Traditional bookbindings from Indonesia; Materials and decorations
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2917040 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Marije Plomp (0000-0002-5637-4306, Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1993 |
| Volume | 149 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 571-592 |
| Publication date | 1993-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Bijdragen tot de taal- land- en volkenkunde / Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences of Southeast Asia (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0006-2294 • E-ISSN: 2213-4379 |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1163/22134379-90003121 |
| OpenAlex | W2086685502 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 2 |
L Introduction The frequent occurrence in Malay manuscripts of soiled outer pages of quires, as well as notes on endleaves stating the total number of quires, suggests the possibility that Malay manuscripts were originally neither bound nor provided with a protective binding. Most of the Malay manu scripts available to us in libraries were bound in western style at the time they entered the manuscript collection. However, Haji Wan Ali Haji Wan Mamat in his MA thesis mentions some manuscripts in collections in Eng land and Germany which are provided with traditional, indigenous bind ings. These bindings are made of coloured or uncoloured leather and are decorated with blind stamping and tooling and in some cases with gilding. Most of them have an envelope flap attached to the lower cover of the bind ing (Haji Wan Ali Haji Wan Mamat 1987:63-66). Except for the section on bindings in Haji Wan Ali Haji Wan Mamat's thesis and two illustrations of similar bindings (Gratzl 1924:34; Gallop and Arps 1991: 100), to date no scholarly attention has been paid to the subject. In this paper I take a closer look at traditional bookbindings from Indo nesia. I describe their peculiarities and similarities in order to identify their general characteristics and, at the same time, inventory the differences in styles of decoration. To find terms suitable for describing Indonesian bindings, I turned to lit erature on bookbindings originating in other parts of the Islamic world, as these bindings resemble Indonesian bindings in several formal aspects. For the sake of clarity I give the terms used in this paper to describe the bind ings and their decorations in two diagrams (see Figs. 1 and 2). This article is mainly based on my examination of traditional Indonesian bindings in two manuscript collections in Leiden, the collection belonging
Art · Colophon · Indigenous · Indonesian · Linguistics · Malay · Section (typography · Style (visual arts · Visual arts · Architecture and Cultural Influences · Asian Studies and History · Classics · Computer Science · History · Philosophy · Semiotics and Cultural Interpretation
| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 0,27 |
| Citation span | 2015 - 2022 (8) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |