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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

Frontispiece at Sūrat al-Ḥamd (Q. 1), fols 1v-2r. c. 1750-1850. Copyist ʿAbd al-Karīm b. ʿUmar al-Nawfalī, 4 Muḥarram1245/ 28 June 1829, Faza, Pate Island (Kenya). Ink on laid paper. AS:008. Image courtesy of Imam Nour Al Din Al Salimi…
Frontispiece at Sūrat al-Ḥamd, with very elaboratered, gold, and black calligraphy and marginal commentary.

Photo at the Gilder Center, during a visit with Anishinabe belongings at the American Museum of Natural History, NYC. LT to RT: Willow Lawson (White Earth Band of Ojibwe/ AMNH), Tee Duke (Niisaachewan Anishinaabe Nation (Treaty 3)/ UTM), Melissa…
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