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Manuscript Cultures: Mapping the Field

Manuscript Cultures: Mapping the Field

Quenzer, Jörg
Bondarev, Dmitry
Sobisch, Jan-Ulrich

Hardcover

Series: Studies in Manuscript Cultures, Book 1

PhilosophyGeneral Antiques & CollectiblesGeneral Eastern Religions

ISBN10: 311022562X
ISBN13: 9783110225624
Publisher: de Gruyter
Published: Oct 27 2014
Pages: 383
Weight: 1.40
Height: 1.10 Width: 6.40 Depth: 9.20
Language: English

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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