Exploring Written Artefacts : Objects, Methods, and Concepts

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This collection, presented to Michael Friedrich in honour of his academic career at of the Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures, traces key concepts that scholars associated with the Centre have developed and refined for the systematic study of manuscript cultures. At the same time, the contributions showcase the possibilities of expanding the traditional subject of ‘manuscripts’ to the larger perspective of ‘written artefacts’. Frontmatter I Contents V Introduction: In Honour of Michael Friedrich by Jörg B. Quenzer XIII Volume I Matters of Materiality ‘Paleografia quale scienza dello spirito’: Once More on the Gǝʿǝz Inscription of Ham (RIÉ no. 232) by Alessandro Bausi 3 Multiple-Text Inscriptions in the Greco-Roman World by Kaja Harter-Uibopuu 35 Engrave on the Heart and Wash Away Care by Lothar Ledderose 53 They Wrote on Clay, Wax, and Stone: Some Thoughts on Early Mesopotamian Writing by Piotr Michalowski 67 What about 3D Manuscripts? The Case of the Cuneiform Clay Tablets by Cécile Michel 89 How Were Bronze Inscriptions Cast in Ancient China? New Answers to Old Questions by Ondřej Škrabal 115 What Inscriptions do not Tell You about Themselves: Chinese Cases by Barend J. ter Haar 139 Measuring, Analysing, Computing A New Standard Protocol for Identification of Writing Media by Claudia Colini, Ivan Shevchuk, Kyle Ann Huskin, Ira Rabin and Oliver Hahn 161 Mass Spectrometry-Based Proteomics and Metaproteomics Analysis of Ancient Manuscripts by Marina Creydt and Markus Fischer 183 Scientific Analysis of Leonardo’s Manuscript with Anatomic Drawings and Notes by Oliver Hahn, Uwe Golle, Carsten Wintermann and Domenico Laurenza 213 Inscribed Gems: Material Profiling beyond Visible Examination by Boriana Mihailova, Jochen Schlüter and Kaja Harter-Uibopuu 229 Humanities-Centred Artificial Intelligence (CHAI) as an Emerging Paradigm by Ralf Möller 245 How Can Research on Written Artefacts Benefit from Collaboration with Computer Science? by Stefan Thiemann 267 Changing Media Notes on the Terminology for Print in Early Sanskrit Printed Books by Camillo A. Formigatti 281 Media Systems and Genre Conventions in Transition: A German Priamel Booklet from Nuremberg, c. 1490 by Marco Heiles 307 About a Manuscript on Tea Found in Timbuktu, Mali: Mamma Haidara Collection, MS 125, Tārīkh al-shāy fī ’l-Maghrib by Shamil Jeppie 333 From Mouth to Ear to Hand: Literacy as Recorded Orality in Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century German Courts by Sabine Kienitz 345 Realms of Codicology The Codex’s Contents: Attempt at a Codicological Approach by Patrick Andrist and Marilena Maniaci 369 The Advantages of Comparative Codicology: Further Examples by Malachi Beit-Arié 395 About a Series of Late Medieval Moroccan Bindings by Nuria de Castilla and François Déroche 405 A Tale of Papermaking along the Silk Road by Agnieszka Helman-Ważny 423 Cataloguing Arabic Manuscripts for the Project ‘Katalogisierung der Orientalischen Handschriften in Deutschland’ by Tilman Seidensticker 441 Repositories of Knowledge Unravelling Multiple-Text Manuscripts: Introducing Categories Based on Content, Use, and Production by Antonella Brita and Janina Karolewski 459 Chinese Character Variants in Medieval Dictionaries and Manuscripts by Imre Galambos 491 The Art of Astrological Computations: Conrad Heingarter and the Manuscript Paris, BnF latin 7295A by Matthieu Husson 513 Magic in the Hebrew-Manuscript Collection of the Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Hamburg: Observations on Cod. hebr. 252 by Michael Kohs and Giuseppe Veltri 533 Notes on a Central Asian Notebook by Jürgen Paul 563 Creating an Original of a Greek Lexicon in the Middle Ages: Notes on the Manuscript Vaticanus Barberinianus gr. 70 of the Etymologicum Gudianum by Stefano Valente 583 Volume II Paracontent A Multilayered Greek Manuscript of Learning: Some Glimpses into the Scribal Practices Evident in the Aristotelean Codex Vaticanus graecus 244 by Christian Brockmann 603 From ‘Task’ to ‘Title’? Japanese Linked Poetry and the Fushimono by Heidi Buck-Albulet 623 Hidden Colophons by Jost Gippert 647 Sealed Manuscripts in Laos: New Findings from Luang Prabang by Volker Grabowsky 667 Naming the Author: The Taṇṭi Motif in the Margins of the Tamil Poetic Tradition by Eva Wilden 689 Visual Matters A Typology of West African Ajami Manuscripts: Languages, Layout and Research Perspectives by Dmitry Bondarev 707 Forgery and Appreciation of Old Choir Books in Nineteenth-Century Europe by Andreas Janke 729 A Lesser-Known Member of Bessarion’s Milieu: The Scribe-Bishop Makarios by Luigi Orlandi 753 Enigmatic Calligraphy: Lettering as Visualized Hermeneutic of Sacred Scripture by Bruno Reudenbach 773 Sailing-Ships and Character Illustrations in Three Javanese Literary Poetic Manuscripts by Dick van der Meij 795 Peripatetic Readers and a Dancing Maiden: Marginal Multigraphic Discourse in a Medieval Latin Multiple-Text Manuscript by Hanna Wimmer 821 Rethinking Philology Textual Criticism and Early Chinese Manuscripts by William G. Boltz 845 Notes for an Ontological Approach within Manuscript Studies: Object Oriented Ontology and the Pothi Manuscript Culture by Giovanni Ciotti 865 Collation in Early Imperial China: From Administrative Procedure to Philological Tool by Max Jakob Fölster and Thies Staack 889 Loss and Circumstances: How Early Modern Europe Discovered the ‘Material Text’ by Markus Friedrich 913 The Letters of Michael Psellos and their Function in Byzantine Epistolary Culture by Michael Grünbart 933 Preaching with the Hands: Notes on Cassiodorus’ Praise of Handwriting and its Medieval Reception by Felix Heinzer 947 Performance and Ritual Where did the Ngạn People Come From? Ritual Manuscripts among the Ngạn in Northern Vietnam by David Holm 967 (Re-)Writing Jazz: The Manuscripts of John Coltrane’s A Love Supreme by Oliver Huck 989 A Ritual Manual of Healing: The Body-Balance of the Four Elements and the Four Key Factors of Manuscript Production and Usage by Silpsupa Jaengsawang 1005 The Volvelle and the Lingga: The Use of Two Manuscript Ritual Devices in a Tibetan Exorcism by Charles Ramble 1025 ‘Vu et approuvé’: Censorship Notes in Hamburg Prompt Books from the French Period by Martin Jörg Schäfer 1043 Transmission in Time and Space The Unusual Story of a Wandering Book and its Physical Metamorphosis by Paola Buzi 1063 Joint Forces: A Handscroll by Zhao Mengfu and Guan Daosheng by Uta Lauer 1077 Touched by a Tale of Friendship: An Early Nineteenth-Century Zidishu Manuscript by Zhenzhen Lu 1099 On Some Manuscripts of Hatifi’s Timurnama by Charles Melville 1123 Contributors 1147 Indices 1155