, Tibetan Collection. 
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