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Plate 14 from Carter 1925
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English: Plate 14 from Carter, Thomas F. (1925). The westward movement of the art of printing PLATE 14. The World's Oldest Book. Found by Sir Aurel Stein in the Cave of the Thousand Buddhas at Tun Huang, and now in the British Museum. The roll is sixteen feet long by one foot wide, made of six sheets of paper pasted together. This illustration represents the end of the roll, with the dated inscription. It reads, Made by Wang Chieh for free distribution in order to do honour to his parents, on the fifteenth day of the fourth month of the period Chien Tung (A.D. 868). |
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| Source | https://archive.org/details/in.gov.ignca.21252 |
| Author | Carter, Thomas Francis (1882-1925) |
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This work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 70 years or fewer. This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published (or registered with the U.S. Copyright Office) before January 1, 1929. |
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