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La 4e de couv. indique : "Faire le portrait scriptural de Montpellier durant les 150 ans qui s'étendent de la fin de la seigneurie des Guilhem au passage de la ville sous le contrôle du roi de France, en 1349, tel est le projet de ce livre. Montpellier connaît alors un régime politique consulaire qui confère aux élites urbaines un pouvoir gouvernemental étendu. Le cas singulier de cette grande ville méditerranéenne, dont les archives médiévales ont été remarquablement conservées, permet d'éclairer avec précision la dynamique historique d'essor de l'écrit pratique en Occident et les nouveaux mécanismes de domination et de transaction sociales qui l'accompagnent. L'ouvrage explore ainsi les rapports complexes qui unissent l'histoire de la culture de l'écrit aux formes sociales et politiques d'affirmation des communautés. Il tâche de restituer la spécificité d'un long XIIIe siècle dans l'histoire de l'Occident qui, loin d'être un simple prodrome à la construction de l'État moderne, laisse entrevoir des trajectoires que le cours de l'histoire a reléguées au rang d'occasions manquées. Dans l'analyse des évolutions inscrites dans l'ordre scriptural et documentaire de la ville, ressurgissent des questions qui sont au coeur de la tradition des sciences sociales depuis plus d'un siècle : d'une part, celle de l'essor de la rationalité et de ses rapports avec la bureaucratie. D'autre part, celle des innovations qu'introduit la diffusion de l'écrit dans l'organisation des sociétés."

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Indonesian Manuscripts from the Islands of Java, Madura, Bali and Lombok discusses aspects of the long and impressive manuscript traditions of these islands, which share many aspects of manuscript production. Many hitherto unaddressed features of palm-leaf manuscripts are discussed here for the first time as well as elements of poetic texts, indications of mistakes, colophons and the calendrical information used in these manuscripts. All features discussed are explained with photographs. The introductory chapters offer insights into these traditions in a wider setting and the way researchers have studied them. This original and pioneering work also points out what topics needs further exploration to understand these manuscript traditions that use a variety of materials, languages, and scripts to a wider public.

Manuscripts, Indonesian. --- Indonesian manuscripts

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This volume is the 16th of the PSI series (started by Girolamo Vitelli in 1912) and contains the edition of 79 texts written in Greek on papyri or other materials (wood, parchment), coming from Egypt and kept at the Papyrological Institute «G. Vitelli». There are both fragments of famous Ancient Greek authors (Homer, Hesiod, Herodotus, Thucydides, Xenophon, Isocrates, Demosthenes, Plutarch; the Septuagint, Cyril of Alexandria, the Physiologist), as well as fragments of unknown works: among others, a grammar text on the Ionian dialect and a doxographic fragment on Aristotelian philosophy. Then, there are texts of documentary nature: petitions, tax receipts, registers, reports, private letters, testimony of the daily life in Egypt during Roman and Byzantine times.

Manuscripts, Classical (Papyri) --- Manuscripts

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Built in the 6th century by order of Emperor Justinian, the Monastery of Saint Catherine in the Sinai desert preserves the oldest Christian monastic library with an uninterrupted history. This Greek Orthodox Monastery houses a significant collection of manuscripts in the world, including a large number of palimpsest manuscripts (over 170). Eleven different languages are attested in their erased layers as "scriptiones inferiores": they reflect the long history and the multicultural nature of the Sinai shrine. This book lies at the intersection of palimpsest studies and the investigation of the Byzantine Greek Euchologia (prayer books), with an additional focus on the history of the Sinai library. This study offers the first inventory of the Greek palimpsests preserved at the Monastery of Saint Catherine, including a list of newly identified "membra disiecta sinaitica." The second part contains the detailed description and historical analysis of three selected Sinai Euchologia (Sin. gr. 960, Sin. gr. 962, Sin. gr. 966) written on recycled parchment, which have never been studied with regard to their "scriptiones inferiores". The collected material contributes to our knowledge of the history and development of the Sinai collection of manuscripts over the centuries.

Manuscripts, Greek.

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This collection of essays explores the history of the book in pre-modern South Asia looking at the production, circulation, fruition and preservation of manuscripts in different areas and across time. Edited by the team of the Cambridge-based Sanskrit Manuscripts Project and including contributions of the researchers who collaborated with it, it covers a wide range of topics related to South Asian manuscript culture: from the material dimension (palaeography, layout, decoration) and the complicated interactions of manuscripts with printing in late medieval Tibet and in modern Tamil Nadu, to reading, writing, editing and educational practices, from manuscripts as sources for the study of religious, literary and intellectual traditions, to the creation of collections in medieval India and Cambodia (one major centre of the so-called Sanskrit cosmopolis), and the formation of the Cambridge collections in the colonial period. The contributions reflect the variety of idioms, literary genres, religious movements, and social actors (intellectuals, scribes, patrons) of ancient South Asia, as well as the variety of approaches, interests and specialisms of the authors, and their impassionate engagement with manuscripts.

Manuscripts, Indic.