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The Political Percepion of Time in 11-13 Century Armenian Epigraphy and Manuscript Colophons

History and Culture. Journal of Armenian Studies, 2023
The article focuses on temporal-political formulae of manuscript colophons and inscritpions from 11-13th century Armenia, a widely used textual component to refer to the rulers of the time.
Areg Vardanyan
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A Preliminary Study of the Colophons of the Naxi Manuscript Collection in the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin

Acta Orientalia Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae, 2023
The Naxi manuscripts are generally religious texts used by the Dongba priests in southwest of China. The interpretation of colophons has often been underappreciated in previous studies.
Chunfeng Zhang
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Place Names in Colophons and Notes of Yemeni Manuscripts

Journal of Islamic Manuscripts, 2022
This article points to some geographical and historical conditions of scholarship and manuscript culture in Zaydi Yemen. The place of copying is only sporadically given in the colophons of Arabic manuscripts.
C. Rauch
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The Relationship between Three Short Indigenous Chinese Buddhist Scriptures and the Textual Practices Found in their Dunhuang Manuscript Colophons

T'oung pao (Print), 2020
This article studies the relationship between colophons for, and the content of, Dunhuang manuscripts of three indigenous Chinese Buddhist scriptures: the Jiu zhuzhongsheng kunan jing, the Xin pusa jing, and the Quanshan jing.
Ruifeng Chen
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Supplement: The Forgery of Colophons and Ownership of Hebrew Codices and Scrolls by Abraham Firkowicz

Fakes and Forgeries of Written Artefacts from Ancient Mesopotamia to Modern China, 2020
The manuscripts and Torah scrolls that Abraham Firkowicz (1787–1874) appropriated served the same purpose as the epitaphs he forged. He not only tampered with colophons of codices, but also fabricated long Karaite ownership inscriptions and records of ...
Abraham Firkowicz
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The Colophons of the Archaic Lists and their Social Setting

Zeitschrift für Assyrologie und Vorderasiatische Archäologie
The colophons of the archaic lexical lists, to which little attention has hitherto been paid, are re-edited and analyzed. Tablets with colophons are examined within their archaeological context, revealing clusters of lexical lists.
Camille Lecompte, Hugo Naccaro
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Les colophons de Siméon de Płndzahank‘ du point de vue du problème de l’identité

ARAMAZD: Armenian Journal of Near Eastern Studies
For the medievalist, the cultural world of the Caucasus presents a multifaceted and littlestudies issue of national identity. The material for my publication is the colophon records, associated with the literary activity of the translator Simeon of ...
Azat Bozoyan
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Forgeries of Old Rus Book Colophons in 17th–19th-Century Russia. Part 1

GRAPHOSPHAERA Writing and Written Practices
The purpose of the present paper is to study forged colophons in Old Rus books as a source on the development of palaeography in Russia: any forgery reflects the forger’s notion of medieval writing, the level of knowledge of (and of interest in) the ...
Lyubov V. Stolyarova
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Colophons as Cultural Markers: A Reflection of Religious, Cultural, and Linguistic Influences in Madurese Manuscripts

Manuscripta Orientalia. International Journal for Oriental Manuscript Research
The limited study of the colophons in Madurese manuscripts has resulted in an inadequate understanding of the rich copying practices and cultural influences that shape them.
Mahbub Ghozali, Naufal Cholily, Abd. Kholid   +2 more
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Colophons in Cyrillic Codices as a Unique Socio-Cultural Phenomenon of Early Modern Times

Z Badań nad Książką i Księgozbiorami Historycznymi
In this research, colophons are studied as an essential component of Cyrillic codices, which were created on the lands of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Crown of Poland (later the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth).
S. Voloshchenko
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