SMC 17
The Emergence of Multiple-Text Manuscripts
Edited by Alessandro Bausi, Michael Friedrich and Marilena Maniaci
The universal practice of selecting and excerpting, summarizing and canonizing, arranging and organizing texts and visual signs, either in carefully dedicated types of manuscripts or not, is common to all manuscript cultures. Determined by intellectual or practical needs, this process is never neutral in itself. The resulting proximity and juxtaposition of previously distant contents, challenge previous knowledge and trigger further developments.
With a vast selection of highly representative case studies – from India, Islamic Asia and Spain to Ethiopian cultures, from Ancient Christian to Coptic, and Medieval European domains – this volume deals with manuscripts planned or growing and resulting in time to comprise ‘more than one’. Whatever their contents – the natural world and related recipes, astronomical tables or personal notes, documentary, religious and even highly revered holy texts – codicological and textual features of these manuscripts reveal how similar needs received different answers in varying contexts and times.
Frontmatter
ContentsV
PrefaceVII
Functions of Multiple-Text Manuscripts in India: The Jain Case1
by Nalini Balbir
Multiple-Text Manuscripts in Medieval China37
by Imre Galambos
Text Collections in the Arabic Manuscript Tradition of Harar:
The Case of the Mawlid Collection and of šayḫ Hāšim’s al-Fatḥ al-Raḥmānī59
by Alessandro Gori
‘Dichos bien hermanados’. Towards a Typology of Mudéjar and Morisco Multiple-Text Manuscripts75
by Nuria de Castilla
The Eusebian Canon Tables as a Corpus-Organizing Paratext within the
Multiple-Text Manuscript of the Fourfold Gospel107
by Matthew Crawford
The Ninth-Century Coptic ‘Book Revolution’ and the Emergence of Multiple-Text Manuscripts125
by Paola Buzi
Personal Multiple-Text Manuscripts in Late Medieval Central Europe: The ‘Library’ of Crux of Telč (1434–1504)145
by Lucie Doležalová
The Prince and the Scholar:
A Study of Two Multiple-Text Manuscripts from Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries Morocco171
by François Déroche
Some Poetic Multiple-Text Manuscripts of the Byzantine Era201
by Francesca Maltomini
Rolling Stones Do Gather: MS Istanbul Aya Sofya 3610 and Its Collection of Mineralogical Texts215
by Lucia Ragetti
Mathematical Astronomy and the Production of Multiple-Texts Manuscripts in Late Medieval Europe:
A Comparison of BnF lat. 7197 and BnF lat. 7432247
by Matthieu Husson
The Development of Arabic Multiple-Text and Composite Manuscripts:
The Case of ḥadīth Manuscripts in Damascus during the Late Medieval Period275
by Konrad Hirschler
Concepts and Vocabulary for the Analysis of Thematic Codices: The Example of Greek Adversus Iudaeos Books305
by Patrick Andrist
List of Contributors347
Index of Manuscripts351
Index of Persons357