Looking Inside the Cover: Reconstructing Space and Time in Some Donglin Manuscripts

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Preface VII
4. Exploring Paratexts in Old Mande Manuscripts 1
5. Locating Tai Lü and Tai Khün Manuscripts in Space and Time through Colophons 35
6. Certain Times in Uncertain Places: A Study on Scribal Colophons of Manuscripts Written in Tamil and Tamilian Grantha Scripts 59
7. Looking Inside the Cover: Reconstructing Space and Time in Some Donglin Manuscripts 131
8. ‘Traces in Red’: Chinese Book Collectors’ Seals as a Means to Track the Transmission History of a Manuscript 161
9. ‘When the living envied the dead’: Church Slavonic Paratexts and the Apocalypticx Framework of Monk Isaija’s Colophon (1371) 185
10. Locating Greek Manuscripts through Paratexts: Examples from the Library of Cardinal Bessarion and other Manuscript Collections 223
11. Travelling Books: Changes of Ownership and Location in Ethiopian Manuscript Culture 269
12. Index of languages and scripts 301
13. Index of personal names 302
14. Index of place names 305
15. General index 307