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Selecting and excerpting, summarizing and canonizing, arranging texts and visual signs in manuscripts appear to be universal practices. This volume analyses the fascinating vicissitudes of birth and development, growth and decrease, of manuscripts consisting of more texts (‘multiple-text manuscripts’), at the example of a vast array of manuscript cultures, from the Indian, African, Christian, Islamic, and European domains.

Multiple-text manuscripts codicology manuscript collections text collections

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How can we hope to understand Islam without knowing how its founding text, the Qurʾān, took shape and then crystalized? The discovery of a palimpsest in Sanaa in 1973 confirmed the existence of other recensions of the Qurʾānic text in the first centuries of Islam. Studies of these documents and of the manuscripts of the predominant transmission have made it possible to identify the various strata of texts and the variants that were gradually excluded. This unprecedented approach to the Qurʾān profoundly renews the intellectual and cultural history of the Muslim world.

Religion --- History & Archaeology --- religion --- Quran --- Arabic language --- codicology --- Islam --- history of Quran --- islamology --- manuscripts --- paleography

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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.

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Authorship --- Books and reading --- Codicology --- Intermediality --- Manuscripts, English --- Manuscripts, English --- Manuscripts, English --- Paratext --- Printing --- History. --- History. --- Data processing. --- History. --- History --- History --- History --- History. --- History.

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"The scholarship and teaching of manuscript studies has been transformed by digitisation, rendering previously rarefied documents accessible for study on a vast scale. The Cambridge Companion to Medieval British Manuscripts orientates students in the complex, multidisciplinary study of medieval book production and contemporary display of manuscripts from c.600-1500. Accessible explanations draw on key case studies to illustrate the major methodologies and explain why skills in understanding early book production are so critical for reading, editing, and accessing a rich cultural heritage. Chapters by leading specialists in manuscript studies range from explaining how manuscripts were stored, to revealing the complex networks of readers and writers which can be understood through manuscripts, to an in depth discussion on the Wycliffite Bible."--

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