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An 81-million-word multi-genre corpus of Arabic booksSwedish National Data Serivice [PDF]
This article describes The Arabic E-Book Corpus, a freely available Arabic corpus consisting of 1,745 books (81,5 million words) published by the Hindawi Foundation between 2008 and 2024. The books are of various genres, including fiction and non-fiction,
Andreas Hallberg
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Recurrent Pattern Modelling in a Corpus of Armenian Manuscript Colophons [PDF]
Colophons of Armenian manuscripts are replete with yet untapped riches. Formulae are not the least among them: these recurrent stereotypical patterns conceal many clues as to the schools and networks of production and diffusion of books in Armenian ...
Emmanuel Van Elverdinghe
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Two Nineteenth-Century Syriac Orthodox Colophons Giving Accounts of The Hamidian Massacres
This article introduces two late nineteenth-century colophons written by Syriac Orthodox scribes outside Anatolia commenting on the series of massacres occurring in 1894-1896 across the Ottoman Empire better known as the “Hamidian Massacres” after the ...
Simon Luke Robinson Burke
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Traveling history of the Armenian four gospels dated to 1686 (NCM RAR 82)
The colophons of the old manuscripts, in general, convey important information about various persons, noble families, churches, monasteries, historical facts or contemporary political situations.
Khatuna Gaprindashvili
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The Idea of the Just Ruler and the Art Patron in Persianate Calligraphy
Jaʿfar Tabrizi (1383–1455) is one of the most famous Timurid calligraphers and was the chief of prince Baysonqor’s (1397–1433) library. Under his supervision, some of the most prestigious Herati manuscripts were created.
Hamid Reza Ghelichkhani
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This article delves into the literature sources and historical origins of the initial section of the Qisha Canon, a renowned block-printed Chinese Buddhist Canon carved in the greater Hangzhou region during the Song and Yuan dynasties. The existing first
Zhouyuan Li
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Description: Its meaning, epistemology, and use with emphasis on information science
Abstract This study examines the concept of “description” and its theoretical foundations. The literature about it is surprisingly limited, and its usage is vague, sometimes even conflicting. Description should be considered in relation to other processes, such as representation, data capturing, and categorizing, which raises the question about what it
Birger Hjørland
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Science, method and critical thinking
Science understands that we only can reach the truth of the World via creation of models. The method, based on critical thinking, is embedded in the scientific method, named here the Critical Generative Method. Abstract Science is founded on a method based on critical thinking.
Antoine Danchin
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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
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