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GtrsRGr8 · 02-01-2017, 05:22 PM

There may be no one in MobileReader Land who would be interested in this book. Frankly, I have some difficulty even understanding what it's about. But, if someone could use it, they'll save $94. To be exact, $94.39. That's why I'm posting it.

It's the book Tracing Manuscripts in Time and Space through Paratexts, edited by Giovanni Ciotta and Hang Lin. It is a very recently--July 2016--published book. It is Volume 7 of a series called Studies in Manuscript Cultures.

Here's the book description, from unglue.it. I hope that at least someone has better success in understanding it all than I do!
As records of the link between a manuscript and the texts it contains, paratexts document many aspects of a manuscript’s life: production, transmission, usage, and reception. Comprehensive studies of paratexts are still rare in the field of manuscript studies, and the universal categories of time and space are used to create a common frame for research and comparisons. Contributions in this volume span over three continents and one millennium.

- Darya Ogorodnikova - Exploring Paratexts in Old Mande Manuscripts
- Apiradee Techasiriwan - Locating Tai Lü and Tai Khün Manuscripts in Space and Time through Colophons
- Giovanni Ciotti and Marco Franceschini - Certain Times in Uncertain Places: A Study on Scribal Colophons of Manuscripts Written in Tamil and Tamilian Grantha Scripts
- Hang Lin - Looking Inside the Cover: Reconstructing Space and Time in Some Donglin Manuscripts
- Max Jakob Fölster - ‘Traces in Red’: Chinese Book Collectors’ Seals as a Means to Track the Transmission History of a Manuscript
- Kristina Nikolovska - ‘When the living envied the dead’: Church Slavonic Paratexts and the Apocalyptic Framework of Monk Isaija’s Colophon (1371)
- Vito Lorusso - Locating Greek Manuscripts through Paratexts: Examples from the Library of Cardinal Bessarion and other Manuscript Collections
- Stéphane Ancel - Travelling Books: Changes of Ownership and Location in Ethiopian Manuscript Culture

Is everything a lot clearer now? ha

The book is published by De Gruyter, and is available free through Open Access. I've noticed that De Gruyter is one publisher which is very generous about making their books available through Open Access, and I appreciate them for it.

You might want to read what the Amazon webpage for the book says about it (BTW--the price of $94.39 is that of a Hardback copy (Used-Like New) mentioned on that Amazon webpage.

The benefactor of this Open Access title offers it in all three of our favorite flavors--mobi (think: Kindle); ePub; and PDF. You can send it to your Kindle, download it to your computer, or save it to Dropbox. To do one (or more) of those things, click on "Read It Now" under the thumbnail image of the book, located on this unglue.it webpage, and follow the prompts.

02-01-2017, 05:22 PM	#110
GtrsRGr8 Grand Sorcerer Posts: 7,334 Karma: 27815322 Join Date: Aug 2012 Location: Southeastern U.S., ya'll Device: Kindle; Kindle (10.1.1) for PC; Kindle Cloud Reader	Get Tracing Manuscripts in Time and Space Through Paratexts FREE via Open Access! There may be no one in MobileReader Land who would be interested in this book. Frankly, I have some difficulty even understanding what it's about. But, if someone could use it, they'll save $94. To be exact, $94.39. That's why I'm posting it. It's the book Tracing Manuscripts in Time and Space through Paratexts, edited by Giovanni Ciotta and Hang Lin. It is a very recently--July 2016--published book. It is Volume 7 of a series called Studies in Manuscript Cultures. Here's the book description, from unglue.it. I hope that at least someone has better success in understanding it all than I do! As records of the link between a manuscript and the texts it contains, paratexts document many aspects of a manuscript’s life: production, transmission, usage, and reception. Comprehensive studies of paratexts are still rare in the field of manuscript studies, and the universal categories of time and space are used to create a common frame for research and comparisons. Contributions in this volume span over three continents and one millennium. - Darya Ogorodnikova - Exploring Paratexts in Old Mande Manuscripts - Apiradee Techasiriwan - Locating Tai Lü and Tai Khün Manuscripts in Space and Time through Colophons - Giovanni Ciotti and Marco Franceschini - Certain Times in Uncertain Places: A Study on Scribal Colophons of Manuscripts Written in Tamil and Tamilian Grantha Scripts - Hang Lin - Looking Inside the Cover: Reconstructing Space and Time in Some Donglin Manuscripts - Max Jakob Fölster - ‘Traces in Red’: Chinese Book Collectors’ Seals as a Means to Track the Transmission History of a Manuscript - Kristina Nikolovska - ‘When the living envied the dead’: Church Slavonic Paratexts and the Apocalyptic Framework of Monk Isaija’s Colophon (1371) - Vito Lorusso - Locating Greek Manuscripts through Paratexts: Examples from the Library of Cardinal Bessarion and other Manuscript Collections - Stéphane Ancel - Travelling Books: Changes of Ownership and Location in Ethiopian Manuscript Culture Is everything a lot clearer now? ha The book is published by De Gruyter, and is available free through Open Access. I've noticed that De Gruyter is one publisher which is very generous about making their books available through Open Access, and I appreciate them for it. You might want to read what the Amazon webpage for the book says about it (BTW--the price of $94.39 is that of a Hardback copy (Used-Like New) mentioned on that Amazon webpage. The benefactor of this Open Access title offers it in all three of our favorite flavors--mobi (think: Kindle); ePub; and PDF. You can send it to your Kindle, download it to your computer, or save it to Dropbox. To do one (or more) of those things, click on "Read It Now" under the thumbnail image of the book, located on this unglue.it webpage, and follow the prompts. Last edited by GtrsRGr8; 02-01-2017 at 05:36 PM.