Object class: Books / Function: 7.1 Writing and Records (including religious texts) - Hearst Museum Portal Search Results

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Hearst Museum object titled Book, accession number 9-20543, described as Blank book with accordian pages, textile cover, loose page

Hearst Museum object titled Book, accession number 9-13028a, no description available.

Hearst Museum object titled Book, accession number 9-12942, described as A manuscript made of rectangular strips of palm ("thali") leaf engraved with a stylus in an archaic Malayazhma script, bound between dark brown jackwood ("Artocarpus integrifolia") strips; pierced and secured by a cord. Native name and meaning: "thali ollai grantham" (palmetto leaf treatise). Width 4.3 cm, length 19 cm.

Hearst Museum object titled Book, accession number NO-TEMP165, no description available.

Hearst Museum object titled Book, accession number 9-4929, described as Set of 19 leaves with incised scriptures ( probably a Buddhist text): comprises 1 bundle of text; each leaf 2x18”; made from leaves of either toddy palm ( Borassus flaaballifer) or corypha palm ( corypha umbroculifera).

Hearst Museum object titled Book, accession number 9-21431, described as Book. Vademecum containing 1) the list of Chinese surnames; 2) the Three-Character Classic; 3) the Thousand-Character Primer, all with homophones under each character; 4) inscriptions for all occasions in couplet form; 5) formulae how to sign letters; 6) samples for contracts; 7) fortune-telling: Kuan-yin’s 32 answers to coin-throwing; 8) how to raise horses, cattle, and chicken; 9) calendar for burials. Running on top: illustrations; Chang T’ien-shih’s (the Taoist pope’s) prescriptions for exorcising sickness. Published by the “Old Two-Yu Hall” Publishers, Peking. no date. 13.3 x 20.3 cm. Paper, stitched.

Hearst Museum object titled Book, accession number 9-10831, described as book in manuscript form, religious; paper, red and black ink, paints, binding material; for religious purposes, prayer?; the paintings are in an Indian style and include the figure of the Lord Krishna in several; several pages are loose

Hearst Museum object titled Book, accession number 1-255364, described as THAT WAS A DREAM WORTH BUILDING 19 colored tipped in plates; dust jacket has illustration in color; written by Louis J. Stellmann with his photos colored by Edith Kinney Stellman. 42 total pages. Souvenir of Panama Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco.

Hearst Museum object titled Book, accession number 9-13029a, no description available.

Hearst Museum object titled Book, accession number 9-82, described as Palm leaf book with wooden covers-finished in red and gold; probably a Buddhist text.