In the author's hand : : holograph and authorial manuscripts in the Islamic handwritten tradition / / edited by Frédéric Bauden, Elise Franssen.

• Superior document: Islamic history and civilization ; Volume 171
• TeilnehmendeR: Bauden, Frédéric,; Franssen, Élise,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, The Netherlands ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2020]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: Islamic history and civilization ; Volume 171.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

In recent years, a growing interest in “oriental manuscripts” in all their aspects, including the extrinsic ones, has been observed. Research that focuses on holograph, autograph and authorial manuscripts in Arabic handwritten script has nevertheless been casual, although these manuscripts raise important and varied questions. The study of the working methods of authors from the past informs different disciplines: paleography, codicology, textual criticism, ecdotics, linguistics and intellectual history. In this volume nine contributions and case studies are gathered that address theoretical issues and convey different, disruptive perspectives. A particularly important subject of this book, so far rarely discussed in scientific literature, is the identification of an author’s handwriting. Among the authors specifically dealt with in this volume one will find: al-Maqrīzī (m. 845/1442), al-Nuwayrī (m. 733/1333), Akmal al-Dīn b. Mufliḥ (m. 1011/1603), al-ʿAynī (m. 855/1451) and Ibn Khaldūn (m. 808/1406). Contributors: Frédéric Bauden, Julien Dufour, Élise Franssen, Adam Gacek, Retsu Hashizume, Marie-Hélène Marganne, Elias Muhanna, Nobutaka Nakamachi, Anne Regourd, and Kristina Richardson.

Table of Contents

Introduction -- Comment recconaitre un autographe parmi les papyrus littéraires grecs? L'exemple du P. Oxy. 74.4970 / Marie-Hélène Marganne -- Arabic holographs: characteristics and terminology / Adam Gacek -- Bi-khaṭṭ mu'allifihi Vraiment?! L'apport de l'analyse judiciaire / Élise Franssen -- Maqriziana XV : the characteristics of al-Maqrīzī's handwriting / Frédéric Bauden -- The art of copying: Mamlūk manuscript culture in theory and practice / Elias Muhanna -- The holograph notebooks of Akmal al-Dīn Muḥammad b. Mufliḥ (d.1011/1603) / Kristina Richardson -- 'Aynī's working method for his Chronicles: analysis of his autographical manuscript / NobutakaNakamachi -- Textual criticism on the manuscripts of Ibn Khaldun's autobiographical manuscripts / Retsu Hashizume -- Les safīnas yéménites / Julien Dufour and Anne Regourd.