One-Volume Libraries: Composite and Multiple-Text Manuscripts

Open Access Published by De Gruyter 2016

One-Volume Libraries: Composite and Multiple-Text Manuscripts

Edited by: Michael Friedrich and Cosima Schwarke

Volume 9 in the series Studies in Manuscript Cultures

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Composite and multiple-text manuscripts are traditionally studied for their individual texts, but recent trends in codicology have paved the way for a more comprehensive approach: Manuscripts are unique artefacts which reveal how they were produced and used as physical objects.

While multiple-text manuscripts codicologically are to be considered as production units, i.e. they were originally planned and realized in order to carry more than one text, composites consist of formerly independent codicological units and were put together at a later stage with intentions that might be completely different from those of its original parts. Both sub-types of manuscripts are still sometimes called "miscellanies", a term relating to the texts only. The codicological difference is important for reconstructing why and how these manuscripts which in many cases resemble (or contain) a small library were produced and used.

Contributions on the manuscript cultures of China, India, Africa, the Islamic world and European traditions lead not only to the conclusion that "one-volume libraries" have been produced in many manuscript cultures, but allow also for the identification of certain types of uses.

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Michael Friedrich and Cosima Schwarke, University of Hamburg.

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Introduction – Manuscripts as Evolving Entities Michael Friedrich and Cosima Schwarke Open Access Download PDF	1
The Medieval Codex as a Complex Container: The Greek and Latin Traditionsx Marilena Maniaci Open Access Download PDF	27
Mravaltavi – A Special Type of Old Georgian Multiple-Text Manuscripts Jost Gippert Open Access Download PDF	47
From Single-Text to Multiple- Text Manuscripts: Transmission Changes in the Coptic Literary Tradition. Some Case- Studies from the White Monastery Library Paola Buzi Open Access Download PDF	93
Composite and Multiple-Text Manuscripts: The Ethiopian Evidence Alessandro Bausi Open Access Download PDF	111
Some Observations on Composite and Multiple-Text Manuscripts in the Islamic Tradition of the Horn of Africa Alessandro Gori Open Access Download PDF	155
‘One-Volume Libraries’ and the Traditions of Learning in Medieval Arabic Islamic Culture Gerhard Endress Open Access Download PDF	171
From ‘One-Volume-Libraries’ to Scrapbooks. Ottoman Multiple-Text and Composite Manuscripts in the Early Modern Age (1400–1800) Jan Schmidt Open Access Download PDF	207
Śivadharma Manuscripts from Nepal and the Making of a Śaiva Corpus Florinda De Simini Open Access Download PDF	233
Manuscripts and Practices: Investigating the Tibetan Chan Compendium (P. Tib. 116) Sam van Schaik Open Access Download PDF	287
The Textual Form of Knowledge: Occult Miscellanies in Ancient and Medieval Chinese Manuscripts, 4^th Century BCE to 10^th Century CEx Donald Harper Open Access Download PDF	305
Composite Manuscripts in Medieval China: The Case of Scroll P.3720 from Dunhuang Imre Galambos Open Access Download PDF	355
Index Open Access Download PDF	379

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Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Scholars, institutes, and libraries (Lbrary sciences; Chinese, Classical, Islamic, manuscript and medieval studies)
Pages
- Front matter: 32
- Main content: 354
Keywords: Production and use of manuscripts; manuscripts as artefacts; cross-cultural manuscriptology

eBook

Published: November 7, 2016
ISBN: 9783110496956

Hardcover

Published: November 7, 2016
ISBN: 9783110496932