Manuscript Cultures (English, Jörg Quenzer | Dmitry Bondarev | Jan-Ulrich Sobisch)

About the Book

Script and writing were among the most important inventions in human history, and until the invention of printing, the handwritten book was the primary medium of literary and cultural transmission. Although the study of manuscripts is already quite advanced for many regions of the world, no unified discipline of 'manuscript studies' has yet evolved which is capable of treating handwritten books from East Asia, India and the Islamic world equally…

ISBN: 9783110225624