Research Catalog

Title

Erasing and rewriting in manuscript cultures : practices of text obliteration and manuscript reuse in a global perspective / edited by Michele Cammarosano.

Publication

• Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2025]
• ©2025

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

Cammarosano, Michele

Description

vi, 516 pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour); 23 cm.

Series Statement

Studies in manuscript cultures, 2365-9696 ; volume 48

Uniform Title

Studies in manuscript cultures ; v. 48.

Subject

• Palimpsests
• Manuscripts
• Cuneiform tablets
• Tablets (Paleography)
• Writing materials and instruments > History

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents

A Framework for the Analysis of Rewriting Practices, and Three Case Studies: Clay Tablets, Wax Tablets, and Erasable Coatings / Michele Cammarosano -- The Future of the Past: Rewriting as a Cultural Practice from Handwritten Artefacts to the Digital Age / Marilena Maniaci -- A Restorer's Look at Rewritable Media: Cuneiform Clay Tablets in Conservation / Carmen Gütschow -- Temporality on Clay Tablets: When the Component Parts of a Cuneiform Document Were Committed to Clay / Jon Taylor -- Erasing Signs and Lines on Old Assyrian Cuneiform Clay Tablets / Cécile Michel -- Ashurbanipal and Objects for Esagil and Ešarra: A Case Study of Erasing, Removing, and Replacing Texts at the Height of the Assyrian Empire / Jamie Novotny -- Refill, Reuse, Recycle? Reusing Wax Tablets in the Roman North-western Provinces / Anna Willi -- Some Remarks on the Lexicon of Erasure between Antiquity and Middle Ages / Serena Ammirati -- From Wax Tablets to Codices: The Possible Influence of the Stylus Holder on the Structure of Early Multi-gathering Codices / Georgios Boudalis -- Wax Tablets as Writing Media during the Middle Ages / Thomas Wozniak -- Reasons for Papyrus Reuse in Ancient Egypt / Elena L. Hertel -- Coptic Palimpsests: When, Where, and Why? / Paola Buzi -- How to Erase Writing According to Recipes from the Arab World: Textual Analysis of Premodern Technical Recipes / Sara Fani -- How to Erase Writing According to Recipes from the Arab World: Replication and Analytical Report / Claudia Colini, Giuseppe Marotta, Sowmeya Sathiyamani, Valentina Yañez Langner, Annie Muller, Katerina Grigoriadou, Chen Yu -- Transient Texts: Erasable Writing on Wood, Sand, and Metal in Northern Nigerian Islam / Andrea Brigaglia, Dahir Lawan Mu'az -- Writing and Rewriting Wooden Tablets in Seventh- and Eighth-century Japan: The Mokkan Used for Learning / Antonio Manieri.

Call Number

JFE 25-3273

ISBN

• 9783111682730
• 3111682730

LCCN

• 2025941878
• 10.1515/9783111682983
• CIPO000292946

OCLC

1545080604

Title

Erasing and rewriting in manuscript cultures : practices of text obliteration and manuscript reuse in a global perspective / edited by Michele Cammarosano.

Publisher

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2025]

Copyright Date

©2025

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Studies in manuscript cultures, 2365-9696 ; volume 48

Studies in manuscript cultures ; v. 48.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Added Author

Cammarosano, Michele, editor.

Other Form:

Online version: Erasing and rewriting in manuscript cultures. Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2025] 9783111682983 (OCoLC)1545080273

Other Standard Identifier

10.1515/9783111682983 doi

CIPO000292946

Research Call Number

JFE 25-3273