Education Materialised

Reconstructing Teaching and Learning Contexts through Manuscripts

Stefanie Brinkmann, Giovanni Ciotti, Stefano Valente, Eva Maria Wilden, Stefanie Brinkmann, Giovanni Ciotti, Stefano Valente, Eva Maria Wilden

• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Year: 2021
• eBook ISBN: 9783110741124
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: History of Education
• Index: Literature

Manuscripts have played a crucial role in the educational practices of virtually all cultures that have a history of using them. As learning and teaching tools, manuscripts become primary witnesses for reconstructing and studying didactic and research activities and methodologies from elementary levels to the most advanced.
The present volume investigates the relation between manuscripts and educational practices focusing on four particular research topics: educational settings: teachers, students and their manuscripts; organising knowledge: syllabi; exegetical practices: annotations; modifying tradition: adaptations.
The volume offers a number of case studies stretching across geophysical boundaries from Western Europe to South-East Asia, with a time span ranging from the second millennium BCE to the twentieth century CE.

Table of contents

• Contents
• Introduction
• Educational Settings: Teachers, Students and their Manuscripts
• Introduction: Reconstructing Agents, Places, and Methods through Manuscripts
• Teaching in Old Babylonian Nippur, Learning in Old Assyrian Aššur?
• Notker the Stammerer’s Compendium for his Pupils
• The Study of the Bible in the Cathedral Schools of Twelfth-Century France: A Case Study of Robert Amiclas and Peter Comestor
• Producing, Distributing and Using Manuscripts for Teaching Purposes at French, English and German Universities in the Late Middle Ages
• Ink Making by the Book: Learning a Craft in the Arabic World
• ‘I Heard it from my Teacher’: Reflections on the Transmission of Knowledge in Islamic Manuscripts from Senegambia and Mali
• The Education of Alevi Religious Specialists and their Manuscripts: Ali Göktürk Dede from Şeyh Hasan Köyü, Turkey
• Exegetical Practices: Annotations and Glossing
• Introduction: Material Evidence for Exegetical Practices and Intellectual Engagement with Texts
• Annotating Aristotle’s Organon in the Byzantine Age: Some Remarks on the Manuscripts Princeton MS 173 and Leuven, FDWM 1
• Scholarship between the Lines: Interlinear Glossing in Siamese Literary Manuscripts
• From Marginal Glosses to Translations: Levels of Glossing in an Early Medieval Manuscript (Munich, BSB, Clm 19410)
• Organising Knowledge: Syllabi
• Introduction: On the Interplay between Syllabi, Texts and Manuscripts
• The Treasure of Alexander – Stories of Discovery and Authorship
• Tamil Ilakkaṇam (‘Grammar’) and the Interplay between Syllabi, Corpora and Manuscripts
• Law Syllabi and Text Production among Šāfi‘ite Ethiopian Muslims: A Short Note on Some Manuscripts of al-Nawawī’s Minhāǧ al-ṭālibīn
• Modifying Tradition: Adaptations
• Introduction
• The ‘Vanaratna Codex’: A Rare Document of Buddhist Text Transmission (London, Royal Asiatic Society, Hodgson MS 35)
• Personal Poetics: An Adapted Version of a Well-Known Treatise in Old Tamil
• Variations on Some Common Topics in Medieval Latin Letters: The Case of the Salzburg Formulae Collection (Late Ninth Century)
• Adapting the Concept of Proportio to Rhythm in the Ars subtilior: Ugolino da Orvieto’s Compositions and his Statements on Proportion Signs in Codex Casanatense 2151
• Adaptation of Buyruk Manuscripts to Impart Alevi Teachings: Mehmet Yaman Dede and the Arapgir-Çimen Buyruğu