Left: Or. 8210/S. 6983, a Chinese manuscript booklet of chapter 25 of the Lotus Sutra, held in the British Library.
Right: Pelliot chinois 4513, this handscroll divides text and picture into lower and upper registers, a format that would become standard in Chinese printed books, held in the Bibliothèque nationale de France.
(Source: Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts. Buddha’s Light Publications, 2016, p. 593.)