open Access Monograph Series: Studies in Manuscript Cultures

The series Studies in Manuscript Cultures (SMC) publishes monographs and collective volumes contributing to the study of written artefacts. This field of study embraces disciplines such as art history, codicology, epigraphy, history, material analysis, palaeography and philology.

SMC encourages comparative approaches, without regional, linguistic, temporal or other limitations on the objects studied; it contributes to a larger historical and systematic survey of the role of written artefacts in ancient and modern cultures, and in so doing provides a new foundation for ongoing discussions in cultural studies.

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The Syntax of Colophons

A Comparative Study across Pothi Manuscripts

Nalini Balbir, Giovanni Ciotti

Volume 27 in this series

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A Short History of Paper in Imperial China

Jean-Pierre Drège

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Manuscript and Print in the Islamic Tradition

Scott Reese

Volume 26 in this series

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Exploring Written Artefacts

Objects, Methods, and Concepts

Jörg B. Quenzer

Volume 25 in this series

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Medieval Multilingual Manuscripts

Case Studies from Ireland to Japan

Michael Clarke, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh

Volume 24 in this series

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Education Materialised

Reconstructing Teaching and Learning Contexts through Manuscripts

Stefanie Brinkmann, Giovanni Ciotti, Stefano Valente, Eva Maria Wilden

Volume 23 in this series

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Dunhuang Manuscript Culture

End of the First Millennium

Imre Galambos

Volume 22 in this series

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Disiecta Membra Musicae

Studies in Musical Fragmentology

Giovanni Varelli

Volume 21 in this series

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Fakes and Forgeries of Written Artefacts from Ancient Mesopotamia to Modern China

Cécile Michel, Michael Friedrich

Volume 20 in this series

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Trends in Statistical Codicology

Marilena Maniaci

Volume 19 in this series

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Canones: The Art of Harmony

The Canon Tables of the Four Gospels

Alessandro Bausi, Bruno Reudenbach, Hanna Wimmer

Volume 18 in this series

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The Emergence of Multiple-Text Manuscripts

Alessandro Bausi, Michael Friedrich, Marilena Maniaci

Volume 17 in this series

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Creating Standards

Interactions with Arabic script in 12 manuscript cultures

Dmitry Bondarev, Alessandro Gori, Lameen Souag

Volume 16 in this series

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Studies on Greek and Coptic Majuscule Scripts and Books

Pasquale Orsini

Volume 15 in this series

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Indic Manuscript Cultures through the Ages

Material, Textual, and Historical Investigations

Vincenzo Vergiani, Daniele Cuneo, Camillo Alessio Formigatti

Volume 14 in this series

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Jewish Manuscript Cultures

New Perspectives

Irina Wandrey

Volume 13 in this series

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The Arts and Crafts of Literacy

Islamic Manuscript Cultures in Sub-Saharan Africa

Andrea Brigaglia, Mauro Nobili

Volume 12 in this series

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Manuscripts and Archives

Comparative Views on Record-Keeping

Alessandro Bausi, Christian Brockmann, Michael Friedrich, Sabine Kienitz

Volume 11 in this series

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Dividing Texts

Conventions of Visual Text-Organisation in Nepalese and North Indian Manuscripts

Bidur Bhattarai

Volume 10 in this series

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One-Volume Libraries: Composite and Multiple-Text Manuscripts

Michael Friedrich, Cosima Schwarke

Volume 9 in this series

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Of Gods and Books

Ritual and Knowledge Transmission in the Manuscript Cultures of Premodern India

Florinda De Simini

Volume 8 in this series

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Tracing Manuscripts in Time and Space through Paratexts

Giovanni Ciotti, Hang Lin

Volume 7 in this series

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Translating Chinese Tradition and Teaching Tangut Culture

Manuscripts and Printed Books from Khara-Khoto

Imre Galambos

Volume 6 in this series

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Variance in Arabic Manuscripts

Arabic Didactic Poems from the Eleventh to the Seventeenth Centuries - Analysis of Textual Variance and Its Control in the Manuscripts

Florian Sobieroj

Volume 5 in this series

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The Writing System of Scribe Zhou

Evidence from Late Pre-imperial Chinese Manuscripts and Inscriptions (5th-3rdCenturies BCE)

Haeree Park

Volume 4 in this series

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Manuscript, Print and Memory

Relics of the Cankam in Tamilnadu

Eva Maria Wilden

Volume 3 in this series

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Manuscripts and Travellers

The Sino-Tibetan Documents of a Tenth-Century Buddhist Pilgrim

Sam van Schaik, Imre Galambos

Volume 2 in this series

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Manuscript Cultures: Mapping the Field

Jörg Quenzer, Dmitry Bondarev, Jan-Ulrich Sobisch

Volume 1 in this series

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