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This book is an amended, updated and expanded edition of the previously published The Mardzong Manuscripts: Preservation, Interpretation and Dating of an Archaeological Find in Mustang, Nepal that was published in 2018 by Eikon Publishing, Poland, in a limited edition.
The Project was funded by The National Science Centre, Poland, in the framework of the program “SONATA BIS 4”. Grant 2014/14/E/HS3/00770 entitled “The manuscripts from the Mardzong Caves in Mustang, Nepal: Interpretation, paper analysis and dating.” Principal Investigator: dr hab. Agnieszka Helman-Ważny.
Cover illustration: The second stage of cleaning and preliminary sorting of the folios before wrapping them in bundles. Photograph by Charles Ramble.
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LC record available at http://lccn.loc.gov/2020040618
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ISSN 1568-6183
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