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Women participated actively in the 16th and 17th centuries publishing market. In that context, they acted, among other tasks, as book merchants, who were responsible not just for the book selling but also for finance the printing cost.
Alejandra Ulla
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Carbon Dating Analysis of Manuscripts Kept in the Central Library of the University of Tehran [PDF]
Objective: This paper will present and analyzes the results of the carbon dating campaign carried out in the project “Irankoran” at the Central Library of the University of Tehran (hereafter, CLUT).
Lili Kordavani +5 more
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Vat. copt. 57: A Codicological, Literary, and Paratextual Analysis [PDF]
MS Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana Vat. copt. 57, a collection of homi- lies attributed to John Chrysostom in Bohairic Coptic, poses a number of challenges to scholars.
Berno, Francesco +3 more
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The Dogs of Ninkilim, part two: Babylonian rituals to counter field pests [PDF]
This article presents editions of all the extant Babylonian incantations against field pests. The sources date to the first millennium BC and many have not been published before.
Alster +101 more
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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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Four Chinese Buddhist Nuns’ Gender Anxiety in Their Colophons to the Da banniepan jing 大般涅槃經
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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Metropolitan Dionisii (1581–1586) and the principles of the church elite’s formation in the 16th century [PDF]
The author has made an attempt to find out the metropolitan Dionisii’s status in the world and the place of taking him the monastic vows. Earlier he was the abbot of the Novgorod Spaso-Khutynskii monastery.
Andrei Usachev
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Looking into water-pots and over a Buddhist scribe's shoulder - On the deposition and the use of manuscripts in early Buddhism [PDF]
The article investigates the modes of use of early Buddhist manuscripts in a monastic environment. Based mainly on the evidence of archaeological and manuscript data from North-West India (Gandhāra) it discusses the circumstances under which manuscripts ...
Strauch, Ingo
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Written Languages in Wallachia during the Reign of Neagoe Basarab (1512–1521)
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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Is the Masora Circule, too, among the Scribal Habits?
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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