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| Reference : ZER Manucsripts of the Thousand and One Nights: Codicological features |
| Scientific congresses and symposiums : Unpublished conference | |||
| Arts & humanities : Classical & oriental studies | |||
| http://hdl.handle.net/2268/121435 | |||
| ZER Manucsripts of the Thousand and One Nights: Codicological features | |
| English | |
| [fr] Les manuscrits ZER des Mille et une Nuits : caractéristiques codicologiques | |
Franssen, Elise  [Université de Liège - ULg > Département des sciences de l'antiquité > Langue arabe et études islamiques - Histoire art musulman >] | |
| 18-Nov-2010 | |
| Yes | |
| International | |
| Middle-East Studies Association (MESA) Annual Conference | |
| 18-21 novembre 2010 | |
| Middle-East Studies Association (MESA) | |
| San Diego | |
| États-Unis | |
| [en] Codicology of Arabic Manuscripts ; Arabic Literature - Thousand and one Nights ; Codicologie des manuscrits arabes ; Littérature arabe - Mille et une nuits | |
| [en] In the end of the nineteenth century, the French orientalist Herman Zotenberg
defined the « Egyptian Recension » of the text of the Arabian Nights; this group of manuscripts is now known as ZER (for « Zotenberg’s Egyptian Recension »). This classification is based on the tales, their succession, and the chronological and geographical origin of the manuscripts. This recension of the text is actually the best known version of the Nights, since most of the printed editions of the Thousand and One Nights are based on a manuscript being part of this group. Thus, this text seems to be well known but amazingly its manuscripts are not. No critical edition or deep study of any of them exists. Furthermore, some of the ZER manuscripts actually present similar codicological characteristics, such as their distribution in four volumes, or even the page setting and, sometimes, the handwriting. A precise codicological study of the ZER manuscripts permits determining if this group is as homogeneous as it appears on first sight or if, on the contrary, it can be divided into other subgroups. It gives information about the birth context of the group; where were the manuscripts copied? And for whom? Do they all derive from a single copy, the model being respected as far as in the physical aspect of the book? These are some of the questions I will try to answer. The collected codicological information will be compared to the conclusions of the narratological and philological study of each manuscript’s text. | |
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