Wordlists for Libraries and Closely Related Phenomena in Different Manuscript Cultures from Asia, Africa and Europe

Il documento offre una raccolta di termini indigeni più o meno equivalenti alla parola inglese "library" (biblioteca) e/o a manoscritti multi-testo (Multiple-text Manuscript) attestati nelle seguenti culture del manoscritto: alevi, cinese, etiopica, greca e bizantina, giapponese, latina medievale, sanscrita, swahili, tai lü, tamil, tibetana e vietnamita. The paper offers a collection of indigenous terms from different manuscript cultures that are more or less equivalent to the English word “library” and/or to a multitude of texts collected into one manuscript (Multiple-text Manuscript). The manuscript cultures represented in the paper are the following: Alevi, Chinese, Ethiopic, Greek and Byzantine, Japanese, Medieval Latin, Sanskrit, Swahili, Tai Lü, Tamil, Tibetan, and Vietnamese.