manuscript cultures
Editors: Michael Friedrich and Jörg B. Quenzer
Editorial office: Irina Wandrey
CSMC’s academic journal was established as newsletter of the research unit ‘Manuscript Cultures in Asia and Africa’ in 2008 and transformed into a scholarly journal with the appearance of vol 4 in 2011. manuscript cultures (mc) publishes exhibition catalogues and articles contributing to the study of written artefacts. This field of study embraces disciplines such as art history, codicology, epigraphy, history, material analysis, palaeography and philology.
manuscript cultures encourages comparative approaches, without regional, linguistic, temporal or other limitations on the objects studied; it contributes to a larger historical and systematic survey of the role of written artefacts in ancient and modern cultures, and in so doing provides a new foundation for ongoing discussions in cultural studies.
Every volume of manuscript cultures has been peer-reviewed and is openly accessible.
If you wish to present your research in one of our publications, please contact the editorial office.
Our guidelines for publications are available here.
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manuscript cultures 17Proceedings of the conference 'One Text, Many Forms – A Comparative View of the Variability of Swahili Manuscripts' Edited by Ridder H. Samson and Clarissa Vierke |
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manuscript cultures 16„Farbe trifft Landkarte“ | ‘Colour Meets Map’ Ausstellungskatalog | Exhibition Catalogue Exhibition at the Museum am Rothenbaum - Kulturen und Künste der Welt (MARKK), Hamburg, 27 August 2021 - 30 January 2022. Edited by Kathrin Enzel, Oliver Hahn, Susanne Knödel, and Jochen Schlüter |
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manuscript cultures 15Natural Sciences, Technology and Informatics in Manuscript Analysis |
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manuscript cultures 14„Die Macht der Schrift: Die Manuskriptkultur der Toba-Batak aus Nord-Sumatra“ | ‘The Power of Writing: The Manuscript Culture of the Toba Batak from North Sumatra’ Ausstellungskatalog | Exhibition Catalogue |
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manuscript cultures 13Homiletic Collections in Greek and Oriental Manuscripts |
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manuscript cultures 11Proceedings of the SFB 950 'Manuskriptkulturen in Asien, Afrika und Europa' – Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures, 29 February to 2 March 2016. Edited by Christian Brockmann, Oliver Hahn, Volker Märgner, Ira Rabin, and H. Siegfried Stiehl |
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manuscript cultures 9Catalogue for the Exhibition 16 September to 30 October 2016 Edited by Janina Karolewski and Yavuz Köse Second revised edition 2018 |
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manuscript cultures 7Proceedings of the at the University of Hamburg, |
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manuscript cultures 6Catalogue for the Exhibition at the State and University Library Hamburg |
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manuscript cultures 4Catalogue of the exhibition 17 November 2011 to 8 January 2012 Edited by Jörg B. Quenzer Second revised edition 2014 |
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