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Hebrew Type Symposium participants printing broadsides at the Minnesota Center for Book Arts (MCBA), April 2024.
Hebrew Type Symposium participants standing behind a printing press that is printing broadsides at the Minnesota Center for Book Arts.

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Hagos Abhra Abay

Great Lakes & Eastern Woodlands

Global Judaica

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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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.

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

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.

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.
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