Scribal Practice and the Global Cultures of Colophons, 1400–1800
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| Summary: | XIX, 303 p. 142 illus., 31 illus. in color. text |
| Language: | English |
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Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,
2022.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2022. |
| Series: | New Transculturalisms, 1400–1800,
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-90154-7 |
| Format: | Electronic Book |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Information, Interpretation, Interaction: Global Cultures of Colophons, c. 1400–1800- Christopher D. Bahl and Stefan Hanß
- 2. A Prosopography in Circulation: Advertising Scribal Travails in Arabic Manuscripts across Early Modern South Asia- Christopher D. Bahl
- 3. Lines of Loyalties and Early Modern Cultural Diversity: Colophons as Sites of Encounters- Stefan Hanß
- 4. How to Publish a Book in the Fifteenth-Century Middle East: The Case of Ibn Nāṣir al-Dīn’s “Abundant Refutation”- Laurenz Kern
- 5. Signatures of Authority: Colophons in Seventeenth-Century Melkite Circles in Aleppo- Feras Krimsti
- 6. The Making of a Local Historian in Timbuktu: The Signed Marginalia Attributed to Maḥmūd Ka‘ti in the Fondo Kati Collection- Susana Molins Lliteras
- 7. From Scribal Marks to Calligraphic Signatures? Print, Scribe and Script in Early Modern European Writing Manuals- Hannah Murphy
- 8. Poetry of the Scribes: Versified Colophons and Scribal Identity in Siamese Manuscript Culture- Peera Panarut
- 9. Muslim Scribal Culture in India around 1800: Toward a Disentangling of the Mughal Library and the Delhi Collection- Nur Sobers-Khan
- 10. In Absence of a Colophon: Alternative Signing Practices in Arabic Autograph Manuscripts- Torsten Wollina
- 11. Remembering the Living and the Dead in Fifteenth-Century Armenian Colophons: The Case of Bodleian MS Marsh 438 (I-III)- David Zakarian.