TY - BOOK AU - Baums,Stefan AU - Bausi,Alessandro AU - Bondarev,Dmitry AU - Brockmann,Christian AU - Galambos,Imre AU - Helman-Ważny,Agnieszka AU - Melzer,Gudrun AU - Quenzer,Jörg AU - Quenzer,Jörg B. AU - Robson,James AU - Schaik,Sam van AU - Sobieroj,Florian AU - Sobisch,Jan-Ulrich AU - Wujastyk,Dominik TI - Manuscript Cultures: Mapping the Field T2 - Studies in Manuscript Cultures , SN - 9783110225624 PY - 2014///] CY - Berlin, Boston : PB - De Gruyter, KW - History KW - Editionswissenschaft KW - Handschriften KW - Kulturwissenschaft KW - Philologie KW - PHILOSOPHY / Eastern / General KW - bisacsh KW - Cultural Studies KW - Manuscripts KW - Philology N1 - Frontmatter --; Table of Contents --; Introduction --; Europe --; Scribal Annotation as Evidence of Learning in Manuscripts from the First Byzantine Humanism: The “Philosophical Collection” --; Orient and Africa --; Writing, Copying, Translating: Ethiopia as a Manuscript Culture --; Arabic Manuscripts on the Periphery: Northwest Africa, Yemen and China --; Multiglossia in West African Manuscripts: The Case of Borno, Nigeria --; South Asia --; Indian Manuscripts --; Gandhāran Scrolls: Rediscovering an Ancient Manuscript Type --; A Palaeographic Study of a Buddhist Manuscript from the Gilgit Region --; Central Asia --; Tibetan manuscripts: Between History and Science --; Towards a Tibetan Palaeography: Developing a Typology of Writing Styles in Early Tibet --; East Asia --; Punctuation Marks in Medieval Chinese Manuscripts --; The Archive Inside: Manuscripts Found within Chinese Religious Statues --; Index; restricted access; Issued also in print N2 - 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 UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110225631 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783110225631 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9783110225631/original ER -