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This collection, presented to Michael Friedrich in honour of his academic career at of the Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures, traces key concepts that scholars associated with the Centre have developed and refined for the systematic study of manuscript cultures. At the same time, the contributions showcase the possibilities of expanding the traditional subject of 'manuscripts' to the larger perspective of 'written artefacts'.

Codicology.

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Some manuscripts have been produced for the personal use of their scribe only; whereas a number of them are valued as autographs, most have been ephemeral and were discarded. Personal manuscripts were not written for a patron, commissioner, or client. They are personal copies, anthologies, florilegia, personal notes, excerpts, drafts and notebooks, as well as family books, accountancy notebooks and many others; these forms often being mixed with one another. This volume introduces a number of such manuscripts in a comparative perspective, from Japan to Europe through the Middle East, with a focus on the Near and Middle East. The main concern is the possibility of identifying typical features of such manuscripts in terms of materials, visual organization and content. In attempting this, both the conditions of production and traces of the manuscripts' use are taken into consideration, with particular attention to their material aspects.

Autograph. --- Manuscripts. --- Codicology.

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"This volume focuses on the status of research on Hebrew manuscript culture and includes manuscripts written in other Jewish scripts or languages such as Aramaic, Judaeo-Arabic or Yiddish. The work spans 16 academic papers dealing with the state of the art in areas such as codicology and palaeography, manuscript and book collections, illuminations and fragments, and the material analysis of manuscripts"-- Provided by publisher.

Codicology --- Jews --- Manuscripts, Hebrew --- Manuscripts

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The universal practice of selecting and excerpting, summarizing and canonizing, arranging and organizing texts and visual signs, either in carefully dedicated types of manuscripts or not, is common to all manuscript cultures. Determined by intellectual or practical needs, this process is never neutral in itself. The resulting proximity and juxtaposition of previously distant contents, challenge previous knowledge and trigger further developments. With a vast selection of highly representative case studies - from India, Islamic Asia and Spain to Ethiopian cultures, from Ancient Christian to Coptic, and Medieval European domains - this volume deals with manuscripts planned or growing and resulting in time to comprise 'more than one'. Whatever their contents - the natural world and related recipes, astronomical tables or personal notes, documentary, religious and even highly revered holy texts - codicological and textual features of these manuscripts reveal how similar needs received different answers in varying contexts and times.

Literature & literary studies --- Regional studies --- Multiple-text manuscripts. --- codicology. --- manuscript collections. --- text collections. --- To 1500

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"Working with manuscripts has become a digital affair. But, are there downsides to digital photos? And how can you take advantage of the incredible computing power you have literally at your fingertips? Cornelis van Lit explains in detail what happens when manuscript studies meets digital humanities. In Among Digitized Manuscripts you will learn why it is important to include a note on the photo quality in your codicological description, how to draw, collect, and publish glyphs of paleographic interest, what standards (such as TEI and IIIF) to abide by when transcribing a text, how to write custom software for image recognition, and much more. The leading principle is that learning a little about computers will already be of great benefit"--

Information systems --- Manuscripts. Epigraphy. Paleography --- philology --- paleography --- digitizing --- codicology --- Manuscripts --- Codicology --- Philology --- Paleography --- Islamic civilization --- Digital humanities. --- Data processing. --- Digitization. --- Library resources. --- Digital humanities --- Data processing --- Library resources --- Digitization --- Reference works --- Sociology.