Contributors

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Why Materiality Matters in Archival History: An Introduction 1
4. Chapter 1: Archival Artefacts: From Sheets and Files to Digital Documents 19
5. Case Study 1.1: Archiving Ancient Papyrus in Modern Times 66
6. Case Study 1.2: Material Traces of Piercing and Bundling in the Ḥaram al-Sharīf Corpus 68
7. Chapter 2: Books as Archives 71
8. Case Study 2.1: A Medieval Cartulary: The Codex Eberhardi 96
9. Case Study 2.2: The Golden Gospel of Dabra Libānos, at Ham, Eritrea 98
10. Chapter 3: Containers: From Wrapped Textiles and Jars to Hard Disks 101
11. Case Study 3.1: An Archival Backpack from Gotha 142
12. Case Study 3.2: Archival Bags in Ethiopia 144
13. Case Study 3.3: Leather-laminated Boxes from Ethiopia 146
14. Case Study 3.4: An Early Modern Coptic Slipcase from Cairo, Egypt 148
15. Case Study 3.5: A Decorated Charter Ark from Xanten, 1460 150
16. Chapter 4: Furniture 153
17. Case Study 4.1: Fluchtkisten 206
18. Case Study 4.2: Shelves and Manuscripts in Tibet 208
19. Case Study 4.3: Storing Books (and Potentially Archival Bundles) in Medieval Arabic Societies 210
20. Case Study 4.4: Ida Dehmel’s Archive Cabinet (Hamburg, 1901) 212
21. Case Study 4.5: Working the Archive: An Archival Desk and Many Drawers 214
22. Chapter 5: Storage Spaces: Rooms and Buildings 217
23. Case Study 5.1: Caves as Storage Spaces 250
24. Case Study 5.2: Archive Building in Gondar Ethiopia 252
25. Case Study 5.3: The Archives Internationales de la Danse in Paris 254
26. Case Study 5.4: The ʿĀbdīn Palace Archive in Cairo: Merging Monarchy and Nation 256
27. Contributors 259
28. General Index