Titlebook: Scribal Practice and the Global Cultures of Colophons, 1400–1800; Christopher D. Bahl,Stefan Han? Book 2022 The Editor(s) (if applicable)

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2946-5338 ation towards a thorough interpretation of the wider social worlds of colophons in Africa, Asia, Europe, and North America, this volume uncovers the fascinating cultural history of early modern scribes. Chapter978-3-030-90156-1978-3-030-90154-7Series ISSN 2946-5338 Series E-ISSN 2946-5346

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Scribal Practice and the Global Cultures of Colophons, 1400–1800

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A Prosopography in Circulation: Advertising Scribal Travails in Arabic Manuscripts Across Early Modlarger and vibrant field of scribal activity across scholarly cultures of seventeenth-century South Asia. A growing scribal community used colophons to inscribe themselves into the learned Arabic cultures of the subcontinent. In the absence of other media for professional advertisements, such as pro

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Lines of Loyalties and Early Modern Cultural Diversity: Colophons as Sites of Encounters,ariety of audiences in different ways. I reconsider the role of scribal signatures as an early modern means to reflect upon, comment on, and personally inscribe into cultural encounters. Case studies presented in this chapter discuss colophons composed in sixteenth-century France; by Jesuit missiona

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Signatures of Authority: Colophons in Seventeenth-Century Melkite Circles in Aleppo, as authoritative, guaranteeing textual stability..Against this background, the colophon developed into a signature of authority, receiving impulses from the Ottoman office of the scribe, visible, for example, in the layout of colophons. Its authoritativeness was recognized both locally and globally

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,The Making of a Historian in Timbuktu: The Signed Marginalia Attributed to Ma?mūd Ka‘ti in the Fond historical notes, which would later be used by others in the family to write the .. Ma?mūd Ka‘ti’s signature and accompanying elements—a colophon of sorts within the paratext—play an essential role in the accomplishment of these objectives. I argue that the marginalia signatures draw from particula

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Muslim Scribal Culture in India Around 1800: Towards a Disentangling of the Mughal Library and the ion. By using colophons in tandem with the content of the manuscripts, this scholar‘s biography, patronage connections, as well as intellectual motivations and trends that caused him to copy the texts will be studied. It will allow us to reconstruct his intellectual world, as a microcosm of the Isla