Frontmatter -- ; Contents -- ; Preface -- ; Prologue: Contemporary Practices of Archiving -- ; How to Distinguish between Manuscripts and Archival Records: A Study in Archival Theory / Schenk, Dietmar -- Archives from Tibet and the Himalayan Borderlands: Notes on Form and Content / Ramble, Charles -- The Ancient World up to Late Antiquity -- ; Constitution, Contents, Filing and Use of Private Archives: The Case of Old Assyrian Archives (nineteenth century BCE) / Michel, Cécile -- Archives in Ancient Egypt, 2500–1000 BCE / Hagen, Fredrik / Soliman, Daniel -- Archives and Libraries in Greco-Roman Egypt / Fournet, Jean-Luc -- Libraries and Archives in the Former Han Dynasty (206 BCE–9 CE): Arguing for a Distinction / Fölster, Max Jakob -- Setting a Bishopric / Arranging an Archive: Traces of Archival Activity in the Bishopric of Alexandria and Antioch / Camplani, Alberto -- Documents, Acts and Archival Habits in Early Christian Church Councils: A Case Study / Graumann, Thomas -- The Middle Ages -- ; Weighing in on Evidence: Documents and Literary Manuscripts in Early Medieval Japan / Adolphson, Mikael S. -- Securing and Preserving Written Documents in Byzantium / Grünbart, Michael -- Archival Practices in the Muslim World prior to 1500 / Paul, Jürgen -- The Power of the Pen: Cadis and their Archives / Müller, Christian -- Indian Copper-Plate Grants: Inscriptions or Documents? / Francis, Emmanuel -- Epilogue: Why and how to compare -- ; Epilogue: Archives and Archiving across Cultures―Towards a Matrix of Analysis / Friedrich, Markus -- List of Contributors -- ; List of Documents | 
