Format:
1 online resource (320 pages)
ISBN:
9783110479010
Series Statement:
Studies in Manuscript Cultures Ser. v.7
Content:
The series publishes monographs and collective volumes contributing to the emerging field of manuscript studies (manuscriptology), which includes disciplines such as philology, palaeography, codicology, art history, and material analysis. SMC encourages comparative approaches, without geographical or other limitations on the material studied; it contributes to a historical and systematic survey of manuscript cultures, and provides a new foundation for current discussions in Cultural Studies.
Content:
Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Exploring Paratexts in Old Mande Manuscripts -- Locating Tai Lü and Tai Khün Manuscripts in Space and Time through Colophons -- Certain Times in Uncertain Places: A Study on Scribal Colophons of Manuscripts Written in Tamil and Tamilian Grantha Scripts -- Looking Inside the Cover: Reconstructing Space and Time in Some Donglin Manuscripts -- 'Traces in Red': Chinese Book Collectors' Seals as a Means to Track the Transmission History of a Manuscript -- 'When the living envied the dead': Church Slavonic Paratexts and the Apocalyptic Framework of Monk Isaija's Colophon (1371) -- Locating Greek Manuscripts through Paratexts: Examples from the Library of Cardinal Bessarion and other Manuscript Collections -- Travelling Books: Changes of Ownership and Location in Ethiopian Manuscript Culture -- Indexes.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783110473148
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9783110473148
Language:
English
