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From Nan to Luang Prabang: The Buddhist Heritage of Northern Laos as Reflected in Recently Discovered Manuscript Collections

Journal of International Buddhist Studies, 2019
Luang Prabang and Nan can look upon a glorious past as most eminent Buddhist kingdoms. During the first half of the nineteenth century both kingdom were important centres of manuscript production.
Volker Grabowsky
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A Preliminary Study of the Colophons of the Naxi Manuscript Collection in the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin

, 2023
The Naxi manuscripts are generally religious texts used by the Dongba priests in southwest of China. The interpretation of colophons has often been underappreciated in previous studies.
Zhang, Chunfeng, Chunfeng Zhang
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Colophon

Journal of China and International Relations, 2013
Colophon - Journal of China and International ...
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The Hand with the Pen: Martin of Loka, Matjaž Jurčič of Kapela and Herman Talner of Trebnje and their Colophons

Ars & Humanitas, 2014
Beginning with expressions such as ideographs, the author’s autograph, and the copyist’s autograph, this paper explains the dilemma of some Late Medieval Manuscripts in Slovenian collections that were mistakenly identified as being the author’s own ...
Nataša Golob
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The Colophons in H. Petermann's Sidra Rabba

, 1995
In Mandaeism, to copy a manuscript is a meritorious act — a Mandaean copyist (usually a priest) may undertake the task as an exercise to remit his own sins, and those of his family — or he may be hired to perform the task for someone else.
Jorunn J. Buckley
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‘Weaving Together Loose Threads’

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This article provides an overview of the development of the therapeutic text corpus in the Ashurbanipal Library. It explores the editorial steps taken to produce new standard editions of the therapeutic texts for the Library through a systematic ...
Simkó, Krisztián
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Copying from Wooden Originals? Investigating the Materiality and Rationale for Holes in the Tablets from the Library of Ashurbanipal

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This study investigates the material characteristics and potential functions of the holes found on Neo-Assyrian cuneiform tablets from the Library of Ashurbanipal.
Corò, Paola, Ermidoro, Stefania
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Self-Portrait and Portrait in Armenian Medieval Miniature Painting

Концепт: философия, религия, культура
The relevance of interdisciplinary research on medieval cultural phenomena is due to their considerable influence on later societal development. Despite the considerable attention that Armenian medieval miniatures have already received from scholars in ...
G. S. Terzyan, A. A. Arabyan, S. V. Ghazaryan   +2 more
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On a Particular Aspect of the Identification of Tibetan Xylographs: Preliminary Remarks on the Importance of Craftsmen

Kervan. International Journal of Afro-Asiatic Studies, 2017
This essay briefly discusses the early history of Tibetan printing by comparing some facets of this subject with the European phenomenon. Printing started to be a means of dissemination of texts in Tibet and Europe at roughly the same time.
Michela Clemente
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The Colophons of the Archaic Lists and their Social Setting

International audienceThe colophons of the archaic lexical lists, to which little attention has hitherto been paid, are re-edited and analyzed. Tablets with colophons are examined within their archaeological context, revealing clusters of lexical lists ...
Naccaro, Hugo, Lecompte, Camille
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