Browse Items (174 total)

Detail of a sewn book - an 18th-c. medical compendium (sman yig gces bsdus). Toronto, Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, Tibetan MSS 00029.
Detail of a sewn book - an 18th-c. medical compendium (sman yig gces bsdus). Toronto, Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, Tibetan MSS 00029.

Fold book - a copy of rtsa gsum rab 'byams rgya mtshor mchod pa’i rnam bshad, a ritual text used during tantric sadhana practice. Toronto, Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, Tibetan MSS 00051.
A paper fold book containing ritual text used during tantric sadhana practice, sitting on red fabric wrapping. Toronto, Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, Tibetan MSS 00051.

Detail. Axoloapan Xoloctlan manuscript on amatl. Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, Toronto.
Detail of a pool with two animals inside it, from the Axoloapan Xoloctlan manuscript

Detail. Axoloapan Xoloctlan manuscript on amatl. Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, Toronto.
A page opening of the Axoloapan Xoloctlan manuscript covered in cursive script.

Detail. Axoloapan Xoloctlan manuscript on amatl. Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, Toronto.
A page opening of the Axoloapan Xoloctlan manuscript with a saint at left and text and landscape at right

Axoloapan Xoloctlan manuscript on amatl. Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, Toronto.
A page opening of the Axoloapan Xoloctlan manuscript showing trees and text

Conservators Vania Assis and Mary Hamilton French conserve a birch bark scroll in the Islamabad Museum, Islamabad, Pakistan. Photo: Mark Allon.
Conservators Vania Assis and Mary Hamilton French leaning over a table assembling a birchbark scroll

Wooden endband, prior to conservation. Williamstown, Williams College Chapin Library, Codex MSS 041. Photo: Anne Peale.
A side profile of the birchbark book, Chapin Library Codex MSS 041, showing a wooden endband bound in leather

The interior of the wooden endband of Chapin Library Codex MSS 041, microCTed and viewed through Dragonfly software. Image: Jessica Lockhart.
microCT cross-section of a wooden endband showing the wood's rings
Output Formats

atom, csv, dcmes-xml, json, omeka-xml, rss2