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Instructors: Prof. Dr. Alessandro Bausi
Event type:
Lecture
Displayed in timetable as:
Manuscript cultures in Africa
Hours per week:
1
Credits:
2,0
Language of instruction:
German
Min. | Max. participants:
- | 100
Comments/contents:
The course offers an overview of the written cultures (manuscript cultures) of Africa, with a systematic overview of corresponding languages and scripts and basic information on their origin, distribution and forms. Basic problems of the connections between writing, language and information carriers (manuscripts) as well as historical-cultural contexts and backgrounds of the emergence of manuscript cultures are addressed (with special emphasis on the Horn of Africa). Basic concepts of philological work (codicology, palaeography, text criticism) are introduced; a basic bibliography on the most important manuscript cultures is offered.
Learning objectives:
(Scopes, goals and focus) The learning objective is to acquire a basic knowledge of the manuscript cultures of Africa and neighbouring areas, including a general introduction to the basic concepts of codicology, palaeography and textual criticism (‘manuscriptology’).
Literature:
General
- Bausi, Alessandro, Pier Giorgio Borbone, Françoise Briquel Chatonnet, Paola Buzi, Jost Gippert, Caroline Macé, Zeses Melissakes, Laura Emilia Parodi, Witold Witakowski, and Eugenia Sokolinski, eds, 2015. Comparative Oriental Manuscript Studies: An Introduction (Hamburg: Tredition, 2015), 34–59, 69–88, 267–270, 321–362, 467–470 (= Bausi, Borbone, Briquel Chatonnet, et al. 2015), DOI 10.5281/zenodo.46784
- Cancik-Kirschbaum, Eva, Jochem Kahl, and Klaus Wagensonner 2018. Erste Philologien: Archäologie einer Disziplin vom Tigris bis zum Nil (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2018) (= Cancik-Kirschbaum et al. 2018), 9–34 (http://emedien.sub.uni-hamburg.de/han/mohr-siebeck/www.mohrsiebeck.com/10.1628/978-3-16-155979-2)
- Dammann, Ernst 1976. ‘Zur Definition einer afrikanischen Handschrift’, in Herbert Franke, Walther Heissig, and Wolfgang Treue, eds, Folia Rara. Wolfgang Voigt LXV. diem natalem celebranti ab amicis et catalogorum codicum orientalium conscribendorum collegis dedicata, Verzeichnis der orientalischen Handschriften in Deutschland, Supplement 19 (Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1976), 6–10 (= Dammann 1976)
- Nobili, Mauro 2011, 2012. ‘Manuscript culture of West Africa. Part 1: The disqualification of a heritage’, Comparative Oriental Manuscript Studies Newsletter, 2 (2011), 21–24; ‘Manuscript culture of West Africa. Part 2: A survey of the scholarly production’, Comparative Oriental Manuscript Studies Newsletter, 3 (2012), 11–17 (= Nobili 2011, 2012) DOI 10.25592/uhhfdm.615
- Nobili, Mauro 2012–2013. ‘Manuscript culture of West Africa’, manuscript cultures, 5 (2012–2013), 42–51 (= Nobili 2012–2013) https://www.manuscript-cultures.uni-hamburg.de/mc_e.html
- Vossen, Rainer and Gerrit J. Dimmendaal, eds, 2020. The Oxford handbook of African languages (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020) (= Vossen and Dimmendaal 2020).
History of studies
- Bausi, Alessandro 2021. ‘Äthiopistik’, in Rainer Nicolaysen, Eckart Krause, and Gunnar B. Zimmermann, eds, 100 Jahre Universität Hamburg, II: Geisteswissenschaften, Erziehungswissenschaft, Psychologie und Bewegungswissenschaft (Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag, 2021) (= Bausi 2021a).
- Kießling, Roland 2021. ‘Äfrikanistik’, in Rainer Nicolaysen, Eckart Krause, and Gunnar B. Zimmermann, eds, 100 Jahre Universität Hamburg, II: Geisteswissenschaften, Erziehungswissenschaft, Psychologie und Bewegungswissenschaft (Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag, 2021) (= Kießling 2021).
- Wolff, H. Ekkehard, ed., 2019. A History of African Linguistics (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019) (= Wolff 2019).
´Agami Manuscript Cultures
- Baldi, Sergio 2021. Dictionary of Arabic loanwords in the languages of Central and East Africa, Handbook of Oriental studies, Section 1, The Near and Middle East, 145 (Leiden–Boston, MA: Brill, 2021) (= Baldi 2021).
- Bondarev, Dmitry, Alessandro Gori, and M. Lameen Souag, eds, 2019. Creating Standards. Interactions with Arabic Script in 12 Manuscript Cultures, Studies in Manuscript Cultures, 16 (Berlin–Boston: Walter de Gruyter, 2019) (Bondarev et al. 2019).
- Brigaglia, Andrea and Mauro Nobili, eds, 2017. The Arts and Crafts of Literacy Islamic Manuscript Cultures in Sub-Saharan Africa, Studies in Manuscript Cultures, 12 (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2017) (= Brigaglia and Nobili 2017).
- Mumin, Meikal and Kees Versteegh, eds, 2014. The Arabic Script in Africa: Studies in the Use of a Writing System, Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics, 71 (Leiden: Brill, 2014).
- Rovenchak, Andrij and Solomija Buk 2020. ‘Indigenous African Scripts’, in Rainer Vossen and Gerrit J. Dimmendaal, eds, The Oxford handbook of African languages (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020), 797–812 (= Rovenchak and Buk 2020).
Ethiopian Studies & Orientalism
- Bausi, Alessandro 2016. ‘The Encyclopaedia Aethiopica and Ethiopian Studies’, Aethiopica, 19 (pub. 2017) (2016), 188–206 (= Bausi 2016a) DOI 10.15460/aethiopica.19.1.1120
- Mallette, Karla 2010. ‘The Life and Times of Enrico Cerulli’, in European Modernity and the Arab Mediterranean. Toward a New Philology and a Counter-Orientalism (Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010), 132–161 (= Mallette 2010).
- Ethiopian and Eritrean Ancient and Medieval History
- Bowersock, Glen Warren 2013. The throne of Adulis: Red Sea Wars on the Eve of Islam, Emblems of Antiquity (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2013) (= Bowersock 2013).
- Kelly, Samantha, ed., 2020. A Companion to Medieval Ethiopia and Eritrea, Companions to European History (Leiden–Boston, MA: Brill, 2020) (= Kelly 2020a); the book is freely available for students (you have to log in on the university library website) https://brill-1com-100b9656l01ce.emedien3.sub.uni-hamburg.de/view/title/55712
- Uhlig, Siegbert and Alessandro Bausi, eds, 2003–2014. Encyclopaedia Aethiopica, I: A–C; II: D–Ha; III: He–N; IV: O–X; V: Y–Z: Supplementa, Addenda et Corrigenda, Maps, Index, I–V (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2003–2014) (= Uhlig and Bausi 2003–2014).
- Christian Ethiopian and Eritrean Manuscript Culture
- Bausi, Alessandro 2014. ‘Writing, Copying, Translating: Ethiopia as a Manuscript Culture’, in Jörg Quenzer, Dmitry Bondarev, and Jan-Ulrich Sobisch, eds, Manuscript Cultures: Mapping the Field, Studies in Manuscript Cultures, 1 (Berlin–New York: De Gruyter, 2014), 37–77 (= Bausi 2014a) DOI 10.1515/9783110225631
- Nosnitsin, Denis 2020. ‘Christian Manuscript Culture of the Ethiopian-Eritrean Highlands: Some Analytical Insights’, in Samantha Kelly, ed., A Companion to Medieval Ethiopia and Eritrea, Companions to European History (Leiden–Boston, MA: Brill, 2020), 282–321 (= Nosnitsin 2020) https://brill-1com-100b9656l01ce.emedien3.sub.uni-hamburg.de/view/title/55712
- The case of MTMs
- Bausi, Alessandro 2010. ‘A Case for Multiple Text Manuscripts being “Corpus-Organizers”’, Manuscript Cultures Newsletter, 3 (2010), 34–36 (= Bausi 2010a) https://www.manuscript-cultures.uni-hamburg.de/MC/articles/mc3_bausi.pdf
- Bausi, Alessandro 2014. ‘Writing, Copying, Translating: Ethiopia as a Manuscript Culture’, in Jörg Quenzer, Dmitry Bondarev, and Jan-Ulrich Sobisch, eds, Manuscript Cultures: Mapping the Field, Studies in Manuscript Cultures, 1 (Berlin–New York: De Gruyter, 2014), 37–77 (= Bausi 2014a) DOI 10.1515/9783110225631
- Bausi, Alessandro 2016. ‘Composite and Multiple Text Manuscripts: The Ethiopian Evidence’, in Michael Friedrich and Cosima Schwarke, eds, One-Volume Libraries – Composite and Multiple-Text Manuscripts, Studies in Manuscript Cultures, 9 (Berlin–New York: De Gruyter, 2016), 111–153 (= Bausi 2016b) DOI 10.1515/9783110496956-005
- Bausi, Alessandro 2019. ‘A Few Remarks on the Hagiographical-Homiletic Collections in Ethiopic Manuscripts’, in Caroline Macé and Jost Gippert, eds, Homiletic Collections in Greek and Oriental Manuscripts, Proceedings of the Conference ‘Hagiographico-Homiletic Collections in Greek, Latin and Oriental Manuscripts – Histories of Books and Text Transmission in a Comparative Perspective’, Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures, 23–24 June 2017, Manuscript Cultures, 13 (pub. 2020) (Hamburg: Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures, 2019), 63–80 https://www.manuscript-cultures.uni-hamburg.de/mc_e.html
- Bausi, Alessandro, Antonella Brita, Marco Di Bella, Denis Nosnitsin, Nikolas Sarris, and Ira Rabin 2020. ‘The Aksumite Collection or codex S (Sinodos of Q?fr?ya, MS C3-IV-71/C3-IV-73, Ethio-SPaRe UM-039): Codicological and palaeographical observations. With a note on material analysis of inks’, COMSt Bulletin, 6/2 (2020), 127–141 (Bausi, Brita, et al. 2020).
- Bausi, Alessandro, Michael Friedrich, and Marilena Maniaci, eds, 2019. The Emergence of Multiple-Text Manuscripts, Studies in Manuscript Cultures, 17 (Berlin–Boston: De Gruyter, 2019) (= Bausi et al. 2019) DOI 10.1515/9783110645989.
- Friedrich, Michael and Cosima Schwarke 2016. ‘Introduction’, in Michael Friedrich and Cosima Schwarke, eds, One-Volume Libraries – Composite and Multiple-Text Manuscripts, Studies in Manuscript Cultures, 9 (Berlin - New York: De Gruyter, 2016), 1–26 (= Friedrich and Schwarke 2016a) DOI 10.1515/9783110496956-001
- Gippert, Jost and Caroline Macé, eds, 2019. Homiletic Collections in Greek and Oriental Manuscripts, Proceedings of the Conference ‘Hagiographico-Homiletic Collections in Greek, Latin and Oriental Manuscripts – Histories of Books and Text Transmission in a Comparative Perspective’, Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures, 23–24 June 2017, Manuscript Cultures, 13 (pub. 2020) (Hamburg: Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures, 2019) (= Gippert and Macé 2019).
- Gumbert, Johann Peter 2004. ‘Codicological Units: Towards a Terminology for the Stratigraphy of the Non-Homogeneous Codex’, in Edoardo Crisci and Oronzo Pecere, eds, Il codice miscellaneo, tipologia e funzioni. Atti del convegno internazionale (Cassino, 14-17 maggio 2003), Segno e testo, 2 (Cassino: Università degli studi di Cassino, 2004), 17–42 (= Gumbert 2004).
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