Tracing manuscripts in time and space through paratexts / edited by Giovanni Ciotti and Hang Lin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ciotti, Giovanni

Contributor:

Ciotti, Giovanni, 1982- editor.

Lin, Hang, editor.

Series:

Studies in manuscript cultures ; Volume 7.

Studies in Manuscript Cultures ; Volume 7

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Genette, Gérard, 1930-.

Genette, Gérard.

Space and time in literature.

Space and time.

Space and time--Miscellanea.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (320 pages) : illustrations.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin, [Germany] ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : De Gruyter, 2016.

Language Note:

In English.

Biography/History:

Giovanni Ciotti and Hang Lin, University of Hamburg.

Summary:

As records of the link between a manuscript and the texts it contains, paratexts document many aspects of a manuscript's life: production, transmission, usage, and reception. Comprehensive studies of paratexts are still rare in the field of manuscript studies, and the universal categories of time and space are used to create a common frame for research and comparisons. Contributions in this volume span over three continents and one millennium.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

Exploring Paratexts in Old Mande Manuscripts / Ogorodnikova, Darya

Locating Tai Lü and Tai Khün Manuscripts in Space and Time through Colophons / Techasiriwan, Apiradee

Certain Times in Uncertain Places: A Study on Scribal Colophons of Manuscripts Written in Tamil and Tamilian Grantha Scripts / Ciotti, Giovanni / Franceschini, Marco

Looking Inside the Cover: Reconstructing Space and Time in Some Donglin Manuscripts / Lin, Hang

'Traces in Red': Chinese Book Collectors' Seals as a Means to Track the Transmission History of a Manuscript / Fölster, Max Jakob

'When the living envied the dead': Church Slavonic Paratexts and the Apocalypticx Framework of Monk Isaija's Colophon (1371) / Nikolovska, Kristina

Locating Greek Manuscripts through Paratexts: Examples from the Library of Cardinal Bessarion and other Manuscript Collections / Lorusso, Vito

Travelling Books: Changes of Ownership and Location in Ethiopian Manuscript Culture / Ancel, Stéphane

Index of languages and scripts

Index of personal names

Index of place names

General index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

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Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

3-11-047753-X

3-11-047901-X

OCLC:

956277742