{"id":4602,"date":"2015-05-25T16:53:04","date_gmt":"2015-05-25T16:53:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/?page_id=4602"},"modified":"2016-04-16T02:39:24","modified_gmt":"2016-04-16T02:39:24","slug":"texts-on-parade","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/texts-on-parade\/","title":{"rendered":"Texts on Parade"},"content":{"rendered":"

From Antiquity to the Modern World<\/h3>\n

Types of Texts preserved in Manuscripts and Written Records
\non Papyrus, Parchment, Paper, and other Materials<\/h4>\n

Specimens in a private collection
\nReproduced by permission<\/h5>\n
Descriptions by Mildred Budny<\/h5>\n

PART I.\u00a0 Here we group, by their Type of Text<\/strong> or by their Writing Material,<\/strong> a selection of specimens drawn from our Galleries of Scripts on Parade<\/strong><\/a> and other parts of the same collection.<\/p>\n

So far:<\/p>\n

I.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Texts on Papyrus
\nII.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Biblical & Liturgical Manuscripts
\nIII.\u00a0 Koran\/Qur’an Manuscripts
\nIV.\u00a0\u00a0 Sanskrit & Prakrit Palm-Leaf Manuscripts
\nV.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Chinese & Related Materials
\nVI.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Occult, Astrological & Magical Texts<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Here are specimens \u2014 mostly fragmentary \u2014 of manuscripts and documents in various languages, including both secular and religious concerns.\u00a0 They represent, for example, records of divers transactions, Biblical texts of various kinds, the Qur’an\/Koran in different copies, an Abbasid biographical collection, an apocryphal ‘Life of the Virgin’ in Byzantine Greek, a variety of Arabic and Ottoman Turkish texts using watermarked European paper, and the components of a composite Yemeni bookbinding with reused leaves from older manuscripts.<\/p>\n

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I.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Texts on Papyrus<\/h3>\n