(CN) 高王觀世音經

Title: (CN) 高王觀世音經; (Chinese Translitteration) Gaowang Guanshiyin jing; (EN) The Avalokiteśvara Sutra of The High King (Guanyin)
Subject: Buddhist text
Abstract: A popular devotional sutra dedicated to Guanyin, intended for recitation and spiritual protection, and closely associated with everyday religious practice. A final note records that multiple copies of the text (one hundred in total) were printed and distributed as donations.
Publisher: Baowentang 宝文堂, Tianjin
Date: s.d. [probably late Qing to early Republican period]
Type: Book; Download the full book
Format: Printed text, 22 pages
Identifier: RARI.I.VII.22
Language: Chinese
Rights: Public domain
Provenance: Handwritten note: “Gift of Clemente Biasi”; the text probably entered the collections of the University Library of Genoa at the end of the nineteenth century. On the first page appears the title “Prayer to the Virgin Mary” (later crossed out).
Description: (Physical description) The book was rebound in the 1970s by the Legatoria Artistica, a bindery and restoration workshop founded in 1902 by Gozzi Cav. Uff. Rolando Modena (its stamp appears on the cover). The volume shows signs of restoration.

(Size) 18 × 12.1 ; 0.6 (cm, height x width, thickness)
Rights Holder: Biblioteca Universitaria di Genova
Author of the Catalogation: Arianna Magnani