Exploring Written Artefacts : Objects, Methods, and Concepts / edited by Jörg B. Quenzer.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Quenzer, Jörg B., editor.

Series:

Studies in manuscript cultures ; Volume 25.

Studies in Manuscript Cultures ; Volume 25

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Codicology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxix, 1180 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Berlin : De Gruyter, [2021]

Summary:

This collection, presented to Michael Friedrich in honour of his academic career at of the Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures, traces key concepts that scholars associated with the Centre have developed and refined for the systematic study of manuscript cultures. At the same time, the contributions showcase the possibilities of expanding the traditional subject of 'manuscripts' to the larger perspective of 'written artefacts'.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Introduction: In Honour of Michael Friedrich

VOLUME I MATTERS OF MATERIALITY

'Paleografia quale scienza dello spirito': Once More on the Gǝʿǝz Inscription of Ham (RIÉ no. 232)

Multiple-Text Inscriptions in the Greco- Roman World

Engrave on the Heart and Wash Away Care

They Wrote on Clay, Wax, and Stone: Some Thoughts on Early Mesopotamian Writing

What about 3D Manuscripts? The Case of the Cuneiform Clay Tablets

How Were Bronze Inscriptions Cast in Ancient China? New Answers to Old Questions

What Inscriptions do not Tell You about Themselves: Chinese Cases

MEASURING, ANALYSING, COMPUTING

A New Standard Protocol for Identification of Writing Media

Mass Spectrometry-Based Proteomics and Metaproteomics Analysis of Ancient Manuscripts

Scientific Analysis of Leonardo's Manuscript with Anatomic Drawings and Notes

Inscribed Gems: Material Profiling beyond Visible Examination

Humanities-Centred Artificial Intelligence (CHAI) as an Emerging Paradigm

How Can Research on Written Artefacts Benefit from Collaboration with Computer Science?

CHANGING MEDIA

Notes on the Terminology for Print in Early Sanskrit Printed Books

Media Systems and Genre Conventions in Transition: A German Priamel Booklet from Nuremberg, c. 1490

About a Manuscript on Tea Found in Timbuktu, Mali: Mamma Haidara Collection, MS 125, Tārīkh al-shāy fī 'l-Maghrib

From Mouth to Ear to Hand: Literacy as Recorded Orality in Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century German Courts

REALMS OF CODICOLOGY

The Codex's Contents: Attempt at a Codicological Approach

The Advantages of Comparative Codicology: Further Examples

About a Series of Late Medieval Moroccan Bindings

A Tale of Papermaking along the Silk Road

Cataloguing Arabic Manuscripts for the Project 'Katalogisierung der Orientalischen Handschriften in Deutschland'

REPOSITORIES OF KNOWLEDGE

Unravelling Multiple-Text Manuscripts: Introducing Categories Based on Content, Use, and Production

Chinese Character Variants in Medieval Dictionaries and Manuscripts

The Art of Astrological Computations: Conrad Heingarter and the Manuscript Paris, BnF latin 7295A

Magic in the Hebrew-Manuscript Collection of the Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Hamburg: Observations on Cod. hebr. 252

Notes on a Central Asian Notebook

Creating an Original of a Greek Lexicon in the Middle Ages: Notes on the Manuscript Vaticanus Barberinianus gr. 70 of the Etymologicum Gudianum

VOLUME II PARACONTENT

A Multilayered Greek Manuscript of Learning: Some Glimpses into the Scribal Practices Evident in the Aristotelean Codex Vaticanus graecus 244

From 'Task' to 'Title'? Japanese Linked Poetry and the Fushimono

Hidden Colophons

Sealed Manuscripts in Laos: New Findings from Luang Prabang

Naming the Author: The Taṇṭi Motif in the Margins of the Tamil Poetic Tradition

VISUAL MATTERS

A Typology of West African Ajami Manuscripts: Languages, Layout and Research Perspectives

Forgery and Appreciation of Old Choir Books in Nineteenth-Century Europe

A Lesser-Known Member of Bessarion's Milieu: The Scribe-Bishop Makarios

Enigmatic Calligraphy: Lettering as Visualized Hermeneutic of Sacred Scripture

Sailing-Ships and Character Illustrations in Three Javanese Literary Poetic Manuscripts

Peripatetic Readers and a Dancing Maiden: Marginal Multigraphic Discourse in a Medieval Latin Multiple-Text Manuscript

RETHINKING PHILOLOGY

Textual Criticism and Early Chinese Manuscripts

Notes for an Ontological Approach within Manuscript Studies: Object Oriented Ontology and the Pothi Manuscript Culture

Collation in Early Imperial China: From Administrative Procedure to Philological Tool

Loss and Circumstances: How Early Modern Europe Discovered the 'Material Text'

The Letters of Michael Psellos and their Function in Byzantine Epistolary Culture

Preaching with the Hands: Notes on Cassiodorus' Praise of Handwriting and its Medieval Reception

PERFORMANCE AND RITUAL

Where did the Ngạn People Come From? Ritual Manuscripts among the Ngạn in Northern Vietnam

(Re-)Writing Jazz: The Manuscripts of John Coltrane's A Love Supreme

A Ritual Manual of Healing: The Body-Balance of the Four Elements and the Four Key Factors of Manuscript Production and Usage

The Volvelle and the Lingga: The Use of Two Manuscript Ritual Devices in a Tibetan Exorcism

'Vu et approuvé': Censorship Notes in Hamburg Prompt Books from the French Period

TRANSMISSION IN TIME AND SPACE

The Unusual Story of a Wandering Book and its Physical Metamorphosis

Joint Forces: A Handscroll by Zhao Mengfu and Guan Daosheng

Touched by a Tale of Friendship: An Early Nineteenth-Century Zidishu Manuscript

On Some Manuscripts of Hatifi's Timurnama

Contributors

Indices.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

In two volumes.

Includes bibliographical references and index.