Manuscript Cultures: Mapping the Field (Studies in Manuscript Cultures): 1 - Hardcover

 
9783110225624: Manuscript Cultures: Mapping the Field (Studies in Manuscript Cultures): 1

Synopsis

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.

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About the Author

Dmitry Bondarev, University of London, GB; Jörg B. Quenzer, University of Hamburg; Jan-Ulrich Sobisch, Copenhagen University, DEN.

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ISBN 10:  3111741559 ISBN 13:  9783111741550
Publisher: De Gruyter, 2014
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