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[Garland Sutra]
An extremely early Chinese block-printed suite of the Garland Sutra, beautifully preserved in the original, museum-quality medieval brocade bindings: an outstanding and near-unique example of Buddhist culture and the Chinese art of silk weaving as well as printing in the earliest decades of the 15th century.
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5 volumes. Woodblock printed on white paper, mounted in continuous accordion folds, 348 x 125 mm. Printed in 5 columns per page, 15 characters per column (woodblock size: ca. 260 x 120 mm). Double-rule borders at top and bottom. With 2 illustrations. Bound in coloured and patterned silk brocade covers, sutra bindings (folded format). Stored in original fitted chitsu case covered in golden brocade, this within a custom black half morocco solander with gilt lettering to spine. Brocade case slightly wormed and some worming to covers, otherwise in immaculate condition.
Provenance: previously in the collection of Cihui Temple; purchased in China in the late 1940’s by the scholar-sage Manly Palmer Hall (1901-90) for the library of the Philosophical Research Society, Los Angeles, dispersed ca. 1996; in the collection of the American Internet pioneer Richard L. Adams (b. 1956) with his book-label on the inside of the chitsu as well as the solander, deaccessioned ca. 2012; Sam Fogg MS 14493.
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