Manuscript Cultures: Mapping the Field

Description

New series Script and writing were among the most important inventions in human history, and until the invention of printing, the handwritten book was the primary medium of literary and cultural transmission. Although the study of manuscripts is already quite advanced for many regions of the world, no unified discipline of ‘manuscript studies’ has yet evolved which is capable of treating handwritten books from East Asia, India and the Islamic world equally alongside the European manuscript tradition. This book, which aims to begin the interdisciplinary dialogue needed to arrive at a truly systematic and comparative approach to manuscript cultures worldwide, brings together papers by leading researchers concerned with material, philological and cultural aspects of different manuscript traditions. First volume of new series Studies in Manuscript Cultures Interdisciplinary groundwork on the global common cultural heritage Connected to an international research network Introduction Europe Scribal Annotation as Evidence of Learning in Manuscripts from the First Byzantine Humanism: The “Philosophical Collection” Orient and Africa Writing, Copying, Translating: Ethiopia as a Manuscript Culture Arabic Manuscripts on the Periphery: Northwest Africa, Yemen and China Multiglossia in West African Manuscripts: The Case of Borno, Nigeria South Asia Indian Manuscripts Gandharan Scrolls: Rediscovering an Ancient Manuscript Type A Palaeographic Study of a Buddhist Manuscript from the Gilgit Region.A Glimpse into a Scribes’ Workshop Central Asia Tibetan manuscripts: Between History and Science Towards a Tibetan Palaeography: Developing a Typology of Writing Styles in Early Tibet East Asia Punctuation Marks in Medieval Chinese Manuscripts The Archive Inside: Manuscripts Found within Chinese Religious Statues Index