Introduction: Manuscript Albums as Touchstones for Manuscript Studies

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Introduction: Manuscript Albums as Touchstones for Manuscript Studies 1
4. Album Amicorum, Commonplace Book, and Lute Book 35
5. Caspar von Abschatz’s Album Amicorum: Collecting (in) the Ottoman World 63
6. Cruel Conquerors and a Solomonic Saint: European Collectors’ Interests in Indian Muraqqaʿs 125
7. Bugs in Books 167
8. Albums as Monuments: On the Production and Use of Public Albums in Nineteenth-century Germany 189
9. Nineteenth-century Musik-Stammbücher: Variety of Material and Contexts of Use 249
10. Contributors 277
11. Index of manuscripts 279