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Accumulating Notes

Note-taking and Multilayered Written Artefacts
  • Edited by: José Maksimczuk and Thies Staack
Language: English
Published/Copyright: 2026
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Studies in Manuscript Cultures

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People take notes in different contexts of their daily lives and for various purposes. While brief handwritten notes can occur individually, for example, as a Post-it note, they are also collected over the course of time in notebooks, diaries, or logs. Recent scholarship has proposed to approach written artefacts as ‘evolving entities’ and suggested frameworks to analyse the layers of material and/or content that they acquire over time. Such a stratigraphic analysis has been fruitfully applied to many types of written artefacts, especially those produced during a clearly identifiable and planned project. However, the potential of this approach remained largely untapped for written artefacts whose production does not follow a predefined plan or necessarily proceed in an orderly fashion. Focusing on the multifarious manifestations of notes as material tools for the visualisation, organisation, and transmission of knowledge, this volume aims to fill this gap. The present volume sheds light on how practices of note-taking and knowledge organisation (re)shape written artefacts and vice-versa by dissecting the processes in which notes accumulate in a variety of multilayered written artefacts from different cultures and periods.

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José Maksimczuk, University of Hamburg, CSMC, Hamburg; Thies Staack, University of Hamburg, CSMC, Hamburg, Germany.

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Contents

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Introduction - Accumulating Notes: Note-taking and Multilayered Written Artefacts

José Maksimczuk and Thies Staack
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Planned, Yet Improvised: Shimotsuma Shoshin’s Performance Notes on Late-sixteenth-century Japanese nō Theatre

Eike Grossmann
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Interwoven Thoughts: Exploring Stratigraphy and Transmission in Yi Sangjong’s Taesan Ilgi

Maristella Spur
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Building a Notebook in Layers and Stages: A Mid-nineteenth-century Manuscript from Khwärazm

Jürgen Paul
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Accumulating Visitors: Examining a Multilingual Private Guestbook from Twentieth-century Jerusalem

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

Jannis Kostelnik
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Palat. gr. 129: Nikephoros Gregoras’s Notebook

Ciro Giacomelli
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From Notes to Literary Works: The Accumulative Writing Process of the Ottoman Court Historian Ṣaḥḥāflarşeyḫizāde Esʿad Efendi (1789-1848)

Nazli Vatansever
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Angelo Poliziano’s Munich Zibaldoni

Gianmario Cattaneo
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Handwritten Records on the Inside Cover of German Staging Books from the Early Twentieth Century

Anna Sophie Felser
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Facts and Fiction: Material and Literary Practices in Rainer Maria Rilke’s Notebooks

Anna Kinder and Sandra Richter
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Uncovering Layers through Mathematical Reconstruction: The Example of Thomas Harriot’s (1560-1621) Manuscripts

Stefano Farinella and Matthias Schemmel
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Contributors

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Index of Written Artefacts

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eBook published on:
December 2, 2025
eBook ISBN:
9783111682990
Hardcover published on:
December 1, 2025
Hardcover ISBN:
9783111682754
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Front matter:
6
Main content:
314
Illustrations:
7
Coloured Illustrations:
58
Tables:
7
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111682990
eBook ISBN: 9783111682990
Hardcover ISBN: 9783111682754
Keywords for this book
Manuscript studies; written artefacts; stratigraphy; notebooks
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Historians, linguists, scholars of literary studies, cultural studies, history of science and manuscript studies
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