ASHURBANIPAL’S DEDICATION TO THE TEMPLE LIBRARY OF NABÛ

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. TABLE OF CONTENTS v
3. FOREWORD vii
4. TWO DEDICATORY COLOPHONS FROM THE LATE BABYLONIAN PERIOD 1
5. ASHURBANIPAL’S DEDICATION TO THE TEMPLE LIBRARY OF NABÛ 5
6. OPENING FORMULAS BY SCRIBES IN TALMUDIC MANUSCRIPTS 11
7. ELEVEN COLOPHONS BY TEN PRINTERS FROM SEVEN CITIES IN THE CAIRO GENIZAH 25
8. THE COLOPHONS OF TWO TENTH-CENTURY SIBLING SCRIBES 39
9. EARLY CHRISTIAN ARABIC COLOPHONS FROM THE PALESTINIAN MONASTERIES: EDITION WITH TRANSLATION AND COMMENTARY 47
10. A ‘COLOPHON’ OR A ‘CHRONICLE’? A LENGTHY GARSHUNI-ARABIC COLOPHON 99
11. NUN-SCRIBES’ COLOPHONS IN FIFTEENTHAND SIXTEENTH-CENTURY ITALY 143
12. FIVE ARABIC AND PERSIAN COLOPHONS OF MATHEMATICAL TREATISES 153
13. THE COLOPHON OF THE PSALTER MS. PARIS, BNF, SUPPL. PERS. 1: A WITNESS TO THE WRITING OF A TRANS-JUDEO-PERSIAN MANUSCRIPT 169
14. “A SCHOLARLY COPYIST”: EARLY ILKHANID INTELLECTUAL NETWORKS THROUGH THE PRISM OF TWO COLOPHONS 181