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Amulet scroll on parchment. Toronto, Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, Ethiopic MSS 00001.
Scroll displayed on stand, unrolled to reveal an angel in blue with sword raised overhead.

A man stands behind a table looking at a open manuscript while another man points a camera on a tripod at the manuscript .
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Eyob Derillo, standing, opening a book on a traditional bookstand.

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Folk repairs to a broken wooden cover of an Ethiopian Life of Abune Gebre Menfes Qidus.
Folk repairs to a broken wooden cover of an Ethiopian Life of Abune Gebre Menfes Qidus.

Qur’an from Siyu, Kenya. Fowler Museum, UCLA.
Page opening of the Fowler Qur'an with striking red, orange, and black calligraphy at right.

Fowler Quran: Sura āl-Imran (Q. 3), verses 17. fols 35v-36r. c. 1750-1850. Siyu(?), Pate Island (Kenya). Scribe unknown. Ink on laid paper. Image courtesy of the Fowler Museum, UCLA, Los Angeles.
Page opening of the Fowler Quran: Sura āl-Imran, with red and black calligraphy.

A fragment of Cao Yuanzhong’s Avalokiteśvara woodblock print in which the image block is printed at centre, with roughly symmetrical margins of 5–6 cm around each edge – one of them created by the addition of a vertical strip of reused paper…
A fragment of Cao Yuanzhong’s Avalokiteśvara woodblock print in which the image block is printed at centre, with roughly symmetrical margins of 5–6 cm around each edge.

Front cover of the amatl Mesoamerican manuscript, Axoloapan Xoloctlan, showing the title and a landscape with 3 trees
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