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14 Metrical variation in Byzantine colophons (XI–XV CE): The example of ἡ μὲν χεὶρ ἡ γράψασα
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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Colophons in Sumerian and Akkadian Literary Manuscripts from 3rd and 2nd Millennium BCE Mesopotamia
The practice of inserting scribal remarks to the end of a manuscript in ancient Mesopotamia dates back to the third millennium and it was continued until the end of the cuneiform tradition.
Sövegjártó, Szilvia
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The Greek Orthodox Community of Northern Lebanon in the Beginning of the Ottoman Epoch [PDF]
This article is devoted to a less-known period in the political history of the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Antioch, namely the early decades of the Ottoman rule (1530s–1540s).
Konstantin Panchenko
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Murder and Aesthetics in Patricia Highsmith’s Deep Water
Patricia Highsmith’s fifth novel, Deep Water (1957), revolves around three murders committed by 36-year-old Victor Van Allen, head of Greenspur Press in Little Wesley, Massachusetts, and a genuine aesthete whose interests include handset colophons ...
Robert Lance Snyder
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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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Traveling history of the Armenian four gospels dated to 1686 (NCM RAR 82)
The colophons of the old manuscripts, in general, convey important information about various persons, noble families, churches, monasteries, historical facts or contemporary political situations.
Khatuna Gaprindashvili
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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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The present study examines colophons in fourteenth-century Nepalese manuscripts. More precisely, it focuses on manuscripts written between 1320 and 1395 CE as part of an ongoing research about the cultural history of Nepal in this pivotal century ...
Camillo Formigatti, Formigatti, Camillo
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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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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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