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Journal of Historical Network Research, 2023 Books of hours were the medieval best-seller. Imitating the model of liturgical books and intended for the faithful, these devotional manuscripts contain a common core of offices and texts, and they seem to have a standardized content. However, the order
Dominique Stutzmann, Louis Chevalier
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RUDN Journal of Russian History, 2022 The article is devoted to an overview of the latest trends in the study of the written heritage of the merchants of Russia. The author examines the principles and approaches to the study and publication of merchant autobiographical and epistolary texts ...
Maria A. Smirnova
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The oldest collage art in the Quran Museum of Astan Quds Razavi from the Seljuk Era [PDF]
کتابداری و اطلاعرسانیObjective: The collage art is one of the branches of book layout in Islamic civilization entered Iran from the East and during the Timurid period; however, this research revealed that the history of the art of cutting dates back to the Seljuk period and ...
Vahid Tavassoli
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Restoring Medieval Manuscripts in the Eighteenth-Century: Completing or Perfecting?
Perspectives Médiévales, 2020 While today’s digital era raises new questions for the preservation of medieval manuscripts, the desire to preserve and transmit the literature of the Middle Ages is not new.
Delphine Demelas
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Female Agency in Manuscript Cultures [PDF]
Manuscript cultures have frequently forgotten or erased women’s contributions. Their agency is a glaring blind spot in the pursuit of gender perspectives on the production of written artefacts.
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Making Order in the Vaults of Memory: Tamil Satellite Stanzas on the Transmission of Texts
Kervan. International Journal of Afro-Asiatic Studies, 2017 The Tamil intellectual universe, like so many others, underwent a profound change in the course of the 19th century, the period when print, although not unknown before, became available for the first time on a large scale, which allowed the publication ...
Eva Wilden
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, 2021 This volume reveals how manuscripts may be used in gaining knowledge of educational practices across Africa, Asia and Europe from the Babylonian period up to the twentieth century.
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Tied and Bound: A Comparative View on Manuscript Binding
, 2023 Every book form – from China to West Africa, from Europe to Mesopotamia – requires a way to secure cohesion of its constituent elements and keep them together.
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Manuscript Albums and their Cultural Contexts [PDF]
Manuscript albums are oftentimes contradictory objects: ephemeral yet monumental, coherent yet inviting change. Collecting items made by others, owners form their albums as representations of their selves, their worlds, and their traditions. The volume’s
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Scribal networks: Visualizing twelfth-century Cistercian book production through network analysis
Journal of Historical Network Research, 2023 This paper tests the application of network analysis to the visualization and analysis of paleographical data. In recent years, the twelfth-century scriptoria of the Austrian Cistercian monasteries of Heiligenkreuz, Zwettl and Baumgartenberg have been ...
Katharina Kaska
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