Mono- and Multilingual Notes in the Transmission of Medico-religious Knowledge in West Africa

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents v
3. Introduction - Accumulating Notes: Note-taking and Multilayered Written Artefacts 1
4. Planned, Yet Improvised: Shimotsuma Shoshin’s Performance Notes on Late-sixteenth-century Japanese nō Theatre 19
5. Interwoven Thoughts: Exploring Stratigraphy and Transmission in Yi Sangjong’s Taesan Ilgi 47
6. Building a Notebook in Layers and Stages: A Mid-nineteenth-century Manuscript from Khwärazm 73
7. Accumulating Visitors: Examining a Multilingual Private Guestbook from Twentieth-century Jerusalem 97
8. Mono- and Multilingual Notes in the Transmission of Medico-religious Knowledge in West Africa 127
9. Palat. gr. 129: Nikephoros Gregoras’s Notebook 157
10. From Notes to Literary Works: The Accumulative Writing Process of the Ottoman Court Historian Ṣaḥḥāflarşeyḫizāde Esʿad Efendi (1789-1848) 187
11. Angelo Poliziano’s Munich Zibaldoni 207
12. Handwritten Records on the Inside Cover of German Staging Books from the Early Twentieth Century 231
13. Facts and Fiction: Material and Literary Practices in Rainer Maria Rilke’s Notebooks 255
14. Uncovering Layers through Mathematical Reconstruction: The Example of Thomas Harriot’s (1560-1621) Manuscripts 287
15. Contributors 309
16. Index of Written Artefacts