Justin Thomas McDaniel is Professor of Buddhist Studies and Chair of Religious Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. Lynn Ransom is Curator at the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies, University of Pennsylvania Libraries.

• Preface-Lynn RansomIntroduction-Justin Thomas McDanielPART I. THE ART OF THE BOOKChapter 1. The Characteristics of Elephants: A Thai Manuscript and Its Context-Hiram WoodwardChapter 2. Representations of Space and Place in a Burmese Cosmology Manuscript at the British Museum-Alexandra GreenChapter 3. Stories Steeped in Gold: Narrative Scenes of the Decorative Kammavaca Manuscripts of Burma-Sinead WardPART II. INSCRIBING RELIGIOUS PRACTICE AND BELIEFChapter 4. Drawn to an "Extremely Loathsome" Place: The Buddha and the Power of the Northern Thai Landscape-Angela S. ChiuChapter 5. Shifting Modes of Religiosity: Remapping Early Chinese Religion in Light of Recently Excavated Manuscripts-Ori TavorChapter 6. Living with Ghosts and Deities in the Qin 秦 State: Methods of Exorcism from "Jie 詰 " in the Shuihudi 睡虎地 Manuscript-Daniel SouPART III. TECHNOLOGIES OF WRITINGChapter 7. Spoken Text and Written Symbol: The Use of Layout and Notation in Sanskrit Scientific Manuscripts-Kim PlofkerChapter 8. Abbreviations in Medieval Astronomical and Astrological Manuscripts Written in Arabic Script-Sergei TourkinChapter 9. Creating a Codicology of Central Asian Manuscripts-Susan WhitfieldChapter 10. Providing Access to Manuscripts in the Digital Age-Peter M. ScharfNotesContributorsIndex

Justin Thomas McDaniel is Professor of Buddhist Studies and Chair of Religious Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. Lynn Ransom is Curator at the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies, University of Pennsylvania Libraries.

• Preface-Lynn RansomIntroduction-Justin Thomas McDanielPART I. THE ART OF THE BOOKChapter 1. The Characteristics of Elephants: A Thai Manuscript and Its Context-Hiram WoodwardChapter 2. Representations of Space and Place in a Burmese Cosmology Manuscript at the British Museum-Alexandra GreenChapter 3. Stories Steeped in Gold: Narrative Scenes of the Decorative Kammavaca Manuscripts of Burma-Sinead WardPART II. INSCRIBING RELIGIOUS PRACTICE AND BELIEFChapter 4. Drawn to an "Extremely Loathsome" Place: The Buddha and the Power of the Northern Thai Landscape-Angela S. ChiuChapter 5. Shifting Modes of Religiosity: Remapping Early Chinese Religion in Light of Recently Excavated Manuscripts-Ori TavorChapter 6. Living with Ghosts and Deities in the Qin 秦 State: Methods of Exorcism from "Jie 詰 " in the Shuihudi 睡虎地 Manuscript-Daniel SouPART III. TECHNOLOGIES OF WRITINGChapter 7. Spoken Text and Written Symbol: The Use of Layout and Notation in Sanskrit Scientific Manuscripts-Kim PlofkerChapter 8. Abbreviations in Medieval Astronomical and Astrological Manuscripts Written in Arabic Script-Sergei TourkinChapter 9. Creating a Codicology of Central Asian Manuscripts-Susan WhitfieldChapter 10. Providing Access to Manuscripts in the Digital Age-Peter M. ScharfNotesContributorsIndex

Justin Thomas McDaniel is Professor of Buddhist Studies and Chair of Religious Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. Lynn Ransom is Curator at the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies, University of Pennsylvania Libraries.

• Preface-Lynn RansomIntroduction-Justin Thomas McDanielPART I. THE ART OF THE BOOKChapter 1. The Characteristics of Elephants: A Thai Manuscript and Its Context-Hiram WoodwardChapter 2. Representations of Space and Place in a Burmese Cosmology Manuscript at the British Museum-Alexandra GreenChapter 3. Stories Steeped in Gold: Narrative Scenes of the Decorative Kammavaca Manuscripts of Burma-Sinead WardPART II. INSCRIBING RELIGIOUS PRACTICE AND BELIEFChapter 4. Drawn to an "Extremely Loathsome" Place: The Buddha and the Power of the Northern Thai Landscape-Angela S. ChiuChapter 5. Shifting Modes of Religiosity: Remapping Early Chinese Religion in Light of Recently Excavated Manuscripts-Ori TavorChapter 6. Living with Ghosts and Deities in the Qin 秦 State: Methods of Exorcism from "Jie 詰 " in the Shuihudi 睡虎地 Manuscript-Daniel SouPART III. TECHNOLOGIES OF WRITINGChapter 7. Spoken Text and Written Symbol: The Use of Layout and Notation in Sanskrit Scientific Manuscripts-Kim PlofkerChapter 8. Abbreviations in Medieval Astronomical and Astrological Manuscripts Written in Arabic Script-Sergei TourkinChapter 9. Creating a Codicology of Central Asian Manuscripts-Susan WhitfieldChapter 10. Providing Access to Manuscripts in the Digital Age-Peter M. ScharfNotesContributorsIndex