The Emergence of Multiple-Text Manuscripts.

• Superior document: Studies in Manuscript Cultures Series ; v.17
• Author: Bausi, Alessandro.
• TeilnehmendeR: Friedrich, Michael.; Maniaci, Marilena.
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin/Boston : : Walter de Gruyter GmbH,, 2019.; ©2020.
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in Manuscript Cultures Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (374 pages)

The series publishes monographs and collective volumes contributing to the emerging field of manuscript studies (manuscriptology), which includes disciplines such as philology, palaeography, codicology, art history, and material analysis. SMC encourages comparative approaches, without geographical or other limitations on the material studied; it contributes to a historical and systematic survey of manuscript cultures, and provides a new foundation for current discussions in Cultural Studies.

Table of Contents

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Overviews -- Functions of Multiple-Text Manuscripts in India: The Jain Case -- Multiple-Text Manuscripts in Medieval China -- Text Collections in the Arabic Manuscript Tradition of Harar: The Case of the Mawlid Collection and of šayḫ Hāšim's al-Fatḥ al-Raḥmānī -- 'Dichos bien hermanados'. Towards a Typology of Mudéjar and Morisco Multiple-Text Manuscripts -- Innovations -- The Eusebian Canon Tables as a Corpus- Organizing Paratext within the Multiple- Text Manuscript of the Fourfold Gospel -- The Ninth-Century Coptic 'Book Revolution' and the Emergence of Multiple-Text Manuscripts -- Individual MTMs -- Personal Multiple-Text Manuscripts in Late Medieval Central Europe: The 'Library' of Crux of Telč (1434-1504) -- The Prince and the Scholar: A Study of Two Multiple-Text Manuscripts from Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries Morocco -- Case studies -- Some Poetic Multiple-Text Manuscripts of the Byzantine Era -- Rolling Stones Do Gather: MS Istanbul Aya Sofya 3610 and Its Collection of Mineralogical Texts -- Mathematical Astronomy and the Production of Multiple-Texts Manuscripts in Late Medieval Europe: A Comparison of BnF lat. 7197 and BnF lat. 7432 -- The Development of Arabic Multiple-Text and Composite Manuscripts: The Case of ḥadīth Manuscripts in Damascus during the Late Medieval Period -- 'Thematic books' -- Concepts and Vocabulary for the Analysis of Thematic Codices: The Example of Greek Adversus Iudaeos Books -- List of Contributors -- Index of Manuscripts -- Index of Persons.