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Signatures of authority: colophons in seventeenth-century Melkite circles in Aleppo
, 2022 This chapter examines the functioning of colophons as guarantors of textual authority and stability among Melkite Christians in seventeenth-century Syria.
Krimsti, Feras
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The Colophons of Codex Amiatinus
, 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
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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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Les formules de colophons, une approche inédite de la tradition manuscrite arménienne
, 2016 Longtemps, la recherche sur les colophons de manuscrits s’est focalisée sur leur apport à l’histoire et, dans une moindre mesure, à la prosopographie, à la codicologie et à la linguistique historique. Dans ce cadre, les formules stéréotypées, si typiques
Van Elverdinghe, Emmanuel +1 more
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Du Roman de la Rose aux livres d'heures : étudier et comprendre les écritures de colophons
, 2021 International audienceIn medieval manuscripts, colophons are often written in a different manner from the main text. The color, decoration, layout, script, formality, or writing style may diverge as do textual features (language, versification, declared ...
Stutzmann, Dominique
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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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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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