Asian Art

Folding book manuscript

Folding book manuscripts are a category of manuscript in the leporello format, a long strip folded back and forth upon itself. Often contextualized as a compromise between the scroll and a bound codex, the folding-book manuscript developed independently in various regions and times across the world, but largely saw major use in Pacific Asia and Mesoamerica.

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• ▸Depictions of nudity
• ▸Anglo-Persian capture of Hormuz
• ▸Japanese coup d'état in French Indochina

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