Graffiti Scratched, Scrawled, Sprayed

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Manuscript Cultures | nr. 35
• Over the last two decades, the study of graffiti has emerged as a bustling field, invigorated by increased appreciation for their historical, linguist... Lees meer

One-Volume Libraries: Composite and Multiple-Text Manuscripts

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Manuscript Cultures | nr. 9
• Composite and multiple-text manuscripts are traditionally studied for their individual texts, but recent trends in codicology have paved the way for a... Lees meer

The Zhangzhung Nyengyü 'Tsakalis': A Cross-Disciplinary Analysis

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Manuscript Cultures | nr. 45
• This volume traces the history of a set of Tibetan tsakalis , consisting of sixty-five initiation cards that survived the mass destruction of the Chin... Lees meer

New Approaches to Shorthand

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Manuscript Cultures | nr. 41
• Variously identified as an art, a technology, and a professional prerequisite, forms of shorthand have been in use from Antiquity to the modern day. F... Lees meer

Palimpsests and Related Phenomena Across Languages and Cultures

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Manuscript Cultures | nr. 42
• In the traditional view of European scholarship, palimpsests are parchment manuscripts from Antiquity or the Middle Ages whose original content has be... Lees meer

Producing Buddhist Sutras in Ninth-Century Tibet

Brandon Dotson, Lewis Doney

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Manuscript Cultures | nr. 43
• The result of the authors' painstaking documentation of over 1,500 Tibetan copies of the Sutra of Limitless Life from Dunhuang, now kept in the Britis... Lees meer

Tracing Manuscripts in Time and Space Through Paratexts

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Manuscript Cultures | nr. 7
• As records of the link between a manuscript and the texts it contains, paratexts document many aspects of a manuscript's life: production, transmissio... Lees meer

Manuscripts and Archives

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Manuscript Cultures | nr. 11
• Archives are considered to be collections of administrative, legal, commercial and other records or the actual place where they are located. They have... Lees meer

The Arts and Crafts of Literacy

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Manuscript Cultures | nr. 12
• During the last two decades, the (re-)discovery of thousands of manuscripts in different regions of sub-Saharan Africa has questioned the long-standin... Lees meer

Female Agency in Manuscript Cultures

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Manuscript Cultures | nr. 39
• Manuscript cultures have frequently forgotten, neglected, or even erased women's contributions from memory. Women's agency has also been a glaring bli... Lees meer

Trends in Statistical Codicology

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Manuscript Cultures | nr. 19
• The application of statistical techniques to the study of manuscript books, based on the analysis of large data sets acquired through the archaeologic... Lees meer

Jewish Manuscript Cultures

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Manuscript Cultures | nr. 13
• Hebrew manuscripts are considered to be invaluable documents and artefacts of Jewish culture and history. Research on Hebrew manuscript culture is pro... Lees meer

Of Gods and Books

Florinda De Simini

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Manuscript Cultures | nr. 8
• India has been the homeland of diverse manuscript traditions that do not cease to impress scholars for their imposing size and complexity. Nevertheles... Lees meer

The Writing System of Scribe Zhou

Haeree Park

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Manuscript Cultures | nr. 4
• This book investigates the nature of regional variation in the early Chinese writing system through bamboo manuscripts and inscriptions dating from th... Lees meer

Manuscript Treasures from Afro-Eurasia

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Manuscript Cultures | nr. 46
• Throughout the Middle Ages manuscripts were routinely commissioned, copied, illustrated, displayed, read, and transferred across both sides of the Med... Lees meer

Education Materialised

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Manuscript Cultures | nr. 23
• Manuscripts have played a crucial role in the educational practices of virtually all cultures that have a history of using them. As learning and teach... Lees meer

A Short History of Paper in Imperial China

Jean-Pierre Drège

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Manuscript Cultures | nr. 31
• Paper has become the most common writing material worldwide in the course of a two millennia history. This study provides a magisterial synthesis of r... Lees meer

The Ancient World Revisited: Material Dimensions of Written Artefacts

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Manuscript Cultures | nr. 37
• Written artefacts are traditionally studied because of their content. Material aspects of these artefacts enrich the study of ancient history in many ... Lees meer

Tied and Bound: A Comparative View on Manuscript Binding

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Manuscript Cultures | nr. 33
• The present volume contains twelve chapters authored by specialists of Asian, African and European manuscript cultures reflecting on the cohesion of w... Lees meer

Manuscript Albums and Their Cultural Contexts

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Manuscript Cultures | nr. 34
• Manuscript albums are oftentimes contradictory objects: ephemeral yet monumental, coherent yet inviting change. Collecting items made by others, owner... Lees meer

Genealogical Manuscripts in Cross-Cultural Perspective

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Manuscript Cultures | nr. 44
• Situating the history of genealogy in the ambit of manuscript studies, this volume explores how handwriting practices influenced the development of ge... Lees meer

Manuscript Cultures: Mapping the Field

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Manuscript Cultures | nr. 1
• Script and writing were among the most important inventions in human history, and until the invention of printing, the handwritten book was the primar... Lees meer

Creating Standards

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Manuscript Cultures | nr. 16
• Manuscript cultures based on Arabic script feature various tendencies in standardisation of orthography, script types and layout. Unlike previous stud... Lees meer

The Emergence of Multiple-Text Manuscripts

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Manuscript Cultures | nr. 17
• The universal practice of selecting and excerpting, summarizing and canonizing, arranging and organizing texts and visual signs, either in carefully d... Lees meer