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Blank Forms for Future Applications

open access: yes
Critical Quarterly, Volume 67, Issue 3, Page 57-89, October 2025.
Ruth Abbott, Chloe Steele
wiley   +1 more source

The Colophons of Codex Amiatinus

open access: yes, 2019
A few of the many rubrics in Codex Amiatinus include colophonic phrases. This article investigates their nature (generally formulaic and conventional) and the various factors that may lie behind their inclusion, highlighting the possible contribution of
R. Gameson
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Typological Aspects of Scholarly Tablets in the Library of Ashurbanipal

open access: yesKaskal
The Library of Ashurbanipal is an archetype of standardisation in cuneiform. It has been seen as a collection of compositions whose text took the form of fixed, canonical versions on which modern reconstructions can best rely.
Schnitzlein, Babette, Taylor, Jon
doaj   +1 more source

African Bibliophiles: Books and Libraries in Medieval Timbuktu [PDF]

open access: yes, 2004
The West African city of Timbuktu flourished as a center for Islamic scholarship from the 14th through the 16th century. The social structure of the city was based on wealth, with further stratification by degree of literacy, and expertise in ...
Singleton, Brent D.
core   +1 more source

The Discipline of Writing: Scribes and Purity in Eighth-Century Japan [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
This article focuses on ritualized scribal practices in eighth-century Japan. It uses colophons, scriptorium documents, and narrative tales to explore how sutra copyists upheld vegetarian diets, performed ablutions, wore ritual garments, and avoided ...
Bryan Lowe
core   +1 more source

From Nan to Luang Prabang: The Buddhist Heritage of Northern Laos as Reflected in Recently Discovered Manuscript Collections

open access: yesJournal of International Buddhist Studies, 2019
Luang Prabang and Nan can look upon a glorious past as most eminent Buddhist kingdoms. During the first half of the nineteenth century both kingdom were important centres of manuscript production.
Volker Grabowsky
doaj  

Manuscriptorium Digital Library and ENRICH Project: Means for Dealing with Digital Codicology and Palaeography [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Codicology and palaeography in the digital age can be developed both through adapting existing methods and using information and communication technologies.
Knoll, Adolf, Uhlíř, Zdeněk
core  

The Hand with the Pen: Martin of Loka, Matjaž Jurčič of Kapela and Herman Talner of Trebnje and their Colophons

open access: yesArs & Humanitas, 2014
Beginning with expressions such as ideographs, the author’s autograph, and the copyist’s autograph, this paper explains the dilemma of some Late Medieval Manuscripts in Slovenian collections that were mistakenly identified as being the author’s own ...
Nataša Golob
doaj   +1 more source

Les trois « colophons » de l’Évangile de Jean découvert à Naqlūn

open access: yes, 2016
Edition of two Coptic colophons and an Arabic note written at the end of the 11th–12th manuscript of the Gospel of John found in a grave at Naqlun in 2002.
Alain Delattre   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Colophon

open access: yesRigakuryoho Kagaku, 2023
Emile Schrijver   +15 more
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