Colophons in Middle Eastern Manuscripts Workshop -12-13/06/2020, Princeton (NJ, USA)

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The colophon, the ultimate or “crowing touch” paragraphs of a manuscript, provides readers with a the historical context in which the scribe produced the manuscript. At its most fundamental level, the colophon gives us the “metadata” of the manuscript: who was the scribe? When and where was the manuscript produced? For whom was it produced and who paid for it? But colophons are far more rich. They are literary works on their own right, having a style and rhetoric independent of the main literary text of the manuscript. In addition, colophons provide historical facts otherwise lost to histories: wars, earthquakes, religious events, etc.

FECHA/DATE/DATA: 12-13/06/2020

LUGAR/LOCATION/LUOGO: White Levy Room, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton (NJ, USA)

ORGANIZADOR/ORGANIZER/ORGANIZZATORE: Sabine Schmidtke; George A. Kiraz

INFO: gkiraz@ias.edu

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