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Korean Treasures: Volume 2 - Rare Books, Manuscripts and Artefacts in the Bodleian Libraries and Museums of Oxford University (Hardcover)
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Korean Treasures: Volume 2 - Rare Books, Manuscripts and Artefacts in the Bodleian Libraries and Museums of Oxford University (Hardcover)
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Many important and valuable rare books, manuscripts and artefacts
related to Korea have been acquired by donations throughout the
long history of the Bodleian Libraries and the museums of the
University of Oxford. However, due to an early lack of specialist
knowledge in this area, many of these Korean items were largely
neglected. Following on from the publication of the first volume of
these forgotten treasures, this book collects together further
important and often unique objects. Notable items include the only
surviving Korean example of an eighteenth-century world map,
hand-drawn, with a set of twelve globe gores on a single sheet;
rare Korean coins and charms including excellent examples of the
1423 Choson t'ongbo ; official correspondence from the archives of
the United Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, shining a
light on the history of Christian missions from the opening of
Korea in the 1880s until after the Korean War; photographs from the
end of the nineteenth century up to the 1960s showing village and
street scenes; a rare silk coat with inner armour plates of
lacquered hide; a massive iron padlock inlaid with silver character
inscriptions, bronze shoes and Nightingale robe; spectacles with
dark crystal lenses and frames of horn; an elaborately decorated
bow, arrows and quiver and many other rare artefacts.
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