Education Materialised: Reconstructing Teaching and Learning Contexts through Manuscripts

✍ Scribed by Stefanie Brinkmann (editor); Giovanni Ciotti (editor); Stefano Valente (editor); Eva Maria Wilden (editor)

• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Year: 2021
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 508
• Series: Studies in Manuscript Cultures; 23
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Open Access

Manuscripts have played a crucial role in the educational practices of virtually all cultures that have a history of using them. As learning and teaching tools, manuscripts become primary witnesses for reconstructing and studying didactic and research activities and methodologies from elementary levels to the most advanced.
The present volume investigates the relation between manuscripts and educational practices focusing on four particular research topics: educational settings: teachers, students and their manuscripts; organising knowledge: syllabi; exegetical practices: annotations; modifying tradition: adaptations.
The volume offers a number of case studies stretching across geophysical boundaries from Western Europe to South-East Asia, with a time span ranging from the second millennium BCE to the twentieth century CE.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Introduction
Educational Settings: Teachers, Students and their Manuscripts
Introduction: Reconstructing Agents, Places, and Methods through Manuscripts
Teaching in Old Babylonian Nippur, Learning in Old Assyrian Aššur?
Notker the Stammerer’s Compendium for his Pupils
The Study of the Bible in the Cathedral Schools of Twelfth-Century France: A Case Study of Robert Amiclas and Peter Comestor
Producing, Distributing and Using Manuscripts for Teaching Purposes at French, English and German Universities in the Late Middle Ages
Ink Making by the Book: Learning a Craft in the Arabic World
‘I Heard it from my Teacher’: Reflections on the Transmission of Knowledge in Islamic Manuscripts from Senegambia and Mali
The Education of Alevi Religious Specialists and their Manuscripts: Ali Göktürk Dede from Şeyh Hasan Köyü, Turkey
Exegetical Practices: Annotations and Glossing
Introduction: Material Evidence for Exegetical Practices and Intellectual Engagement with Texts
Annotating Aristotle’s Organon in the Byzantine Age: Some Remarks on the Manuscripts Princeton MS 173 and Leuven, FDWM 1
Scholarship between the Lines: Interlinear Glossing in Siamese Literary Manuscripts
From Marginal Glosses to Translations: Levels of Glossing in an Early Medieval Manuscript (Munich, BSB, Clm 19410)
Organising Knowledge: Syllabi
Introduction: On the Interplay between Syllabi, Texts and Manuscripts
The Treasure of Alexander – Stories of Discovery and Authorship
Tamil Ilakkaṇam (‘Grammar’) and the Interplay between Syllabi, Corpora and Manuscripts
Law Syllabi and Text Production among Šāfi‘ite Ethiopian Muslims: A Short Note on Some Manuscripts of al-Nawawī’s Minhāǧ al-ṭālibīn
Modifying Tradition: Adaptations
Introduction
The ‘Vanaratna Codex’: A Rare Document of Buddhist Text Transmission (London, Royal Asiatic Society, Hodgson MS 35)
Personal Poetics: An Adapted Version of a Well-Known Treatise in Old Tamil
Variations on Some Common Topics in Medieval Latin Letters: The Case of the Salzburg Formulae Collection (Late Ninth Century)
Adapting the Concept of Proportio to Rhythm in the Ars subtilior: Ugolino da Orvieto’s Compositions and his Statements on Proportion Signs in Codex Casanatense 2151
Adaptation of Buyruk Manuscripts to Impart Alevi Teachings: Mehmet Yaman Dede and the Arapgir-Çimen Buyruğu