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Alexandra Gillespie, Rachel Di Cresce, Melissa Moreton, and Jessica Lockhart
Hidden Stories team members Alexandra Gillespie, Rachel Di Cresce, Melissa Moreton, and Jessica Lockhart visit with Princeton U. Special Collections librarian Gabriel Swift (second from right) and the two-volume set of the early Hebrew printing of…
A Tibetan sewn book. Toronto, Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, Tibetan MSS 00012.
A sewn book. MSS 00012, Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, Toronto.
A Sikkimese manuscript with ritual thumbprint on the opening leaf.
A Sikkimese manuscript with ritual thumbprint on the opening leaf. A collection of treasure texts containing meditative and ritual practices (rDa rje snying po sprin gyi thol glu), 19th c.. Tibetan MSS 00033, Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, Toronto.
A side profile of the birchbark book, Chapin Library Codex MSS 041
Wooden endband, prior to conservation. Williamstown, Williams College Chapin Library, Codex MSS 041. Photo: Anne Peale.
A side profile of a very long Tibetan scroll containing Ro dngos grub (Corpse Stories)
Tibetan Ro dngos grub (Corpse Stories), 20th-c. manuscript scroll, 35 cm x 15 metres. Toronto, Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, Tibetan MSS 00006.
A page opening of the Axoloapan Xoloctlan manuscript with a saint at left and text and landscape at right
Detail. Axoloapan Xoloctlan manuscript on amatl. Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, Toronto.
A page opening of the Axoloapan Xoloctlan manuscript showing trees and text
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 Nepalese fold book containing both Buddhist and Hindu texts
A Nepalese fold book containing both Buddhist and Hindu texts, (Hymns to Sarasvati and the Navagraha), illustrating the coexistence of different faith communities within the Kathmandu Valley. Martha Cunningham collection, Thomas Fisher Rare Book…
