Taxonomies of knowledge : information and order in medieval manuscripts / edited by Emily Steiner and Lynn Ransom.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Steiner, Emily, editor.

Ransom, Lynn, editor.

Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies (University of Pennsylvania)

Conference Name:

Lawrence J. Schoenberg Symposium on Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age (5th : 2012 : Philadelphia, Pa.)

Series:

Lawrence J. Schoenberg studies in manuscript culture ; v. 2.

The Lawrence J. Schoenberg studies in manuscript culture ; volume 2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Manuscripts, Medieval--Congresses.

Manuscripts, Medieval.

Literature, Medieval--Criticism, Textual--Congresses.

Literature, Medieval.

Classification--Philosophy--Congresses.

Classification.

Civilization, Medieval--Congresses.

Civilization, Medieval.

Classification--Philosophy.

Criticism, Textual.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

x, 163 pages : facsimiles (some color) ; 24 cm.

Distribution:

Philadelphia : Distributed by University of Pennsylvania Press.

Place of Publication:

[Philadelphia] : The Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies, University of Pennsylvania Libraries, [2015]

Summary:

While European manuscripts have been the subject of numerous historical, philological, and art historical studies over the past three decades, the study of the material culture of Asian (Buddhist, Hindu, Islamic, Taoist, and the like) manuscript traditions remains a relatively unexplored field. But Asian manuscripts, as the contributors to From Mulberry Leaves to Silk Scrolls demonstrate, contain much more than the semantic meaning of the words they reproduce. The essays collected in this volume look closely at a wide variety of manuscript traditions with a special focus on both their history and the ways they can be studied through digital technology to make the cataloguing, comparative analysis, and aesthetic appreciation of them more accessible to scholars and students. Book jacket.

Contents:

The poems of "Ch" : taxonomizing literary tradition / Elizaveta Strakhov

Worlds in books / Alfred Hiatt

Poetry's place in scholastic taxonomies of knowledge / Mary Franklin-Brown

Manuscripts of Latin translations of scientific texts from Arabic / Charles Burnett

Reading step by step : pictorial allegory and pastoral care in Piers Plowman / Katharine Breen

"Life" lessons in Anna Eybin's Book of Saints (ca. 1465-1482) / Sara S. Poor.

Notes:

Most of the essays were first presented at the Fifth Annual Schoenberg Symposium on Manuscripts in the Digital Age, held at the Free Library of Philadelphia and the University of Pennsylvania on November 16-17, 2012.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

RBC copy: dust jacket retained.

ISBN:

9780812247596

0812247590

OCLC:

910239505