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Exploring Written Artefacts

Objects, Methods, and Concepts

Edited by: Jörg B. Quenzer

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2021

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Volume 25 | Studies in Manuscript Cultures

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This collection, presented to Michael Friedrich in honour of his academic career at of the Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures, traces key concepts that scholars associated with the Centre have developed and refined for the systematic study of manuscript cultures. At the same time, the contributions showcase the possibilities of expanding the traditional subject of ‘manuscripts’ to the larger perspective of ‘written artefacts’.

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Jörg B. Quenzer, University of Hamburg, Germany.

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Literary Studies Literary Studies, general

Frontmatter Open Access Download PDF	I
Contents Open Access Download PDF	V
Introduction: In Honour of Michael Friedrich Jörg B. Quenzer Open Access Download PDF	XIII
Volume I
Matters of Materiality
‘Paleografia quale scienza dello spirito’: Once More on the Gǝʿǝz Inscription of Ham (RIÉ no. 232) Alessandro Bausi Open Access Download PDF	3
Multiple-Text Inscriptions in the Greco- Roman World Kaja Harter-Uibopuu Open Access Download PDF	35
Engrave on the Heart and Wash Away Care Lothar Ledderose Open Access Download PDF	53
They Wrote on Clay, Wax, and Stone: Some Thoughts on Early Mesopotamian Writing Piotr Michalowski Open Access Download PDF	67
What about 3D Manuscripts? The Case of the Cuneiform Clay Tablets Cécile Michel Open Access Download PDF	89
How Were Bronze Inscriptions Cast in Ancient China? New Answers to Old Questions Ondřej Škrabal Open Access Download PDF	115
What Inscriptions do not Tell You about Themselves: Chinese Cases Barend J. ter Haar Open Access Download PDF	139
Measuring, Analysing, Computing
A New Standard Protocol for Identification of Writing Media Claudia Colini, Ivan Shevchuk, Kyle Ann Huskin, Ira Rabin and Oliver Hahn Open Access Download PDF	161
Mass Spectrometry-Based Proteomics and Metaproteomics Analysis of Ancient Manuscripts Marina Creydt and Markus Fischer Open Access Download PDF	183
Scientific Analysis of Leonardo’s Manuscript with Anatomic Drawings and Notes Oliver Hahn, Uwe Golle, Carsten Wintermann and Domenico Laurenza Open Access Download PDF	213
Inscribed Gems: Material Profiling beyond Visible Examination Boriana Mihailova, Jochen Schlüter and Kaja Harter-Uibopuu Open Access Download PDF	229
Humanities-Centred Artificial Intelligence (CHAI) as an Emerging Paradigm Ralf Möller Open Access Download PDF	245
How Can Research on Written Artefacts Benefit from Collaboration with Computer Science? Stefan Thiemann Open Access Download PDF	267
Changing Media
Notes on the Terminology for Print in Early Sanskrit Printed Books Camillo A. Formigatti Open Access Download PDF	281
Media Systems and Genre Conventions in Transition: A German Priamel Booklet from Nuremberg, c. 1490 Marco Heiles Open Access Download PDF	307
About a Manuscript on Tea Found in Timbuktu, Mali: Mamma Haidara Collection, MS 125, Tārīkh al-shāy fī ’l-Maghrib Shamil Jeppie Open Access Download PDF	333
From Mouth to Ear to Hand: Literacy as Recorded Orality in Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century German Courts Sabine Kienitz Open Access Download PDF	345
Realms of Codicology
The Codex’s Contents: Attempt at a Codicological Approach Patrick Andrist and Marilena Maniaci Open Access Download PDF	369
The Advantages of Comparative Codicology: Further Examples Malachi Beit-Arié Open Access Download PDF	395
About a Series of Late Medieval Moroccan Bindings Nuria de Castilla and François Déroche Open Access Download PDF	405
A Tale of Papermaking along the Silk Road Agnieszka Helman-Ważny Open Access Download PDF	423
Cataloguing Arabic Manuscripts for the Project ‘Katalogisierung der Orientalischen Handschriften in Deutschland’ Tilman Seidensticker Open Access Download PDF	441
Repositories of Knowledge
Unravelling Multiple-Text Manuscripts: Introducing Categories Based on Content, Use, and Production Antonella Brita and Janina Karolewski Open Access Download PDF	459
Chinese Character Variants in Medieval Dictionaries and Manuscripts Imre Galambos Open Access Download PDF	491
The Art of Astrological Computations: Conrad Heingarter and the Manuscript Paris, BnF latin 7295A Matthieu Husson Open Access Download PDF	513
Magic in the Hebrew-Manuscript Collection of the Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Hamburg: Observations on Cod. hebr. 252 Michael Kohs and Giuseppe Veltri Open Access Download PDF	533
Notes on a Central Asian Notebook Jürgen Paul Open Access Download PDF	563
Creating an Original of a Greek Lexicon in the Middle Ages: Notes on the Manuscript Vaticanus Barberinianus gr. 70 of the Etymologicum Gudianum Stefano Valente Open Access Download PDF	583
Volume II
Paracontent
A Multilayered Greek Manuscript of Learning: Some Glimpses into the Scribal Practices Evident in the Aristotelean Codex Vaticanus graecus 244 Christian Brockmann Open Access Download PDF	603
From ‘Task’ to ‘Title’? Japanese Linked Poetry and the Fushimono Heidi Buck-Albulet Open Access Download PDF	623
Hidden Colophons Jost Gippert Open Access Download PDF	647
Sealed Manuscripts in Laos: New Findings from Luang Prabang Volker Grabowsky Open Access Download PDF	667
Naming the Author: The Taṇṭi Motif in the Margins of the Tamil Poetic Tradition Eva Wilden Open Access Download PDF	689
Visual Matters
A Typology of West African Ajami Manuscripts: Languages, Layout and Research Perspectives Dmitry Bondarev Open Access Download PDF	707
Forgery and Appreciation of Old Choir Books in Nineteenth-Century Europe Andreas Janke Open Access Download PDF	729
A Lesser-Known Member of Bessarion’s Milieu: The Scribe-Bishop Makarios Luigi Orlandi Open Access Download PDF	753
Enigmatic Calligraphy: Lettering as Visualized Hermeneutic of Sacred Scripture Bruno Reudenbach Open Access Download PDF	773
Sailing-Ships and Character Illustrations in Three Javanese Literary Poetic Manuscripts Dick van der Meij Open Access Download PDF	795
Peripatetic Readers and a Dancing Maiden: Marginal Multigraphic Discourse in a Medieval Latin Multiple-Text Manuscript Hanna Wimmer Open Access Download PDF	821
Rethinking Philology
Textual Criticism and Early Chinese Manuscripts William G. Boltz Open Access Download PDF	845
Notes for an Ontological Approach within Manuscript Studies: Object Oriented Ontology and the Pothi Manuscript Culture Giovanni Ciotti Open Access Download PDF	865
Collation in Early Imperial China: From Administrative Procedure to Philological Tool Max Jakob Fölster and Thies Staack Open Access Download PDF	889
Loss and Circumstances: How Early Modern Europe Discovered the ‘Material Text’ Markus Friedrich Open Access Download PDF	913
The Letters of Michael Psellos and their Function in Byzantine Epistolary Culture Michael Grünbart Open Access Download PDF	933
Preaching with the Hands: Notes on Cassiodorus’ Praise of Handwriting and its Medieval Reception Felix Heinzer Open Access Download PDF	947
Performance and Ritual
Where did the Ngạn People Come From? Ritual Manuscripts among the Ngạn in Northern Vietnam David Holm Open Access Download PDF	967
(Re-)Writing Jazz: The Manuscripts of John Coltrane’s A Love Supreme Oliver Huck Open Access Download PDF	989
A Ritual Manual of Healing: The Body-Balance of the Four Elements and the Four Key Factors of Manuscript Production and Usage Silpsupa Jaengsawang Open Access Download PDF	1005
The Volvelle and the Lingga: The Use of Two Manuscript Ritual Devices in a Tibetan Exorcism Charles Ramble Open Access Download PDF	1025
‘Vu et approuvé’: Censorship Notes in Hamburg Prompt Books from the French Period Martin Jörg Schäfer Open Access Download PDF	1043
Transmission in Time and Space
The Unusual Story of a Wandering Book and its Physical Metamorphosis Paola Buzi Open Access Download PDF	1063
Joint Forces: A Handscroll by Zhao Mengfu and Guan Daosheng Uta Lauer Open Access Download PDF	1077
Touched by a Tale of Friendship: An Early Nineteenth-Century Zidishu Manuscript Zhenzhen Lu Open Access Download PDF	1099
On Some Manuscripts of Hatifi’s Timurnama Charles Melville Open Access Download PDF	1123
Contributors Open Access Download PDF	1147
Indices Open Access Download PDF	1155

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October 25, 2021

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9783110753301

Hardcover published on:

October 25, 2021

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9783110745450

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2 Volumes

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42

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1180

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60

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120

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110753301

eBook ISBN: 9783110753301

Hardcover ISBN: 9783110745450

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Manuscript studies; paleography; artefacts; objects

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Historians, resarchers of manuscript studies, manuscript librarians

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