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- Collection: BOLINTINEANU - BSR
Qur’an Folio (Aga Khan Museum, AKM248)"The dispersed “Blue Qur’an” to which this folio belongs is one of the most famous surviving Qur’an manuscripts. The text of this outstanding…
BSR - Scribal Implements“The pen is a key that opens the door to the necessities of life.” This group of Ottoman scribal implements consists of three pairs of steel…
BSR - Moveable Type"Moveable type printing was invented in China around 1045, but was never practiced on a large scale as the number of Chinese script characters (about…
BSR - Binding, outer covers and doublures: upper, lower, and flap"Durable yet easily decorated, leather presented an ideal material for protecting Islamic manuscripts. Some particularly fine bindings executed in the…
Silk Roads (World History)This is an extremely rare example of a complete medieval woven silk robe. Luxurious robes were highly valued in trade and often presented as…
The prayer book "Waymarks of Benefits" (Dala"il al-Khayrat), originally composed in fifteenth-century Morocco, was frequently copied from Senegal to…
This Buddhist prayer sheet is a rare survivor among hundreds of identical prints featuring Avalokite?vara, a form of the Boddhisatva of compassion,…
The oblong pages of this palm-leaf style (pothi) book are covered with Sanskrit phrases (mantra) to treat illness, prevent disaster, and grant…