Literary Snippets : A Colophon Reader: Volume 2 /

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Imprint:	Piscataway, NJ : Gorgias Press, [2024] ©2024
Description:	1 online resource (197 p.)
Language:	English
Subject:	Colophons of manuscripts. Manuscripts -- History.
Format:	E-Resource
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/14150391

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Other authors / contributors:	Bohloul, Hamid, contributor. Cohen, Sophie, contributor. Hjälm, Miriam L., contributor. Ishac, Ephrem Aboud, contributor. Jiménez, Enrique, contributor. Katz, Menachem, contributor. Kiraz, George A., editor. Kiraz, George Anton, contributor. Langroudi, Ali B., contributor. Moreton, Melissa, contributor. Posegay, Nick, contributor. Qurboniev, Aslisho, contributor. Schmidtke, Sabine, editor. Schnitzlein, Babette, contributor. Sövegjarto, Szilvia, contributor. Tarras, Peter, contributor. Taylor, Jon, contributor. Van Den Bossche, Gowaart, contributor. Vanhoff, Robert, contributor.
ISBN:	9781463244033 1463244037
Digital file characteristics:	text file PDF
Notes:	In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 28. Mrz 2024).
Summary:	This companion volume to Literary Snippets: Colophons Across Space and Time (Gorgias Press, 2023) gives examples of colophons from the Ancient Near East up to the pre-modern world, from different traditions - Akkadian, Hebrew, Arabic, Syriac, and Persian. Colophons typically provide their readers with the historical context in which the scribe produced his or her work: Who was the scribe? When and where was the manuscript produced? For whom was it produced and who paid for it? But colophons are far more rich. They are literary works in their own right, having a style and rhetoric independent of the main literary text of the manuscript. Some are assertive, providing contextual data about the scribe/publisher and manuscript/book; others are expressive, demonstrating the scribe's feelings and wishes. Some are directive, asking the reader for an action; others declarative, providing all sorts of statements about the scribe/publisher or even the reader. The latter sometimes provide historical facts otherwise lost to history: wars, earthquakes, religious events, and legal agreements. Through the colophons and translations in this volume we hope to present the colophon as a literary genre, and as literature to be studied, read and enjoyed.
Other form:	Print version: Kiraz, George A. Literary Snippets Piscataway, NJ : Gorgias Press, LLC,c2024
Standard no.:	10.31826/9781463244033

Table of Contents:

Frontmatter
TABLE OF CONTENTS
FOREWORD
TWO DEDICATORY COLOPHONS FROM THE LATE BABYLONIAN PERIOD
ASHURBANIPAL'S DEDICATION TO THE TEMPLE LIBRARY OF NABÛ
OPENING FORMULAS BY SCRIBES IN TALMUDIC MANUSCRIPTS
ELEVEN COLOPHONS BY TEN PRINTERS FROM SEVEN CITIES IN THE CAIRO GENIZAH
THE COLOPHONS OF TWO TENTH-CENTURY SIBLING SCRIBES
EARLY CHRISTIAN ARABIC COLOPHONS FROM THE PALESTINIAN MONASTERIES: EDITION WITH TRANSLATION AND COMMENTARY
A 'COLOPHON' OR A 'CHRONICLE'? A LENGTHY GARSHUNI-ARABIC COLOPHON
NUN-SCRIBES' COLOPHONS IN FIFTEENTHAND SIXTEENTH-CENTURY ITALY
FIVE ARABIC AND PERSIAN COLOPHONS OF MATHEMATICAL TREATISES
THE COLOPHON OF THE PSALTER MS. PARIS, BNF, SUPPL. PERS. 1: A WITNESS TO THE WRITING OF A TRANS-JUDEO-PERSIAN MANUSCRIPT
"A SCHOLARLY COPYIST": EARLY ILKHANID INTELLECTUAL NETWORKS THROUGH THE PRISM OF TWO COLOPHONS

Literary Snippets : A Colophon Reader: Volume 2 /

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