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Un manuscrit éthiopien chrétien sur papier (ca. 1755) : une singularité royale

open access: yesAfriques, 2017
In the mid-18th century, at the royal court of Gondar, the scriptorium of King Iyo’ās (1755-1769) imported sheets of paper to make a lectionary (senkesar) in three volumes.
Anaïs Wion
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The Acts of Eadburg: drypoint additions to Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Selden Supra 30

open access: yesEarly Medieval Europe, Volume 34, Issue 2, Page 195-230, May 2026.
In 1913, two drypoint additions were identified in Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Selden Supra 30 (SS30), an eighth‐century Southumbrian copy of the Acts of the Apostles. It was suggested that these additions, cut into the membrane of p. 47, were abbreviations of the Old English female name, Eadburg. Just over a century later, many more drypoint markings
Jessica Hendy‐Hodgkinson
wiley   +1 more source

A “Documentary Turn” in the Medieval History of Egypt and Syria?

open access: yesHistory Compass, Volume 23, Issue 10-12, October-December 2025.
ABSTRACT The field of medieval Middle East history has seen a renewed attention to the use of documentary sources in recent years. These sources have long seen some neglect, and their interpretation has suffered from a stubborn narrative of paucity that has tended to relegate them to the fringe of this history. With the impact of other scholarly trends
Daisy Livingston
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An Illuminated Armenian Manuscript “Guidebook” to the Sacred Shrines in the Holy Land from the End of the Seventeenth Century

open access: yesÉtudes Arméniennes Contemporaines, 2017
The Nkaragrutʻiwn Tnōrinakan tełeacʻ is the name given to the collection of manuscripts containing descriptions of monuments located in Palestine, primarily those considered Christian holy places.
Mikayel Arakelyan
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The Chronicle of the Heavenly Signs: 17th Century Illustrated Handwritten Codex from the Collection of the Library of the Russian Academy of Sciences: in 2 vols. Vol. 1. Facsimile Reproduction of the Collection. Vol. 2. Texts, Research, Comments. Ed. by G

open access: yesStudia Litterarum, 2020
This article introduces a remarkable monument of the Russian literature — an illustrated manuscript collection of encyclopedic content, compiled at the beginning of the 17th century.
Lydia I. Sazonova
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I, monster: queerness and the Liber Monstrorum in early medieval St Gall

open access: yesEarly Medieval Europe, Volume 32, Issue 4, Page 543-564, November 2024.
This article analyses a ninth‐century copy of the Liber monstrorum from St Gall in which the first monster, a ‘human of both sexes’, speaks in the first person. The scribe also put the Liber monstrorum into dialogue with Isidore of Seville’s Etymologiae, in which Isidore argued that monsters were not ‘contrary to nature’.
Michael Eber
wiley   +1 more source

Handwritten Miscellanies About Peter the Great: Codicological Problems

open access: yesВестник Волгоградского государственного университета. Серия 4. История, регионоведение, международные отношения, 2017
The readings on the history of Peter’s time seem to be quite stable. These included works written in Petrine time, some of which were published in the first quarter of the 18th century, the chronological tables of Peter the Great’s reign, often with a ...
Tatyana A. Bazarova   +1 more
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Bringing Up Underground Corpora: Ethics and Manuscripts in an Age of Digital Reproduction

open access: yesInternational Quarterly for Asian Studies
While methodological considerations of positionality and disciplinary reflexivity have long been standard components of ethnographic studies, this is still not the case in codicology. Within the field of Arabic and Islamic manuscripts, recent debates on
Ingrid Austveg Evans
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Jean-Baptiste Camps, La Chanson d’Otinel. Édition complète du corpus manuscrit et prolégomènes à l’édition critique

open access: yesPerspectives Médiévales, 2017
The Chanson d’Otinel : Complete Edition of the Manuscript Corpus and Prolegomena to a Critical Edition. Part of the geste du roi, the Chanson d’Otinel had not been the subject of an edition since the pioneer work of F. Guessard and H.
Jean-Baptiste Camps
doaj   +1 more source

The Book of Armagh : A Codicological Reassessment

open access: yesScriptorium, 2021
Abstract The Book of Armagh (Dublin, Trinity College, TCD MS 52) is an early ninth-century composite vellum manuscript from an Insular orbit. Its contents include a complete copy of the New Testament, along with documents relating to St Patrick and St Martin of Tours.
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