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One-Volume Libraries: Composite and Multiple-Text Manuscripts

One-Volume Libraries: Composite and Multiple-Text Manuscripts

Friedrich, Michael
Schwarke, Cosima

Hardcover

Series: Studies in Manuscript Cultures, Book 9

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 3110496933
ISBN13: 9783110496932
Publisher: De Gruyter
Published: Nov 7 2016
Pages: 386
Weight: 1.58
Height: 0.88 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

Composite and multiple-text manuscripts are traditionally studied for their individual texts, but recent trends in codicology have paved the way for a more comprehensive approach: Manuscripts are unique artefacts which reveal how they were produced and used as physical objects.

While multiple-text manuscripts codicologically are to be considered as production units, i.e. they were originally planned and realized in order to carry more than one text, composites consist of formerly independent codicological units and were put together at a later stage with intentions that might be completely different from those of its original parts. Both sub-types of manuscripts are still sometimes called miscellanies, a term relating to the texts only. The codicological difference is important for reconstructing why and how these manuscripts which in many cases resemble (or contain) a small library were produced and used.

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