manuscript cultures

New website

Starting with issue #24 (August 2024), manuscript cultures is available via Hamburg University Press:

https://journals.sub.uni-hamburg.de/mc

Editorial Team

Hanna Wimmer (editor-in-chief)
José Maksimczuk (second editor-in-chief)
Olivier Bonnerot
Giovanni Ciotti
Thies Staack
Irina Wandrey

Editorial Office

Irina Wandrey

Contact

mc-journal.csmc"AT"uni-hamburg.de

Manuscript cultures is the peer-reviewed, open access journal of the Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures (CSMC). It aims at presenting new approaches to the study of written artefacts that benefit from the insights offered by the humanities, natural sciences, and computer sciences and the collaboration between them. Focussing on the ‘written artefact’, the journal seeks to challenge and transcend the restrictive definition of manuscript as ‘the handwritten book’ by including epigraphs, archival documents, graffiti, and any other product of handwriting.

Manuscript cultures welcomes contributions that study written artefacts from all regions and periods. In particular, it promotes comparative approaches to written artefacts across geographic, cultural, and temporal spheres, as well as traditional disciplinary boundaries, that contribute to a larger historical and global survey of the role of written artefacts in ancient and modern cultures. In doing so, manuscript cultures provides a new foundation for ongoing discussions in the broad field of cultural studies.

Initially established as the newsletter of the research group ‘Manuscript Cultures in Asia and Africa’ in 2008, manuscript cultures was transformed into a scholarly journal in 2011 under the editorship of Michael Friedrich and Jörg B. Quenzer. Starting with issue 24 (2024), manuscript cultures has a new multi-disciplinary editorial team and advisory board. The journal publishes two issues a year, including one thematic issue. All articles are published online throughout the year as soon as they are ready for publication.

The journal has moved to the hosting service offered by Hamburg University Press:

https://journals.sub.uni-hamburg.de/hup4/mc/index

A print version is published annually by the CSMC. All previous issues can be found here:

Originators: Transformation and Collaboration in the Production of Original Written Artefacts

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Edited by Janine Droese, Ulla Kypta, Uta Lauer, and Jörg B. Quenzer with the assistance of Laura Schmalfuß

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Section 1 edited by Thies Staack, Janine Droese, and José Maksimczuk

Agency: How Manuscripts Affect and Create Social Realities

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Edited by Michael Kohs and Sabine Kienitz

Indices – Tables of Contents – Registers

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Edited by Bruno Reudenbach

A Comparative View of the Variability of Swahili Manuscripts

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Edited by Ridder H. Samson and Clarissa Vierke

Colour Meets Map

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Edited by Kathrin Enzel, Oliver Hahn, Susanne Knödel, and Jochen Schlüter

Natural Sciences, Technology and Informatics in Manuscript Analysis

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Edited by Oliver Hahn, Volker Märgner, Ira Rabin, and H. Siegfried Stiehl

The Power of Writing: The Manuscript Culture of the Toba Batak from North Sumatra

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Edited by Jan van der Putten and Roberta Zollo

Homiletic Collections in Greek and Oriental Manuscripts

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Edited by Jost Gippert and Caroline Macé

Second International Conference on Natural Sciences and Technology in Manuscript Analysis

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Edited by Christian Brockmann, Oliver Hahn, Volker Märgner, Ira Rabin, and H. Siegfried Stiehl

manuscript cultures 10

Wonders of Creation – Ottoman Manuscripts in Hamburg Collections

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Edited by Janina Karolewski and Yavuz Köse

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Conference on Natural Sciences and Technology in Manuscript Analysis

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Edited by Christian Brockmann, Michael Friedrich, Oliver Hahn, Bernd Neumann, and Ira Rabin

Tora – Talmud – Siddur: Hebräische Handschriften der Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Hamburg

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Edited by Irina Wandrey

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Faszination Handschrift: 2000 Jahre Manuskriptkulturen in Asien, Afrika und Europa

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Edited by Jörg B. Quenzer