Scribal Annotation as Evidence of Learning in Manuscripts from the First Byzantine Humanism: The “Philosophical Collection”

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Table of Contents v
3. Introduction 1
4. Europe
5. Scribal Annotation as Evidence of Learning in Manuscripts from the First Byzantine Humanism: The “Philosophical Collection” 11
6. Orient and Africa
7. Writing, Copying, Translating: Ethiopia as a Manuscript Culture 37
8. Arabic Manuscripts on the Periphery: Northwest Africa, Yemen and China 79
9. Multiglossia in West African Manuscripts: The Case of Borno, Nigeria 113
10. South Asia
11. Indian Manuscripts 159
12. Gandhāran Scrolls: Rediscovering an Ancient Manuscript Type 183
13. A Palaeographic Study of a Buddhist Manuscript from the Gilgit Region 227
14. Central Asia
15. Tibetan manuscripts: Between History and Science 275
16. Towards a Tibetan Palaeography: Developing a Typology of Writing Styles in Early Tibet 299
17. East Asia
18. Punctuation Marks in Medieval Chinese Manuscripts 341
19. The Archive Inside: Manuscripts Found within Chinese Religious Statues 359
20. Index 375