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Figure 1 Chinese Book Bindings. Images courtesy of Fu Sinian Library, Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica, Taiwan 7 Figure 2 An example of palm-leaf manuscript, Gita Govinda (Song of the Cowherd), LA County Museum of Arts, from Wikimedia Commons (http://collections.lacma. org/sites/default/files/remote_images/piction/ma-31967135-O3.jpg) 8 Figure 1.1 A page of Venetus A, Homer’s Iliad, Biblioteca Marciana in Venice, from G. Zuntz, Die Aristophanes-Scholien der Papyri. Berlin: Seitz, 1975, Tafel VI 29 Figure 1.2 Construction of a sheet of papyrus, from E. G. Turner, Greek Manuscripts of the Ancient World. London: Institute of Classical Studies, University of London, 1987, Plate 1 32 Figure 1.3 Pindar, Paeans, P. Oxy 5.841 (2nd c. AD), from G. Zuntz, Die AristophanesScholien der Papyri. Berlin: Seitz, 1975, Tafel II 38 Figure 2.1 Torah Scroll in the Sephardic tradition, from Aden, Yemen (14th century?). Trinity College Library, Cambridge. Reproduced by kind permission of the Master and Fellows of Trinity College, Cambridge 64 Figure 2.2 Late 15th-century Hispano-Portuguese Bible. Trinity College Library, Cambridge, Ms. F.12.106. Reproduced by kind permission of the Master and Fellows of Trinity College, Cambridge 72 Figure 2.3 Illuminated Sephardic Hebrew Bible codex known as the Cervera Bible (1300). Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal, Lisbon, MS. Iluminado 72. Reproduced by kind permission of the National Library of Portugal 73 Figure 2.4 Illuminated Hebrew Masoretic Bible (Lisbon, 1496), known as the Philadelphia Bible. Free Library of Philadelphia, Ms Lewis O 140. Reproduced by courtesy of the Free Library of Philadelphia, Rare Book Department 75 Figure 2.5 Hebrew Bible (Bologna, 1482), printed on vellum, Trinity College Library, Cambridge, shelf mark VI.15.26. Reproduced by kind permission of the Master and Fellows of Trinity College, Cambridge 78 Figure 2.6 Complutensian Polyglot Bible (Alcalá de Henares, 1514–1517), volume 1. Trinity College Library, Cambridge, shelf mark. A.15.1. Reproduced by kind permission of the Master and Fellows of Trinity College, Cambridge 81 Figure 2.7 Pentateuch and Megillot (Venice: Daniel Bomberg, 1517). Trinity College Library, Cambridge, shelf mark F.7.73. Reproduced by kind permission of the Master and Fellows of Trinity College, Cambridge 83 Figure 2.8 J. Piza, Ezrat ha-Sofer (Amsterdam: Janson and Mondovy, 1767–9). Allard Pierson, Universiteit van Amsterdam, OTM: RON A-5292 87 Figure 3.1 Primary text and commentary for the Record of the Rites (Liji zhushu 禮記注 疏, commentaries by Zheng Xuan 鄭玄 and Kong Yingda 孔穎達, in Shisanjing zhushu 十三經注疏, edited by Ruan Yuan 阮元, 1815; reprint, Taipei: Yiwen, 1973) 95 Figure 3.2 Bamboo slips from the Laozi A text from the Guodian tomb (Guodian chumu zhujian 郭店楚墓竹簡, Beijing: Wenwu, 1998, page 1) 100 Figure 3.3 Two pages from the Correct Meaning of the Mao Songs (Maoshi zhengyi毛詩正義, Sibu beiyao四部備要 edition; reprint, Taipei: Zhonghua shuju, 1965) 103 Figure 4.1 The “binding” of a Tibetan pecha. Photograph by Dr. Teming Tseng and Dr. Bsod nams dbang rgyal, New Taipei City, Taiwan 117