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Determining the Authenticity of Dunhuang Colophons: Practical Procedures Derived from a Study of Three Colophons Employing Similar Templates

T'oung pao (Print)
Addressing the perennial problem of forged colophons to Chinese Buddhist scriptures in Dunhuang manuscripts, I suggest some general procedures for identifying such items. Some of these approaches include comparing the date of the colophon with the time
Ruifeng Chen
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Quasi-Annals: data as a Component of the Formulaic of the Colophons of Old Rus Parchment Books

GRAPHOSPHAERA Writing and Written Practices
The paper is dedicated to dates in the colophons of 11th- to 14th-century Old Rus parchment books as one of the key elements of their formulaic. Those inscriptions are one of the forms of non-annalistic recording of historical information (mainly ...
Lyubov V. Stolyarova
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Babylonian Scholars Working for Ashurbanipal’s Library? Some Colophons with Cryptography and Learned Writings

Vostok. Afro-aziatskie obshchestva: istoriia i sovremennost
The article explores evidence for Babylonian scholars working for Ashurbanipal’s library. The colophons of Ashurbanipal’s library tablets are usually highly standardized and, as opposed to the colophons of private or temple libraries, do not contain any ...
Natalie Naomi May
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Colophons and Marginal Notes of the Avestan Manuscripts of the Pouladi’s Collection in Yazd

Iran studies, 2019
About 150 years ago, after Avestan researchers such as Jackson, Browne, and Westergaard had unsuccessfully attempted to discover new manuscripts in Iran, it was assumed that there were few or no Avestan manuscripts remaining in Iran.
Saloumeh Gholami, Mehraban Pouladi
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Neo-Mandaic in Early Mandaean Colophons. Part 2: Texts, Translations and Conclusion

Aramaic Studies, 2019
The first part of this article examined the features that distinguish the language of the earliest Mandaean colophons from Classical Mandaic and demonstrated that many of these features are shared with the contemporary Neo-Mandaic dialects recorded in ...
M. Morgenstern
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Neo-Mandaic in Early Mandaean Colophons. Part 1: Linguistic Features

Aramaic Studies, 2018
Neo-Mandaic [NM] is a direct descendant of a dialect very close to its classical predecessor. By the time the earliest surviving Mandaean manuscripts were copied, spoken Mandaic already showed many of the developments that distinguish the modern ...
M. Morgenstern
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Scribal Practice and the Global Cultures of Colophons, 1400–1800, edited by Christopher D. Bahl and Stefan Hanß

East Asian Publishing and Society, 2023
Deborah Rudolph
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“A Child in Zion”: The Scriptural Fabric of Armenian Colophons

, 2021
Emmanuel Van Elverdinghe
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Colophon

2020
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Where Are All the Colophons? Colophons in the Ancient Near East and in the Dead Sea Scrolls

Mighty Baal, 2020

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