Collation in Early Imperial China: From Administrative Procedure to Philological Tool

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Introduction: In Honour of Michael Friedrich XIII
4. Volume I
5. Matters of Materiality
6. ‘Paleografia quale scienza dello spirito’: Once More on the Gǝʿǝz Inscription of Ham (RIÉ no. 232) 3
7. Multiple-Text Inscriptions in the Greco- Roman World 35
8. Engrave on the Heart and Wash Away Care 53
9. They Wrote on Clay, Wax, and Stone: Some Thoughts on Early Mesopotamian Writing 67
10. What about 3D Manuscripts? The Case of the Cuneiform Clay Tablets 89
11. How Were Bronze Inscriptions Cast in Ancient China? New Answers to Old Questions 115
12. What Inscriptions do not Tell You about Themselves: Chinese Cases 139
13. Measuring, Analysing, Computing
14. A New Standard Protocol for Identification of Writing Media 161
15. Mass Spectrometry-Based Proteomics and Metaproteomics Analysis of Ancient Manuscripts 183
16. Scientific Analysis of Leonardo’s Manuscript with Anatomic Drawings and Notes 213
17. Inscribed Gems: Material Profiling beyond Visible Examination 229
18. Humanities-Centred Artificial Intelligence (CHAI) as an Emerging Paradigm 245
19. How Can Research on Written Artefacts Benefit from Collaboration with Computer Science? 267
20. Changing Media
21. Notes on the Terminology for Print in Early Sanskrit Printed Books 281
22. Media Systems and Genre Conventions in Transition: A German Priamel Booklet from Nuremberg, c. 1490 307
23. About a Manuscript on Tea Found in Timbuktu, Mali: Mamma Haidara Collection, MS 125, Tārīkh al-shāy fī ’l-Maghrib 333
24. From Mouth to Ear to Hand: Literacy as Recorded Orality in Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century German Courts 345
25. Realms of Codicology
26. The Codex’s Contents: Attempt at a Codicological Approach 369
27. The Advantages of Comparative Codicology: Further Examples 395
28. About a Series of Late Medieval Moroccan Bindings 405
29. A Tale of Papermaking along the Silk Road 423
30. Cataloguing Arabic Manuscripts for the Project ‘Katalogisierung der Orientalischen Handschriften in Deutschland’ 441
31. Repositories of Knowledge
32. Unravelling Multiple-Text Manuscripts: Introducing Categories Based on Content, Use, and Production 459
33. Chinese Character Variants in Medieval Dictionaries and Manuscripts 491
34. The Art of Astrological Computations: Conrad Heingarter and the Manuscript Paris, BnF latin 7295A 513
35. Magic in the Hebrew-Manuscript Collection of the Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Hamburg: Observations on Cod. hebr. 252 533
36. Notes on a Central Asian Notebook 563
37. Creating an Original of a Greek Lexicon in the Middle Ages: Notes on the Manuscript Vaticanus Barberinianus gr. 70 of the Etymologicum Gudianum 583
38. Volume II
39. Paracontent
40. A Multilayered Greek Manuscript of Learning: Some Glimpses into the Scribal Practices Evident in the Aristotelean Codex Vaticanus graecus 244 603
41. From ‘Task’ to ‘Title’? Japanese Linked Poetry and the Fushimono 623
42. Hidden Colophons 647
43. Sealed Manuscripts in Laos: New Findings from Luang Prabang 667
44. Naming the Author: The Taṇṭi Motif in the Margins of the Tamil Poetic Tradition 689
45. Visual Matters
46. A Typology of West African Ajami Manuscripts: Languages, Layout and Research Perspectives 707
47. Forgery and Appreciation of Old Choir Books in Nineteenth-Century Europe 729
48. A Lesser-Known Member of Bessarion’s Milieu: The Scribe-Bishop Makarios 753
49. Enigmatic Calligraphy: Lettering as Visualized Hermeneutic of Sacred Scripture 773
50. Sailing-Ships and Character Illustrations in Three Javanese Literary Poetic Manuscripts 795
51. Peripatetic Readers and a Dancing Maiden: Marginal Multigraphic Discourse in a Medieval Latin Multiple-Text Manuscript 821
52. Rethinking Philology
53. Textual Criticism and Early Chinese Manuscripts 845
54. Notes for an Ontological Approach within Manuscript Studies: Object Oriented Ontology and the Pothi Manuscript Culture 865
55. Collation in Early Imperial China: From Administrative Procedure to Philological Tool 889
56. Loss and Circumstances: How Early Modern Europe Discovered the ‘Material Text’ 913
57. The Letters of Michael Psellos and their Function in Byzantine Epistolary Culture 933
58. Preaching with the Hands: Notes on Cassiodorus’ Praise of Handwriting and its Medieval Reception 947
59. Performance and Ritual
60. Where did the Ngạn People Come From? Ritual Manuscripts among the Ngạn in Northern Vietnam 967
61. (Re-)Writing Jazz: The Manuscripts of John Coltrane’s A Love Supreme 989
62. A Ritual Manual of Healing: The Body-Balance of the Four Elements and the Four Key Factors of Manuscript Production and Usage 1005
63. The Volvelle and the Lingga: The Use of Two Manuscript Ritual Devices in a Tibetan Exorcism 1025
64. ‘Vu et approuvé’: Censorship Notes in Hamburg Prompt Books from the French Period 1043
65. Transmission in Time and Space
66. The Unusual Story of a Wandering Book and its Physical Metamorphosis 1063
67. Joint Forces: A Handscroll by Zhao Mengfu and Guan Daosheng 1077
68. Touched by a Tale of Friendship: An Early Nineteenth-Century Zidishu Manuscript 1099
69. On Some Manuscripts of Hatifi’s Timurnama 1123
70. Contributors 1147
71. Indices 1155