Working with Manuscripts: A Guide for Textual Scholars

by Brent Nongbri and Liv Ingeborg Lied

A first-of-its-kind handbook outlining best practices and common pitfalls for students and textual scholars interested in beginning to work with manuscripts

While manuscripts are rare in most of the world today, they were once ubiquitous. Before the printing press, literature was preserved and transmitted through handwritten copies containing variant readings, mistakes, corrections, and other unique features. Those who study premodern...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300264429
• ISBN13: 9780300264425
• Release Date: April 2025
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 192 Pages