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Why William of Moerbeke Is Not the Author of ‘His’ 'Geomantia' (And Why That Does Not Make the Text Less Interesting)

Mediterranea, 2019
The intention of this note is to assess the current tendency to view the Geomantia as a genuine work by William of Moerbeke. While the attribution in the colophons is accepted at face value, other lines of enquiry have remained unexplored.
Pieter Beullens
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Written Languages in Wallachia during the Reign of Neagoe Basarab (1512–1521)

Studia Ceranea, 2021
The reign of Neagoe Basarab (1512–1521) represented one of the cultural peaks of Wallachian history. Using the written sources preserved from this period, we tried to present the written Slavonic varieties and other languages (Romanian and Latin) that ...
Vladislav Knoll
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The Life and Legacy of Tūmā al-Ṣafī ibn al-Ṣāʼigh

Manuscript Cultures
The first half of the fourteenth century was a challenging period for the Copts under Mamluk rule. Successive waves of persecution, marked by forced conversions to Islam, the imposition of distinctive clothing and other political and social pressures ...
Vevian Zaki
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Four Chinese Buddhist Nuns’ Gender Anxiety in Their Colophons to the Da banniepan jing 大般涅槃經

Religions, 2023
Many scholars of Buddhism believe that Buddhists (particularly Mahāyāna Buddhists) regularly reproduce scriptures for merit in general, regardless of their content.
Ruifeng Chen
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Is the Masora Circule, too, among the Scribal Habits?

Tyndale Bulletin, 2020
Research into masoretic biblical manuscripts (MSS) is heavily reliant on our ability to reunite fragments once belonging to the same codex, now separated one from the other in the Genizah morass, and to identify the scribes behind codices whose colophons
Kim Phillips
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Genèse et thématologie de Don Quichotte : l'inflexion des chapitres VI et VII

Orbis Litterarum, EarlyView.
Résumé Cet article examine la genèse de Don Quichotte à partir d'une analyse thématologique des chapitres VI et VII de la première partie, afin de réévaluer l'hypothèse critique selon laquelle l'œuvre aurait pu être initialement conçue comme un roman bref.
José Rienda Polo
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That Pivotal Year of the Era “From the Creation of the World”: A Few Notes on the Origins of Hebrew Printing

Sefer Yuḥasin, 2018
Nowadays, the researchers studying Hebrew printing have reached the conclusion that its history begins with the undated editions that were printed from 1469 to 1473.
Shimon Iakerson
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Membaca Jejak Proses Kreatif Penyair Nusa Tenggara Timur, John Dami Mukese

Diglosia, 2021
This article explores the poet John Dami Mukese's creative process in creating his poetry. John Dami Mukese is an Indonesian poet born in Flores, a Catholic priest who wrote about 250 poems.
Yohanes Sehandi, Alexander Bala
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Kazan Kitab. Monument to the manuscript heritage of the Tatars of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania 17th century: codicological and bibliographic description

Золотоордынское обозрение
Objective: Сodicological and bibliographic descriptions of the Belarusian-Tatar manuscript of the 17th century stored in the Scientific Library of the Kazan University under the code 5750т (previously 1546) and known in the scientific world as the Kazan ...
Tarelko M.V.
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Copier des manuscrits : remarques sur le travail du copiste

Revue des Mondes Musulmans et de la Méditerranée, 2002
Professional copyists appeared early on in Muslim societies and they played an important role in the transmission of texts up until the 20th century. Yet, die economic activity around their work is little known. How do these men identify themselves? What
François Déroche
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