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Manuscripts and Travellers
The Sino-Tibetan Documents of a Tenth-Century Buddhist Pilgrim
Av Sam van Schaik, Imre Galambos
Inbunden, 2011
2394 kr
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This study is based on a manuscript which was carried by a Chinese monk through the monasteries of the Hexi corridor, as part of his pilgrimage from Wutaishan to India. The manuscript has been created as a composite object from three separate documents, with Chinese and Tibetan texts on them. …
Manuscript Cultures: Mapping the Field
Av Jorg B. Quenzer, Dmitry Bondarev m. fl.
Inbunden, 2014
2096 kr
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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 …
Manuscript, Print and Memory
Relics of the Cankam in Tamilnadu
Inbunden, 2014
1963 kr
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The ancient Tamil poetic corpus of the Caṅam ("The Academy") is a national treasure for Tamilians and a battle-ground for linguists and historians of politics, culture and literature. Going back to oral predecessors probably dating back to the beginning of the first millennium, it has had an …
Translating Chinese Tradition and Teaching Tangut Culture
Manuscripts and Printed Books from Khara-Khoto
Inbunden, 2015
2149 kr
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This book is about Tangut translations of Chinese literary texts. Although most of the extant Tangut material comprises Buddhist texts, there are also many non-religious texts, which are mostly translations from Chinese. The central concern is how the Tanguts appropriated Chinese written culture …
Writing System of Scribe Zhou
Evidence from Late Pre-imperial Chinese Manuscripts and Inscriptions (5th-3rd Centuries BCE)
Av Haeree Park
Inbunden, 2016
2103 kr
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This book investigates the nature of regional variation in the early Chinese writing system through bamboo manuscripts and inscriptions dating from the late pre-imperial China (5th-3rd centuries BCE). Diachronic and synchronic comparisons of graphic details show that none of the well-recognized …
Variance in Arabic Manuscripts
Arabic Didactic Poems from the Eleventh to the Seventeenth Centuries - Analysis of Textual Variance and Its Control in the Manuscripts
Inbunden, 2016
2345 kr
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In Arabic and Islamic studies, the subject of variance in general and that of textual variation in particular has not been investigated exhaustively so far. In the present book the variation in texts of the “closed transmission” will be studied, focusing on a small corpus of didactic and model …
Tracing Manuscripts in Time and Space through Paratexts
Inbunden, 2016
2149 kr
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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 …
Of Gods and Books
Ritual and Knowledge Transmission in the Manuscript Cultures of Premodern India
Inbunden, 2016
1605 kr
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India has been the homeland of diverse manuscript traditions that do not cease to impress scholars for their imposing size and complexity. Nevertheless, many topics concerning the study of Indian manuscript cultures still remain to receive systematic examination. Of Gods and Books pays attention to …
One-Volume Libraries: Composite and Multiple-Text Manuscripts
Av Michael Friedrich, Cosima Schwarke
Inbunden, 2016
2542 kr
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Composite and multiple-text manuscripts are traditionally studied for their individual texts, but recent trends in codicology have paved the way for a more comprehensive approach: Manuscripts are unique artefacts which reveal how they were produced and used as physical objects. While multiple-text …
Manuscripts and Archives
Comparative Views on Record-Keeping
Av Alessandro Bausi, Christian Brockmann m. fl.
Inbunden, 2018
2103 kr
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Archives are considered to be collections of administrative, legal, commercial and other records or the actual place where they are located. They have become ubiquitous in the modern world, but emerged not much later than the invention of writing. Following Foucault, who first used the word archive …
Arts and Crafts of Literacy
Islamic Manuscript Cultures in Sub-Saharan Africa
Av Andrea Brigaglia, Mauro Nobili
Inbunden, 2017
2149 kr
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During the last two decades, the (re-)discovery of thousands of manuscripts in different regions of sub-Saharan Africa has questioned the long-standing approach of Africa as a continent only characterized by orality and legitimately assigned to the continent the status of a civilization of written …
Dividing Texts
Conventions of Visual Text-Organisation in Nepalese and North Indian Manuscripts
Inbunden, 2019
2149 kr
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The number of manuscripts produced in the Indian sub-continent is astounding and is the result of a massive enterprise that was carried out over a vast geographical area and over a vast stretch of time. Focusing mainly on areas of Northern India and Nepal between 800 to 1300 CE and on manuscripts …
Indic Manuscript Cultures through the Ages
Material, Textual, and Historical Investigations
Av Vincenzo Vergiani, Daniele Cuneo m. fl.
Inbunden, 2017
2871 kr
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This collection of essays explores the history of the book in pre-modern South Asia looking at the production, circulation, fruition and preservation of manuscripts in different areas and across time. Edited by the team of the Cambridge-based Sanskrit Manuscripts Project and including contributions …
Jewish Manuscript Cultures
New Perspectives
Inbunden, 2017
2141 kr
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Hebrew manuscripts are considered to be invaluable documents and artefacts of Jewish culture and history. Research on Hebrew manuscript culture is progressing rapidly and therefore its topics, methods and questions need to be enunciated and reflected upon. The case studies assembled in this volume …
Studies on Greek and Coptic Majuscule Scripts and Books
Inbunden, 2018
1610 kr
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The volume contains a critical review of data, results and open problems concerning the principal Greek and Coptic majuscule bookhands, based on previous research of the author, revised and updated to offer an overview of the different graphic phenomena. Although the various chapters address the …
Canones: The Art of Harmony
The Canon Tables of the Four Gospels
Av Alessandro Bausi, Bruno Reudenbach m. fl.
Inbunden, 2020
1908 kr
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The so-called ‘Canon Tables’ of the Christian Gospels are an absolutely remarkable feature of the early, late antique, and medieval Christian manuscript cultures of East and West, the invention of which is commonly attributed to Eusebius and dated to first decades of the fourth century AD. Intended …
Creating Standards
Interactions with Arabic script in 12 manuscript cultures
Av Dmitry Bondarev, Alessandro Gori m. fl.
Inbunden, 2019
1712 kr
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Manuscript cultures based on Arabic script feature various tendencies in standardisation of orthography, script types and layout. Unlike previous studies, this book steps outside disciplinary and regional boundaries and provides a typological cross-cultural comparison of standardisation processes …
Short History of Paper in Imperial China
Inbunden, 2024
1922 kr
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Paper has become the most common writing material worldwide in the course of a two millennia history. This study provides a magisterial synthesis of recent scholarship and original insights into the origins of papermaking and its subsequent history in imperial China, including a wide range of …
Trends in Statistical Codicology
Inbunden, 2021
2100 kr
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The application of statistical techniques to the study of manuscript books, based on the analysis of large data sets acquired through the archaeological observation of manuscripts, is one of the most original trends in codicological research, aiming not only to reconstruct on a sound basis the …
Fakes and Forgeries of Written Artefacts from Ancient Mesopotamia to Modern China
Av Cécile Michel, Michael Friedrich
Inbunden, 2020
1908 kr
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Fakes and forgeries are objects of fascination. This volume contains a series of thirteen articles devoted to fakes and forgeries of written artefacts from the beginnings of writing in Mesopotamia to modern China. The studies emphasise the subtle distinctions conveyed by an established vocabulary …
Disiecta Membra Musicae
Studies in Musical Fragmentology
Inbunden, 2020
1612 kr
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Although fragments from music manuscripts have occupied a place of considerable importance since the very early days of modern musicology, a collective, up-to-date, and comprehensive discussion of the various techniques and approaches for their study was lacking. On-line resources have also become …
Dunhuang Manuscript Culture
End of the First Millennium
Inbunden, 2020
1823 kr
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“Dunhuang Manuscript Culture” explores the world of Chinese manuscripts from ninth-tenth century Dunhuang, an oasis city along the network of pre-modern routes known today collectively as the Silk Roads. The manuscripts have been discovered in 1900 in a sealed-off side-chamber of a Buddhist cave …
Education Materialised
Reconstructing Teaching and Learning Contexts through Manuscripts
Av Stefanie Brinkmann, Giovanni Ciotti m. fl.
Inbunden, 2021
1850 kr
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Manuscripts have played a crucial role in the educational practices of virtually all cultures that have a history of using them. As learning and teaching tools, manuscripts become primary witnesses for reconstructing and studying didactic and research activities and methodologies from elementary …
Libraries in the Manuscript Age
Av Nuria de Castilla, François Déroche m. fl.
Inbunden, 2023
1823 kr
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The case studies presented in this volume help illuminate the rationale for the founding of libraries in an age when books were handwritten, thus contributing to the comparative history of libraries. They focus on examples ranging from the seventh to the seventeenth century emanating from the …
Medieval Multilingual Manuscripts
Case Studies from Ireland to Japan
Av Michael Clarke, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh
Inbunden, 2022
1727 kr
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Manuscripts provide rich documentary evidence for understanding the history of cultural life across the breadth of Europe and Asia down through the Middle Ages. Many illustrate engagement between and across languages, in both similar and contrasting ways from east to west. The demarcation of …
Manuscript and Print in the Islamic Tradition
Av Scott Reese
Inbunden, 2022
1641 kr
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This volume explores and calls into question certain commonly held assumptions about writing and technological advancement in the Islamic tradition. In particular, it challenges the idea that mechanical print naturally and inevitably displaces handwritten texts as well as the notion that the …
Bon and Naxi Manuscripts
Av Agnieszka Helman-Ważny, Charles Ramble
Inbunden, 2023
2286 kr
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The present volume offers a dozen studies of manuscripts of the Tibetan Bon and Naxi Dongba traditions across time and space. While some of the contributions focus on particular features of manuscripts from either tradition, others explicitly bridge the two by considering common codicological and …
Syntax of Colophons
A Comparative Study across Pothi Manuscripts
Av Nalini Balbir, Giovanni Ciotti
Inbunden, 2022
1810 kr
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This volume is the first to attempt a comprehensive and cross-disciplinary analysis of the manuscript cultures implementing the pothi manuscript form (a loosely bound stack of oblong folios). It is the indigenous form by which manuscripts have been crafted in South Asia and the cultural areas most …
Personal Manuscripts: Copying, Drafting, Taking Notes
Av David Durand-Guédy, Jürgen Paul
Inbunden, 2023
2178 kr
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Some manuscripts have been produced for the personal use of their scribe only; whereas a number of them are valued as autographs, most have been ephemeral and were discarded. Personal manuscripts were not written for a patron, commissioner, or client. They are personal copies, anthologies, …
Andronikos Kallistos: A Byzantine Scholar and His Manuscripts in Italian Humanism
Inbunden, 2023
2292 kr
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The interest in Andronikos Kallistos, a leading personality among the Greek émigrés who participated in Italian Humanism, arose at the end of the nineteenth century within the frame of the studies on Byzantine scholars of the Renaissance. Researchers have only glimpsed the depth of Kallistos’ …
