Manuscript Cultures: Mapping the Field

Jörg Quenzer, Dmitry Bondarev, Jan-Ulrich Sobisch, Jörg Quenzer, Dmitry Bondarev, Jan-Ulrich Sobisch

• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Year: 2014
• eBook ISBN:
  9783110384826
• Topic: Philosophy
• Subtopic: Epistemology in Philosophy

Script and writing were among the most important inventions in human history, and until the invention of printing, the handwritten book was the primary medium of literary and cultural transmission. Although the study of manuscripts is already quite advanced for many regions of the world, no unified discipline of 'manuscript studies' has yet evolved which is capable of treating handwritten books from East Asia, India and the Islamic world equally alongside the European manuscript tradition. This book, which aims to begin the interdisciplinary dialogue needed to arrive at a truly systematic and comparative approach to manuscript cultures worldwide, brings together papers by leading researchers concerned with material, philological and cultural aspects of different manuscript traditions.

Index

Abhayākaragupta 1

Aksum 1–2, 3

Aksumite Collection 1–2

Alberuni 1–2

Alexander the Great 1, 2

Anavataptagāthā 1, 2

andemtā 1–2

annotation 1, 2, 3–4, 5–6, 7–8, 9, 10–11

Aramaic 1, 2, 3–4

archetype 1–2, 3, 4–5, 6

Aristotle 1–2, 3, 4–5

Aśoka 1, 2

Baṣalota Mikā’ēl 1

Bhakhshālī manuscript 1, 2

Bible 1, 2, 3–4, 5–6

bilingual manuscripts 1–2, 3

book covers 1–2, 3–4, 5–6, 7, 8–9, 10

book formats 1–2, 3, 4, 5

– codex 1–2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8

– scroll (roll) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7

– pothi 1, 2, 3–4, 5, 6

bookbinding 1, 2–3, 4–5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10

Borno Qur’anic manuscripts 1–2, 3–4

Buddhism 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9–10

Byzantium

– First Byzantine Humanism 1–2, 3

Cerquiglini, Bernard 1–2

Chartier, Roger 1–2

China 1–2, 3–4, 5–6, 7, 8

– Chinese classics 1, 2, 3, 4

Christianity 1, 2

codicology 1, 2–3, 4, 5

– cf. book formats

– cf. bookbinding

consecration certificate 1–2

consecration ritual 1 , 2

Contini, Gianfranco 1–2

copyists 1, 2–3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11–12, 13, 14

Curtius Rufus 1

Dabra Bizan 1–2

Daoism 1

dating 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7–8, 9–10

Dharmapada 1

Dharmaśarīra 1

Diamond Sutra 1

Dīrghāgama 1, 2

Dunhuang 1–2 , 3, 4, 5, 6, 7–8, 9, 10–11, 12–13

education 1 , 2, 3, 4, 5

Ekottarikāgama 1 , 2

’Endā ’Abbā Garimā 1

Eritrea 1–2 , 3

Ethiopia 1

Famen menhuan 1 , 2–3

Gandhāra 1, 2

Gāndhārī 1–2, 3, 4, 5

Gargam manuscripts 1–2 , 3–4

Gedimu (qadīm) 1

genealogical lists 1 , 2, 3, 4–5, 6, 7

Gilgit 1, 2

glosses 1, 2, 3, 4, 5–6, 7, 8, 9, 10–11, 12, 13

Guanyin 1

handwriting (identification) 1–2

Henderson, Gregory 1

History of the Alexandrian Episcopate 1

huanyuan 1

Hunan 1, 2–3, 4–5

Hurvitz, Leon 1–2

Ioannikios 1

Ijāza 1–2, 3, 4–5, 6

Jāmī, Nūr al–Dīn 1

Jingdian shiwen 1–2, 3

Kālidāsa 1, 2, 3

Kanem 1

Kanem–Borno 1

Kanembu 1

Kaniṣka 1, 2

Kannon 1

Kanuri 1

Khaḍgaviṣāṇasūtra 1

Khri Lde srong brtsan 1

Khri Srong lde brtsan 1

Kongōji 1

Kubrawiyya 1

Kumārasambhava 1

Lachmann, Karl 1–2

Ladakh 1, 2

layout 1, 2, 3–4, 5–6, 7, 8

– cf. ruling

Ma Mingxin 1, 2

Madā’iḥ 1, 2–3

Maghribī 1, 2

Mākandikāvadāna 1–2

marks

– abbreviation 1, 2

– correction 1

– diacritical 1, 2, 3

– owner 1

– phonetic 1–2

– punctuation 1, 2, 3, 4

– repetition 1–2

– reverence 1–2

– section 1–2

– segmentation 1, 2, 3–4, 5

– separation 1, 2–3

Maṣḥafa Berhān 1

material analysis 1, 2, 3, 4

– fibre composition 1

Mazar Tagh 1, 2, 3, 4–5

Mengxi bitan 1

Miran 1, 2, 3

Mukhammas 1, 2–3

Mūlasarvāstivāda 1–2

Nanatsudera 1, 2

Napoleon 1

Naqshbandiyya–Jahriyya 1

Naqshbandiyya–Mujaddidiyya 1

Nearchus 1

Needham, Joseph 1–2

Nigeria 1–2, 3–4

Ochiai, Toshinori 1

Octateuch 1–2, 3, 4

Old Kanembu 1–2, 3–4, 5–6, 7, 8, 9, 10

pagination 1, 2, 3

palaeography 1–2, 3, 4, 5, 6

palimpsest 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

Palola Ṣāhis 1, 2

paratexts 1–2

– colophon 1, 2, 3, 4–5, 6, 7, 8

– tables of contents 1

– cf. annotations

– cf. glosses

– cf. marks

Philoponus, John 1, 2, 3

philology 1, 2–3, 4, 5–6

– cf. textual criticism

Piluo sanmei jing 1

place–value system 1, 2, 3, 4

Plato 1, 2, 3

Prajñāpāramitā 1, 2, 3, 4–5, 6

pratityasamutpada gatha 1

Qādiriyya 1

Qalēmenṭos 1

Qur’an 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8

reading 1, 2, 3, 4–5

relics 1, 2

ritual manuals 1

rituals 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9

ruling 1, 2, 3

Saṃyuktāgama 1

Saṅgītisūtra commentary 1

Sangs rgyas rgya mtsho 1, 2

Sanjie fofa 1

Sanskrit 1, 2

scribes 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6–7, 8, 9, 10–11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24

– scribal errors 1, 2–3, 4, 5, 6, 7

scripts

– ‘Abbasīd (Kufic) 1, 2

– Ajami 1

– Arabic–based (cf. also Ajami) 1

– Borno hand 1, 2

– Brāhmī 1, 2

– cuneiform 1

– Grantha 1, 2, 3

– Ifrīqī 1, 2

– Islamic 1

– Kashmir (cf. Śāradā) 1, 2, 3

– Kharoṣṭhī 1, 2

– Maghribī 1, 2

– Proto–Śāradā (cf. Kashmir) 1, 2–3

– pustaka 1, 2

– Śāradā 1–2, 3, 4, 5

– Sino–Arabic 1–2

– Tibetan 1

– Xiaoer jing 1, 2, 3

Seiryōji Shaka 1

Sel dkar Kanjur 1, 2, 3, 4

Shitong 1

Silk Road 1, 2–3, 4

Simplicius 1, 2–3

Sinodos 1

Sirhindī, Aḥmad 1

stūpa 1

Sūdanī 1, 2–3, 4

Suvarṇaprabhāsa Sūtra 1

Talas 1

talismans 1–2

Tarjumo 1

Tegray 1, 2, 3, 4

textual criticism 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7

Thymelaeaceae family plants 1

Tibet 1, 2, 3, 4

– Northeastern Tibet (Amdo) 1

– Tibetan Buddhist Canon 1, 2

Traditio Apostolica 1–2

transliteration 1–2, 3

typology 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

Vajracchedikā Prajñāpāramitā Sūtra 1

Vajrāvalī 1

Vikramorvaśīya 1

vow 1

watermarks 1, 2–3

West Africa 1

writing materials

– birch bark 1, 2, 3, 4, 5–6, 7

– Chinese laid paper 1

– mulberry paper 1–2

– palm leaf 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

– paper 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6–7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12

– papyrus 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6–7, 8

– parchment 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

– “tre lune” paper 1–2

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Table of contents

• Manuscript Cultures: Mapping the Field
• Studies in Manuscript Cultures
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Introduction
• Europe
• Orient and Africa
• South Asia
• Central Asia
• East Asia
• Index