Indic Manuscript Cultures through the Ages : : Material, Textual, and Historical Investigations /

Indic Manuscript Cultures through the Ages : : Material, Textual, and Historical Investigations / / Daniele Cuneo, Camillo Alessio Formigatti, Vincenzo Vergiani.

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This collection of essays explores the history of the book in pre-modern South Asia looking at the production, circulation, fruition and preservation of manuscripts in different areas and across time. Edited by the team of the Cambridge-based Sanskrit Manuscripts Project and including contributions...

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Cuneo, Daniele,
Formigatti, Camillo Alessio,
Vergiani, Vincenzo,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2017]
©2017
Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
Series:Studies in Manuscript Cultures
Physical Description:1 online resource (801 p.)
Notes:Description based upon print version of record.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface / Vergiani, Vincenzo
  • Collections
  • Sanskrit Manuscripts in the Cambridge University Library: Three Centuries of History and Preservation / Formigatti, Camillo A.
  • The Cambridge Jain Manuscripts: Provenances, Highlights, Colophons / Balbir, Nalini
  • A Tentative History of the Sanskrit Grammatical Traditions in Nepal through the Manuscript Collections / Vergiani, Vincenzo
  • What Information can be Gleaned from Cambodian Inscriptions about Practices Relating to the Transmission of Sanskrit Literature? / Goodall, Dominic
  • Codicology (from Orality to Print)
  • Tamil Satellite Stanzas: Genres and Distribution / Wilden, Eva
  • Teaching and Learning Sanskrit through Tamil / Ciotti, Giovanni
  • Pre-modern Sanskrit Authors, Editors and Readers / Hanneder, Jürgen
  • The Poetic and Prosodic Aspect of the Page. Forms and Graphic Artifices of Early Indic Buddhist Manuscripts in a Historical Perspective / Scherrer-Schaub, Cristina
  • Typology of Drawn Frames in 16th Century Mang yul Gung thang Xylographs / Clemente, Michela / Lunardo, Filippo
  • The Other Way Round: From Print to Manuscript / Francis, Emmanuel
  • Palaeography
  • The Dating of the Cambridge Bodhisattvabhūmi Manuscript Add.1702 / Harimoto, Kengo
  • On Some Markers Used in a Grantha Manuscript of the Ṛgveda Padapāṭha Belonging to the Cambridge University Library (Or.2366) / Franceschini, Marco
  • Textual Criticism
  • A Fragment of the Vajrāmṛtamahātantra: A Critical Edition of the Leaves Contained in Cambridge University Library Or.158.1 / Sferra, Francesco
  • Mahā-Daṇḍadhāraṇī-Śītavatī: A Buddhist Apotropaic Scripture / Hidas, Gergely
  • Minor Vajrayāna Texts IV. A Sanskrit fragment of the Rigyarallitantra / Szántó, Péter-Dániel
  • When Lachmann's Method Meets the Dharma of Śiva. Common Errors, Scribal Interventions, and the Transmission of the Śivadharma Corpus / De Simini, Florinda
  • Cultural Studies
  • Vivid Images, Not Opaque Words / Cuneo, Daniele
  • Umā and Śiva's Playful Talks in Detail (Lalitavistara): On the Production of Śaiva Works and their Manuscripts in Medieval Nepal / De Simini, Florinda / Mirnig, Nina
  • Subantaratnākara: An Unknown Text of Subhūticandra / Deokar, Lata Mahesh
  • The Cāndravyākaraṇapañjikā: An Important Tool for the Study of the Moggallānavuttivivaraṇapañcikā / Deokar, Mahesh A.
  • Towards a Critical Edition of Śaṅkara's 'Longer' Aitareyopaniṣadbhāṣya: a Preliminary Report based on two Cambridge Manuscripts / David, Hugo
  • List of Contributors
  • Index of Persons

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