In the author's hand
Subtitle: holograph and authorial manuscripts in the Islamic handwritten tradition
By: edited by Frédéric Bauden, Élise Franssen
Series: Islamic history and civilization ; studies and texts -- volume 171; Islamic history and civilization -- v. 171.
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2020
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 454
ISBN-13: 9789004413160; 9789004413177
Subjects: Codicology; Congresses; Arabic Manuscripts; Paleography; Arabic Calligraphy; History; Arabische Schrift; Autograf; Handschrift; Paläographie
Description: "In recent years, a growing interest in "oriental manuscripts" in all their aspects, including the extrinsic ones, has been observed. Research that focuses on holograph, autograph and authorial manuscripts in Arabic handwritten script has nevertheless been casual, although these manuscripts raise important and varied questions. The study of the working methods of authors from the past informs different disciplines: paleography, codicology, textual criticism, ecdotics, linguistics and intellectual history. In this volume nine contributions and case studies are gathered that address theoretical issues and convey different, disruptive perspectives."--
Notes: Based on papers presented at an international conference on Autograph/Holograph and Authorial Manuscripts in Arabic Script, held at the University of Liège,10-11 October 2013.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

In English with some text in French.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Comment recconaitre un autographe parmi les papyrus littéraires grecs? L'exemple du P. Oxy. 74.4970 / Marie-Hélène Marganne; title: Arabic holographs: characteristics and terminology / Adam Gacek; title: Bi-khaṭṭ mu'allifihi Vraiment?! L'apport de l'analyse judiciaire / Élise Franssen; title: Maqriziana XV : the characteristics of al-Maqrīzī's handwriting / Frédéric Bauden; title: The art of copying: Mamlūk manuscript culture in theory and practice / Elias Muhanna; title: The holograph notebooks of Akmal al-Dīn Muḥammad b. Mufliḥ (d.1011/1603) / Kristina Richardson; title: 'Aynī's working method for his Chronicles: analysis of his autographical manuscript / NobutakaNakamachi; title: Textual criticism on the manuscripts of Ibn Khaldun's autobiographical manuscripts / Retsu Hashizume; title: Les safīnas yéménites / Julien Dufour and Anne Regourd.