Manuscripts
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Digital technologies make ancient manuscripts more accessible, but there are risks and losses too
Jonathan L Zecher, The Conversation
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What is the story behind the disfigured ghostly sculptures in Thai cosmological parks?
Roni N Wang
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Notes scribbled in a 14th-century musical treatise trace Aurangzeb’s journey from Delhi to Kashmir
Jenny Norton-Wright
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In a dictionary from 15th century India, illustrations of dolls, yo-yos and other playthings
Vivek Gupta
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Photos: How ancient manuscripts have depicted the teachings of Gautam Buddha
San San May Jana Igunma
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Photos: How an Arabic cosmographical text ‘went viral’ in 16th-century India
Vivek Gupta
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Photos: The medieval-era Qurans with 30 leaves, one for each day of the month
Ursula Sims-Williams
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Rare manuscripts: A look at an illustrated Mughal copy of Nizami’s tragic romance ‘Layla Majnun’
Ursula Sims-Williams
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The quest to preserve the ‘Lotus Sutra’, Buddha’s final teaching on salvation
Mélodie Doumy
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Illustrated manuscripts show what the Year of the Dog means in Chinese, Japanese and Thai traditions
Curators of East Asian and South East Asian Collections
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Welcome to the graveyard of rare books, also known as the Saulat Public Library, Rampur
Daniel Jacobius Morgan
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Pictures: How Thai manuscript art brought the background to the forefront
Jana Igunma
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How a Hindu munshi’s Persian work came to influence English scholarship on Indian religions
Ursula Sims-Williams
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Photos: Chinese and Islamic influences come together in the Qurans printed in China
Colin F Baker Ursula Sims-Williams
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What Malay works from Patani tell us about the literary and cultural heritage of Southeast Asia
Annabel Gallop
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In photos: From ornate to simple, bindings on manuscripts from Tipu Sultan’s court
Ursula Sims-Williams
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How was Emperor Humayun received by Shah Tahmasp of Iran? Manuscripts offer contrasting views
Ursula Sims-Williams
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Glimpses of a book on the Americas, published by the Ottoman Empire, that costs as much as a house
Michael Erdman
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Tracing the history of the Book of Esther and Jewish festival Purim
Ilana Tahan
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From the library shelves: The curious tale of Prophet Solomon and the Phoenix
Saqib Baburi