Manuscript cultures : mapping the field / edited by Jörg B. Quenzer, Dmitry Bondarev, and Jan-Ulrich Sobisch.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Quenzer, Jörg B., editor.

Bondarev, Dmitry, editor.

Sobisch, Jan-Ulrich, editor.

Series:

Studies in manuscript cultures ; v. 1.

Studies in manuscript cultures ; volume 1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Codicology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (384 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2014]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Scribal annotation as evidence of learning in manuscripts from the first Byzantine humanism : the "philosophical collection" / Christian Brockmann

Writing, copying, translating : Ethiopia as a manuscript culture / Alessandro Bausi

Arabic manuscripts on the periphery : Northwest Africa, Yemen and China / Florian Sobieroj

Multiglossia in West African manuscripts : the case of Borno, Nigeria / Dmitry Bondarev

Indian manuscripts / Dominik Wujastyk

Gandharan scrolls : rediscovering an ancient manuscript type / Stefan Baums

A palaeographic study of a Buddhist manuscript from the Gilgit region / Gudrun Melzer

Tibetan manuscripts : between history and science / Agnieszka Helman-Ważny

Towards a Tibetan palaeography : developing a typology of writing styles in early Tibet / Sam van Schaik

Punctuation marks in medieval Chinese manuscripts / Imre Galambos

The archive inside : manuscripts found within Chinese religious statues / James Robson.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9783110225631

3110225638

9783110384826

3110384825

OCLC:

903970481