Scribal practice and the global cultures of colophons, 1400-1800. (2022)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Christopher D. Bahl, Stefan Hanß.
• Editors: Bahl, Christopher D; Hanß, Stefan
• Contents: 1. Information, Interpretation, Interaction: Global Cultures of Colophons, c. 1400–1800- Christopher D. Bahl and Stefan Hanß2. A Prosopography in Circulation: Advertising Scribal Travails in Arabic Manuscripts across Early Modern South Asia- Christopher D. Bahl 3. Lines of Loyalties and Early Modern Cultural Diversity: Colophons as Sites of Encounters- Stefan Hanß4. How to Publish a Book in the Fifteenth-Century Middle East: The Case of Ibn Nāṣir al-Dīn's 'Abundant Refutation'- Laurenz Kern 5. Signatures of Authority: Colophons in Seventeenth-Century Melkite Circles in Aleppo- Feras Krimsti 6. The Making of a Local Historian in Timbuktu: The Signed Marginalia Attributed to Maḥmūd Ka'ti in the Fondo Kati Collection- Susana Molins Lliteras 7. From Scribal Marks to Calligraphic Signatures? Print, Scribe and Script in Early Modern European Writing Manuals- Hannah Murphy 8. Poetry of the Scribes: Versified Colophons and Scribal Identity in Siamese Manuscript Culture- Peera Panarut 9. Muslim Scribal Culture in India around 1800: Toward a Disentangling of the Mughal Library and the Delhi Collection- Nur Sobers-Khan 10. In Absence of a Colophon: Alternative Signing Practices in Arabic Autograph Manuscripts- Torsten Wollina 11. Remembering the Living and the Dead in Fifteenth-Century Armenian Colophons: The Case of Bodleian MS Marsh 438 (I-III)- David Zakarian.
• Publisher Details: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2022
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white, and colour)
• Subjects: 002; Colophons -- History -- To 1500; Colophons -- History -- 16th century; Colophons -- History -- 17th century; Colophons -- History -- 18th century; Colophons of manuscripts -- History -- To 1500; Colophons of manuscripts -- History -- 16th century; Colophons of manuscripts -- History -- 17th century; Colophons of manuscripts -- History -- 18th century; Scribes -- History -- To 1500; Scribes -- History -- 16th century; Scribes -- History -- 17th century; Scribes -- History -- 18th century
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783030901547
• Related ISBNs: 9783030901530
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