eprintid: 23213
rev_number: 18
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datestamp: 2017-07-07 06:36:25
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type: article
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creators_name: Staack, Thies
title: The Neglected “Backyard” of Early Chinese Manuscripts: How an Analysis of the Verso of Bamboo Slips can enable the Reconstruction of a Manuscript Roll
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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.
date: 2017
id_scheme: DOI
id_number: 10.11588/heidok.00023213
ppn_swb: 1659360668
own_urn: urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-heidok-232138
language: eng
bibsort: STAACKTHIETHENEGLECT2017
full_text_status: public
citation:   Staack, Thies  (2017) The Neglected “Backyard” of Early Chinese Manuscripts: How an Analysis of the Verso of Bamboo Slips can enable the Reconstruction of a Manuscript Roll.         
document_url: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/23213/1/Staack_2017_The%20Neglected%20Backyard.pdf