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ISAW Papers 29 (2025)

The Manuscript Across Pre-Modern Afro-Eurasia:
Papers Relating to a Mellon-Sawyer Seminar at the University of Iowa

edited by
Paul Dilley and Katherine Tachau
Permanent URL: https://hdl.handle.net/2333.1/cc2frb95
Left: Homilies, page 7, Chester Beatty Library PMA 2.7–8 © The Trustees of the Chester Beatty Library. Right: A Manichaean confession manual for the Elect (M801a / MIK III 53, known as BBB, p. 28–29). © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Museum für Asiatische Kunst / Lina Wällstedt.
Abstract: This volume of ISAW Papers grew out of the 2016-2018 Mellon-Sawyer seminar at the University of Iowa, which explored the development and spread of manuscript technologies across Afro-Eurasia from roughly 400 CE ca. 1450 CE. Many of the contributions are adaptations of presentations delivered to the seminar, others were commissioned later, including several by faculty and graduate student participants. Like the seminar itself, the chapters are wide-ranging both in their approach and the geographic, cultural, and linguistic contexts that they cover. The chapters will be published in several stages beginning in 2025; a full introduction by the editors, Paul Dilley and Katherine Tachau, will accompany the completed volume.
Library of Congress Subjects: Codicology.

Table of Contents

  1. Paul Dilley and Katherine Tachau - Introduction (Forthcoming)
  2. William Johnson - From Bookroll to Codex
  3. AnneMarie Luijendijk and Brent Nongbri - The Codicology of Early Christian Books from Oxyrhynchus: Insights from a Papyrus Codex of Matthew (P.Oxy. I 2) and a Miniature Parchment Codex with 6 Ezra (P.Oxy. VII 1010)
  4. Adam Benkato and Paul Dilley - Towards a Comparative Manichaean Manuscriptology