PREFACE
FOREWORD
TRANSLITERATION OF ARABIC CHARACTERS
INTRODUCTION
Not all books are codices
The role of codicology in studying manuscripts
Methodology
Codicology and its focus of study
THE WRITING SURFACE: PAPYRUS AND PARCHMENT
Papyrus
Parchment
THE WRITING SURFACE: PAPER
Non-watermarked mediaeval paper
Watermarked papers
Special papers
THE QUIRES OF A CODEX
Basic concepts
Quires within parchment manuscripts
Mixed quires
The quires of manuscripts written on paper
Systems to indicate the order of folios
INSTRUMENTS AND PREPARATIONS USED IN BOOK PRODUCTION
Instruments used by scribes, painters and illuminators
Black inks
Coloured ink
Colouring materials in Maghrib manuscripts from the sixth/twelfth to the ninth/fifteenth century: fundamentals of identification and comparison
RULING AND PAGE LAYOUT
Ruling
Page layout
CRAFTSMEN AND THE MAKING OF THE MANUSCRIPT
The identity of the copyists
Places of transcription
Copying work-rates and methods
Painters and illuminators
Bookbinders
SCRIPTS
The aims and methods of palaeography
Arabic book hands: preliminary observations
Future lines of research
Appendix: diacritical marks and orthoepic signs
BOOKS AND THEIR ORNAMENTATION
The study of decoration: ends and means
Manuscripts and the decorative arts
The repertoire of ornament
The chief characteristics of the decorative repertoire
Decorated papers
Manuscript illustration
BOOKBINDING
Basic principles
Materials and techniques
Types of bookbinding and their decoration
EVIDENCE FOR THE HISTORY OF A MANUSCRIPT
Title page
Colophons and dates
Sources concerning the history of a manuscript
CODICOLOGY AND THE HISTORY OF COLLECTIONS
Theoretical approach
Catalogues of manuscripts
INDEX OF TECHNICAL NOTIONS AND TERMS
MANUSCRIPTS QUOTED
GUIDE TO FURTHER READING
LIST OF AUTHORS
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