Religious Miniature Books
Introduction and Overview
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Welsh, Doris V. 1989. A Bibliography of Miniature Books (1470–1965). New York: Kathryn I. Rickard.
Welsh, Doris V. 1987. The History of Miniature Books. New York: Fort Orange.
Yelle, Robert A. 2013. The Language of Disenchantment: Protestant Literalism and Colonial Discourse in British India. Oxford: Oxford University Press
Bondy, Louis W. 1981. Miniature Books: Their History from the Beginnings to the Present Day. London: Sheppard.
Bromer, Anne C. and Julian I. Edison. 2007. Miniature Books: 4,000 Years of Tiny Treasures. New York: Abrams.
Genette, Gerard. 1997. Paratexts: Thresholds of Interpretation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511549373
Henderson, James D. 1933. “A Lilliputian Library.” The American Book Collector IV: 145–150.
Jaffe, Alexandra, Jannis Androutsopoulos, Mark Sebba, and Sally Johnson, eds. 2012. Orthography as Social Action: Script, Spelling, Identity and Power. Boston: De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781614511038
Meyer, Birgit, David Morgan, Crispin Paine, and S. Brent Plate, 2010. “The Origin and Mission of Material Religion.” Religion 40: 207–211. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.religion.2010.01.010
Morgan, David, ed., 2010. Religion and Material Culture: The Matter of Belief. Abingdon: Routledge.
Myrvold, Kristina. 2007. Inside the Guru’s Gate: Ritual Uses of Texts among Sikhs in Varanasi. Lund Studies in African and Asian Religions. Lund: Media-Tryck.
Myrvold, Kristina, ed. 2010. The Death of Sacred Texts: Ritual Disposal and Renovation of Texts in World Religions. Abingdon: Routledge.
Myrvold, Kristina. 2017. “‘Orientalizing’ Bibles in Punjab: Christian Missionaries and Book Printing in Nineteenth Century India.’” In India: Research on Cultural Encounters and Representations at Linnaeus University, edited by Kristina Myrvold and Soniya Billore, 100–130. Göteborg: Makadam.
O’Donnell Georgene. 1943. Miniaturia: The World of Small Things. Chicago: Lightner.
Shaw, Graham. 1994. “Lithography v. letter-press in India” (Part II). South Asia Library Notes & Queries 30: 1-10.
Spielmann, Percy Edwin. 1961. Catalogue of the Library of Miniature Books. London: Edward Arnold.
Stam, Deirdre C. 2010. “Talking about ‘Iconic Books’ in the Terminology of Book History.” Postscripts 6: 23–38.
Stark, Ulrike. 2009. An Empire of Books: The Naval Kishore Press and the Diffusion of the Printed Word in Colonial India. New Delhi: Orient Blackswan.
Veidlinger, Daniel. 2006. “When a Word is Worth a Thousand Pictures: Mahayana Influence on the Theravada Attitudes towards Writing.” Numen 53: 405–447. https://doi.org/10.1163/156852706778942012
Watts, James W. 2006. “The Three Dimensions of Scriptures.” Postscripts 2: 135–159.
Welsh, Doris V. 1989. A Bibliography of Miniature Books (1470–1965). New York: Kathryn I. Rickard.
Welsh, Doris V. 1987. The History of Miniature Books. New York: Fort Orange.
Yelle, Robert A. 2013. The Language of Disenchantment: Protestant Literalism and Colonial Discourse in British India. Oxford: Oxford University Press
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2019-03-26
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Myrvold, K., & Parmenter, D. M. (2019). Religious Miniature Books: Introduction and Overview. Postscripts: The Journal of Sacred Texts, Cultural Histories, and Contemporary Contexts, 9(2-3), 93-103. https://doi.org/10.1558/post.37754
