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Manuscript Cultures: Mapping the Field / ed. by Jan-Ulrich Sobisch, Jörg Quenzer, Dmitry Bondarev.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Studies in Manuscript Cultures ; 1Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2014]Copyright date: ©2014Description: 1 online resource (377 p.)Content type:
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  • 9783110225624
  • 9783110384826
  • 9783110225631
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  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
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
Summary: 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.
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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

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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 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.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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