Journal
The open-access journal Manuscript and Text Cultures is initiated by CMTC with a mission to encourage and disseminate innovative research in pre-modern manuscript and epigraphic cultures. In addition to specialized issues led by a separate team of guest editors, the Journal welcomes submissions from scholars involved in innovative research on any area of pre-modern textual, manuscript, or epigraphic studies. The editors are particularly interested in new approaches to digital presentation of research, and prospective authors are encouraged to get in touch with the Production Editor to discuss specific ideas related to the presentation of their research material.
MANUSCRIPT AND TEXT CULTURES: Navigating the Text: Textual Articulation and Division in Pre-Modern Cultures
The second issue of Manuscript and Text Cultures brings together several case studies of the different approaches to the structuring and layout of the text, presenting them accessibly using a custom interactive interface. The authors explore the phenomenon of complex textual layout in a broad range of pre-modern cultures, from ancient China to the 20-century Ethiopia, and from Egyptian papyri to Maya birch-bark divinatory handbooks.
Introduction: navigating complex texts from pre-modern cultures in the digital age
Navigating early Chinese daybook divination manuals
Structuring astral science: a Demotic astrological manual from Graeco-Roman Egypt (Berlin, Egyptian Museum, P. Berlin 8345)
A Trilingual sales contract on papyrus from Roman Arabia (P.Yadin I 22)
The Page Architecture of a Deluxe Arabic Dictionary from Islamic Spain
Legally binding: the textual layout of a copper-plate grant from South Asia
The Karlevi runestone
Cambridge, Trinity College, MS B.5.4, folio 135v: the Psalms, with commentary by Peter Lombard
Reading Ancient Maya hieroglyphic books
MS Parma, Biblioteca Palatina, Parm. 3852: a meeting point for a medieval Ethiopian king-usurper with modern pro-Italian actors
EDITORIAL BOARD MEMBERS
The Queen’s College, Oxford
The Queen’s College, Oxford
Beijing Normal University (Zhuhai), BNU-HKBU United International College
Harris Manchester College, Oxford
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To browse the archive of past issues, review the editorial policy, submission requirements and the requirements toward guest editors, please consult the Journal website.