Material Cultures of Archiving : An Introduction to a Global and Historical Practice.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Friedrich, Markus.

Series:

Studies in Manuscript Cultures Series

Studies in Manuscript Cultures Series ; v.47

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Archives.

Material culture.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (274 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin/Boston : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2025.

Summary:

The history of archiving and record-keeping has recently attracted a lot of attention, however, scholarship on the physical and spatial aspects of that history are still scant.Hence, the volume foregrounds the material aspect of record-keeping and highlights the object-nature of archiving.

Contents:

Intro

Material Cultures of Archiving

Contents

Why Materiality Matters in Archival History: An Introduction

1 Materiality overlooked (no longer)

2 Why materiality matters for archival history

3 Analysing materiality

4 Materiality and globality

5 Studying and presenting a rchival materialities: About this book

Acknowledgements

References

Chapter 1: Archival Artefacts: From Sheets and Files to Digital Documents

1 Introduction: Archives and written records

2 Oral and written archives

3 Archival artefacts

3.1 Walls

3.2 Slabs and pillars

3.3 Tablets, boards and plates

3.3.1 Clay tablets

3.3.2 Wood and wax tablets

3.3.3 Ostraca

3.3.4 Metal plates

3.3.5 Tortoiseshell

3.4 Slips

3.5 Sheets

3.5.1 Papyrus

3.5.2 Parchment and leather

3.5.3 Paper

3.5.4 Bark

3.6 Rolls

3.7 Files

3.8 Codices

3.9 Leporello

3.10 Palm leaves

3.11 Rods

3.12 Knots

3.13 Digital documents

4 Conclusion: From sheets and files to digital documents

Case Study 1.1: Archiving Ancient Papyrus in Modern Times

Case Study 1.2: Material Traces of Piercing and Bundling in the Ḥaram al-Sharīf Corpus

Chapter 2: Books as Archives

1 Introduction

2 Multiple-document and composite-document manuscripts

3 Multiple-document manuscripts

4 Composite-document manuscripts

5 Beyond multiple- and composite-document manuscripts

Case Study 2.1: A Medieval Cartulary: The Codex Eberhardi

Case Study 2.2: The Golden Gospel of Dabra Libānos, at Ham, Eritrea

Chapter 3: Containers: From Wrapped Textiles and Jars to Hard Disks

2 Bindings with threads, wrappings with textiles, reed mats and leather

3 Bags, leather pouches and waterskins

4 Baskets and reed boxes.

5 Jars, other types of vessels and objects

6 Boxes, leather bookcases, cardboard folders

7 Containers for sound, photographic, video and digital data

8 Conclusion

Case Study 3.1: An Archival Backpack from Gotha

Case Study 3.2: Archival Bags in Ethiopia

Case Study 3.3: Leather-laminated Boxes from Ethiopia

Case Study 3.4: An Early Modern Coptic Slipcase from Cairo, Egypt

Case Study 3.5: A Decorated Charter Ark from Xanten, 1460

Chapter 4: Furniture

2 Heaps and piles

3 Interring written artefacts

4 Furniture for storing

4.1 Storing non-flat writings: Pigeonholes

4.2 Shelves

4.3 Cupboards, armoires and closed pieces of furniture

4.4 Archival furniture and the spatialisation of epistemic orders

5 Furniture for using archived writings

6 Creating archival furniture: Production, décor design

7 Industrial furniture for the professionalised archives of the nineteenth, twentieth and twenty-first centuries

Case Study 4.1: Fluchtkisten

Ann-Sophie Hellmich-Schwan

Reference

Case Study 4.2: Shelves and Manuscripts in Tibet

Case Study 4.3: Storing Books (and Potentially Archival Bundles) in Medieval Arabic Societies

Case Study 4.4: Ida Dehmel's Archive Cabinet (Hamburg, 1901)

Case Study 4.5: Working the Archive: An Archival Desk and Many Drawers

Chapter 5: Storage Spaces: Rooms and Buildings

2 A place for eternity? Stability as a condition for the preservation of archives

3 Stone buildings as secure places for archives?

4 Specialised archival buildings: From preservation to communication

5 Looking for more space: Archive building as means of urbanisation policy

6 Archive building as places of memory.

7 Propaganda and symbolic value of archive buildings

Case Study 5.1: Caves as Storage Spaces

Case Study 5.2: Archive Building in Gondar Ethiopia

Case Study 5.3: The Archives Internationales de la Danse in Paris

Case Study 5.4: The ʿĀbdīn Palace Archive in Cairo: Merging Monarchy and Nation

Contributors

General Index.

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ISBN:

3-11-165601-2

9783111656014

OCLC:

1559561179