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INTRODUCTION TEXT AND TEXTILE: CONNECTING THE LOCAL AND THE GLOBAL

  • Suzanne Conklin Akbari and Melissa Moreton
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Textiles in Manuscripts
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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
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783689240011-002

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
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