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?1. Information, Interpretation, Interaction: Global Cultures of Colophons, c. 1400?1800- Christopher D. Bahl and Stefan Hanß.- 2. A Prosopography in Circulation: Advertising Scribal Travails in Arabic Manuscripts across Early Modern South Asia- Christopher D. Bahl.- 3. Lines of Loyalties and Early Modern Cultural Diversity: Colophons as Sites of Encounters- Stefan Hanß.- 4. How to Publish a Book in the Fifteenth-Century Middle East: The Case of Ibn Na?s?ir al-Di?n?s ?Abundant Refutation?- Laurenz Kern.-5. Signatures of Authority: Colophons in Seventeenth-Century Melkite Circles in Aleppo- Feras Krimsti.- 6. The Making of a Local Historian in Timbuktu: The Signed Marginalia Attributed to Ma?m?d Ka?ti in the Fondo Kati Collection- Susana Molins Lliteras.- 7. From Scribal Marks to Calligraphic Signatures? Print, Scribe and Script in Early Modern European Writing Manuals- Hannah Murphy.- 8. Poetry of the Scribes: Versified Colophons and Scribal Identity in Siamese Manuscript Culture- Peera Panarut.- 9. Muslim Scribal Culture in India around 1800: Toward a Disentangling of the Mughal Library and the Delhi Collection- Nur Sobers-Khan.- 10. In Absence of a Colophon: Alternative Signing Practices in Arabic Autograph Manuscripts- Torsten Wollina.- 11. Remembering the Living and the Dead in Fifteenth-Century Armenian Colophons: The Case of Bodleian MS Marsh 438 (I-III)- David Zakarian.