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Material Cultures of Archiving
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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
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111656014-026

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
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