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Decorative and protective cloth ‘robe’ and ‘belt’ wrapped around 2 pothi-style manuscripts. Toronto, Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, Tibetan MSS 00055 and MSS 00056.
Decorative and protective cloth ‘robe’ and ‘belt’ wrapped around 2 pothi-style manuscripts. Toronto, Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, Tibetan MSS 00055 and MSS 00056.

Detail of a 19th-20th-c. manual for divination and astrology ('Bras rtsis vai dkar dgongs don dri med kun phan me long) in dBu can script. Toronto, Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, Tibetan M11
Detail of a 19th-20th-c. manual for divination and astrology showing small red boxes and text divisions filled with text

Detail of a mthing shog (blue-black) manuscript containing the Praise to 21 Taras. Private collection of R. Spelker.
Detail of a mthing shog (blue-black) manuscript containing the Praise to 21 Taras, showing colourful border lines and gold text in a display script. Private collection of R. Spelker.

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 of the scribal work and paper of the Newari Buddhist Pañcarakṣā sūtra. Toronto, Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, Tibetan MSS 00015.
Detail of paper and some writing from a page of the Newari Buddhist Pañcarakṣā sūtra

Detail of white and purple beads of a wampum binding with brown string

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Dino-lite imaging of a Hebrew printed book at the University of Toronto’s Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library.
Hebrew printed book being examined by a Dino-lite which is emitting a bright blue light.

Dino-lite magnification imaging on a Nepalese Pañcarakṣā sūtra. MSS 00015, Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, Toronto
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Dragonfly rendering of an early printed book using microCT. Image: Jessica Lockhart
Dragonfly rendering of an early printed book using microCT.
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