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Description: | Pear wood printing block, carved on both sides with 23 columns of characters in a regular script. The inscription is of pages 9 and 10 from volume 55 of the "Collected Works of Su Weigong" by Su Song (1020 - 1101 CE), a scholar in both astronomy and medicine. There is a small replacement inserted where a mistake occurred during cutting. | Subjects: | printing and printmaking equipment image-making equipment woodblock printing blocks printing surfaces | Source: | Vads | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=137... | Go to resource |
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