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Information, Interpretation, Interaction: Global Cultures of Colophons, c. 1400–1800
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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: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
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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
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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 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
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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Towards a Structural Analysis of Armenian Colophons
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
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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Conversations across Time and Space: Constructing Memory Chains of Calligraphies and Paintings on the Basis of IIIF-IIP Platform [PDF]
[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
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