Lessons

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  European readers of Arabic manuscripts

  Lesson 21 As compact, readily-movable objects, books can have wide-ranging, itinerant lives. And gi...

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  Illustration in the Shāhnāma tradition (Persian)

  Lesson 24 The Shāhnāma or Book of Kings by Manṣūr Abū al-Qāsim Firdawsī Ṭūsī narrates the legendary ...

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  Perfect compilation (Coptic)

  Lesson 5 Many skills were needed to make a book of exceptional quality. The parchment or paper had ...