Intro -- Contents -- Introduction - Manuscripts as Evolving Entities -- The Medieval Codex as a Complex Container: The Greek and Latin Traditions -- Mravaltavi - A Special Type of Old Georgian Multiple-Text Manuscripts -- From Single-Text to Multiple-Text Manuscripts: Transmission Changes in Coptic Literary Tradition. Some Case-Studies from the White Monastery Library -- Composite and Multiple-Text Manuscripts: The Ethiopian Evidence -- Some Observations on Composite and Multiple-Text Manuscripts in the Islamic Tradition of the Horn of Africa -- 'One-Volume Libraries' and the Traditions of Learning in Medieval Arabic Islamic Culture -- From 'One-Volume-Libraries' to Scrapbooks. Ottoman Multiple-Text and Composite Manuscripts in the Early Modern Age (1400-1800) -- Sivadharma Manuscripts from Nepal and the Making of a Saiva Corpus -- Manuscripts and Practices: Investigating the Tibetan Chan Compendium (P. Tib. 116) -- The Textual Form of Knowledge: Occult Miscellanies in Ancient and Medieval Chinese Manuscripts, 4th Century BCE to 10th Century CE -- Composite Manuscripts in Medieval China: The Case of Scroll P.3720 from Dunhuang -- Index.

The series publishes monographs and collective volumes contributing to the emerging field of manuscript studies (manuscriptology), which includes disciplines such as philology, palaeography, codicology, art history, and material analysis. SMC encourages comparative approaches, without geographical or other limitations on the material studied; it contributes to a historical and systematic survey of manuscript cultures, and provides a new foundation for current discussions in Cultural Studies.

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