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This seminar is taught by Professor Dr William G. Boltz during his Petra Kappert Fellowship at CSMC.

In a series of six seminar meetings, we shall explore approaches and techniques for working with Classical Chinese texts, both transmitted and discovered, and how the nature of the Chinese writing system affects philological and text critical methods and assumptions. One of the chief...

This seminar is taught by Professor Dr William G. Boltz during his Petra Kappert Fellowship at CSMC.

In a series of six seminar meetings, we shall explore approaches and techniques for working with Classical Chinese texts, both transmitted and discovered, and how the nature of the Chinese writing system affects philological and text critical methods and assumptions. One of the chief...

Thies Staack (Hamburg): Wooden and bamboo Chinese rolls
Stefan Baums (Munich): Gandhāran birchbark scrolls

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This seminar is taught by Professor Dr William G. Boltz during his Petra Kappert Fellowship at CSMC.

In a series of six seminar meetings, we shall explore approaches and techniques for working with Classical Chinese texts, both transmitted and discovered, and how the nature of the Chinese writing system affects philological and text critical methods and assumptions. One of the chief...

Assuming that ‘codicological units’ exist in whatever manuscript cultures and that they are composed of discrete elements, the issue of cohesion of these elements is a general and even universal one. Every manuscript culture has therefore developed physical devices to keep writing surfaces together and these devices can be generally categorized under binding. Like other features of manuscript...

This seminar is taught by Professor Dr William G. Boltz during his Petra Kappert Fellowship at CSMC.

In a series of six seminar meetings, we shall explore approaches and techniques for working with Classical Chinese texts, both transmitted and discovered, and how the nature of the Chinese writing system affects philological and text critical methods and assumptions. One of the chief...

This seminar is taught by Professor Dr William G. Boltz during his Petra Kappert Fellowship at CSMC.

In a series of six seminar meetings, we shall explore approaches and techniques for working with Classical Chinese texts, both transmitted and discovered, and how the nature of the Chinese writing system affects philological and text critical methods and assumptions. One of the chief...

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Imre Galambos (Cambridge): Medieval Chinese paper scrolls
Nathan Carlig (Liège): Coptic papyrus rolls

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Élodie Attia (Aix-en Provence): Parchment/Leather Hebrew liturgical scrolls
Marilena Maniaci (ANVUR): Greek and Latin Vertical rolls/scrolls

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Full title: Merchants’ manuscript culture in the premodern world (Merchants and their agents in a comparative perspective)

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Final wrap-up discussion

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In this workshop we will examine and interpret the traces of archives and archival practices that survive in extant documentary corpora from the pre-modern Islamicate world. We will bring together scholars working with original documents in various languages and scripts (Persian, Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic, Judaeo-Persian) to examine the comparability of practices with roots in legal systems, social...

In this workshop we will examine and interpret the traces of archives and archival practices that survive in extant documentary corpora from the pre-modern Islamicate world. We will bring together scholars working with original documents in various languages and scripts (Persian, Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic, Judaeo-Persian) to examine the comparability of practices with roots in legal systems, social...

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