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Manuscripts and printing: East Asia
Imre Galambos, “Manuscripts and printing – East Asia.” In Jonathan A. Silk and Stefano Zacchetti, eds., Brill’s Encyclopedia of Buddhism. Leiden: Brill, 2015, 968–978. Although historically East Asia has been an arena where ethnically and politically diverse states alternated with one another, … Continue reading
Posted in archaeology, books, Buddhism, Codicology, Dunhuang, printing, published papers, Scribal habits
Tagged Buddhism, east asia, manuscripts, printing
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Manuscripts and Travellers in your local bookstore
Sam van Schaik and Imre Galambos, Manuscripts and Travellers: The Sino-Tibetan Documents of a Tenth-Century Buddhist Pilgrim (Berlin: de Gruyter, 2012). Our book is finally out. It all started about 5 years ago when Sam asked me if I wanted to join … Continue reading
Posted in archaeology, Aurel Stein, books, Dunhuang, Palaeography, published papers, Scribal habits, Tibetan, Travel
Tagged Chinese, manuscript, tibetan
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Manuscripts of translations made from printed texts
Recently a 16-volume publication came out with “rare and precious” (guji zhenben 古籍珍本) travel manuscripts in the collection of the National Library of China (NLC). Having flipped through the volumes, I was surprised to find a text titled Xiongyali youji 匈牙利游記 (Record … Continue reading
Posted in 20th century, books, Dating, exploration, History of scholarship, Travel
Tagged Hungary, manuscript, National Library of China, textual transmission, travel, Xiongyali
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Graphic variability in a Ming printed book
Lately, I have been working with Ming editions of Zhuge Kongming Xinshu 諸葛孔明心書, a military text attributed to Zhuge Liang but which is most likely an early Song forgery. The earliest edition I was able to inspect was a moveably type … Continue reading
Posted in books, Character variants, Chinese writing, Ming dynasty, Orthography
Tagged book, character, Ming, orthography, printed, variant, Zhuge Liang
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A mysterious manuscript about the discovery of Dunhuang manuscripts
The mysterious manuscript referred to in the title is a little notebook written in a cursive caoshu hand and is currently located at the Gansu Provincial Library. The title Dunhuang xianhua 敦煌闲话 (Idle Chat about Dunhuang) is included in the notebook so … Continue reading
Posted in 20th century, Aurel Stein, books, Dunhuang, exploration, History of scholarship, Japanese, Otani expeditions
Tagged Dunhuang, manuscripts, museum, Nakamura Fusetsu
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Chinese books, starting at the end
William B. Langdon’s catalogue of Nathan Dunn’s Chinese collection (A Descriptive Catalogue of the Chinese Collection, Now Exhibiting at St. George’s Place, Hyde Park Corner, London 1843) has been one of the best-sellers of its time, selling about a 100,000 copies. … Continue reading