SMC 30
Personal Manuscripts: Copying, Drafting, Taking Notes
Edited by David Durand-Guédy and Jürgen Paul
Some manuscripts have been produced for the personal use of their scribe only; whereas a number of them are valued as autographs, most have been ephemeral and were discarded. Personal manuscripts were not written for a patron, commissioner, or client. They are personal copies, anthologies, florilegia, personal notes, excerpts, drafts and notebooks, as well as family books, accountancy notebooks and many others; these forms often being mixed with one another.
This volume introduces a number of such manuscripts in a comparative perspective, from Japan to Europe through the Middle East, with a focus on the Near and Middle East.
The main concern is the possibility of identifying typical features of such manuscripts in terms of materials, visual organization and content. In attempting this, both the conditions of production and traces of the manuscripts’ use are taken into consideration, with particular attention to their material aspects.
FrontmatterI
ContentsV
Introduction
1David Durand-Guédy und Jürgen Paul
Data Overload and Information Management in the Mamluk Period (1250–1517)
33Frédéric Bauden
Between Reading and Writing: Manuscript Collections of Excerpts in Eighteenth-Century Germany85
Elisabeth Décultot
Raison d’être and Use of Stand-alone formulae in Early Medieval European Legal Manuscripts117
Philippe Depreux
The Livre de Raison of Jean Teisseire
139Mélanie Dubois-Morestin
The bayāḍ of Hindūšāh Naḫǧawānī: A Collection of Excerpts from Mongol Iran 173
David Durand-Guédy
aṣ-Ṣafadī’s taḏkira and its Holograph in Princeton University Library217
Élise Franssen
The Diary of a Shintō Priest in Medieval Japa 263
Horikawa Yasufumi
The Autograph Manuscripts of Mullā Ṣadrā (d. 1045 AH / 1635 CE): Classification and Preliminary Study287
Mohammad Karimi Zanjani Asl
User-Production of Hebrew Manuscripts Revisited: the Case of Manuscript Oxford, Bodleian Library, Huntington 200335
Judith Olszowy-Schlanger
Mufti Notebooks: Two ǧung Manuscripts from Late Nineteenth-Century Bukhara359
Jürgen Paul
Legal Consultants in the Time of the Severan Dynasty: Papyri and the Emperor’s Law395
Patrick Sänger
Autographic Manuscripts of the Arabic Speaking World created for the Scribe’s Own Use411
Florian Sobieroj
A Collector’s Edition of the Past: Personal Collections of Mesopotamian Royal Inscriptions from the Old Babylonian Period447
Szilvia Sövegjártó
Jewish Exemplars and Hebraist Copies of Hebrew Manuscripts 477
Ilona Steimann
The Types of Text Compiling as Practiced by Ṣaḥḥāflarşeyḫi-zāde Esʿad Efendi (1789–1848)533
Nazlı Vatansever
List of Contributors533
Indexes535