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Abstract
One of the basic problems that researchers have to face, when dealing with early Chinese bamboo or wood manuscripts, is natural disintegration. In almost every case, the binding strings that once held together the slips originally constituting a manuscript do either not exist anymore or only remain as traces on individual slips. The problem of reconstruction becomes even more complex, if the manuscript in question was not scientifically excavated or even is of unknown provenance. The present article shows how an analysis of verso lines and mirror-inverted imprints of writing on a group of bamboo slips from the Yuelu Academy collection can help to reconstruct the original structure of the respective manuscript roll. The described analysis can in certain cases enable or facilitate the complete reconstruction of bamboo manu-scripts, even if external archeological evidence is lacking.
Document type: | Article |
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Date Deposited: | 07 Jul 2017 06:36 |
Date: | 2017 |
Faculties / Institutes: | Philosophische Fakultät > Institut für Sinologie |
DDC-classification: | 090 Manuscripts and rare books 490 Other languages 930 History of ancient world 950 General history of Asia Far East |