ISBN (error code)9783447196086 electronic book
3447196084 electronic book
Author/Editoredited by Eva Cancik-Kirschbaum, Jochem Kahl, and Eun-Jeung Lee
Extentx, 230 pages, 10 unnumbered pages of plates
Note (General)Papers presented at a conference. From the preface, "The international workshop 'Scholarship between clay and light. Libraries, archives and documents in the Eastern world' took place from 5th to 7th November 2015. ... at the Freie Universität Berlin" -- Introduction
Note (Content)The use of writing for the preservation and transmission of administrative, scientific, literary and sacred knowledge has a long history. From the third millennium BCE on, many forms of social processes - intellectual, religious, political and others - have been increasingly materialized in the form of a variety of document types (tablets, bones, papyri, scrolls, parchments, books). Some of them were collected in archives or libraries that were dependent on royal palaces, governmental institutions and temples but also in private contexts. The publication 'Collect and Preserve' assembles a number of studies devoted to material aspects of collecting texts in ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, Qumran, Medieval Japan, and Korea under the Choson-Dynasty (1392?-1910)
Note (Bibliography)Includes bibliographical references