Studies in Manuscript Cultures

Editors: Imre Galambos, Konrad Hirschler, Caroline Macé, Cécile Michel, Jörg B. Quenzer, and Eva Wilden

Secretary: Caroline Macé

The series Studies in Manuscript Cultures (SMC) publishes monographs and collective volumes studying handwritten artefacts. It publishes research from disciplines such as art history, codicology, computer vision, epigraphy, history, material analysis, palaeography, and philology.

SMC 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.

SMC volumes are published as Open Access under the Creative Commons license CC BY-NC-ND by De Gruyter (Berlin): https://www.degruyter.com/view/serial/SMC-B.

If you wish to submit a book (min. 220 pages) for publication in SMC, please send a proposal (title, summary, provisional table of contents, expected date of submission) to the secretary of the board. The editorial board will consider the suitability of the proposal to the scope of the series. You will be notified about the acceptance or rejection of the proposal within a few weeks, and you will also be informed about the expected workflow and time plan for the publication. Final acceptance of the submitted book will occur only after the peer review process. Please read the review guide for some important information about our review process and comply to the guidelines regarding formal aspects of the submission. Refer also to the guidelines of the CSMC working group for ethical and responsible research.

• Studies in Manuscript Cultures Peer Review Guide (PDF)
• Guidelines for Publications (PDF)
• Ethical and Responsible Research at CSMC

The following guidelines, with tentative timeline, are intended to help those who plan to publish an edited volume (or monograph) with SMC:

• Guidelines for SMC volume editors (PDF)

All submissions should present original scholarship of the highest quality. Work that will soon be published in essentially the same form as part of another book or journal issue or made available on the internet should not be submitted. Submissions are considered for publication on the assumption that they are not being considered for publication by another institution.

The CSMC does not take a positive or negative stance towards the use of AI technologies in research and writing processes. If AI technologies are used, the following rules have to be followed:

1. The use of generative models has to be acknowledged in the publication.
2. The authors must make sure that the use of generative models does not infringe anyone else’s intellectual property and does not result in scientific misconduct, for example in the form of plagiarism.
3. All authors must explicitly consent to the use of each generative model.

	40 Vernacular Chinese-Character Manuscripts from East and Southeast Asia Edited by David Holm
	39 Female Agency in Manuscript Cultures Edited by Eike Grossmann
	38 Exploring Multilingualism and Multiscriptism in Written Artefacts Edited by Szilvia Sövegjártó and Márton Vér
	37 The Ancient World Revisited: Material Dimensions of Written Artefacts Edited by Marilina Betró, Michael Friedrich, and Cécile Michel
	36 Manuscripts and Performances in Religions, Arts, and Sciences Edited by Antonella Brita, Janina Karolewski, Matthieu Husson, Laure Miolo, and Hanna Wimmer
	35 Graffiti Scratched, Scrawled, Sprayed: Towards a Cross-Cultural Understanding Edited by Ondřej Škrabal, Leah Mascia , Ann Lauren Osthof, and Malena Ratzke
	34 Manuscript Albums and their Cultural Contexts Edited by Janine Droese and Janina Karolewski
	33 Tied and Bound: A Comparative View on Manuscript Binding Edited by Alessandro Bausi and Michael Friedrich
	32 Andronikos Kallistos: A Byzantine Scholar and His Manuscripts in Italian Humanism Luigi Orlandi
	30 Personal Manuscripts: Copying, Drafting, Taking Notes Edited by David Durand-Guédy and Jürgen Paul
	29 Libraries in the Manuscript Age Edited by Nuria de Castilla , François Déroche and Michael Friedrich
	28 Bon and Naxi Manuscripts Edited by Agnieszka Helman-Ważny and Charles Ramble
	27 The Syntax of Colophons Edited by Nalini Balbir and Giovanni Ciotti
	26 Manuscript and Print in the Islamic Tradition Edited by Scott Reese
	25 Exploring Written Artefacts Edited by Jörg B. Quenzer
	24 Medieval Multilingual Manuscripts Edited by Michael Clarke and Máire Ní Mhaonaigh
	23 Education Materialised: Reconstructing Teaching and Learning Contexts through Manuscripts Edited by Stefanie Brinkmann, Giovanni Ciotti, Stefano Valente, and Eva Maria Wilden
	22 Dunhuang Manuscript Culture: End of the First Millennium Edited by Imre Galambos
	21 Disiecta Membra Musicae: Studies in Musical Fragmentology Edited by Giovanni Varelli
	20 Fakes and Forgeries of Written Artefacts from Ancient Mesopotamia to Modern China  Edited by Cécile Michel and Michael Friedrich
	19 Trends in Statistical Codicology  Edited by Marilena Maniaci
	18 Canones: The Art of Harmony Edited by Alessandro Bausi, Bruno Reudenbach, and Hanna Wimmer
	17 The Emergence of Multiple-Text Manuscripts Edited by Alessandro Bausi, Michael Friedrich, and Marilena Maniaci
	16 Creating Standards: Interactions with Arabic Script in 12 Manuscript Cultures Edited by Dmitry Bondarev, Alessandro Gori, and Lameen Souag
	15 Studies on Greek and Coptic Majuscule Scripts and Books Pasquale Orsini
	14 Indic Manuscript Cultures through the Ages: Material, Textual, and Historical Investigations Edited by Vincenzo Vergiani, Daniele Cuneo, and Camillo Alessio Formigatti
	13 Jewish Manuscript Cultures: New Perspectives Edited by Irina Wandrey
	12 The Arts and Crafts of Literacy: Islamic Manuscript Cultures in Sub-Saharan Africa Edited by Andrea Brigaglia and Mauro Nobili
	11 Manuscripts and Archives Edited by Alessandro Bausi, Christian Brockmann, Michael Friedrich, and Sabine Kienitz
	10 Dividing Texts: Conventions of Visual Text-Organisation in Nepalese and North Indian Manuscripts Bidur Bhattarai
	9 One-Volume Libraries: Composite and Multiple-Text Manuscripts Edited by Michael Friedrich and Cosima Schwarke
	8 Of Gods and Books: Ritual and Knowledge Transmission in the Manuscript Cultures of Premodern India Florinda De Simini
	7 Tracing Manuscripts in Time and Space through Paratexts Edited by Giovanni Ciotti and Hang Lin
	6 Translating Chinese Tradition and Teaching Tangut Culture: Manuscripts and Printed Books from Khara-Khoto Imre Galambos
	5 Variance in Arabic Manuscripts - Arabic Didactic Poems from the Eleventh to the Seventeenth Centuries: Analysis of Textual Variance and Its Control in the Manuscripts Florian Sobieroj
	4 The Writing System of Scribe Zhou: Evidence from Late Pre-imperial Chinese Manuscripts and Inscriptions (5th-3rd Centuries BCE) Haeree Park
	3 Manuscript, Print and Memory: Relics of the Cankam in Tamilnadu Eva Maria Wilden
	2 Manuscripts and Travellers: The Sino-Tibetan Documents of a Tenth-Century Buddhist Pilgrim Sam van Schaik and Imre Galambos
	1 Manuscript Cultures: Mapping the Field Edited by Jörg B. Quenzer, Dmitry Bondarev, and Jan-Ulrich Sobisch