One-volume libraries : composite and multiple-text manuscripts / edited by Michael Friedrich and Cosima Schwarke.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Friedrich, Michael, Editor.

Contributor:

Friedrich, Michael, 1955- editor.

Schwarke, Cosima, editor.

Series:

Studies in manuscript cultures ; 2365-9696 Volume 9.

Studies in manuscript cultures ; Volume 9

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Manuscripts--History.

Manuscripts.

Transmission of texts--History.

Transmission of texts.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vi, 380 pages) : illustrations.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2016]

Language Note:

In English.

Biography/History:

Michael Friedrich and Cosima Schwarke, University of Hamburg.

Summary:

Composite and multiple-text manuscripts are traditionally studied for their individual texts, but recent trends in codicology have paved the way for a more comprehensive approach: Manuscripts are unique artefacts which reveal how they were produced and used as physical objects. While multiple-text manuscripts codicologically are to be considered as production units, i.e. they were originally planned and realized in order to carry more than one text, composites consist of formerly independent codicological units and were put together at a later stage with intentions that might be completely different from those of its original parts. Both sub-types of manuscripts are still sometimes called "miscellanies", a term relating to the texts only. The codicological difference is important for reconstructing why and how these manuscripts which in many cases resemble (or contain) a small library were produced and used. Contributions on the manuscript cultures of China, India, Africa, the Islamic world and European traditions lead not only to the conclusion that "one-volume libraries" have been produced in many manuscript cultures, but allow also for the identification of certain types of uses.

Contents:

The medieval codex as a complex container : the Greek and Latin traditions / Marilena Maniaci

Mravaltavi : a special type of Old Georgian multiple-text manuscripts / Jost Gippert

From single-text to multiple-text manuscripts : transmission changes in Coptic literary tradition : some case-studies from the White Monastery Library / Paola Buzi

Composite and multiple-text manuscripts : the Ethiopian evidence / Alessandro Bausi

Some observations on composite and multiple-text manuscripts in the Islamic tradition of the horn of Africa / Alessandro Gori

'One-volume libraries' and the traditions of learning in medieval Arabic Islamic culture / Gerhard Endress

From 'one-volume-libraries' to scrapbooks : Ottoman multiple-text and composite manuscripts in the early modern age (1400-1800) / Jan Schmidt

Śivadharma manuscripts from Nepal and the making of a Śaiva corpus / Florinda De Simini

Manuscripts and practices : investigating the Tibetan Chan Compendium (P. Tib. 116) / Sam van Schaik

The textual form of knowledge : occult miscellanies in ancient and medieval Chinese manuscripts, 4th century BCE to 10th century CE / Donald Harper

Composite manuscripts in medieval China : the case of scroll P.3720 from Dunhuang / Imre Galambos.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

3-11-049559-7

3-11-049695-X

OCLC:

963174416