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"Books before print -manuscripts- were modified continuously throughout the medieval period. Focusing on the ninth and twelfth centuries, this volume explores such material changes as well as the varying circumstances under which handwritten books were produced, used and collected. An important theme is the relationship between the physical book and its users. Can we reflect on reading practices through an examination of the layout of a text? To what extent can we use the contents of libraries to understand the culture of the book? The volume explores such issues by focusing on a broad palette of texts and through a detailed analysis of manuscripts from all corners of Europe"--Publisher's description.

Civilization, Medieval --- Manuscripts, Medieval. --- Books --- History --- Medieval History, Book History, High Middle Ages, Manuscript culture, Culture studies.

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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.

Manuscripts --- Manuscripts, Indic --- Manuscripts, Sanskrit --- Cambridge manuscript collections. --- Indian Manuscript Culture. --- Indien. --- Manuskript. --- Sanskrit. --- South Asia. --- Südasien. --- History.

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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.

Manuscripts --- Manuscripts, Indic --- Manuscripts, Sanskrit --- Cambridge manuscript collections. --- Indian Manuscript Culture. --- Indien. --- Manuskript. --- Sanskrit. --- South Asia. --- Südasien. --- LITERARY CRITICISM / Books & Reading. --- History.

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La Bibliotheca Malabarica est un catalogue annoté de la bibliothèque de manuscrits tamouls collectés par le missionaire luthérien allemand Bartholomäus Ziegenbalg pendant les deux premières années qu’il passa en Inde (1706–1708). La troisième section de ce catalogue, qui comprend 119 entrées incluant des ouvrages d’obédience hindoue et jaïne, offre un aperçu fascinant des ouvrages de la littérature tamoule en circulation à la veille du colonialisme. L’introduction évalue le caractère de la bibliothèque de Ziegenbalg dans le contexte des sources desquelles il a obtenu ses manuscrits. Will Sweetman a ensuite accompagné sa traduction de notes qui identifient les ouvrages de la collection et qui commentent le point de vue de Ziegenbalg sur ceux-ci. Cet ouvrage identifie pour la première fois le Tirikāla cakkaram, texte qui contribua fortement à la formation du point de vue de Ziegenbalg sur l’hindouisme, depuis ses premières lettres écrites d’Inde jusqu’à son magnum opus, le Genealogia der malabarischen Götter (1713). Un chapitre de conclusion considère les autres ouvrages tamouls mentionnés par Ziegenbalg dans ses écrits postérieurs à 1708. The Bibliotheca Malabarica is an annotated catalogue of Tamil manuscripts collected by the missionary Bartholomäus Ziegenbalg during his first two years in India (1706–1708). The third section of this catalogue, consisting of 119 entries covering works of Hindu and Jaina provenance, provides a fascinating insight into Tamil literary works in wide circulation on the eve of colonialism. The introduction assesses the character of Ziegenbalg’s library in the context of the sources from which he obtained manuscripts. Will Sweetman’s translation is then augmented by annotations which identify the works and comment on Ziegenbalg’s view of them. It identifies for the first time one text — the Tirikāla cakkaram — which was formative for Ziegenbalg’s view of Hinduism from his earliest letters from India to his magnum opus, the Genealogia…

Tamil literature --- Hinduism --- Ziegenbalg, Bartholomaeus, --- Library --- Religions --- Brahmanism --- Indic literature --- Sri Lankan literature --- Cīkan̲pālku, --- Cīkan̲pālku, Partolōmiyō, --- Partolōmiyō, Cīkan̲pālku, --- Ziegenbalg, Bartholomäus, --- Ziegenbalgh, Bartholomew, --- Zigenbalk, Bartroḿ, --- Tamil literature - Bibliography - Catalogs --- Hinduism - India, South - Bibliography - Catalogs --- Ziegenbalg, Bartholomaeus, - 1683-1719 - Library - Catalogs --- manuscript culture --- Orientalism --- mission history --- Ziegenbalg, Bartholomaeus, - 1683-1719

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The story of how Arab editors of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries revolutionized Islamic literatureIslamic book culture dates back to late antiquity, when Muslim scholars began to write down their doctrines on parchment, papyrus, and paper and then to compose increasingly elaborate analyses of, and commentaries on, these ideas. Movable type was adopted in the Middle East only in the early nineteenth century, and it wasn't until the second half of the century that the first works of classical Islamic religious scholarship were printed there. But from that moment on, Ahmed El Shamsy reveals, the technology of print transformed Islamic scholarship and Arabic literature.In the first wide-ranging account of the effects of print and the publishing industry on Islamic scholarship, El Shamsy tells the fascinating story of how a small group of editors and intellectuals brought forgotten works of Islamic literature into print and defined what became the classical canon of Islamic thought. Through the lens of the literary culture of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Arab cities—especially Cairo, a hot spot of the nascent publishing business—he explores the contributions of these individuals, who included some of the most important thinkers of the time. Through their efforts to find and publish classical literature, El Shamsy shows, many nearly lost works were recovered, disseminated, and harnessed for agendas of linguistic, ethical, and religious reform.Bringing to light the agents and events of the Islamic print revolution, Rediscovering the Islamic Classics is an absorbing examination of the central role printing and its advocates played in the intellectual history of the modern Arab world.

Publishers and publishing --- History. --- Abd al Hamid Nafi. --- Abduh. --- Ahmad. --- Ali Mubarak. --- Ami Ayalon. --- Arab Renaissance. --- Arabic print revolution. --- Arabic publishing. --- Arabo Islamic. --- Awakening. --- Egyptian Scholarly Society. --- Faris Shidyaq. --- Ibn Taymiyya. --- Iraq. --- Islamic studies. --- Islamism. --- Jamal al din al Qasimi. --- Levant. --- Mahmud Shukri al Alusi. --- Nahda. --- Orientalism. --- Rashid Rida. --- Rifa a al Tahtawi. --- Tahir al Jaza Iri. --- Taymur. --- Zaki. --- al Husayni. --- book history. --- canon. --- canonical. --- manuscript culture. --- modern Arab history. --- philology. --- premodern. --- publishing history. --- rediscovery. --- religious studies. --- textual criticism.