Manuscript Cultures: Mapping the Field

Published by De Gruyter 2014

Manuscript Cultures: Mapping the Field

Edited by: Jörg Quenzer , Dmitry Bondarev and Jan-Ulrich Sobisch

Volume 1 in the series Studies in Manuscript Cultures

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110225631

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About this book

New series

Script and writing were among the most important inventions in human history, and until the invention of printing, the handwritten book was the primary medium of literary and cultural transmission. Although the study of manuscripts is already quite advanced for many regions of the world, no unified discipline of ‘manuscript studies’ has yet evolved which is capable of treating handwritten books from East Asia, India and the Islamic world equally alongside the European manuscript tradition. This book, which aims to begin the interdisciplinary dialogue needed to arrive at a truly systematic and comparative approach to manuscript cultures worldwide, brings together papers by leading researchers concerned with material, philological and cultural aspects of different manuscript traditions.

First volume of new series Studies in Manuscript Cultures

Interdisciplinary groundwork on the global common cultural heritage

Connected to an international research network

Author / Editor information

Dmitry Bondarev, University of London, GB; Jörg B. Quenzer, University of Hamburg; Jan-Ulrich Sobisch, Copenhagen University, DEN.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Table of Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Introduction Jörg B. Quenzer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Europe
Scribal Annotation as Evidence of Learning in Manuscripts from the First Byzantine Humanism: The “Philosophical Collection” Christian Brockmann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	11
Orient and Africa
Writing, Copying, Translating: Ethiopia as a Manuscript Culture Alessandro Bausi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	37
Arabic Manuscripts on the Periphery: Northwest Africa, Yemen and China Florian Sobieroj Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	79
Multiglossia in West African Manuscripts: The Case of Borno, Nigeria Dmitry Bondarev Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	113
South Asia
Indian Manuscripts Dominik Wujastyk Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	159
Gandhāran Scrolls: Rediscovering an Ancient Manuscript Type Stefan Baums Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	183
A Palaeographic Study of a Buddhist Manuscript from the Gilgit Region A Glimpse into a Scribes’ Workshop Gudrun Melzer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	227
Central Asia
Tibetan manuscripts: Between History and Science Agnieszka Helman-Ważny Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	275
Towards a Tibetan Palaeography: Developing a Typology of Writing Styles in Early Tibet Sam van Schaik Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	299
East Asia
Punctuation Marks in Medieval Chinese Manuscripts Imre Galambos Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	341
The Archive Inside: Manuscripts Found within Chinese Religious Statues James Robson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	359
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	375

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Academics, Institutes, Libraries
Pages
- Front matter: 6
- Main content: 377
Keywords: Cultural Studies; Manuscripts; Philology

eBook

Published: December 12, 2014
ISBN: 9783110225631

Hardcover

Published: October 27, 2014
ISBN: 9783110225624