Frontmatter -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- PART I: SICILY AND THE ITALIAN PENINSULA -- Multilingual and Multigraphic Documents of Sicily -- Language and the Written Record: Loss, Survival and Revival in Early Norman Sicily -- Multilingualism in the Documents of the Norman Rulers in Calabria and Sicily. Successful Acculturation or Cultural Coexistence? -- Legal Language and Practice in Twelfth- and Thirteenth-Century Messina: The Evidence from Greek Private Documents -- Translators of Arabic, Greek and Bilingual (Arabic-Greek or Greek-Arabic) Documents in Palermo Between the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Century -- Multilingual and Multigraphic Manuscripts of Sicily -- Written culture(s) in Islamic Sicily (827-1091) -- The Cambridge Chronicle: Some Linguistic Features -- Multilingual Manuscripts in Norman Sicily -- Notes on the Illustrations of the Greek-Arabic Gospel Marc. gr. Z. 539 (303) -- The Maltese and Sicilian Component in the Arabic Glosses of the Italian Version of MAQRĒ DARDEQĒ -- Multilingual and Multigraphic Documents and Manuscripts of the Italian Peninsula -- Greek-Latin Deeds in the Norman Calabria and the Question of the Reality of Multilingualism -- On Multigraphism in Mediaeval Apulia -- Bilingual Manuscripts as a Sign of a Social and Cultural Decline: the Abbot Nicolas-Nectarius of Otranto and the Greek-speaking Community in Apulia During the First Half of the Thirteenth Century -- Editing an Illuminated Arabic-Latin Masterwork of the Fifteenth Century. Manuscript Vat. Urb. lat. 1384 as a Philological Challenge -- PART II: BETWEEN WEST AND EAST -- Multilingual and Multigraphic Documents and Manuscripts of Iberia: Some Case Studies -- Textual and Pictorial Multilingualism in Alfonso the Learned's Libro del saber de astrología: Between Theoretical Necessity and Aesthetic Erudition -- Jewish Multilingual and Multigraphic Texts in Christian Spain -- Transmission, Translation, Legitimacy and Control: the Activities of a Multilingual Scribe in Morisco Granada -- A Glimpse of Eastern Traditions -- A Summary in Michael the Syrian's 'Chronography' and its Companions in Greek, Syriac and Arabic, With an Incursion in Ethiopic -- A Seventeenth-Century Multi-Text Manuscript from Aleppo: Linguistic Remarks and Historical Context -- Abstracts -- Index