Scribal Practice and the Global Cultures of Colophons, 1400–1800

Chapter 1 Information, Interpretation, Interaction: Global Cultures of Colophons, c. 1400–1800

Chapter 2 A Prosopography in Circulation: Advertising Scribal Travails in Arabic Manuscripts Across Early Modern South Asia

Chapter 3 Lines of Loyalties and Early Modern Cultural Diversity: Colophons as Sites of Encounters

Chapter 4 How to Publish a Book in the Fifteenth-Century Middle East: The Case of Ibn Nāṣir al-Dīn’s ‘Abundant Refutation’

Chapter 5 Signatures of Authority: Colophons in Seventeenth-Century Melkite Circles in Aleppo

Chapter 6 The Making of a Historian in Timbuktu: The Signed Marginalia Attributed to Maḥmūd Ka‘ti in the Fondo Kati Collection

Chapter 7 From Scribal Marks to Calligraphic Signatures? Print, Scribe, and Script in Early Modern European Writing Manuals

Chapter 8 Poetry of the Scribes: Versified Colophons and Scribal Identity in Siamese Manuscript Culture

Chapter 10 In Absence of a Colophon: Alternative Signing Practices in Arabic Autograph Manuscripts

Chapter 11 Remembering the Living and the Dead in Armenian Colophons: The Case of Bodleian MS Marsh 438 (I-III)