Title: Tracing manuscripts in time and space through paratexts /
Authors: Ciotti, Giovanni,; Lin, Hang,
Date: 2016
Publisher: De Gruyter,
Physical description: xii, 308 pages : illustrations (partly color) ; 24 cm.
Language: English
LC classification: Z
Contents: Exploring paratexts in Old Mande manuscripts / Darya Ogorodnikova -- Locating Tai Lü and Tai Khün manuscripts in space and time through colophons / Apiradee Techasiriwan -- Certain times in uncertain places : a study on scribal colophons of manuscripts written in Tamil and Tamilian Grantha scripts / Giovanni Ciotti and Marco Franceschini -- Looking inside the cover : reconstructing space and time in some Donglin manuscripts / Hang Lin -- 'Traces in red' : Chinese book collectors' seals as a means to track the transmission history of a manuscript / Max Jakob Fölster -- 'When the living envied the dead' : Church Slavonic paratexts and the apocalyptic framework of Monk Isaija's colophon (1371) / Kristina Nikolovska -- Locating Greek manuscripts through paratexts : examples from the library of Cardinal Bessarion and other manuscript collections / Vito Lorusso -- Travelling books : changes of ownership and location in Ethiopian manuscript culture / Stéphane Ancel.
Notes: International conference proceedings.
Subject headings (LCSH): Books--History.; Codicology; Colophons of manuscripts; Manuscripts--Africa--History.; Manuscripts--Asia--History.; Manuscripts--Europe--History.; Manuscripts.; Paratext; Paratext--History.