Sentence examples for handmade manuscript from inspiring English sources
After this, printed books began to replace costly handmade manuscript books.
That number is small because printing did not arrive in Afghanistan until 1871, because there was only one press controlled by the government and because under Islam, a handmade manuscript was considered far more valuable than a printed one.
From the 10th through the 15th centuries, handmade manuscript books in Islamic lands also achieved a masterful level of artistic and technical achievement, especially within the tradition of Persian miniature painting.
Each Saturday in July families will put together, paint and fill a different kind of handmade book: a scroll, manuscript or bound volume.
Suffice to say, these items – handmade, deeply political, anti-capitalist – now look about as quaint as illuminated manuscripts and magic lanterns.
Beauty rolls in waves and seethes in eddies throughout the installations of dazzling ceramics, noble architectural fragments and statuary, fabulous carpets, enchanting miniatures from manuscripts and albums, and the extraordinarily varied and elegant calligraphy of handmade Korans, along with choice fabrics, metalwork, jewelry, and weapons.
Like the bookbinding yarn and the handmade paper, these printed motifs are intended to evoke the library's great holdings in autograph manuscripts, musical scores and letters, as well as rare books, and to form, according to the explanatory label, "a visual celebration of paper as the support of creation".
Most pastas are handmade.
