Ohio University, folio-east-07b

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS30475

Shelfmark:

folio-east-07b folio-east-07b-1 folio-east-07b-2

Title:

Foliophiles Eastern leaf 07b-1 & 07b-2: Ise monogatari, Japan, 17th century

Tales of Ise

Place:

Japan

Japan TGN

Date:

n.d.

Language:

Japanese

Japanese WIKIDATA

Material:

Paper (fiber product)

Paper AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 1 leaf; Paper (fiber product); 27.0 cm x 40.0 cm

Note:

Decoration: Calligraphy (Visual Works);
Provenance: This leaf is from a portfolio compiled by The Foliophiles Inc. in 1928 and issued as a limited edition under the title "Specimens of Oriental Mss and Printing."
Provenance: The set of leaves belonging to Ohio University is number 13 of 120.
Provenance: The transcribed labels accompanying these leaves were originally written by The Foliophiles, Inc., a now-defunct New York association of rare book dealers that was also known as the Society of Foliophiles.
Provenance: Between 1925 and 1968 The Foliophiles disbound hundreds of historical texts and assembled them into several thematic portfolio sets.
Provenance: These were then issued in “editions” of between 15 and 200 leaves. Universities across America subsequently purchased these portfolios as teaching tools.
Provenance: While a small number of the selected leaves come from other cultures, the vast majority are from European texts. The collecting and marketing practices of The Foliophiles reflect the values of the members of the association and the contemporary American rare book market.
Provenance: Original descriptions, therefore, may contain outdated language, speculation, or inaccurate information.
The following text is based on the original seller's label. The second example (the larger of the two leaves) is from a 17th Century manuscript copy of the Ise Monogatari, one of the most famous of the Japanese classical romances
This is written in the Oiye or Court script, a cursive hand that flourished throughout the Tokugawa period
The red circles and other marks indicate proper names, quotation marks, &c
Note the evolution of the writing material from the crude grass paper of the Fifteenth Century to the more finished paper of the Seventeenth.
Specimens of Eastern Manuscripts and Printing

Keyword:

narratives (literary works)

Manuscripts

Institutional Record:

http://media.library.ohio.edu/digital/collection/p15808coll19/id/4875

IIIF Manifest:

https://media.library.ohio.edu/iiif/2/p15808coll19:4875/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Ohio University