Comparative Oriental Manuscript Studies: An Introduction (original) (raw)

"The Apparatus Criticus", in Comparative Oriental Manuscript Studies: An Introduction, ed. by Alessandro Bausi et al., Hamburg: Tredition, 2015, pp. 347‑352

Editors: Alessandro Bausi , Pier Giorgio Borbone, Françoise Briquel-Chatonnet, Paola Buzi, Jost Gippert, Caroline Macé, Marilena Maniaci, Zisis Melissakis, Laura E. Parodi, and Witold Witakowski.

Foreword and Scheme

2020

International bibliography of historical sciences, vol. 84 (2015) The International Bibliography of Historical Sciences (IBOHS or IBHS) is a selective and descriptive bibliography, and the works it mentions, both books and articles, are arranged according to a methodical and chronological scheme originally drawn up and established by the Bibliographical Commission of the International Committee of Historical Sciences; the scheme has been revised only in details. (...) The volume LXXXIV, 2015 mentions the works published with the date 2015, in the following languages (in order of appearance): Italian, French, Latin, Hebrew, Romanian, English, German, Castilian Spanish, Dutch, Persian, Hungarian, Swedish, Latvian, Arab, Portuguese, Serbian, Finnish, Danish, Slovak, Polish, Croatian, Russian, Bulgarian, Norwegian, Greek, Turkish, Japanese, Catalan, Czech, Lithuanian, Chinese, Korean, Ukrainian, Belarusian, Kurdish.

A heuristic tool for the comparative study of manuscripts from different manuscript cultures

2016

This model depicts a particular manuscript within a manuscript culture in relation to the various key factors which have shaped its content and appearance, and which continue to shape its use. Inspired by Andreas Hepp’s schematic rendering of Raymond Williams’ model of a culture as a “Bedeutungssystem” (semantic system; Hepp 2010, Williams 1981), it represents a culture in which at least some types of knowledge and actions are preserved, transmitted, organised and performed by means of manuscripts. The model and this accompanying commentary do not, however, aim at being a theoretical foundation for a new, manuscript-specific branch of cultural studies. Instead, the model is designed as a heuristic device a) for the analysis of the characteristics and functions of an individual manuscript within a manuscript culture and, more importantly for the purposes of the CSMC, b) as a basis for a systematic comparison of the characteristics and functions of manuscripts from different manuscrip...