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‘De voluptate aurium’: The sounds of heaven in a 1501 sensory treatise on the afterlife
Renaissance Studies, Volume 38, Issue 4, Page 595-629, September 2024.Abstract In his De gloria et gaudiis beatorum, printed in 1501, the clergyman Zaccaria Lilio explores a popular topic in the religious life of Renaissance Italy: what is heaven like and what kind of experience awaits the blessed there? And his answer represents a snapshot of a characteristic manner in which heaven was imagined in the period, both in ...
Laura Ștefănescu
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Ecology and Evolution, Volume 14, Issue 8, August 2024.The Greater Cape Floristic Region at the southern tip of Africa is a global megadiversity hotspot. The region's biodiversity has been driven by a long history of topographic, climatic, and sea level change coupled with geological uplift, and without being exposed to any major climate events such as glaciations since the breakup of Gondwana.
Michael J. Samways +3 more
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Making money out of making money in ancient Athens
Archaeometry, Volume 66, Issue 1, Page 238-246, February 2024.Abstract The observed weights of ancient coins are usually less than the nominal “ideal” weights of the coin standards to which they belong because state authorities took a fee—“seigniorage”—for minting coins to cover costs and to make a profit. The basis for calculating the amount taken by the state and the way it administered manufacture are not well
Gillan Davis, Francis Albarède
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African Bibliophiles: Books and Libraries in Medieval Timbuktu [PDF]
, 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.
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Typological Aspects of Scholarly Tablets in the Library of Ashurbanipal
KaskalThe 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
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Blank Forms for Future Applications
Critical Quarterly, Volume 67, Issue 3, Page 57-89, October 2025.
Ruth Abbott, Chloe Steele
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Ludlul bēl nēmeqi in Ashurbanipal’s Library
KaskalThis paper investigates the manuscripts of Ludlul bēl nēmeqi from Ashurbanipal’s Library. It concludes that five types of tablets were included in the royal tablet collections, with at least three tablet sets marked with Ashurbanipal colophons ...
Hätinen, Aino
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Manuscriptorium Digital Library and ENRICH Project: Means for Dealing with Digital Codicology and Palaeography [PDF]
, 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
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Journal 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
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Des livres qui parlent: paratexte et publicité au début du 16e siècle [PDF]
, 2012 This study explores the manuscript transmission of three anonymous 15 th century treatises, with the incipit “Memoria fecunda”, “Nota hanc figuram” and “Alphabetum Trinitatis”, and their textual relationship to each other.
Kiss Farkas, Gábor
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