Greek manuscript cataloguing
Subtitle: past, present, and future
By: edited by Paola Degni, Paolo Eleuteri, and Marilena Maniaci
Series: Bibliologia -- 48; Bibliologia (Turnhout, Belgium) -- v. 48.
Publisher: Brepols; Brepols Publishers
Published: 2018
Place of publication: Turnhout, Belgium
Language: eng; ita; fre; ger
Number of pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9782503578248
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: Cataloging of manuscripts; Congresses; Greek Manuscripts; Manuscripts, Greek (Medieval and modern); Handschrift; Griechisch; Katalogisierung; Manoscritti greci; Catalogazione
Description: Greek manuscript cataloguing today and its future perspectives: a comprehensive overview. There is currently a marked and steadily rising interest, in Greek manuscript studies and beyond, in the materiality of manuscripts, their genetic and evolutionary history, the identities and practices of scribes and readers, the methods and issues of manuscript cataloguing both in printed and digital form. Moreover, libraries and collections worldwide are currently digitizing their collections of manuscripts and sharing them in the form of digital images online. This volume will be the first published book offering a comprehensive exploration of the state of Greek manuscript cataloguing and its future perspectives, with a specific attention to the most recent methodological achievements and to the growing impact of digital media in the field of Byzantine catalography. As such, the volume will address a central area of research for a wide audience of scholars (in the related fields of palaeography, codicology, philology, art history, text history, cultural studies), manuscript librarians and conservators, university students and all other persons concerned with the history of Greek and Byzantine books and texts, their actors and the vicissitudes of their production and transmission, the means for describing, studying and preserving them.
Notes: Includes papers submitted to the conference "Cataloging Greek manuscripts: past, present and future," held in Venice, January 18-19, 2016, plus other papers added to examine other initiatives and problems.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contributions in English, Italian, French, German; abstracts in English.