Indic Manuscript Cultures through the Ages

Material, Textual, and Historical Investigations
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-3-11-054309-4
Verlag: De Gruyter

Buch, Englisch, Band 14, 783 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 1324 g

Reihe: Studies in Manuscript Cultures

This collection of essays explores the history of the book in pre-modern South Asia looking at the production, circulation, fruition and preservation of manuscripts in different areas and across time. Edited by the team of the Cambridge-based Sanskrit Manuscripts Project and including contributions of the researchers who collaborated with it, it covers a wide range of topics related to South Asian manuscript culture: from the material dimension (palaeography, layout, decoration) and the complicated interactions of manuscripts with printing in late medieval Tibet and in modern Tamil Nadu, to reading, writing, editing and educational practices, from manuscripts as sources for the study of religious, literary and intellectual traditions, to the creation of collections in medieval India and Cambodia (one major centre of the so-called Sanskrit cosmopolis), and the formation of the Cambridge collections in the colonial period. The contributions reflect the variety of idioms, literary genres, religious movements, and social actors (intellectuals, scribes, patrons) of ancient South Asia, as well as the variety of approaches, interests and specialisms of the authors, and their impassionate engagement with manuscripts.

Zielgruppe

Institutes, libraries, scholars (Sanskrit, Book history, Indian r

Autoren/Hrsg.

Vergiani, Vincenzo

Formigatti, Camillo Alessio

Cuneo, Daniele

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturen sonstiger Sprachräume Indische & Dravidische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Nicht-Westliche Philosophie Indische & Asiatische Philosophie

Über Autor(innen)

Camillo A. Formigatti and Vincenzo Vergiani, University of Cambridge, UK; Daniele Cuneo, University of Leiden, NL