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Personal Manuscripts: Copying, Drafting, Taking Notes

  • Edited by: David Durand-Guédy and Jürgen Paul
Language: English
Published/Copyright: 2023
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Studies in Manuscript Cultures

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Some manuscripts have been produced for the personal use of their scribe only; whereas a number of them are valued as autographs, most have been ephemeral and were discarded. Personal manuscripts were not written for a patron, commissioner, or client. They are personal copies, anthologies, florilegia, personal notes, excerpts, drafts and notebooks, as well as family books, accountancy notebooks and many others; these forms often being mixed with one another.
This volume introduces a number of such manuscripts in a comparative perspective, from Japan to Europe through the Middle East, with a focus on the Near and Middle East.
The main concern is the possibility of identifying typical features of such manuscripts in terms of materials, visual organization and content. In attempting this, both the conditions of production and traces of the manuscripts’ use are taken into consideration, with particular attention to their material aspects.

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David Durand-Guédy, Hamburg University, Hamburg; Jürgen Paul, Hamburg University, Hamburg, Germany.

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Frontmatter

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Contents

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Introduction

David Durand-Guédy and Jürgen Paul
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Data Overload and Information Management in the Mamluk Period (1250–1517)

Frédéric Bauden
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Between Reading and Writing: Manuscript Collections of Excerpts in Eighteenth-Century Germany

Elisabeth Décultot
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Raison d’être and Use of Stand-alone formulae in Early Medieval European Legal Manuscripts

Philippe Depreux
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The Livre de Raison of Jean Teisseire

Mélanie Dubois-Morestin
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The bayāḍ of Hindūšāh Naḫǧawānī: A Collection of Excerpts from Mongol Iran

David Durand-Guédy
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aṣ-Ṣafadī’s taḏkira and its Holograph in Princeton University Library

Élise Franssen
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The Diary of a Shintō Priest in Medieval Japan

Horikawa Yasufumi
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The Autograph Manuscripts of Mullā Ṣadrā (d. 1045 AH / 1635 CE): Classification and Preliminary Study

Mohammad Karimi Zanjani Asl
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User-Production of Hebrew Manuscripts Revisited: the Case of Manuscript Oxford, Bodleian Library, Huntington 200

Judith Olszowy-Schlanger
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Mufti Notebooks: Two ǧung Manuscripts from Late Nineteenth-Century Bukhara

Jürgen Paul
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Legal Consultants in the Time of the Severan Dynasty: Papyri and the Emperor’s Law

Patrick Sänger
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Autographic Manuscripts of the Arabic Speaking World created for the Scribe’s Own Use

Florian Sobieroj
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A Collector’s Edition of the Past: Personal Collections of Mesopotamian Royal Inscriptions from the Old Babylonian Period

Szilvia Sövegjártó
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Jewish Exemplars and Hebraist Copies of Hebrew Manuscripts

Ilona Steimann
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The Types of Text Compiling as Practiced by Ṣaḥḥāflarşeyḫi-zāde Esʿad Efendi (1789–1848)

Nazlı Vatansever
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List of Contributors

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Indexes

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eBook published on:
April 27, 2023
eBook ISBN:
9783111037196
Hardcover published on:
April 27, 2023
Hardcover ISBN:
9783111034089
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Front matter:
6
Main content:
547
Illustrations:
15
Coloured Illustrations:
134
Tables:
21
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111037196
eBook ISBN: 9783111037196
Hardcover ISBN: 9783111034089
Keywords for this book
Manuscript; draft; autograph; codicology
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Scholars and students of Manuscript Studies, History of the Book, Literary Studies, Near and Middle Eastern History
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