Literary Snippets: Colophons Across Space and Time

Open Access Published by Gorgias Press 2023

Literary Snippets

Colophons Across Space and Time

Edited by: George A. Kiraz and Sabine Schmidtke

Volume 64 in the series Gorgias Handbooks

https://doi.org/10.31826/9781463244019

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The colophon, the ultimate or “crowing touch” paragraphs of a manuscript or a book, provides readers with a the historical context in which the scribe produced the manuscript (or the publisher, a book). At its most fundamental level, the colophon gives us the “metadata” of the manuscript: who was the scribe? When and where was the manuscript produced? For whom was it produced and who paid for it? But colophons are far more rich. They are literary works in their own right, having a style and rhetoric independent of the main literary text of the manuscript. Some are assertive, providing contextual data about the scribe/publisher and manuscript/book; others are expressive, demonstrating the scribe’s feelings and wishes. Some are directive, asking the reader for an action; others declarative, providing all sorts of statements about the scribe/publisher or even the reader. The latter sometimes provide historical facts otherwise lost to histories: wars, earthquakes, religious events, legal agreements, etc. This edited volume brings together scholars from various disciplines to study colophons in various languages and traditions across space and time.

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TOWARDS A DISCIPLINE OF COLOPHONOLOGY AND COLOPHONOGRAPHY George Kiraz and Sabine Schmidtke Open Access Download PDF	1
MANUSCRIPTS OFFERED FOR THE GODS: DEDICATORY COLOPHONS FROM MESOPOTAMIA Szilvia Sövegjártó Open Access Download PDF	5
THE COLOPHONS OF ASHURBANIPAL, KING OF THE WORLD Jon Taylor, Enrique Jiménez, Babette Schnitzlein and Sophie Cohen Open Access Download PDF	23
SACRED AND PROFANE: COLOPHONS AND PARATEXTS EMBEDDED INTO THE TEXT OF MEDIEVAL SAMARITAN PENTATEUCH MANUSCRIPTS Evelyn Burkhardt Open Access Download PDF	43
OPENING FORMULAS BY SCRIBES IN TALMUDIC LITERATURE Menachem Katz and Hillel Gershuni Open Access Download PDF	61
HEBREW PRINTING AND PRINTERS’ COLOPHONS IN THE CAIRO GENIZAH: NETWORKING BOOK TRADE IN EUROPE AND THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE Nick Posegay Open Access Download PDF	79
THIS TORAH, A SIGN OF GOOD THINGS TO COME: TRADITION, RELIGION, AND POLITICS IN THE COLOPHONS OF TWO TENTH-CENTURY SIBLING SCRIBES Robert Vanhoff Open Access Download PDF	107
EARLY CHRISTIAN ARABIC COLOPHONS FROM THE PALESTINIAN MONASTERIES: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS Miriam L. Hjälm and Peter Tarras Open Access Download PDF	119
THE LITERARY AND LANGUAGE VALUE OF THE ARMENIAN COLOPHONS Khachik Harutyunyan Open Access Download PDF	169
IN COLOPHONS AND MARGINS OF THE SYRIAC LITURGICAL MANUSCRIPTS Ephrem Aboud Ishac Open Access Download PDF	187
NUN-SCRIBES AND THEIR COLOPHONS: FEMALE SELF-IDENTIFICATION AND REMEMBRANCE IN EARLY MODERN ITALY Melissa Moreton Open Access Download PDF	201
A COLLECTION OF FRAGMENTARY COLOPHONS: MANUSCRIPTS FROM THE MONASTERY OF SAINT MACARIUS Youhanna Nessim Youssef Open Access Download PDF	227
COLOPHONS OF MEDIEVAL ARMENIAN MANUSCRIPTS AS SOURCES FOR WOMEN’S HISTORY David Zakarian Open Access Download PDF	241
MARQUS OF ALEPPO, A SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY FORGOTTEN SCRIBE: A BIOGRAPHY RECONSTRUCTED FROM THE COLOPHONS Harib G. Ibrahim Open Access Download PDF	255
COLOPHONS IN ARABIC AND PERSIAN TREATISES ON THE MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES AND RELATED SUBJECT MATTERS Hamid Bohloul and Sonja Brentjes Open Access Download PDF	285
TRANSLATION AND IDENTITY IN SIXTEENTHCENTURY TUNISIA: COLOPHONS IN THE WORKS OF ʿALĪ B. AḤMAD B. MUḤAMMAD AL-SHARAFĪ FROM SFAX Víctor de Castro León Open Access Download PDF	325
STYLISTIC FEATURES OF FOURTH/TENTHCENTURY ARABIC COLOPHONS, WITH PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO SCRIBAL BIOGRAPHICAL DETAILS F. Redhwan Karim and Yousry Elseadawy Open Access Download PDF	353
WINDOWS INTO THE WORLD OF PERSIANSPEAKING WEST SYRIANS: A STUDY OF COLOPHONS IN THREE EARLY PERSIAN BIBLICAL MANUSCRIPTS Ali B. Langroudi Open Access Download PDF	377
TIMES OF DISINTEGRATION AND CALAMITIES: AẒHAR AND HIS MYSTERIOUS COLOPHONS Shiva Mihan Open Access Download PDF	397
“A SCHOLARLY COPYIST”: EARLY ILKHANID INTELLECTUAL NETWORKS THROUGH THE PRISM OF TWO COLOPHONS Aslisho Qurboniev and Gowaart Van Den Bossche Open Access Download PDF	431

Language: English
Publisher: Gorgias Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 463

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Published: September 30, 2023
ISBN: 9781463244019