Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. TABLE OF CONTENTS v
3. CONTRIBUTORS vii
4. PREFACE xi
5. CONNECTING THE DOTS: USING DIAERESIS AS A SOURCE OF INFORMATION ABOUT SCRIBAL PRACTICES IN BYZANTINE EGYPT 1
6. MARGINALIA AS TRACES OF CHANGING KNOWLEDGE CULTURE: THE CIRCULATION OF TAQWĪM TEXTS IN THE LATE MAMLUK SULTANATE 33
7. THE MANUSCRIPTS OF ARABIC POPULAR SIYAR AND SĪRAT SAYF IBN DHĪ YAZAN 47
8. A PORTABLE MAJLIS: ON PUBLISHING RELIABLE EDITIONS IN OTTOMAN MANUSCRIPT CULTURE 69
9. CHAPTER DIVISIONS AND THE INTERPRETATION AND TRANSMISSION OF THE TOSEFTA 83
10. THE SECOND-HAND SCRIBE: THE INTELLECTUAL ENVIRONMENT OF THE PRODUCTION OF A UNIQUE TOSEFTA FRAGMENT FROM THE LEVANT 107
11. PERITEXTUAL ENCODING FOR THE METATRON / YAHOEL THEME IN THE KABBALISTIC SEFER HA-OT , OR “BOOK OF THE SIGN,” BY R. ABRAHAM ABULAFIA (1240–1292) 125
12. READING AND REMEMBERING IN THE MEDIEVAL NEAR EAST: THE SYRIAC SHEMOHĒ BOOK (AKA. THE SYRIAC “MASORAH”) 141
13. ANNOTATIONS IN THE EARLIEST MEDIEVAL HEBREW BIBLE MANUSCRIPTS 167
14. AN ILLUMINATING SCRIBE: THE ʿARZADASHT OF JAʿFAR BĀYSUNGHURĪ AND ITS WEALTH OF INFORMATION 189
15. ANNOTATION PRACTICES IN A SYRIAC EXEGETICAL COLLECTION (MS VAT. SYR. 103) 221
16. SCRIBES AND THE BOOK OF REVELATION IN EASTERN NEW TESTAMENTS 247
17. ON THE SUMERIAN GLOSSOGRAPHIC TRADITION 277
18. CAN MANUSCRIPT HEADINGS PROVE THAT THERE WERE ARABIC GOSPELS BEFORE THE QURʾĀN? 289