Scribal Habits in Near Eastern Manuscript Traditions

Scribal Habits in Near Eastern Manuscript Traditions

In: Texts and Studies (Third Series), 23

Edited by: George Kiraz and Sabine Schmidtke

Gorgias Press | 2021

DOI: https://doi.org/10.31826/9781463241964

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Most scholars who employ manuscripts in their research tend to focus on the literary content itself. But what about the role of the scribe who typically remains at the periphery of research? How can we, in the words of the NT textual critic James Royse, “virtually look over the scribe’s shoulder” to understand the process by which our manuscripts were produced? Moreover, manuscripts often contain far more material than the words that form their primary texts: dots and various other symbols that mark vowels (in the case of Semitic languages), intonation, readings aids, and other textual markers; marginal notes and sigla that provide additional explanatory content akin to but substantially different from our modern notes and endnotes; images and illustrations that present additional material not found in the main text. These extratextual (or peritextual) elements add additional layers to the main body of the text and are crucial for our understanding of the text’s transmission history as well as scribal habits. This volume brings together contributions by scholars focussing on such extra-, peritextual elements as found in Middle Eastern manuscripts written in Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic, Persian and other languages, to study the individuals who produced our manuscripts and how they shaped the transmission of literary texts they copied.

Frontmatter Free access PDF PDF	i
TABLE OF CONTENTS Free access PDF PDF	v
CONTRIBUTORS Free access PDF PDF	vii
PREFACE Free access PDF PDF	xi
CONNECTING THE DOTS: USING DIAERESIS AS A SOURCE OF INFORMATION ABOUT SCRIBAL PRACTICES IN BYZANTINE EGYPT Elizabeth Buchanan Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	1
MARGINALIA AS TRACES OF CHANGING KNOWLEDGE CULTURE: THE CIRCULATION OF TAQWĪM TEXTS IN THE LATE MAMLUK SULTANATE Fien De Block Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	33
THE MANUSCRIPTS OF ARABIC POPULAR SIYAR AND SĪRAT SAYF IBN DHĪ YAZAN Zuzana Gažákovà Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	47
A PORTABLE MAJLIS: ON PUBLISHING RELIABLE EDITIONS IN OTTOMAN MANUSCRIPT CULTURE Aslihan Gürbüzel Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	69
CHAPTER DIVISIONS AND THE INTERPRETATION AND TRANSMISSION OF THE TOSEFTA Binyamin Katzoff Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	83
THE SECOND-HAND SCRIBE: THE INTELLECTUAL ENVIRONMENT OF THE PRODUCTION OF A UNIQUE TOSEFTA FRAGMENT FROM THE LEVANT Binyamin Katzoff Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	107
PERITEXTUAL ENCODING FOR THE METATRON / YAHOEL THEME IN THE KABBALISTIC SEFER HA-OT , OR “BOOK OF THE SIGN,” BY R. ABRAHAM ABULAFIA (1240–1292) Aryeh M. Krawczyk Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	125
READING AND REMEMBERING IN THE MEDIEVAL NEAR EAST: THE SYRIAC SHEMOHĒ BOOK (AKA. THE SYRIAC “MASORAH”) Jonathan Loopstra Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	141
ANNOTATIONS IN THE EARLIEST MEDIEVAL HEBREW BIBLE MANUSCRIPTS Elvira Martín-Contreras Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	167
AN ILLUMINATING SCRIBE: THE ʿARZADASHT OF JAʿFAR BĀYSUNGHURĪ AND ITS WEALTH OF INFORMATION Shiva Mihan Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	189
ANNOTATION PRACTICES IN A SYRIAC EXEGETICAL COLLECTION (MS VAT. SYR. 103) Marion Pragt Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	221
SCRIBES AND THE BOOK OF REVELATION IN EASTERN NEW TESTAMENTS T. C. Schmidt Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	247
ON THE SUMERIAN GLOSSOGRAPHIC TRADITION Szilvia Sövegjártó Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	277
CAN MANUSCRIPT HEADINGS PROVE THAT THERE WERE ARABIC GOSPELS BEFORE THE QURʾĀN? Robert Turnbull Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	289

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