Download or read book Social Codicology written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2024-12-26 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study includes a wide range of contributions on the materiality and social practices of book copying, consuming, collecting, storing, venerating, discarding and preserving, both in historical and contemporary societies, stretching from Mauritania to Yemen, Kerala, and Malaysia. The volume consists of contributions made by academics, curators, and librarians both from the global North and the global South (India, Kenya, Syria, South Africa).