Arts of the Book

The Asian Art Museum. “The Invention of Woodblock Printing in the Tang (618–906) and Song (960–1279) Dynasties.”  https://education.asianart.org/resources/the-invention-of-woodblock-printing-in-the-tang-and-song-dynasties/

The British Library. “Printed Copy of the Diamond Sutra.” https://www.bl.uk/collection-items/the-diamond-sutra.

The British Library. “Spring and Autumn Annals.” https://www.bl.uk/collection-items/spring-and-autumn-annals  

Bincsik, Monika. “Japanese Writing Boxes.” Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. Metropolitan Museum of Art. January 2014. https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/jabo/hd_jabo.htm

Blair, Sheila. Islamic Calligraphy. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2006.

Bloom, Jonathan. Paper Before Print:  The History and Impact of Paper in the Islamic Lands (New Haven and London:  Yale University Press, 2001; Reprinted 2013). (https://aaeportal.com/?id=-20564&fromsearch=true#iosfirsthighlight)

Boswell, Laura. Making Japanese Woodblock Prints. Ramsbury, Wiltshire: Crowood Press, 2020.

Boudalis, Georgios. The Codex and Crafts in Late Antiquity. New York, NY: Bard Graduate Center, 2018. 

Carboni, Stefano, and Qamar Adamjee. “The Art of the Book in the Ilkhanid Period.” Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. Metropolitan Museum of Art. October 2003. https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/khan2/hd_khan2.htm

Cheong Early Printing Museum. “Metal Types in Korea Dynasty.” Jikjiworld.net. Last Updated 1999.  http://cheongju.go.kr/app3/jikjiworld/content/english/metal/index.jsp?top=05&sub=0&left=05&url=mn050/mn050_010.jsp 

Cheong Early Printing Museum. Early Printing Culture of Korea. Cheongju City: Cheongju Early Printing Museum, 2004.

Delbanco, Dawn. “Chinese Calligraphy,” Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. Metropolitan Museum of Art. April 2008. https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/chcl/hd_chcl.htm

Delbanco, Dawn. “Chinese Handscrolls.” Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. Metropolitan Museum of Art. April 2008. https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/chhs/hd_chhs.htm

Department of Islamic Art, “Calligraphy in Islamic Art.” Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. Metropolitan Museum of Art. October 2001. https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/cali/hd_cali.htm

Department of the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas. “Foundations of Aksumite Civilization and Its Christian Legacy (1st–8th Century).” Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. Metropolitan Museum of Art. October 2000. https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/aksu_1/hd_aksu_1.htm

Doyle, Kathleen, and Patricia Lovett. “How to Make a Medieval Manuscript.” Medieval England and France, 700–1200. The British Library and the Polonsky Foundation. https://www.bl.uk/medieval-english-french-manuscripts/articles/how-to-make-a-medieval-manuscript 

Ekhtiar, Maryam, and Julia Cohen. “Tiraz: Inscribed Textiles from the Early Islamic Period.” Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. Metropolitan Museum of Art. July 2015. https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/tira/hd_tira.htm

Fitzgerald, Devin. “Things You Can Do with Woodblocks.” Books and the Early Modern World. September 14, 2017. https://devinfitz.com/174-2/ 

From Jikji to Gutenberg. J. Willard Marriott Library. University of Utah. https://jikji.utah.edu

Galambos, Imre. “Manuscript and Print in the Tangut State: The Case of the Sunzi.” Tibetan Printing: Comparison, Continuities, and Change, ed. Hildegard Diemberger, Franz-Karl Ehrhard, and Peter Kornicki, 135–52. Leiden: Brill, 2016.

Guy, John. “Arts of the Greater Himalayas: Kashmir, Tibet, and Nepal.” Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. Metropolitan Museum of Art. May 2021. https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/grhm/hd_grhm.htm

Guy, John. “Jain Manuscript Painting.” Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. Metropolitan Museum of Art. January 2012. https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/jaim/hd_jaim.htm

International Dunhuang Project.  “IDP Paleography Resource.”  http://idp.bl.uk/education/paleography/index.html 

International Dunhuang Project.  “The Silk Road.” International Dunhuang Project. http://idp.bl.uk/pages/education_students.a4d#3

Kim, Jinah. "Painted Palm-Leaf Manuscripts and the Art of the Book in Medieval South Asia," Archives of Asian Art 65 (2015): 57–86.

Matsuzaki, Keizaburo. “Ukiyo-e woodblock printmaking with Keizaburo Matsuzaki.” Filmed 2011. Art Gallery of New South Wales. https://youtu.be/t8uF3PZ3KGQ

Newman, M. Sophia. “So, Gutenberg Didn’t Actually Invent Printing As We Know It: On the Unsung Chinese and Korean History of Movable Type.” Literary Hub. July 19, 2019. https://lithub.com/so-gutenberg-didnt-actually-invent-the-printing-press/

Norman, Jeremy M. “The Diamond Sutra, the Earliest Surviving Dated Complete Printed Book”. Jeremy Norman’s HistoryofInformation.com. Last Updated September 18, 2021. https://www.historyofinformation.com/detail.php?id=207 

Szirmai, J. A. The Archaeology of Medieval Bookbinding. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 1999. 

Tuttle, Kelly. Islamic Manuscript Basics. Manuscripts of the Muslim World Project. The Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies, University of Pennsylvania Libraries. https://kislakcenter.github.io/islamicmss/ 

Willmann, Anna. “Japanese Illustrated Handscrolls.” Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. Metropolitan Museum of Art. November 2012. https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/jilh/hd_jilh.htm

Windmuller-Luna, Kristen. “Ethiopian Healing Scrolls.” Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. Metropolitan Museum of Art. April 2015. https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/heal/hd_heal.htm 

Witkam, Jan Just. Islamic Manuscripts. Ter Lugt Press. http://www.islamicmanuscripts.info/index.html