Frontmatter TABLE OF CONTENTS CONTRIBUTORS PREFACE CONNECTING THE DOTS: USING DIAERESIS AS A SOURCE OF INFORMATION ABOUT SCRIBAL PRACTICES IN BYZANTINE EGYPT MARGINALIA AS TRACES OF CHANGING KNOWLEDGE CULTURE: THE CIRCULATION OF TAQWĪM TEXTS IN THE LATE MAMLUK SULTANATE THE MANUSCRIPTS OF ARABIC POPULAR SIYAR AND SĪRAT SAYF IBN DHĪ YAZAN A PORTABLE MAJLIS: ON PUBLISHING RELIABLE EDITIONS IN OTTOMAN MANUSCRIPT CULTURE CHAPTER DIVISIONS AND THE INTERPRETATION AND TRANSMISSION OF THE TOSEFTA THE SECOND-HAND SCRIBE: THE INTELLECTUAL ENVIRONMENT OF THE PRODUCTION OF A UNIQUE TOSEFTA FRAGMENT FROM THE LEVANT PERITEXTUAL ENCODING FOR THE METATRON / YAHOEL THEME IN THE KABBALISTIC SEFER HA-OT , OR “BOOK OF THE SIGN,” BY R. ABRAHAM ABULAFIA (1240–1292) READING AND REMEMBERING IN THE MEDIEVAL NEAR EAST: THE SYRIAC SHEMOHĒ BOOK (AKA. THE SYRIAC “MASORAH”) ANNOTATIONS IN THE EARLIEST MEDIEVAL HEBREW BIBLE MANUSCRIPTS AN ILLUMINATING SCRIBE: THE ʿARZADASHT OF JAʿFAR BĀYSUNGHURĪ AND ITS WEALTH OF INFORMATION ANNOTATION PRACTICES IN A SYRIAC EXEGETICAL COLLECTION (MS VAT. SYR. 103) SCRIBES AND THE BOOK OF REVELATION IN EASTERN NEW TESTAMENTS ON THE SUMERIAN GLOSSOGRAPHIC TRADITION CAN MANUSCRIPT HEADINGS PROVE THAT THERE WERE ARABIC GOSPELS BEFORE THE QURʾĀN? | 
