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Colophon as a Marginal Witness
Faride MerebRelated Papers
George A. Kiraz and Sabine Schmidtke (eds.), Literary Snippets: Colophons Across Space and Time, Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2023
Literary Snippets: Colophons Across Space and Time2023 •
Late antique scholars and medievalists who work on manuscripts as primary sources are very much familiar with the art of the colophon. But the history of the colophon dates back much further than late antiquity, to ancient history when scribes in ancient Mesopotamia chiseled colophons on cuneiform tablets as early as the third millennium BCE. At their inception, colophons were writing production records: who wrote what, when and where? Ancient colophons even provide statistics: how many lines were written in a particular work? As we enter late antiquity, colophons take on a life of their own and begin to acquire literary properties—snippets but nevertheless literary objects. They developed into an art form with distinctive formulaic phraseology. In some traditions, scribes began to record historical events that occurred just before or during the production of a manuscript, events that otherwise would be lost to history. Readers and users also began to insert colophons in existing manuscripts, creating a plethora of colophon types. How are we to approach the study of colophons and what can they tell us about communities at large, or about individual scribes? And what of the colophon itself as an object? One can drill into its text as any other piece of literature, studying various aspects of its literary style and function, as well as linguistic features that distinguish colophon texts from the main text found in a manuscript. This is particularly interesting in multilingual environments, or when the scribe’s mother tongue is connected to the primary text of the manuscript in a diglossic relationship. Here, the colophon is an essential linguistic source into how the scribe’s native tongue interacts with the higher literary register of the manuscript text. This edited volume brings together scholars from various disciplines to study colophons in various languages and traditions across space and time. Whatever you would like to get out of colophons, we hope that there will be at least one paper here that will draw your attention. If not, there are enough literary snippets quoted to keep you entertained.
Eighteenth-Century Studies
Bodies of type: The work of textual production in English printers' manuals2003 •
Early American Literature
Histories of Print, Manuscript, and Performance in America, American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, Massachusetts, June 2005 (review)2006 •
Publishing Sacrobosco’s De sphaera in Early Modern Europe: Modes of Material and Scientific Exchange
Paratexts, Printers, and Publishers: Book Production in Social Context2022 •
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-86600-6 Paratexts, such as dedication letters or epigrams, in early modern printed books can be used by historians to situate a book's production in its institutional and social context. We depart from the general assumption that two publishers or printers were in a relation of awareness of each other if they printed and put on the market two different editions that contain at least one identical paratext. In this paper, we analyze the circulation of the paratexts among the 359 editions of the "Sphaera corpus." First, we discuss the available data, the conditions to build a social network, and the latter's characteristics. Second, we interpret the results-potential relationships among printers and publishers-from a historical point of view and, at the same time, discuss the sorts of potential relationships that this method can disclose. Third, we corroborate the historical results among different approaches, namely by using editions' fingerprints and by investigating the book production of those printers and publishers tangentially involved in relevant relationships, but who fall outside the "Sphaera corpus." Finally, we identify local communities of printers and publishers and, on a transregional level, printers, and publishers who were observing and influencing each other. Keywords Paratext • Tractatus de sphaera • Johannes de Sacrobosco • Social network • Local market 1 Premise In the context of the research project The Sphere: Knowledge System Evolution and the Shared Scientific Identity of Europe (https://sphaera.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de), we
Modern Philology
Cut/Copy/Paste: Fragments from the History of Bookwork. Whitney Trettien. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2021. Pp. 324Throughout the long history of manuscript tradition, the earliest Malay manuscripts were without colophons. They were added following the influence of Islamic writing tradition in the 17 th century and strengthened thereafter through the influence of European writing tradition in the brink of 19 th century. Although many of the colophons are very much the same in contents, others have grown steadily in length and complexity. Nevertheless, many of the authors' names and the titles of the manuscripts were believed to be added later on. This means that colophons in many Malay manuscripts were written by someone other than the original authors. But, it is interesting to note that this 'alien material' cannot be treated as separate from the manuscript proper as it is important for identification of title, authorship and other bibliographical information relevant to the manuscripts. From the discussion, title page in modern printed book is believed to have been born out of our necessity for such information first appeared in the colophon. Then, it is in the printer's pride of their craftsmanship and satisfaction in their good work that we see the beginning of imprint, a device which quickly came to be regarded as a kind of guarantee of the accuracy and authenticity of the text. As things stand, colophons contain materials prefatory to manuscript proper, thus must be treated with care to detail, though it is placed at the end of texts. Against this background, it is still being debated
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