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Manuscripts have played a crucial role in the educational practices of virtually all cultures that have a history of using them. As learning and teaching tools, manuscripts become primary witnesses for reconstructing and studying didactic and research activities and methodologies from elementary levels to the most advanced.
The present volume investigates the relation between manuscripts and educational practices focusing on four particular research topics: educational settings: teachers, students and their manuscripts; organising knowledge: syllabi; exegetical practices: annotations; modifying tradition: adaptations.
The volume offers a number of case studies stretching across geophysical boundaries from Western Europe to South-East Asia, with a time span ranging from the second millennium BCE to the twentieth century CE.

FrontmatterI

ContentsV

IntroductionIX
Stefanie Brinkmann, Giovanni Ciotti, Stefano Valente und Eva Wilden

Educational Settings: Teachers, Students and their Manuscripts

Introduction: Reconstructing Agents, Places, and Methods through Manuscripts3
Stefanie Brinkmann

Teaching in Old Babylonian Nippur, Learning in Old Assyrian Aššur?15
Wiebke Beyer

Notker the Stammerer’s Compendium for his Pupils33
Till Hennings

The Study of the Bible in the Cathedral Schools of Twelfth-Century France:
A Case Study of Robert Amiclas and Peter Comestor49
Simon Whedbee

Producing, Distributing and Using Manuscripts for Teaching Purposes at French,
English and German Universities in the Late Middle Ages71
Michael Baldzuhn

Ink Making by the Book: Learning a Craft in the Arabic World 97
Claudia Colini

‘I Heard it from my Teacher’: Reflections on the Transmission of Knowledge in
Islamic Manuscripts from Senegambia and Mali 127
Darya Ogorodnikova

The Education of Alevi Religious Specialists and their Manuscripts:
Ali Göktürk Dede from Şeyh Hasan Köyü, Turkey151
Janina Karolewski

Exegetical Practices: Annotations and Glossing

Introduction: Material Evidence for Exegetical Practices and Intellectual Engagement with Texts 187
Stefano Valente

Annotating Aristotle’s Organon in the Byzantine Age:
Some Remarks on the Manuscripts Princeton MS 173 and Leuven, FDWM 1 191
Stefano Valente

Scholarship between the Lines: Interlinear Glossing in Siamese Literary Manuscripts215
Peera Panarut

From Marginal Glosses to Translations: Levels of Glossing in an Early Medieval Manuscript
(Munich, BSB, Clm 19410) 241
Till Hennings

Organising Knowledge: Syllabi

Introduction: On the Interplay between Syllabi, Texts and Manuscripts 259
Giovanni Ciotti

The Treasure of Alexander – Stories of Discovery and Authorship 279
Lucia Raggetti

Tamil Ilakkaṇam (‘Grammar’) and the Interplay between Syllabi, Corpora and Manuscripts 315
Giovanni Ciotti

Law Syllabi and Text Production among Šāfi‘ite Ethiopian Muslims:
A Short Note on Some Manuscripts of al-Nawawī’s Minhāǧ al-ṭālibīn 353
Alessandro Gori

Modifying Tradition: Adaptations

Introduction 373
Eva Wilden

The ‘Vanaratna Codex’: A Rare Document of Buddhist Text Transmission
(London, Royal Asiatic Society, Hodgson MS 35)379
Martin Delhey

Personal Poetics: An Adapted Version of a Well-Known Treatise in Old Tamil 399
Eva Wilden

Variations on Some Common Topics in Medieval Latin Letters:
The Case of the Salzburg Formulae Collection (Late Ninth Century) 417
Philippe Depreux

Adapting the Concept of Proportio to Rhythm in the Ars subtilior: Ugolino da Orvieto’s
Compositions and his Statements on Proportion Signs in Codex Casanatense 2151 441
Elisabeth Hufnagel

Adaptation of Buyruk Manuscripts to Impart Alevi Teachings:
Mehmet Yaman Dede and the Arapgir-Çimen Buyruğu 465
Janina Karolewski