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Decoding the biological information contained in two ancient Slavonic parchment codices: an added historical value. [PDF]

open access: yesEnviron Microbiol, 2020
Summary This study provides an example in the emerging field of biocodicology showing how metagenomics can help answer relevant questions that may contribute to a better understanding of the history of ancient manuscripts. To this end, two Slavonic codices dating from the 11th century were investigated through shotgun metagenomics.
Piñar G   +4 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

‘The Breath of Every Living Thing’: Zoocephali and the Language of Difference on the Medieval Hebrew Page

open access: yesArt History, Volume 46, Issue 4, Page 714-748, September 2023., 2023
The most remarkable feature of the Hammelburg Mahzor, a fourteenth‐century German High Holiday book, is the inclusion of zoocephalic figures: humans with beastly heads. The purpose of this essay is to explore the semiotics and phenomenology of this specifically Jewish visual idiom, and to suggest that its presence lies at the intersection of language ...
Elina Gertsman
wiley   +1 more source

Herbert of Bosham: A Medieval Polymath. Edited by Michael Staunton. Boydell. 2019. xii + 204pp. £60.00.

open access: yes, 2020
History, Volume 105, Issue 366, Page 494-495, July 2020.
JAMES BARNABY
wiley   +1 more source

A Newly Discovered Fragmentary Troubadour Songbook (Barcelona, Arxiu de la Catedral, Miscel·lània, 23/1-12)

open access: yesTranslat Library, 2023
A previously unknown fragmentary songbook at the Archives of Barcelona Cathedral (Barcelona, Arxiu de la Catedral, Miscel·lània, 23/1-12) transmits 17 troubadour poems, mainly the work of Peire Cardenal.
Miriam Cabré, Sadurní Martí
doaj   +2 more sources

Visualizing the Fight Book Tradition: Collected Martial Knowledge in the Thun-Hohenstein Album

open access: yesActa Periodica Duellatorum, 2018
The Thun-Hohenstein album, long-known as the Thun’sche Skizzenbuch, is a bound collection of 112 drawings that visualize armoured figures at rest and in combat, as well as empty armours arrayed in pieces.
Kirchhoff Chassica
doaj   +1 more source

A Reconstruction Study of an Old Uyghur, Parthian, and Middle Persian Manuscript

open access: yesİstanbul Üniversitesi Edebiyat Fakültesi Türk Dili ve Edebiyatı Dergisi, 2022
Many researchers have studied the considerably diverse contents and an assortment of artifacts from the region of Turfan since they had been introduced to the world with the discoveries at the beginning of the 20th century.
Betül Özbay
doaj   +1 more source

Work, version, text and scriptum: high medieval manuscript terminology in the aftermath of the new philology [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
This article reviews the terminological framework to describe manuscripts. The Lachmannian terminology allows scholars to classify manuscripts as versions or variants of a work on a purely textual basis, but lacks a rigid designator to indicate a (part ...
Snijders, Tjamke
core   +1 more source

Le cartulaire de l’abbaye Saint-Étienne de Caen (XIIe siècle) : essai d’archéologie documentaire

open access: yesTabularia, 2010
In spite of the historical importance of the abbey Saint-Étienne of Caen in the Anglo-Norman world, its cartulary, whose original manuscript strayed off during the nineteenth century, remains still largely ignored.
Tamiko Fujimoto
doaj   +1 more source

Judging a book by its cover: a new project analysing leatherwork from Sur Island, Sudan

open access: yesArchaeology International, 2021
A new project at the Institute of Archaeology will build on the work of the Humboldt University Nubian Expedition by bringing together multi-disciplinary approaches in the analysis and cataloguing of leatherwork recovered from a medieval church on Sur ...
doaj   +2 more sources

Documentação de Yguape

open access: yesFilologia e Linguística Portuguesa, 2003
We focuses for the study of the notes paleographics and codicologycs of a document belonging to the military file of the Slope From Santos, this article brings the observations presented in a seminar art University of São Paulo.
Cláudia Damião Lopes de Almeida Silveira
doaj   +1 more source

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