Textiles in manuscripts: a local and global history of the book

Contents

Text and textile: connecting the local and the global / Suzanne Conklin Akbari and Melissa Moreton -- Textile sutra wrappers from the Silk Roads: materials, forms, and functions / Michelle C. Wang -- Unwrapping the Buddhist canon: the textiles of a five-robed Mongolian Kanjur from the Harvard-Yenching Library / Katherine Beaty, Jody Beenk, Kalzang Dorjee Bhutia, Rachel Bissonnette, Jim Canary, Kristen Pearson -- Ethiopian manuscripts and global textile circulations from the fifteenth to nineteenth centuries / Michael Gervers, Sarah Fee, Hagos Abrha Abay, River Hobel, Caroline Almenara-Melis, Eyob Derillo -- Global entanglements: a study of textiles in Armenian manuscripts / Sylvie L. Merian, Bryan C. Keene, Hrair Hawk Khatcherian -- Indian textiles in Ethiopian and Armenian bookbindings / Rosemary Crill -- Encountering a wide world in a modest manuscript: textile and text in the Williams College Syriac New Testament / Thelma K. Thomas and Aaron M. Butts -- Braided and tablet-woven fastenings, endbands, and bookmarks in Byzantine and post-Byzantine books / Georgios Boudallis and Joy Boutrup -- Tending the sacred: textile curtains as care practice in illuminated manuscripts / Nancy K. Turner -- Textiles in Islamic manuscripts: an overview / Paul Hepworth, Karin Scheper, Alison Ohta -- Wrapping the word: the textiles of the Torah scroll / Noam Sienna.