Icons Worthwhile to See: Prague Fragment of the Xylograph Five Hundred Gods of Narthang: A First Report
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| Year of publication | 2007 |
| Type | Article in Proceedings |
| Conference | Pakhomov Sergey et al. (Eds.), Filosofija, religija i kultura stran Vostoka |
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| Field | Philosophy and religion |
| Keywords | Tibetan Buddhism; Iconography; Icons Worthwhile to See; Five Hundred Gods of Narthang |
| Description | The illustrated xylograph Icons Worthwhile to See (Five Hundred of Gods of Narthang) has been preserved in just a few copies and they are found in museums. The book was published in full extent just once as a black and white reproduction of xylographs and once as a colored reproduction of manually colored pictures. Naprstek Museum bought altogether six sheets of this collection in 1987. This fragment is in a perfect condition, sheets are undamaged and in the original state. By the juxtaposition of the first and second folio of the Prague fragment with the reproduction in Tachikawas publication we can ascertain such an agreement that we can speak of identical copies and we may make a preliminary conclusion that they were printed from one and the same matrix. Only after the comparison of the paper used we may judge whether the Prague fragment and Hamburg xylograph come from the same or at least close period of time. The other preserved samples should be treated in the same way. |
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