National Manuscript Centre, Tbilisi, September 2007

(Video uploading having been a failure tonight despite multiple attempts, I'm abandoning it until tomorrow. Sorry.)

More of the Mongolian book, including another page spread and the complete rope-bound manuscript. Date unknown.

National Manuscript Centre, Tbilisi, September 2007

This was from an amazing Mongolian book, rope-bound, handwritten in the vertical script. Date unknown. (In case anyone's wondering, I was keeping a shallow focus in all my photographs at the NMC, not trying to get it all in focus but rather to zero in on something within each image.)