The Syntax of Colophons A Comparative Study across Pothi Manuscripts

The present volume focuses on the colophons found in several pothi manuscripts from Central, South and South East Asia. Its contributions discuss the colophons’ defining features, thus exposing their ‘syntax’, focusing particularly on the tracing of recurring patterns. The information extrapolated f...

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Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin/Boston De Gruyter 2022
Series:Studies in Manuscript Cultures
Subjects:
Biography, Literature and Literary studies
Buddhism
Buddhism: sacred texts and revered writings
colophon
colophon manuscript syntax
Handschriftenkunde
Hinduism
Hinduism: sacred texts and revered writings
HISTORY / Asia / India & South Asia
HISTORY / Asia / Southeast Asia
India
Indien
Interdisciplinary studies
Kolophon
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Syntax
LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Asian / Indic
LITERARY CRITICISM
LITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / General
LITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / Indic
LITERARY CRITICISM / General
LITERARY CRITICISM / Subjects & Themes / General
Literary studies: general
Literature
Literature: history and criticism
Manuskript
Philosophy and Religion
Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects
Regional / International studies
Religion and beliefs
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies
Syntax
colophon
manuscript
Handschriftenkunde
Kolophon
Manuskript
Syntax
Indien
India
ISBN:9783110795271, 3110795272, 9783110795233, 3110795329, 9783110795325, 311079523X
ISSN:2365-9696
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Table of Contents:
  • Javier Schnake --
  • Contents --
  • The Structure, Functions, and Tradition of Siamese Royal Scribal Colophons
  • Part I: South Asia --
  • On the Syntax of Colophons in Jain Palm-Leaf and Paper Manuscripts from Western India
  • Peera Panarut --
  • Colophons in Palm-Leaf Manuscripts from Bali and Lombok (Indonesia)
  • Georges-Jean Pinault --
  • Marco Franceschini --
  • Part III: Central Asia --
  • Stefan Baums --
  • Giovanni Ciotti --
  • Yukiyo Kasai --
  • Colophons in Tocharian Manuscripts
  • Khom/Mūl Script Manuscripts from Central Thailand and Cambodia: Colophons with a Variable Geometry?
  • Dick van der Meij --
  • North India --
  • A Modular Framework for the Analysis of the Dates Found in Manuscripts Written in the Tamil and Tamilian Grantha Scripts
  • Part II: Southeast Asia --
  • Giovanni Ciotti, Nalini Balbir --
  • Dorji Wangchuk --
  • Camillo Formigatti --
  • Maritime --
  • The Syntax of Tibetan Colophons: An Overview
  • Central Asian and Iranian Influence in Old Uyghur Buddhist Manuscripts: Book Forms and Donor Colophons
  • Indexes
  • The Earliest Colophons in the Buddhist Northwest
  • Mainland --
  • Nalini Balbir --
  • Introduction
  • South India --
  • Volker Grabowsky --
  • Frontmatter --
  • The Grammar and Function of Colophons in Lao Manuscripts: The Case of the Vat Maha That Collection, Luang Prabang
  • Scribe, Owner, or Both? Some Ambiguities in the Interpretations of Personal Names in Colophons from Tamil Nadu
  • Colophons in Fourteenth-Century Nepalese Manuscripts: Materials for the Study of the Nepalese Renaissance (I)