‘One-Volume Libraries’ and the Traditions of Learning in Medieval Arabic Islamic Culture

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1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction – Manuscripts as Evolving Entities 1
4. The Medieval Codex as a Complex Container: The Greek and Latin Traditionsx 27
5. Mravaltavi – A Special Type of Old Georgian Multiple-Text Manuscripts 47
6. From Single-Text to Multiple- Text Manuscripts: Transmission Changes in the Coptic Literary Tradition. Some Case- Studies from the White Monastery Library 93
7. Composite and Multiple-Text Manuscripts: The Ethiopian Evidence 111
8. Some Observations on Composite and Multiple-Text Manuscripts in the Islamic Tradition of the Horn of Africa 155
9. ‘One-Volume Libraries’ and the Traditions of Learning in Medieval Arabic Islamic Culture 171
10. From ‘One-Volume-Libraries’ to Scrapbooks. Ottoman Multiple-Text and Composite Manuscripts in the Early Modern Age (1400–1800) 207
11. Śivadharma Manuscripts from Nepal and the Making of a Śaiva Corpus 233
12. Manuscripts and Practices: Investigating the Tibetan Chan Compendium (P. Tib. 116) 287
13. The Textual Form of Knowledge: Occult Miscellanies in Ancient and Medieval Chinese Manuscripts, 4^th Century BCE to 10^th Century CEx 305
14. Composite Manuscripts in Medieval China: The Case of Scroll P.3720 from Dunhuang 355
15. Index 379