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The pharmacopeia used by physicians and laypeople in medieval Europe has largely been dismissed as placebo or superstition. While we now recognize that some of the materia medica used by medieval physicians could have had useful biological properties ...
Erin Connelly +2 more
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Scribal networks: Visualizing twelfth-century Cistercian book production through network analysis
This paper tests the application of network analysis to the visualization and analysis of paleographical data. In recent years, the twelfth-century scriptoria of the Austrian Cistercian monasteries of Heiligenkreuz, Zwettl and Baumgartenberg have been ...
Katharina Kaska
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Glossing was an important element of medieval Western manuscript culture. Yet, glosses are notoriously difficult to analyze because of their philological triviality, fluid nature, heterogeneity of origin, complex transmission histories, and anonymity ...
Evina Stein
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Investigation on the collation of the first Fight book (Leeds, Royal Armouries, Ms I.33)
This paper investigates the collation of the first Fight Book, the Leeds, Royal Armouries, Ms I.33. It critically reviews previous hypotheses about the composition of the quires and the identification of the material lacuna, and proposes a new hypothesis.
Binard Fanny, Jaquet Daniel
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Comparative Oriental Manuscript Studies. An Introduction
The present volume is the main achievement of the Research Networking Programme ‘Comparative Oriental Manuscript Studies’, funded by the European Science Foundation in the years 2009–2014. It is the first attempt to introduce a wide audience to the entirety of the manuscript cultures of the Mediterranean East. The chapters reflect the state of the art
Bausi , Alessandro +10 more
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This article presents Digital Scriptorium’s efforts to model and integrate premodern manuscript metadata into Wikidata, addressing challenges posed by inconsistent cataloging practices and the limitations of existing data models.
Rose A. McCandless, L. P. Coladangelo
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The article discusses the first half of Ronald Witt’s The Two Latin Cultures and the Foundation of Renaissance Humanism in Medieval Italy, devoted to the period between the 9th and 11th century.
Giacomo Vignodelli
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New Versions of the Sermons from the Pandects of Antiochus in the Church Slavonic Prologue
The Pandects, an anthology of passages from the Holy Scripture and the writings of the Church Fathers, was compiled in Medieval Greek in around 620 by Antiochus, a monk of the Laura of Mar Saba, at the request of hegumen Eustachius of the Monastery of ...
Marina Čistiakova
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The article deals with two short poems in Amharic from Ms. Ef. 10 kept in the Library of the Institute of Oriental Manuscripts of the Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg.
Denis Nosnitsin, Maria Bulakh
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Hardly traceable pitfalls in medical review articles
The main purpose of review articles is to increase insight into the best possible practice for increasing the health condition of future subjects. This requires the collection of as many relevant data as possible from earlier case studies, but such data ...
Olaf R. van Loon, A.J. (Tom) van Loon
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