When: Mon, 13.02.2023 2:30 PM until 4:00 PM
Where: Digital
Permanent Seminar on Manuscript Analysis, Description, and Documentation
Forms of Manuscripts and Their Description: ‘Folded Manuscripts (Concertinas)’
‘Folded manuscripts’ are a wide class of written artefacts that have as a common feature the folding of a surface along a horizontal or vertical axis, or in both directions subsequently (concertinas, leporellos, folded almanacs and ‘bat books’). The relationship of these types of books with the roll and codex forms has been variously interpreted and deserves a more in-depth consideration, which can take advantage of a more accurate material analysis and a broadly comparative perspective. The second series of the seminar devoted to “Forms of manuscripts and their description” will showcase examples from different eras and manuscript cultures, ranging from Ancient Near East to Medieval China, the Roman Empire, Latin Middle Ages, Ethiopia and contemporary Indonesia. The examples illustrated by the speakers will offer useful elements for the common reflection on how to describe this still little-known category of book-objects.
Fourth session 13 February:
Angelika Danielewski (Berlin): ‘From Bark to Book: Painted Concertinas in Pre-Hispanic Mexico’
Roberta Zollo (Hamburg): 'Pustaha laklak: The Concertina Manuscripts of the Toba Batak from North Sumatra'
Final wrap-up discussion
More information on the Permanent Seminar and the previous sessions is available here.