Author Affiliation: Sapienza University of Rome, Italy.
摘要
This essay is not the end result of a research but the starting idea of a project I would like to carry on. To these days we do not have an accurate picture of the printing projects undertaken in the various areas of Tibet since the introduction of the xylographic technique in the country. Tibetan people started to use it widely only after the 14th Century. Important printing projects were undertaken in Tibet starting from the 15th Century, which was a flourishing period for arts and culture. One way to study the history of xylographs in Tibet is by identifying the different schools on the basis of stylistic criteria of the extant printings. The schools may also be recognized with the aid of religious figures, spiritual communities to which the artists belonged, or else sponsors. This project intends to study stylistic typologies and editions of the original xylographs kept in the Tucci Tibetan Collection of the IsIAO Library in Rome. The aim is an attempt to provide some stylistic models to identify the xylographs of the different printeries. Thanks to the heterogeneity as well as the amount of works preserved in the Tucci's Collection, it is possible to trace a detailed -although incomplete - map of the printing houses in the country, thereby becoming aware of the projects, the historical period in which these were undertaken, the political situation in the different areas, the sponsored schools, the works considered as most authoritative at a given time and also the historical, political as well as religious changes over the centuries.
目次
1. Introduction 51 2. The project 53 2.1. Material Analysis 55 2.2. The Style of the Edition 56 2.3. Book cover typology 58 2.4. The study of the colophon 60 3. Concluding remarks 61 Bibliography 62 Primary Sources 62 Secondary Sources 63
