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Silk Mantle, Or 13027
Silk mantle (textile cover) for a Torah scroll. Modelled for the British Library’s Hebrew Manuscript Digitisation Project, funded by The Polonsky Foundation. Modelling: Adi Keinan-Schoonbaert Special thanks to Tony Grant (photography) and Liz Rose (conservation). To view the mantle and its scroll, visit: http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_13027British Library
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Dunhuang scrolls: Innovative storage solutions at the British Library
The British Library’s Stein collection contains about 14,000 scrolls, fragments and booklets in Chinese from a cave in the Buddhist Mogao Caves complex near Dunhuang in north-west China. This article describes storage and access solutions for the collection in the context of a busy research library and the currently ongoing...Kralka, Paulina ; Muzart, Marya
conservation, storage, paper, Central Asia, Dunhuang, and scroll