Medieval Multilingual Manuscripts: Case Studies from Ireland to Japan

Open Access Published by De Gruyter 2022

Medieval Multilingual Manuscripts

Case Studies from Ireland to Japan

Edited by: Michael Clarke and Máire Ní Mhaonaigh

Volume 24 in the series Studies in Manuscript Cultures

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110776492

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Manuscripts provide rich documentary evidence for understanding the history of cultural life across the breadth of Europe and Asia down through the Middle Ages. Many illustrate engagement between and across languages, in both similar and contrasting ways from east to west. The demarcation of manuscript studies into single-language academic disciplines has often obscured this reality, privileging one constituent part or contributing language from each manuscript rather than exploring the combination as a nuanced and complex whole. This volume seeks to examine manuscripts as integrally united artefacts, respecting the diversity of their constituent elements.

Case studies are presented of twelve manuscripts with evidence for various levels of inter-language exchange and collision, from horizons as diverse as the Atlantic West, Carolingian Europe, the Byzantine world, the Silk Road cultures, and east Asia. The essays function individually as discrete contributions, but together they highlight a range of overlapping themes, illustrating language interaction in global religions, pedagogical exchange, and secular society-building.The analogies as well as the concrete points of connection between them underline the value of a cross-disciplinary approach.

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Michael Clarke, NUI, Galway, Republic of Ireland; Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Univers. of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	V
Introduction Michael Clarke and Máire Ní Mhaonaigh Open Access Download PDF	1
Language Interaction and Education
Contested Vernacular Readings, c. 800–830 CE: The Satō-bon Kegon mongi yōketsu and the Tōdaiji fujumonkō John Whitman Open Access Download PDF	13
Latin Grammar Crossing Multilingual Zones: St Gall, Stiftsbibliothek, 904 Pádraic Moran Open Access Download PDF	35
Medieval Wales as a Linguistic Crossroads in Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 153 Lars Nooij and Peter Schrijver Open Access Download PDF	55
A Sanskrit-Khotanese Colloquy: Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Pelliot chinois 5538 Sam van Schaik Open Access Download PDF	67
Language Interaction and Religion
The Bilingual Manuscript with the Irk Bitig: London, British Library, Or.8212/161 Imre Galambos Open Access Download PDF	83
Fragments from the First Order of Fustat: Finds from the Cairo Geniza at Cambridge University Library Michael Rand Open Access Download PDF	99
The Manuscripts of the Irish Liber Hymnorum, a Bilingual Anthology of Sacred Verse Michael Clarke Open Access Download PDF	119
A Greek Gospel of Luke for the Arabophone: Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, suppl. gr. 911 Christian Høgel Open Access Download PDF	151
Language Interaction and Constructing Polities
The Harley Trilingual Psalter, a Witness to Multilingualism at the Court Scriptorium of Roger II of Sicily Cillian O’Hogan Open Access Download PDF	165
A Gateway to the Six Languages: Cambridge, University Library, MS Add.1698 Camillo A. Formigatti Open Access Download PDF	183
Scribbling in Newar on the Margins of a Sanskrit Manuscript: Cambridge, University Library, MS Add.2832 Vincenzo Vergiani Open Access Download PDF	199
International Vernacularisation, c. 1390 CE: The ‘Book of Ballymote’ Máire Ní Mhaonaigh Open Access Download PDF	209
Indices Open Access Download PDF	231
Contributors Open Access Download PDF	239

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Medievalists, social and cultural historians, philologists and linguists, students and scholars of literature and language
Pages
- Front matter: 6
- Main content: 240
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 8
- Coloured Illustrations: 63
- Tables: 1
- Line drawings: 3
Keywords: Middle Ages; Europe; Asia; manuscript studies; multilingualism; artefact

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Published: April 4, 2022
ISBN: 9783110776492

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Published: April 18, 2022
ISBN: 9783110775990