Indic Manuscript Cultures Through the Ages : : Material, Textual, and Historical Investigations.

• Superior document: Studies in Manuscript Cultures Series ; v.14
• Author: Vergiani, Vincenzo.
• TeilnehmendeR: Cuneo, Daniele.; Formigatti, Camillo Alessio.
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin/Boston : : Walter de Gruyter GmbH,, 2017.; ©2017.
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in Manuscript Cultures Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (802 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 -- Collections -- Sanskrit Manuscripts in the Cambridge University Library: Three Centuries of History and Preservation -- The Cambridge Jain Manuscripts: Provenances, Highlights, Colophons -- A Tentative History of the Sanskrit Grammatical Traditions in Nepal through the Manuscript Collections -- What Information can be Gleaned from Cambodian Inscriptions about Practices Relating to the Transmission of Sanskrit Literature? -- Codicology (from Orality to Print) -- Tamil Satellite Stanzas: Genres and Distribution -- Teaching and Learning Sanskrit through Tamil -- Pre-modern Sanskrit Authors, Editors and Readers -- The Poetic and Prosodic Aspect of the Page. Forms and Graphic Artifices of Early Indic Buddhist Manuscripts in a Historical Perspective -- Typology of Drawn Frames in 16&lt -- sup&gt -- th&lt -- /sup&gt -- Century Mang yul Gung thang Xylographs -- The Other Way Round: From Print to Manuscript -- Palaeography -- The Dating of the Cambridge Bodhisattvabhūmi Manuscript Add.1702 -- On Some Markers Used in a Grantha Manuscript of the Ṛgveda Padapāṭha Belonging to the Cambridge University Library (Or.2366) -- Textual Criticism -- A Fragment of the Vajrāmṛtamahātantra: A Critical Edition of the Leaves Contained in Cambridge University Library Or.158.1 -- Mahā-Daṇḍadhāraṇī-Śītavatī: A Buddhist Apotropaic Scripture -- Minor Vajrayāna Texts IV. A Sanskrit fragment of the Rigyarallitantra -- When Lachmann's Method Meets the Dharma of Śiva. Common Errors, Scribal Interventions, and the Transmission of the Śivadharma Corpus -- Cultural Studies -- Vivid Images, Not Opaque Words -- Umā and Śiva's Playful Talks in Detail (Lalitavistara): On the Production of Śaiva Works and their Manuscripts in Medieval Nepal -- Subantaratnākara: An Unknown Text of Subhūticandra.

The Cāndravyākaraṇapañjikā: An Important Tool for the Study of the Moggallānavuttivivaraṇapañcikā -- Towards a Critical Edition of Śaṅkara's 'Longer' Aitareyopaniṣadbhāṣya: a Preliminary Report based on two Cambridge Manuscripts -- List of Contributors -- Index of Persons.