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Cuisance F. Mounting and Early Restorations: the Case of an Accordion Book, Pelliot Tibétain 45 // Manuscripta Orientalia. Vol. 6. No. 3. September 2000. P. 61—70.

Кюизанс, Франсуаза

Manuscript Pelliot Tibetain 45 (see fig. 1) is among one hundred and forty Tibetan manuscripts in accordion form which belong to the Bibliothèque nationale de France collections. Eleven other manuscripts of similar form are written in Chinese. Other collections are to be found in London and St. Petersburg. Ninety per cent of the extent books in this form are written in Tibetan.

According to specialists on the history of the Far Eastern book, the accordion-form book dates to no earlier than the late eighth century and spread mainly under Tibetan influence. Its form is inspired both by Indian books on palm leaves and Chinese scrolls. The accordion book allows the reader easier and faster consultation, avoiding unrolling and rolling up: it certainly represents an improvement in comparison with the scroll book. The Tibetan accordions probably date from the Tibetan occupation of East Turkestan, judging from their paper and their number. As for ways of naming the accordion book, beginning with the twelfth – thirteenth centuries its other names, such as “fanfold book” or “sūtras folded binding” (in China) aimed to designate printed editions of texts from the Buddhist Canon. The accordion became the usual form of them up to our day. First of all. some words on the presentation and production technique of the accordion book must be said...

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гармоники
коллекция П. Пельо
реставрация
рукописи дуньхуанские
рукописи тибетские

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