EAN: 9783110496932

ONE-VOLUME LIBRARIES COMPOSITE AND MULTIPLE-TEX...

Composite and multiple-text manuscripts are traditionally studied for their individual texts 
but recent trends in codicology have paved the way for a more comprehensive approach:
Manuscripts are unique artefacts which reveal how they were produced and used as physical
objects. While multiple-text manuscripts codicologically are to be considered as production
units  i.e. they were originally planned and realized in order to carry more than one text 
composites consist of formerly independent codicological units and were put together at a later
stage with intentions that might be completely different from those of its original parts. Both
sub-types of manuscripts are still sometimes called miscellanies  a term relating to the texts
only. The codicological difference is important for reconstructing why and how these
manuscripts which in many cases resemble (or contain) a small library were produced and used.
Contributions on the manuscript cultures of China India  Africa  the Islamic world and European
traditions lead not only to the conclusion that one-volume libraries have been produced in many
manuscript cultures  but allow also for the identification of certain types of uses.

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