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People take notes in different contexts of their daily lives and for various purposes. While brief handwritten notes can occur individually, for example, as a Post-it note, they are also collected over the course of time in notebooks, diaries, or logs. Recent scholarship has proposed to approach written artefacts as ‘evolving entities’ and suggested frameworks to analyse the layers of material and/or content that they acquire over time. Such a stratigraphic analysis has been fruitfully applied to many types of written artefacts, especially those produced during a clearly identifiable and planned project. However, the potential of this approach remained largely untapped for written artefacts whose production does not follow a predefined plan or necessarily proceed in an orderly fashion. Focusing on the multifarious manifestations of notes as material tools for the visualisation, organisation, and transmission of knowledge, this volume aims to fill this gap. The present volume sheds light on how practices of note-taking and knowledge organisation (re)shape written artefacts and vice-versa by dissecting the processes in which notes accumulate in a variety of multilayered written artefacts from different cultures and periods.

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FrontmatterI

ContentsV

Introduction – Accumulating Notes: Note-taking and Multilayered Written Artefacts1
José Maksimczuk and Thies Staack

Planned, Yet Improvised: Shimotsuma Shōshin’s Performance Notes on Late-sixteenth-century Japanese Nō Theatre19
Eike Grossmann

Interwoven Thoughts: Exploring Stratigraphy and Transmission in Yi Sangjŏng’s Taesan Ilgi47
Maristella Spur

Building a Notebook in Layers and Stages: A Mid-nineteenth-century Manuscript from Khwārazm73
Jürgen Paul

Accumulating Visitors: Examining a Multilingual Private Guestbook from Twentieth-century Jerusalem97
Sebastian Schirrmeister

Mono- and Multilingual Notes in the Transmission of Medico-religious Knowledge in West Africa127
Jannis Kostelnik

Palat. gr. 129: Nikephoros Gregoras’s Notebook157
Ciro Giacomelli

From Notes to Literary Works: The Accumulative Writing Process of the Ottoman Court Historian Ṣaḥḥāflarşeyḫizāde Esʿad Efendi (1789–1848)187
Nazlı Vatansever

Angelo Poliziano’s Munich Zibaldoni207
Gianmario Cattaneo

Handwritten Records on the Inside Cover of German Staging Books from the Early Twentieth Century231
Anna Sophie Felser

Facts and Fiction: Material and Literary Practices in Rainer Maria Rilke’s Notebooks255
Anna Kinder and Sandra Richter

Uncovering Layers through Mathematical Reconstruction: The Example of Thomas Harriot’s (1560–1621) Manuscripts287
Stefano Farinella and Matthias Schemmel

Contributors

Index of Written Artefacts