SMC 25
Exploring Written Artefacts
Objects, Methods, and Concepts
Edited by Jörg B. Quenzer
This two-volume collection, presented to Michael Friedrich in honour of his academic career and leadership of the Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures (Universität Hamburg), traces a number of key concepts that scholars associated with the Centre during the last two decades have developed and refined for the systematic study of manuscript cultures. The collection illustrates the fruitful integration of disciplines whose objects of study span time and space in cultural history – from Early Mesopotamia to the beginning of the twenty-first century, from East Asia to Western Europe. At the same time, the contributions showcase the possibilities of expanding the traditional subject of ‘manuscripts’ to the larger perspective of ‘written artefacts’, thereby incorporating manuscripts, inscriptions, and other objects into a common field.
FrontmatterI
ContentsV
Introduction: In Honour of Michael FriedrichXIII
Jörg B. Quenzer
VOLUME I
Matters of Materiality
‘Paleografia quale scienza dello spirito’: Once More on the Gǝʿǝz Inscription of Ham (RIÉ no. 232)3
Alessandro Bausi
Multiple-Text Inscriptions in the Greco- Roman World35
Kaja Harter-Uibopuu
Engrave on the Heart and Wash Away Care53
Lothar Ledderose
They Wrote on Clay, Wax, and Stone: Some Thoughts on Early Mesopotamian Writing67
Piotr Michalowski
What about 3D Manuscripts? The Case of the Cuneiform Clay Tablets89
Cécile Michel
How Were Bronze Inscriptions Cast in Ancient China? New Answers to Old Questions115
Ondřej Škrabal
What Inscriptions do not Tell You about Themselves: Chinese Cases139
Barend J. ter Haar
Measuring, Analysing, Computing
A New Standard Protocol for Identification of Writing Media161
Claudia Colini, Ivan Shevchuk, Kyle Ann Huskin, Ira Rabin and Oliver Hahn
Mass Spectrometry-Based Proteomics and Metaproteomics Analysis of Ancient Manuscripts183
Marina Creydt and Markus Fischer
Scientific Analysis of Leonardo’s Manuscript with Anatomic Drawings and Notes213
Oliver Hahn, Uwe Golle, Carsten Wintermann and Domenico Laurenza
Inscribed Gems: Material Profiling beyond Visible Examination229
Boriana Mihailova, Jochen Schlüter and Kaja Harter-Uibopuu
Humanities-Centred Artificial Intelligence (CHAI) as an Emerging Paradigm245
Ralf Möller
How Can Research on Written Artefacts Benefit from Collaboration with Computer Science? 267
Stefan Thiemann
Changing Media
Notes on the Terminology for Print in Early Sanskrit Printed Books281
Camillo A. Formigatti
Media Systems and Genre Conventions in Transition:
A German Priamel Booklet from Nuremberg, c. 1490307
Marco Heiles
About a Manuscript on Tea Found in Timbuktu, Mali:
Mamma Haidara Collection, MS 125, Tārīkh al-shāy fī ’l-Maghrib333
Shamil Jeppie
From Mouth to Ear to Hand:
Literacy as Recorded Orality in Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century German Courts345
Sabine Kienitz
Realms of Codicology
The Codex’s Contents: Attempt at a Codicological Approach369
Patrick Andrist and Marilena Maniaci
The Advantages of Comparative Codicology: Further Examples395
Malachi Beit-Arié
About a Series of Late Medieval Moroccan Bindings405
Nuria de Castilla and François Déroche
A Tale of Papermaking along the Silk Road423
Agnieszka Helman-Ważny
Cataloguing Arabic Manuscripts for the Project ‘Katalogisierung der Orientalischen Handschriften in Deutschland’441
Tilman Seidensticker
Repositories of Knowledge
Unravelling Multiple-Text Manuscripts: Introducing Categories Based on Content, Use, and Production 459
Antonella Brita and Janina Karolewski
Chinese Character Variants in Medieval Dictionaries and Manuscripts491
Imre Galambos
The Art of Astrological Computations:
Conrad Heingarter and the Manuscript Paris, BnF latin 7295A513
Matthieu Husson
Magic in the Hebrew-Manuscript Collection of the Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Hamburg: Observations on Cod. hebr. 252533
Michael Kohs and Giuseppe Veltri
Notes on a Central Asian Notebook563
Jürgen Paul
Creating an Original of a Greek Lexicon in the Middle Ages:
Notes on the Manuscript Vaticanus Barberinianus gr. 70 of the Etymologicum Gudianum583
Stefano Valente
VOLUME II
Paracontent
A Multilayered Greek Manuscript of Learning:
Some Glimpses into the Scribal Practices Evident in the Aristotelean Codex Vaticanus graecus 244603
Christian Brockmann
From ‘Task’ to ‘Title’? Japanese Linked Poetry and the Fushimono623
Heidi Buck-Albulet
Hidden Colophons647
Jost Gippert
Sealed Manuscripts in Laos: New Findings from Luang Prabang667
Volker Grabowsky
Naming the Author: The Taṇṭi Motif in the Margins of the Tamil Poetic Tradition689
Eva Wilden
Visual Matters
A Typology of West African Ajami Manuscripts: Languages, Layout and Research Perspectives707
Dmitry Bondarev
Forgery and Appreciation of Old Choir Books in Nineteenth-Century Europe729
Andreas Janke
A Lesser-Known Member of Bessarion’s Milieu: The Scribe-Bishop Makarios753
Luigi Orlandi
Enigmatic Calligraphy: Lettering as Visualized Hermeneutic of Sacred Scripture773
Bruno Reudenbach
Sailing-Ships and Character Illustrations in Three Javanese Literary Poetic Manuscripts795
Dick van der Meij
Peripatetic Readers and a Dancing Maiden:
Marginal Multigraphic Discourse in a Medieval Latin Multiple-Text Manuscript821
Hanna Wimmer
Rethinking Philology
Textual Criticism and Early Chinese Manuscripts845
William G. Boltz
Notes for an Ontological Approach within Manuscript Studies:
Object Oriented Ontology and the Pothi Manuscript Culture865
Giovanni Ciotti
Collation in Early Imperial China: From Administrative Procedure to Philological Tool889
Max Jakob Fölster and Thies Staack
Loss and Circumstances: How Early Modern Europe Discovered the ‘Material Text’913
Markus Friedrich
The Letters of Michael Psellos and their Function in Byzantine Epistolary Culture933
Michael Grünbart
Preaching with the Hands:
Notes on Cassiodorus’ Praise of Handwriting and its Medieval Reception947
Felix Heinzer
Performance and Ritual
Where did the Ngạn People Come From?
Ritual Manuscripts among the Ngạn in Northern Vietnam967
David Holm
(Re-)Writing Jazz: The Manuscripts of John Coltrane’s A Love Supreme 989
Oliver Huck
A Ritual Manual of Healing:
The Body-Balance of the Four Elements and the Four Key Factors of Manuscript Production and Usage1005
Silpsupa Jaengsawang
The Volvelle and the Lingga: The Use of Two Manuscript Ritual Devices in a Tibetan Exorcism1025
Charles Ramble
‘Vu et approuvé’: Censorship Notes in Hamburg Prompt Books from the French Period1043
Martin Jörg Schäfer
Transmission in Time and Space
The Unusual Story of a Wandering Book and its Physical Metamorphosis1063
Paola Buzi
Joint Forces: A Handscroll by Zhao Mengfu and Guan Daosheng1077
Uta Lauer
Touched by a Tale of Friendship: An Early Nineteenth-Century Zidishu Manuscript1099
Zhenzhen Lu
On Some Manuscripts of Hatifi’s Timurnama1123
Charles Melville
Contributors1147
Indices1155