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.
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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