Occasional Paper No. 7

CSMC Scroll Matrix

The Matrix presented below orderly lists the main features of the book form scroll, and some other aspects to be considered in scholarly studies and descriptions. It can be used as an inspection checklist or as a backbone for an analytic description of a scroll. It is based on the presentations of case studies by specialists of various cultural areas, within the framework of the Permanent seminar on manuscript analysis, description, and documentation (https://www.csmc.uni-hamburg.de/written-artefacts/working-groups/permanent-seminar.html) at the Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures (Universität Hamburg), and is the result of discussions between the authors.

CSMC's Occasional Papers

The Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures regularly hosts meetings to discuss the theory, terminology and other issues in manuscriptology. Several of its members – philologists, historians, art historians, linguists and others – collectively engage in contributing to the systematic and historical study of manuscript cultures. The documents are individual contributions and drafts reflecting some of the provisional results of the Centre’s activities.

The research for this paper was funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) under Germany ́s Excellence Strategy – EXC 2176 'Understanding Written Artefacts: Material, Interaction and Transmission in Manuscript Cultures', project no. 390893796. The research was conducted within the scope of the Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures (CSMC) at Universität Hamburg.