International Dunhuang Project Bookbinding Pages
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Description: An introduction to the projects' collection. Includes a history of several styles of book binding in China.
Diagrams by Li Yi and Colin Chinnery The history of Chinese bookbinding has always suffered owing to a lack of material evidence. The various book formats discovered among the Dunhuang document collection provide a wealth of information previously out of reach to scholars. However, this resource has remained relatively untapped, attention instead being focused on the textual content of the documents. Bookbinding is just one of many aspects to the study of the Dunhuang collection as physical artefacts. This site, by combining textual descriptions with diagrams illustrating binding techniques and photographs of the actual objects, aims to give a comprehensive introduction to the different kinds of Chinese bookbinding contained in the Dunhuang collection of the British Library.
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| Page title: | IDP Education - Bookbinding |
| Keywords: | MANUSCRIPTS,CONSERVATION,PRESERVATION,DIGITISATION,CATALOGUING,DATABASE,VIRTUAL LIBRARY,BOOKBINDING,BUDDHISM,SILK ROAD,CENTRAL ASIA,CHINA,TIBETAN,SANSKRIT,UIGHUR,KHOTANESE,KHAROSTHI,TURKIC,TANGUT,HISTORY,FORGERIES,ARCHAEOLOGY,HISTORY |
| Description: | MANUSCRIPTS HIDDEN FOR A THOUSAND YEARS IN A SILK ROAD CAVE ARE BEING DIGITISED TO CREATE A VIRTUAL LIBRARY |
| IP-address: | 193.60.214.31 |