The history of bookbinding has ancient roots. It became
known in Europe in the first century A. D. The well-known
Soviet Oriental studies scholar A. A. Semenov dates the
appearance of bindings among the people of the Near East
to the time of the Sassanids. It would seem that such an
ancient art should have attracted substantial study. Indeed,
foreign researchers have done a great deal of work on Iranian
bookbinding of the sixteenth – eighteenth centuries, which
attained a high level of sophistication; but virtually nothing
has been done to study Central Asian bookbinding. Only
recently have Soviet descriptions and photographs appeared
of the most interesting examples of Central Asian binding art
of the fifteenth – eighteenth centuries...
5–6 марта 2026 г. ИВР РАН совместно с Восточным факультетом СПбГУ и Институтом Конфуция при СПбГУ проводит 11-ю всероссийскую научную конференцию молодых востоковедов «Китай и соседи». Предлагаем вашему вниманию программу.
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