Woodblock Printed Scroll Of Vol 224 Of The Sutra Of Perfection Of Wisdom Or

by Sutra Of Perfection Of Wisdom Kasuga Ban

$8,500 · Offered by Jonathan A. Hill Bookseller

19 joined sheets, mostly 23 columns per sheet, 17 characters per column. Scroll 263 x 8301 mm. & front endpaper 230 mm. , wooden roller. Nara: 12th-14th century . A fine, early printed sutra, which we are unable to date. It is clearly a kasuga-ban, printed on highest-quality thick paper gampi or mulberry fibers , with bold, thick strokes, using black sumi ink, typical of kasuga-ban printings, a term for publications of the Nara monasteries in

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