One-volume libraries : : composite and multiple-text manuscripts / / edited by Michael Friedrich and Cosima Schwarke.

• Superior document: Studies in manuscript cultures ; Volume 9
• TeilnehmendeR: Friedrich, Michael, 1955-; Schwarke, Cosima,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter,, [2016]; 2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in manuscript cultures ; Volume 9.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (vi, 380 pages) :; illustrations.

Table of Contents

The medieval codex as a complex container : the Greek and Latin traditions / Marilena Maniaci -- Mravaltavi : a special type of Old Georgian multiple-text manuscripts / Jost Gippert -- From single-text to multiple-text manuscripts : transmission changes in Coptic literary tradition : some case-studies from the White Monastery Library / Paola Buzi -- Composite and multiple-text manuscripts : the Ethiopian evidence / Alessandro Bausi -- Some observations on composite and multiple-text manuscripts in the Islamic tradition of the horn of Africa / Alessandro Gori -- 'One-volume libraries' and the traditions of learning in medieval Arabic Islamic culture / Gerhard Endress -- From 'one-volume-libraries' to scrapbooks : Ottoman multiple-text and composite manuscripts in the early modern age (1400-1800) / Jan Schmidt -- Sivadharma manuscripts from Nepal and the making of a Saiva corpus / Florinda De Simini -- Manuscripts and practices : investigating the Tibetan Chan Compendium (P. Tib. 116) / Sam van Schaik -- The textual form of knowledge : occult miscellanies in ancient and medieval Chinese manuscripts, 4th century BCE to 10th century CE / Donald Harper -- Composite manuscripts in medieval China : the case of scroll P.3720 from Dunhuang / Imre Galambos.