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Paper painting depicting seated Buddha triad with standing Bodhisattvas and donor, with hanging tabs added; mounting holes in upper and lower margins. Guiyijun period (848/851–1030/1036), tenth century. From Mogao Cave 17, Dunhuang. Paris,…
Paper painting depicting seated Buddha triad with standing Bodhisattvas and donor, with hanging tabs added; mounting holes in upper and lower margins.

Old Book New Science

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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.

A view under optical microscope revealing inclusions in the paper fibres of one of Cao Yuanzhong’s Avalokiteśvara woodblock prints (Toronto, Royal Ontario Museum 927.24). Photo: Jessica Lockhart
A view under optical microscope revealing inclusions in the paper fibres of a woodblock print.

Northumbria

Hidden Stories postdoc Noam Sienna (right) examining marginalia in a 16th-c. printed Hebrew book with co-director of the Footprints project, Marjorie Lehman of the Jewish Theological Seminary.
Noam Sienna (right) and Marjorie Lehman (left) examining marginalia in a 16th-c. printed Hebrew book

Noam Sienna

HiddenStories_AUG2024Newsletter.pdf

OBNS_FINAL Newsletter #1_Summer 2023_PDF_2023.08.02 .pdf
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