Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. TABLE OF CONTENTS v
3. TOWARDS A DISCIPLINE OF COLOPHONOLOGY AND COLOPHONOGRAPHY 1
4. MANUSCRIPTS OFFERED FOR THE GODS: DEDICATORY COLOPHONS FROM MESOPOTAMIA 5
5. THE COLOPHONS OF ASHURBANIPAL, KING OF THE WORLD 23
6. SACRED AND PROFANE: COLOPHONS AND PARATEXTS EMBEDDED INTO THE TEXT OF MEDIEVAL SAMARITAN PENTATEUCH MANUSCRIPTS 43
7. OPENING FORMULAS BY SCRIBES IN TALMUDIC LITERATURE 61
8. HEBREW PRINTING AND PRINTERS’ COLOPHONS IN THE CAIRO GENIZAH: NETWORKING BOOK TRADE IN EUROPE AND THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE 79
9. THIS TORAH, A SIGN OF GOOD THINGS TO COME: TRADITION, RELIGION, AND POLITICS IN THE COLOPHONS OF TWO TENTH-CENTURY SIBLING SCRIBES 107
10. EARLY CHRISTIAN ARABIC COLOPHONS FROM THE PALESTINIAN MONASTERIES: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS 119
11. THE LITERARY AND LANGUAGE VALUE OF THE ARMENIAN COLOPHONS 169
12. IN COLOPHONS AND MARGINS OF THE SYRIAC LITURGICAL MANUSCRIPTS 187
13. NUN-SCRIBES AND THEIR COLOPHONS: FEMALE SELF-IDENTIFICATION AND REMEMBRANCE IN EARLY MODERN ITALY 201
14. A COLLECTION OF FRAGMENTARY COLOPHONS: MANUSCRIPTS FROM THE MONASTERY OF SAINT MACARIUS 227
15. COLOPHONS OF MEDIEVAL ARMENIAN MANUSCRIPTS AS SOURCES FOR WOMEN’S HISTORY 241
16. MARQUS OF ALEPPO, A SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY FORGOTTEN SCRIBE: A BIOGRAPHY RECONSTRUCTED FROM THE COLOPHONS 255
17. COLOPHONS IN ARABIC AND PERSIAN TREATISES ON THE MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES AND RELATED SUBJECT MATTERS 285
18. TRANSLATION AND IDENTITY IN SIXTEENTHCENTURY TUNISIA: COLOPHONS IN THE WORKS OF ʿALĪ B. AḤMAD B. MUḤAMMAD AL-SHARAFĪ FROM SFAX 325
19. STYLISTIC FEATURES OF FOURTH/TENTHCENTURY ARABIC COLOPHONS, WITH PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO SCRIBAL BIOGRAPHICAL DETAILS 353
20. WINDOWS INTO THE WORLD OF PERSIANSPEAKING WEST SYRIANS: A STUDY OF COLOPHONS IN THREE EARLY PERSIAN BIBLICAL MANUSCRIPTS 377
21. TIMES OF DISINTEGRATION AND CALAMITIES: AẒHAR AND HIS MYSTERIOUS COLOPHONS 397
22. “A SCHOLARLY COPYIST”: EARLY ILKHANID INTELLECTUAL NETWORKS THROUGH THE PRISM OF TWO COLOPHONS 431