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Record Nr.

UNINA9910160766803321

Titolo

Tracing manuscripts in time and space through paratexts / / edited by Giovanni Ciotti and Hang Lin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin, [Germany] ; ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : , : De Gruyter, , 2016

©2016

ISBN

3-11-047753-X

3-11-047901-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (320 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Studies in Manuscript Cultures ; ; Volume 7

Disciplina

809.93384

Soggetti

Space and time in literature

Space and time

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Exploring Paratexts in Old Mande Manuscripts / Ogorodnikova, Darya -- Locating Tai Lü and Tai Khün Manuscripts in Space and Time through Colophons / Techasiriwan, Apiradee -- Certain Times in Uncertain Places: A Study on Scribal Colophons of Manuscripts Written in Tamil and Tamilian Grantha Scripts / Ciotti, Giovanni / Franceschini, Marco -- Looking Inside the Cover: Reconstructing Space and Time in Some Donglin Manuscripts / Lin, Hang -- 'Traces in Red': Chinese Book Collectors' Seals as a Means to Track the Transmission History of a Manuscript / Fölster, Max Jakob -- 'When the living envied the dead': Church Slavonic Paratexts and the Apocalypticx Framework of Monk Isaija's Colophon (1371) / Nikolovska, Kristina -- Locating Greek Manuscripts through Paratexts: Examples from the Library of Cardinal Bessarion and other Manuscript Collections / Lorusso, Vito -- Travelling Books: Changes of Ownership and Location in Ethiopian Manuscript Culture / Ancel, Stéphane -- Index of languages and scripts -- Index of personal names -- Index of place names -- General index

Sommario/riassunto

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 and space are used to create a common frame for research and comparisons. Contributions in this volume span over three continents and one millennium.