Format:
1 Online-Ressource (VI, 389 p.)
ISBN:
9783111292069
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9783111292311
Series Statement:
Studies in Manuscript Cultures 33
Content:
The present volume contains twelve chapters authored by specialists of Asian, African and European manuscript cultures reflecting on the cohesion of written artefacts, particularly manuscripts. Assuming that 'codicological units' exist in every manuscript culture and that they are usually composed of discrete elements (such as clay tablets, papyrus sheets, bamboo slips, parchment bifolios, palm leaves), the issue of the cohesion of the constituents is a general one. The volume presents a series of case studies on devices and strategies adopted to achieve this cohesion by manuscript cultures distant in space (from China to West Africa) and time (from the third millennium bce to the present). This comparative view provides the frame for the understanding of a phenomenon that appears to be of essential importance for the study of the structure of written artefacts. Regardless of the way in which cohesion is realised, all strategies and devices that allow the constituents to be kept together are subsumed under the term 'binding'. Thus, it is possible to highlight similarities, convergences, and unique physical and technical methods adopted by various manuscript cultures to face a common challenge
Note:
Frontmatter
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Contents
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Tied and Bound: A Tight Preface
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Overviews of Traditions
,
Binding Cuneiform Tablets in One Unit
,
Bindings of Ancient Chinese Bamboo and Wood Scrolls
,
Chains, Links, and Loops: Towards a Deeper Understanding of the Sewing Structure in Eastern Mediterranean Bookbinding
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Bindings, Bags and Boxes: Sewn and Unsewn Manuscript Formats in the Islamic World
,
Strategies for Binding Pothi Manuscripts
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Guṭakās from North-Western India: An Introduction to their Structures and Materials
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Features of Binding
,
Papyrus Rolls as Archives: The tomoi sunkollēsimoi
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Ethiopian and Coptic Sewing Techniques in Comparison
,
Loose-leaf Islamic Manuscripts of West Africa: Retention, Adaptation or Invention?
,
Legacy of Binding
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Bound to be Rebound: Fates of Latin Manuscripts in Late Antiquity
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Bound and Unbound: A Chinese Codex from Dunhuang and Its Pieces
,
Binding or Rebinding at St Catherine's Monastery of Sinai
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Contributors
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Indexes
,
General Index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783111290744
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Workshop "Tied and bound": How to keep things together (or not?) (2021 : Hamburg) Tied and bound: a comparative view on manuscript binding Berlin : De Gruyter, 2023 ISBN 9783111290744
Additional Edition:
ISBN 3111290743
Language:
English
Keywords:
Handschrift
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Einbandkunde
;
Geschichte
;
Aufsatzsammlung
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Konferenzschrift
DOI:
10.1515/9783111292069
Author information:
Bausi, Alessandro 1963-
Author information:
Friedrich, Michael 1955-
