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Information, Interpretation, Interaction: Global Cultures of Colophons, c. 1400–1800

open access: yes, 2022
This volume charts the diversity of early modern colophons to explore new analytical approaches to scribal cultures across the globe between circa 1400 and 1800.
Hanß, Stefan; id_orcid   +2 more
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Aspiring to Be a Buddha and Life Before Liberation: The Colophons of the Siamese Questions of King Milinda

open access: yesManuscript Studies, 2022
:This article presents the colophons of a Buddhist text, the Questions of King Milinda, as seen in manuscripts found mainly in Central Thailand. Through a survey of over seventy Pāli palm-leaf manuscripts and a Thai samut khoi (folding book), the ...
E. Ooi
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Quantitative Codicology and Scientific Paradigms. A Typology of Latin Formulae in the Colophons of Western Manuscripts

open access: yesTrends in Statistical Codicology, 2021
In a note∗published some ten years ago in the ‘Gazette du livre médiéval’1, I announced a research project set within the framework of my doctoral thesis Étude sur le formulaire latin des colophons de manuscrits occidentaux (IIIe–XVIe siècle).
Lucien Reynhout
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Scribe, Owner, or Both? Some Ambiguities in the Interpretations of Personal Names in Colophons from Tamil Nadu

open access: yes, 2022
The study of the linguistic style and register of Tamil used in colophons found in manuscripts hailing from Tamil Nadu and containing Sanskrit, Tamil and Manipravalam texts brings us to the fringes of what is the conventional use of the ...
Giovanni Ciotti, Ciotti G.
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Ethiopic Colophons: An Update

open access: yes, 2022
Ethiopic colophons are still an understudied subject among the broader field of the codex manuscript cultures of East and West. The Christian Ethiopian and Eritrean manuscript tradition in Gǝʿǝz language provides a rich, still unsystematically studied ...
Bausi, Alessandro
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Description: Its meaning, epistemology, and use with emphasis on information science

open access: yesJournal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, Volume 74, Issue 13, Page 1532-1549, December 2023., 2023
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
wiley   +1 more source

Towards a Structural Analysis of Armenian Colophons

open access: yes, 2022
After presenting in schematic format the structural elements that are typical of an Armenian colophon, this article seeks to perform a simple operation: verify their actual presence in three colophons that date to 1266, 1269, and 1432.
Sirinian, Anna, A. Sirinian
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Science, method and critical thinking

open access: yesMicrobial Biotechnology, Volume 16, Issue 10, Page 1888-1894, October 2023., 2023
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
wiley   +1 more source

‘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

Conversations across Time and Space: Constructing Memory Chains of Calligraphies and Paintings on the Basis of IIIF-IIP Platform [PDF]

open access: yesNongye tushu qingbao xuebao, 2020
[Objectives/Significances] Recently, Chinese colleges and research institutes have begun to use international image interactive framework to present Chinese calligraphies and paintings. But few knowledge discoveries are based on the historic inscriptions
LI Hui, CHEN Tao, SHAN Rongrong
doaj   +1 more source

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