Manuscripts and Performances in Religions, Arts, and Sciences.

• Superior document: Studies in Manuscript Cultures Series ; v.36
• Author: Brita, Antonella.
• TeilnehmendeR: Karolewski, Janina.; Husson, Matthieu.; Miolo, Laure.; Wimmer, Hanna.
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin/Boston : : Walter de Gruyter GmbH,, 2023.; Ã2024.
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in Manuscript Cultures Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (526 pages)

Table of Contents

Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- Manuscripts for Performances -- Making and Using Manuscripts in Theatre: The Material Dynamics of Two Nineteenth- Century Nathan der Weise Prompt Books -- Performative Aspects of Assyrian Celestial Divination and Babylonian Astronomical Diaries -- Pocket-Sized Liturgy: A Fifteenth-Century Breviary from the Abbey of San Zeno Maggiore -- Performing Multiplications Beyond the Text of Some Sanskrit Mathematical Commentaries -- A Bibliophile Performing Eclipse Computations: Lewis Caerleon and His Notebook -- Manuscripts in Performances -- Medieval Music Rolls, Scribes and Performance: The Extant Rolls of Thirteenth- Century English Polyphony -- Astronomical Computation as a Performance: Determining Planetary Positions with the Manuscript Erfurt, Angermuseum, 3134 -- The 'Orchestration' of Manuscripts: Ottonian Gospel Books from Bamberg Cathedral and Their Liturgical Use -- Reading the Psalms: The Relationship between Visual Organisation and Ritual in Medieval Latin Psalter Manuscripts -- The Use of Anisong Manuscripts at Funerals in Northern Thailand and Laos -- Manuscripts as Performers -- The Palace as 'Theatre of Knowledge': Performing with Manuscripts in the Alfonsine Court -- Performing (with) Multiple-Text Manuscripts in the Making of the Ethiopian Sainthood: Matter and Devotion in Ethiopia between the Fourteenth Century and the Present Time -- Performing Renga with Manuscripts -- Liturgical Practice in the Light of Medieval Liturgical Books -- Objects or Actors? Medieval Latin Manuscripts in Ritual Performances -- Contributors -- Index of Written Artefacts.