From Mulberry Leaves to Silk Scrolls

Informationen zum Autor Edited by Justin Thomas McDaniel and Lynn Ransom Klappentext Justin Thomas McDaniel is Professor of Buddhist Studies and Chair of Religious Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. Lynn Ransom is Curator at the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies, University of Pennsylvania Libraries. Zusammenfassung From Mulberry Leaves to Silk Scrolls looks closely at a wide variety of Asian manuscript traditions with a special focus on both their history and the ways in which scholars have employed digital technology to make their cataloguing! comparative study! and aesthetic appreciation more accessible to scholars and students. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface Lynn Ransom Introduction Justin Thomas McDaniel PART I. THE ART OF THE BOOK Chapter 1. The Characteristics of Elephants: A Thai Manuscript and Its Context Hiram Woodward Chapter 2. Representations of Space and Place in a Burmese Cosmology Manuscript at the British Museum Alexandra Green Chapter 3. Stories Steeped in Gold: Narrative Scenes of the Decorative Kammavaca Manuscripts of Burma Sinead Ward PART II. INSCRIBING RELIGIOUS PRACTICE AND BELIEF Chapter 4. Drawn to an "Extremely Loathsome" Place: The Buddha and the Power of the Northern Thai Landscape Angela S. Chiu Chapter 5. Shifting Modes of Religiosity: Remapping Early Chinese Religion in Light of Recently Excavated Manuscripts Ori Tavor Chapter 6. Living with Ghosts and Deities in the Qin State: Methods of Exorcism from "Jie " in the Shuihudi Manuscript Daniel Sou PART III. TECHNOLOGIES OF WRITING Chapter 7. Spoken Text and Written Symbol: The Use of Layout and Notation in Sanskrit Scientific Manuscripts Kim Plofker Chapter 8. Abbreviations in Medieval Astronomical and Astrological Manuscripts Written in Arabic Script Sergei Tourkin Chapter 9. Creating a Codicology of Central Asian Manuscripts Susan Whitfield Chapter 10. Providing Access to Manuscripts in the Digital Age Peter M. Scharf Notes Contributors Index ...

Autorentext
Edited by Justin Thomas McDaniel and Lynn Ransom

Klappentext
Justin Thomas McDaniel is Professor of Buddhist Studies and Chair of Religious Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. Lynn Ransom is Curator at the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies, University of Pennsylvania Libraries.

Zusammenfassung
From Mulberry Leaves to Silk Scrolls looks closely at a wide variety of Asian manuscript traditions with a special focus on both their history and the ways in which scholars have employed digital technology to make their cataloguing, comparative study, and aesthetic appreciation more accessible to scholars and students.

Inhalt
Preface
—Lynn Ransom
Introduction
—Justin Thomas McDaniel
PART I. THE ART OF THE BOOK
Chapter 1. The Characteristics of Elephants: A Thai Manuscript and Its Context
—Hiram Woodward
Chapter 2. Representations of Space and Place in a Burmese Cosmology Manuscript at the British Museum
—Alexandra Green
Chapter 3. Stories Steeped in Gold: Narrative Scenes of the Decorative Kammavaca Manuscripts of Burma
—Sinead Ward
PART II. INSCRIBING RELIGIOUS PRACTICE AND BELIEF
Chapter 4. Drawn to an "Extremely Loathsome" Place: The Buddha and the Power of the Northern Thai Landscape
—Angela S. Chiu
Chapter 5. Shifting Modes of Religiosity: Remapping Early Chinese Religion in Light of Recently Excavated Manuscripts
—Ori Tavor
Chapter 6. Living with Ghosts and Deities in the Qin State: Methods of Exorcism from "Jie " in the Shuihudi Manuscript
—Daniel Sou
PART III. TECHNOLOGIES OF WRITING
Chapter 7. Spoken Text and Written Symbol: The Use of Layout and Notation in Sanskrit Scientific Manuscripts
—Kim Plofker
Chapter 8. Abbreviations in Medieval Astronomical and Astrological Manuscripts Written in Arabic Script
—Sergei Tourkin
Chapter 9. Creating a Codicology of Central Asian Manuscripts
—Susan Whitfield
Chapter 10. Providing Access to Manuscripts in the Digital Age
—Peter M. Scharf
Notes
Contributors
Index

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