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Languages : en
Pages : 1138
Book Description
Catalogue of Oriental Literature, Manuscripts, Printed Books, Translations, Works of Eastern Travels
Author: Illuminated Manuscripts and Miniatures, European & Oriental
Author: Maggs BrosPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antiquarian booksellers
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Catalogue of Manuscripts and Early Printed Books: Italy and part of France
Author: John Pierpont MorganPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Block books
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Illuminated Manuscripts in Classical and Mediaeval Times
Author: John Henry MiddletonPublisher: Cambridge : University Press
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Category : Illumination of books and manuscripts
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
Illuminated Manuscripts
Author: John William BradleyPublisher:
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Category : Illumination of books and manuscripts
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Receptacle of the Sacred
Author: Jinah KimPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520273869
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
In considering medieval illustrated Buddhist manuscripts as sacred objects of cultic innovation, Receptacle of the Sacred explores how and why the South Asian Buddhist book-cult has survived for almost two millennia to the present. A book “manuscript” should be understood as a form of sacred space: a temple in microcosm, not only imbued with divine presence but also layered with the memories of many generations of users. Jinah Kim argues that illustrating a manuscript with Buddhist imagery not only empowered it as a three-dimensional sacred object, but also made it a suitable tool for the spiritual transformation of medieval Indian practitioners. Through a detailed historical analysis of Sanskrit colophons on patronage, production, and use of illustrated manuscripts, she suggests that while Buddhism’s disappearance in eastern India was a slow and gradual process, the Buddhist book-cult played an important role in sustaining its identity. In addition, by examining the physical traces left by later Nepalese users and the contemporary ritual use of the book in Nepal, Kim shows how human agency was critical in perpetuating and intensifying the potency of a manuscript as a sacred object throughout time.
Catalogue
Author: Sotheby, Wilkinson & HodgePublisher:
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 732
Book Description
The Book of Hours of Catherine of Cleves
Author: John PlummerThe Bookman's Journal and Print Collector
Author: Wilfred PartingtonPublisher:
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
Catalogue
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Category : Catalogs, Booksellers'
Languages : en
Pages : 1416
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