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Originators: Transformation and Collaboration in the Production of Original Written Artefacts
Edited by Janine Droese, Ulla Kypta, Uta Lauer, and Jörg B. Quenzer with the assistance of Laura Schmalfuß
Introduction
On the Concept of ‘Originators’
2by Jörg B. Quenzer with Hanna Boeddeker, Janine Droese, Theresa Müller, Bruno Reudenbach, Ilona Steimann
Articles
Divine Authorship in the Mesopotamian Literary Tradition
11by Szilvia Sövegjártó
A Two-Line Letter Fragment and its many Originators
23by Uta Lauer
Images of the Four Evangelists: Visual Discourses on the Originators of the Word of God
39by Bruno Reudenbach
From one Cast and yet with Many Contributors: Medieval Bronze Baptismal Fonts and their Originators
53by Jochen Hermann Vennebusch
Nichiren’s Daimandara: Originators and Originating Factors in the Serialised Production of Written Artefacts
75by Steffen Döll
Creating Multiple Originals of Estate Inventories in Fourteenth-century Jerusalem
94by Said Aljoumani and Anna Steffen
Creating, Confirming, Reconstructing Authority – The Originators of the Hanserezesse
119by Ulla Kypta
One Miserere – Many Originators: Manuscripts of ‘Allegri’s Miserere’ as Originals
135by Oliver Huck
A ‘Fake’ Original and an ‘Original’ Fake – Two Cases in the Mackenzie Collection
159by Neela Bhaskar
Abu Bakar, the Temenggong of Johor, and the Creation of a Unique Type of Malay Land Deed
173by Elsa Clavé
The Scribe, the Speaker, and the Political Body: Parliamentary Minutes and their Originators in Nineteenth-century Germany
187by Hannah Boeddeker
James Last’s Instrumentals Forever – Autographs of Popular Music and the Network of Originators
197by Janine Droese and Knut Holtsträter
Written Artefacts in Performance, Writing as Performance: Origination and Dissemination
224by Franz Anton Cramer
Contributors
233
Index
236