Composite and multiple-text manuscripts are traditionally studied
for their individual texts, but recent trends in codicology have
paved the way for a more comprehensive approach: Manuscripts are
unique artefacts which reveal how they were produced and used as
physical objects. While multiple-text manuscripts codicologically
are to be considered as production units, i.e. they were originally
planned and realized in order to carry more than one text,
composites consist of formerly independent codicological units and
were put together at a later stage with intentions that might be
completely different from those of its original parts. Both
sub-types of manuscripts are still sometimes called "miscellanies",
a term relating to the texts only. The codicological difference is
important for reconstructing why and how these manuscripts which in
many cases resemble (or contain) a small library were produced and
used. Contributions on the manuscript cultures of China, India,
Africa, the Islamic world and European traditions lead not only to
the conclusion that "one-volume libraries" have been produced in
many manuscript cultures, but allow also for the identification of
certain types of uses.
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