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Manuscript Treasures from Afro-Eurasia
Scribes, Patrons, Collectors, and Readers
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Edited by:
Jacopo Gnisci
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In collaboration with:
Alessandro Bausi
Language:
English
Published/Copyright:
2025
About this book
Open Access
Throughout the Middle Ages manuscripts were routinely commissioned, copied, illustrated, displayed, read, and transferred across both sides of the Mediterranean. Their significance as vehicles for the transmission of visual and textual knowledge is well known. Less understood, particularly when it comes to non-Latin manuscripts, is the complex web of spiritual, material, intellectual, and emotional interactions that influenced their production and reception. The twelve essays presented here seek to address this gap by exploring the very direct relationships that existed between manuscripts and those individuals or communities that were involved in their making. The volume is broad in scope, covering written artefacts produced between Late Antiquity and the fifteenth century and presenting case studies that range from the British Isles to East Africa and from Spain and the Maghreb to Armenia. The visual and textual evidence preserved in these manuscripts is interpreted by drawing from disciplines such as palaeography, art history, codicology, and textual criticism. The result is a book that details the impact of makers, patrons, collectors, and readers on the making and circulation of manuscripts across Afro-Eurasia.
Author / Editor information
Jacopo Gnisci, UCL, United Kingdom; Sophia Dege-Müller, Jonas Karlsson, Vitagrazia Pisani, Universität Hamburg, Germany.
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Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
eBook published on:
April 21, 2025
eBook ISBN:
9783111636344
Hardcover published on:
April 21, 2025
Hardcover ISBN:
9783111636269
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
Front matter:
6
Main content:
473
Illustrations:
5
Coloured Illustrations:
125
Tables:
3
Coloured Tables:
1
Audience(s) for this book
Historians, Art Historians, Philologists, Scholars of manuscripts
Creative Commons
BY-NC-ND 4.0
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Manufacturer information:
Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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10785 Berlin
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