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Record Nr.

UNINA9910668968703321

Titolo

Manuscript cultures : mapping the field / / edited by Jörg B. Quenzer, Dmitry Bondarev, and Jan-Ulrich Sobisch

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin ; ; Boston : , : De Gruyter, , [2014]

©2014

ISBN

3-11-022563-8

3-11-038482-5

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (384 p.)

Collana

Studies in manuscript cultures ; ; volume 1

Classificazione

LC 66000

Disciplina

091

Soggetti

Codicology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Scribal annotation as evidence of learning in manuscripts from the first Byzantine humanism : the "philosophical collection" / Christian Brockmann -- Writing, copying, translating : Ethiopia as a manuscript culture / Alessandro Bausi -- Arabic manuscripts on the periphery : Northwest Africa, Yemen and China / Florian Sobieroj -- Multiglossia in West African manuscripts : the case of Borno, Nigeria / Dmitry Bondarev -- Indian manuscripts / Dominik Wujastyk -- Gandharan scrolls : rediscovering an ancient manuscript type / Stefan Baums -- A palaeographic study of a Buddhist manuscript from the Gilgit region / Gudrun Melzer -- Tibetan manuscripts : between history and science / Agnieszka Helman-Ważny -- Towards a Tibetan palaeography : developing a typology of writing styles in early Tibet / Sam van Schaik -- Punctuation marks in medieval Chinese manuscripts / Imre Galambos -- The archive inside : manuscripts found within Chinese religious statues / James Robson.

Sommario/riassunto

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.