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Notes and Colophons of Scribes and Readers in Georgian Biblical Manuscripts from Saint Catherine's Monastery (Sinai) [PDF]
2018, In Liv Ingeborg Lied and Marilena Maniaci, eds.Bible as Notepad: Tracing Annotations and Annotation Practices in Late Antique and Medieval Biblical Manuscripts. Manuscripta Biblica 3. Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter, 2018.
Adam Bremer-McCollum
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The Rejoicing Sailor and the Rotting Hand: Two Formulas in Syriac and Arabic Colophons With Related Phenomena in Some Other Languages [PDF]
A common simile in Greek colophons likens the scribe at the end of the copying work to a sailor reaching harbor, and Greek colophons also sometimes include lines contrasting the abiding power of written texts and the short-lived hands that wrote them ...
Adam Bremer-McCollum
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Expressions in Silk: Embroidered Miniatures on Historic Textiles from the Armenian Apostolic Churches of Istanbul [PDF]
The perfection of execution, the rendering of figures, garments and faces is as magnificent as the best embroidery work of any period and any nation. (Kouymjian 1992, 59) Introduction The assessment of Armenian embroidery offered by Kouymjian in his ...
Breu, Marlene, Marchese, Ronald T.
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Towards a Structural Analysis of Armenian Colophons
After presenting in schematic format the structural elements that are typical of an Armenian colophon, this article seeks to perform a simple operation: verify their actual presence in three colophons that date to 1266, 1269, and 1432. These colophons were chosen as samples not only because they differ from one another in terms of date, place, context,
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ՏԱՐԵՐԱՅԻՆ ԱՂԵՏՆԵՐՆ ՈՒ ԵՐԿՆԱՅԻՆ ԵՐԵՎՈՒՅԹՆԵՐԸ ՎԻՄԱԳՐԵՐՈՒՄ ՄԱՍ ԵՐՐՈՐԴ: ԵՐԱՇՏ, ՄՈՐԵԽ
Numerous evidences about weather anomalies and climate changes, especially intense heat, water scarcity, seed drying, locust and larva activation, as well as about drought have been preserved in colophons of the Armenian manuscripts, chronicles, as well ...
Arsen E. Harutyunyan
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The Codicological and Cultural Value of Formulae in Armenian Colophons
As is well known, colophons in Armenian manuscripts often exhibit conventional traits, notably with regard to structure, content, style, and lexicon. Most striking are undoubtedly the so-called “formulae”, i.e. more or less set phraseological patterns, recognizable across a number of different colophons.
Van Elverdinghe, Emmanuel +1 more
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The present volume provides a comparative look at the contents and layout features of secondary annotations in biblical manuscripts across linguistic traditions.
Lied, Liv Ingeborg, Maniaci, Marilena
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Two Qaraquyunlu and Aqquyunlu ‘Turkmen’ decrees in the Great Mosque of Mardin [PDF]
This contribution reconstructs and contextualizes two decrees abolishing specific imposts. Both were inscribed into the eastern entrance vestibule of the great mosque of Mardin connecting the mosque to the main market area of the town in the name of ...
Leube, Georg
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Describing Language Variation in the Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts
The colophons of Armenian manuscripts constitute a large textual corpus spanning a millennium of written culture. These texts are highly diverse and rich in terms of linguistic variation. This poses a challenge to NLP tools, especially considering the fact that linguistic resources designed or suited for Armenian are still scarce.
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