CHAPTER 10. WRAPPING THE WORD: THE TEXTILES OF THE TORAH SCROLL

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Contents 4
3. Acknowledgements 7
4. INTRODUCTION TEXT AND TEXTILE: CONNECTING THE LOCAL AND THE GLOBAL 8
5. CHAPTER 1. TEXTILE SUTRA WRAPPERS FROM THE SILK ROADS: MATERIALS, FORMS, FUNCTIONS 38
6. CHAPTER 2. UNWRAPPING THE BUDDHIST CANON: THE TEXTILES OF A FIVE-ROBED MONGOLIAN KANJUR FROM THE HARVARD-YENCHING LIBRARY 66
7. CHAPTER 3. ETHIOPIAN MANUSCRIPTS AND GLOBAL TEXTILE CIRCULATIONS FROM THE FIFTEENTH TO NINETEENTH CENTURIES 94
8. CHAPTER 4. GLOBAL ENTANGLEMENTS: A STUDY OF TEXTILES IN ARMENIAN MANUSCRIPTS 132
9. CHAPTER 5. INDIAN TEXTILES IN ETHIOPIAN AND ARMENIAN BOOKBINDINGS 160
10. CHAPTER 6. ENCOUNTERING A WIDE WORLD IN A MODEST MANUSCRIPT: TEXTILE AND TEXT IN THE WILLIAMS COLLEGE SYRIAC NEW TESTAMENT 182
11. CHAPTER 7. BRAIDED AND TABLET-WOVEN FASTENINGS, ENDBANDS, AND BOOKMARKS IN BYZANTINE AND POST-BYZANTINE BOOKS 214
12. CHAPTER 8. TENDING THE SACRED: TEXTILE CURTAINS AS CARE PRACTICE IN ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPTS 238
13. CHAPTER 9. TEXTILES IN ISLAMIC MANUSCRIPTS: AN OVERVIEW 264
14. CHAPTER 10. WRAPPING THE WORD: THE TEXTILES OF THE TORAH SCROLL 290
15. Authors 310
16. Image credits 319
17. Index 321