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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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14 Metrical variation in Byzantine colophons (XI–XV CE): The example of ἡ μὲν χεὶρ ἡ γράψασα

Varieties of Post-classical and Byzantine Greek, 2020
In this chapter, several metrical varieties in a corpus of Byzantine book epigrams are explored. More specifically, we look into a number of varieties in metrical colophons of the type ἡ μὲν χeὶρ ἡ γράψασα‘ the hand that wrote [this]’, which was a very ...
Julie Boeten
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Job’s Colophon and Its Contradictions [PDF]

, 2017
As a paratext, the colophon’s functions can be summarily and quickly described. It marks the ending of a text. In the era before printing this was a necessity, so that later copyists would know that they had a complete text before them to reproduce. This
Thomas Bolin
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The Colophons of the Manuscripts and the Problems of Studying the History of Russia in Early Modern Times

, 2020
The article is devoted to the prospects of applying one type of mass sources to studying the Russian early modern history These sources were introduced to the scholarship in corpore only in 2018 by the author of the article.
A. Usachev
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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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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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La fin de la tradition cunéiforme et les "Graeco-Babyloniaca" [PDF]

, 1995
Maul Stefan. La fin de la tradition cunéiforme et les "Graeco-Babyloniaca". In: Cahiers du Centre Gustave Glotz, 6, 1995. pp.
Maul, Stefan
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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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The Georgian Milieu and the Metaphrastic Menologion: Three Accounts about Symeon Metaphrastes

Interfaces: A Journal of Medieval European Literatures, 2022
The article investigates the reception history of the Metaphrastic menologion in the medieval Georgian milieu. The Georgian literati were the first non-Greeks to translate the metaphrastic hagiographical literature.
Sandro Nikolaishvili
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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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