Bible as Notepad : Tracing Annotations and Annotation Practices in Late Antique and Medieval Biblical Manuscripts / Liv Ingeborg Lied, Marilena Maniaci.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lied, Liv Ingeborg, editor.

Maniaci, Marilena, editor.

Series:

Manuscripta Biblica ; Volume 3.

Manuscripta Biblica ; 3

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Manuscripts, Medieval.

Bible--Manuscripts.

Bible.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (168 pages).

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

The present volume provides a comparative look at the contents and layout features of secondary annotations in biblical manuscripts across linguistic traditions. Due to the privileged focus on the text in the columns, these annotations and the practices that produced them have not received the scholarly attention they deserve. The vast richness of extant verbal and figurative notes accompanying the biblical texts in the intercolumns and margins of the manuscript pages have thus been largely overlooked. The case studies gathered in this volume explore Jewish and Christian biblical manuscripts through the lens of their annotations, addressing the various relationships between the primary layer of text and the secondary notes, and exploring the roles and functions of annotated manuscripts as cultural artifacts. By approaching biblical manuscripts as potential "notepads", the volume offers theoretical reflection and empirical analyses of the ways in which secondary notes may shed new light on the development and transmission of text traditions, the shifting engagement with biblical manuscripts over time, as well as the change of use and interpretation that may result from the addition of the notes themselves.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Preface and acknowledgements

Contents

List of contributors

Bible as notepad: Exploring annotations and annotation practices in biblical manuscripts / Lied, Liv Ingeborg

In the margins of the Dead Sea Scrolls / Falk, Daniel K.

Margins as media: The long insertion in 4QJera (4Q70) / Davis, Kipp

Additional notes in Christian Egyptian biblical manuscripts (fourth-eleventh centuries): Brief remarks / Buzi, Paola

Divining gospel: Classifying manuscripts of John used in sortilege / Childers, Jeff W.

Written evidence in the Italian Giant Bibles: Around and beyond the sacred text / Maniaci, Marilena

Giannozzo Manetti's handwritten notes in his Hebrew Bibles / Pasternak, Nurit

Notes and colophons of scribes and readers in Georgian biblical manuscripts from Saint Catherine's Monastery (Sinai) / Bremer-McCollum, Adam Carter

EMML 8400 and notes on the reading of Hēnok in Ethiopia / Stuckenbruck, Loren T. / Erho, Ted M.

Toward a definition of paratexts and paratextuality: The case of ancient Greek manuscripts / Andrist, Patrick

List of quoted manuscripts

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Sep 2018)

ISBN:

9783110602708

3110602709

9783110603477

3110603470

OCLC:

1040244747