Exploring Written Artefacts: Objects, Methods, and Concepts

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Exploring Written Artefacts

Objects, Methods, and Concepts

Edited by: Jörg B. Quenzer

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2021

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Volume 25 | Studies in Manuscript Cultures

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This collection, presented to Michael Friedrich in honour of his academic career at of the Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures, traces key concepts that scholars associated with the Centre have developed and refined for the systematic study of manuscript cultures. At the same time, the contributions showcase the possibilities of expanding the traditional subject of ‘manuscripts’ to the larger perspective of ‘written artefacts’.

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Jörg B. Quenzer, University of Hamburg, Germany.

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Literary Studies Literary Studies, general

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Introduction: In Honour of Michael Friedrich
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Jörg B. Quenzer

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Volume I
Matters of Materiality
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‘Paleografia quale scienza dello spirito’: Once More on the Gǝʿǝz Inscription of Ham (RIÉ no. 232)
3
Alessandro Bausi

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Multiple-Text Inscriptions in the Greco- Roman World
35
Kaja Harter-Uibopuu

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Engrave on the Heart and Wash Away Care
53
Lothar Ledderose

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They Wrote on Clay, Wax, and Stone: Some Thoughts on Early Mesopotamian Writing
67
Piotr Michalowski

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What about 3D Manuscripts? The Case of the Cuneiform Clay Tablets
89
Cécile Michel

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How Were Bronze Inscriptions Cast in Ancient China? New Answers to Old Questions
115
Ondřej Škrabal

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What Inscriptions do not Tell You about Themselves: Chinese Cases
139
Barend J. ter Haar

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Measuring, Analysing, Computing
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A New Standard Protocol for Identification of Writing Media
161
Claudia Colini, Ivan Shevchuk, Kyle Ann Huskin, Ira Rabin and Oliver Hahn

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Mass Spectrometry-Based Proteomics and Metaproteomics Analysis of Ancient Manuscripts
183
Marina Creydt and Markus Fischer

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Scientific Analysis of Leonardo’s Manuscript with Anatomic Drawings and Notes
213
Oliver Hahn, Uwe Golle, Carsten Wintermann and Domenico Laurenza

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Inscribed Gems: Material Profiling beyond Visible Examination
229
Boriana Mihailova, Jochen Schlüter and Kaja Harter-Uibopuu

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Humanities-Centred Artificial Intelligence (CHAI) as an Emerging Paradigm
245
Ralf Möller

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How Can Research on Written Artefacts Benefit from Collaboration with Computer Science?
267
Stefan Thiemann

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Changing Media
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Notes on the Terminology for Print in Early Sanskrit Printed Books
281
Camillo A. Formigatti

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Media Systems and Genre Conventions in Transition: A German Priamel Booklet from Nuremberg, c. 1490
307
Marco Heiles

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About a Manuscript on Tea Found in Timbuktu, Mali: Mamma Haidara Collection, MS 125, Tārīkh al-shāy fī ’l-Maghrib
333
Shamil Jeppie

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From Mouth to Ear to Hand: Literacy as Recorded Orality in Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century German Courts
345
Sabine Kienitz

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Realms of Codicology
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The Codex’s Contents: Attempt at a Codicological Approach
369
Patrick Andrist and Marilena Maniaci

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The Advantages of Comparative Codicology: Further Examples
395
Malachi Beit-Arié

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About a Series of Late Medieval Moroccan Bindings
405
Nuria de Castilla and François Déroche

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A Tale of Papermaking along the Silk Road
423
Agnieszka Helman-Ważny

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Cataloguing Arabic Manuscripts for the Project ‘Katalogisierung der Orientalischen Handschriften in Deutschland’
441
Tilman Seidensticker

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Repositories of Knowledge
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Unravelling Multiple-Text Manuscripts: Introducing Categories Based on Content, Use, and Production
459
Antonella Brita and Janina Karolewski

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Chinese Character Variants in Medieval Dictionaries and Manuscripts
491
Imre Galambos

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The Art of Astrological Computations: Conrad Heingarter and the Manuscript Paris, BnF latin 7295A
513
Matthieu Husson

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Magic in the Hebrew-Manuscript Collection of the Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Hamburg: Observations on Cod. hebr. 252
533
Michael Kohs and Giuseppe Veltri

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Notes on a Central Asian Notebook
563
Jürgen Paul

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Creating an Original of a Greek Lexicon in the Middle Ages: Notes on the Manuscript Vaticanus Barberinianus gr. 70 of the Etymologicum Gudianum
583
Stefano Valente

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Paracontent
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A Multilayered Greek Manuscript of Learning: Some Glimpses into the Scribal Practices Evident in the Aristotelean Codex Vaticanus graecus 244
603
Christian Brockmann

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From ‘Task’ to ‘Title’? Japanese Linked Poetry and the Fushimono
623
Heidi Buck-Albulet

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Hidden Colophons
647
Jost Gippert

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Sealed Manuscripts in Laos: New Findings from Luang Prabang
667
Volker Grabowsky

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Naming the Author: The Taṇṭi Motif in the Margins of the Tamil Poetic Tradition
689
Eva Wilden

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Visual Matters
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A Typology of West African Ajami Manuscripts: Languages, Layout and Research Perspectives
707
Dmitry Bondarev

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Forgery and Appreciation of Old Choir Books in Nineteenth-Century Europe
729
Andreas Janke

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A Lesser-Known Member of Bessarion’s Milieu: The Scribe-Bishop Makarios
753
Luigi Orlandi

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Enigmatic Calligraphy: Lettering as Visualized Hermeneutic of Sacred Scripture
773
Bruno Reudenbach

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Sailing-Ships and Character Illustrations in Three Javanese Literary Poetic Manuscripts
795
Dick van der Meij

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Peripatetic Readers and a Dancing Maiden: Marginal Multigraphic Discourse in a Medieval Latin Multiple-Text Manuscript
821
Hanna Wimmer

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Rethinking Philology
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Textual Criticism and Early Chinese Manuscripts
845
William G. Boltz

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Notes for an Ontological Approach within Manuscript Studies: Object Oriented Ontology and the Pothi Manuscript Culture
865
Giovanni Ciotti

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Collation in Early Imperial China: From Administrative Procedure to Philological Tool
889
Max Jakob Fölster and Thies Staack

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Loss and Circumstances: How Early Modern Europe Discovered the ‘Material Text’
913
Markus Friedrich

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The Letters of Michael Psellos and their Function in Byzantine Epistolary Culture
933
Michael Grünbart

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Preaching with the Hands: Notes on Cassiodorus’ Praise of Handwriting and its Medieval Reception
947
Felix Heinzer

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Performance and Ritual
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Where did the Ngạn People Come From? Ritual Manuscripts among the Ngạn in Northern Vietnam
967
David Holm

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(Re-)Writing Jazz: The Manuscripts of John Coltrane’s A Love Supreme
989
Oliver Huck

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A Ritual Manual of Healing: The Body-Balance of the Four Elements and the Four Key Factors of Manuscript Production and Usage
1005
Silpsupa Jaengsawang

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The Volvelle and the Lingga: The Use of Two Manuscript Ritual Devices in a Tibetan Exorcism
1025
Charles Ramble

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‘Vu et approuvé’: Censorship Notes in Hamburg Prompt Books from the French Period
1043
Martin Jörg Schäfer

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Transmission in Time and Space
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The Unusual Story of a Wandering Book and its Physical Metamorphosis
1063
Paola Buzi

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Joint Forces: A Handscroll by Zhao Mengfu and Guan Daosheng
1077
Uta Lauer

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Touched by a Tale of Friendship: An Early Nineteenth-Century Zidishu Manuscript
1099
Zhenzhen Lu

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On Some Manuscripts of Hatifi’s Timurnama
1123
Charles Melville

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Contributors
1147

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Indices
1155

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Manuscript studies; paleography; artefacts; objects

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Historians, resarchers of manuscript studies, manuscript librarians

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Exploring Written Artefacts

Overview

About this book

Author / Editor information

Topics

Table of contents

Frontmatter

Contents

Introduction: In Honour of Michael Friedrich

‘Paleografia quale scienza dello spirito’: Once More on the Gǝʿǝz Inscription of Ham (RIÉ no. 232)

Multiple-Text Inscriptions in the Greco- Roman World

Engrave on the Heart and Wash Away Care

They Wrote on Clay, Wax, and Stone: Some Thoughts on Early Mesopotamian Writing

What about 3D Manuscripts? The Case of the Cuneiform Clay Tablets

How Were Bronze Inscriptions Cast in Ancient China? New Answers to Old Questions

What Inscriptions do not Tell You about Themselves: Chinese Cases

A New Standard Protocol for Identification of Writing Media

Mass Spectrometry-Based Proteomics and Metaproteomics Analysis of Ancient Manuscripts

Scientific Analysis of Leonardo’s Manuscript with Anatomic Drawings and Notes

Inscribed Gems: Material Profiling beyond Visible Examination

Humanities-Centred Artificial Intelligence (CHAI) as an Emerging Paradigm

How Can Research on Written Artefacts Benefit from Collaboration with Computer Science?

Notes on the Terminology for Print in Early Sanskrit Printed Books

Media Systems and Genre Conventions in Transition: A German Priamel Booklet from Nuremberg, c. 1490

About a Manuscript on Tea Found in Timbuktu, Mali: Mamma Haidara Collection, MS 125, Tārīkh al-shāy fī ’l-Maghrib

From Mouth to Ear to Hand: Literacy as Recorded Orality in Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century German Courts

The Codex’s Contents: Attempt at a Codicological Approach

The Advantages of Comparative Codicology: Further Examples

About a Series of Late Medieval Moroccan Bindings

A Tale of Papermaking along the Silk Road

Cataloguing Arabic Manuscripts for the Project ‘Katalogisierung der Orientalischen Handschriften in Deutschland’

Unravelling Multiple-Text Manuscripts: Introducing Categories Based on Content, Use, and Production

Chinese Character Variants in Medieval Dictionaries and Manuscripts

The Art of Astrological Computations: Conrad Heingarter and the Manuscript Paris, BnF latin 7295A

Magic in the Hebrew-Manuscript Collection of the Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Hamburg: Observations on Cod. hebr. 252

Notes on a Central Asian Notebook

Creating an Original of a Greek Lexicon in the Middle Ages: Notes on the Manuscript Vaticanus Barberinianus gr. 70 of the Etymologicum Gudianum

A Multilayered Greek Manuscript of Learning: Some Glimpses into the Scribal Practices Evident in the Aristotelean Codex Vaticanus graecus 244

From ‘Task’ to ‘Title’? Japanese Linked Poetry and the Fushimono

Hidden Colophons

Sealed Manuscripts in Laos: New Findings from Luang Prabang

Naming the Author: The Taṇṭi Motif in the Margins of the Tamil Poetic Tradition

A Typology of West African Ajami Manuscripts: Languages, Layout and Research Perspectives

Forgery and Appreciation of Old Choir Books in Nineteenth-Century Europe

A Lesser-Known Member of Bessarion’s Milieu: The Scribe-Bishop Makarios

Enigmatic Calligraphy: Lettering as Visualized Hermeneutic of Sacred Scripture

Sailing-Ships and Character Illustrations in Three Javanese Literary Poetic Manuscripts

Peripatetic Readers and a Dancing Maiden: Marginal Multigraphic Discourse in a Medieval Latin Multiple-Text Manuscript

Textual Criticism and Early Chinese Manuscripts

Notes for an Ontological Approach within Manuscript Studies: Object Oriented Ontology and the Pothi Manuscript Culture

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

Loss and Circumstances: How Early Modern Europe Discovered the ‘Material Text’

The Letters of Michael Psellos and their Function in Byzantine Epistolary Culture

Preaching with the Hands: Notes on Cassiodorus’ Praise of Handwriting and its Medieval Reception

Where did the Ngạn People Come From? Ritual Manuscripts among the Ngạn in Northern Vietnam

(Re-)Writing Jazz: The Manuscripts of John Coltrane’s A Love Supreme

A Ritual Manual of Healing: The Body-Balance of the Four Elements and the Four Key Factors of Manuscript Production and Usage

The Volvelle and the Lingga: The Use of Two Manuscript Ritual Devices in a Tibetan Exorcism

‘Vu et approuvé’: Censorship Notes in Hamburg Prompt Books from the French Period

The Unusual Story of a Wandering Book and its Physical Metamorphosis

Joint Forces: A Handscroll by Zhao Mengfu and Guan Daosheng

Touched by a Tale of Friendship: An Early Nineteenth-Century Zidishu Manuscript

On Some Manuscripts of Hatifi’s Timurnama

Contributors

Indices

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