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Manuscript Cultures

Manuscripts have played a crucial role in the educational practices of virtually all cultures that have a history of using them. Education Materialised , the latest volume in our series ‘ Studies in Manuscript Cultures ’ (SMC), investigates the relation between manuscripts and educational practices in multiple case...

CSMC congratulates Usman Al-Amin on successfully defending his doctoral dissertation titled Ṣūfī Manuscript Culture in Western Borno: A Critical Analysis of Themes and Contents of 20th Century Works of Nguru Ṣūfī Scholars.

The defense took place on 7 July 2021.

The collection is part of the bequest of Father Paul L-M. Serruys, C.I.C.M. (1912-1999) who is remembered as an eminent scholar and professor of early Chinese texts, language and linguistics, who spent thirteen years as a missionary in Northern China until 1949. During this period, he developed an interest in anthropology...

The seventh edition of the Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures’ series Artefact of the Month (AoM), written by CSMC's Ondřej Škrabal, has been published. The article A Scoop of Filial Piety? examines a literal scoop from ancient China. The article illustrates the reasons for adding new supplements to the original...

The new issue 15 of manuscript cultures contains a selection of peer-reviewed papers presented at the workshop OpenX
for Interdisciplinary Computational Manuscript Research and the third International Conference on Natural Sciences and Technology in Manuscript Analysis along with some additional unique case studies. The...

The sixth edition of the Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures’ series Artefact of the Month (AoM), written by Kathryn Sutherland, has been published. The article Jane Austen’s Frugal Art examines the working draft of an unfinished and unpublished novel by Jane Austen. The many additions, revisions and and other...