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Latin in Multilingual Biblical Manuscripts
2023Abstract Abstract: This chapter provides an overview of the typology of bilingual manuscripts, along with tables of multilingual codices of the New Testament and of the Psalter in which a Latin text is present. The earliest Greek–Latin documents include a papyrus fragment and majuscule codices such as Codex Bezae and Codex Claromontanus.
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Pico’s Latin Manuscripts. Palaeographical and Codicological Observations
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Chiromancy in Mediaeval Latin Manuscripts
Speculum, 1965IN Latin the earliest separate treatment of chiromancy as a distinct subject, art or science, appears to have been in translation from the Arabic albeit somewhat dubiously ascribed to Adelard of Bath' and John of Seville2 of the twelfth century. In both cases Aristotle is sometimes named as the original author.
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Greek Script In Latin Manuscripts
2020This chapter briefly surveys the use of the Greek alphabet in Latin manuscripts of the Middle Ages, when it was employed both to write the Greek words which are frequently embedded in the works of Late Latin authors as well as for encryption and decoration. Also touched upon are the most substantial Western examples of Greek manuscripts of the medieval
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France and the Transmission of Latin Manuscripts
2002The study of the migration of manuscripts, as part of the history of libraries, is one of the interesting chapters in the history of culture. It provides with a picture of the contribution of every nation to the foundations of modern civilization. France is particularly interesting in such studies, since it was on its territory that a large number of ...
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Nordic Latin Manuscript Fragments
20171. Piecing Together the Past: The Accidental Manuscript Collections of the North [Tuomas Heikkila and Aslaug Ommundsen] 2. Reflections on Nordic Latin Fragment Studies Past and Present Together with Three Case Studies [Michael Gullick] 3. The Recycling of Manuscripts in Sixteenth-Century Sweden [Jan Brunius] 4.
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The Greek and Latin Manuscript Traditions
Abstract After a survey of the various resources that are available for the study of the manuscript tradition of Philo, we turn to the tradition in Greek. Among the manuscripts of the direct tradition, there are two third-century papyri, notably the very valuable codex of two books that is now in Paris as well as the much more ...openaire +1 more source
Berlin Latin Manuscripts Now in Cracow
The Classical Quarterly, 1992In L. D. Reynolds (ed.), Texts and Transmission: a Survey of the Latin Classics (Oxford, 1983), it is stated by J. G. F. Powell (p. 122) and by M. D. Reeve (p. 327 n. 4) that MS. Berlin, Deutsche Staatsbibliothek Lat. 4° 404 (s. ix), containing Cicero, De amicitia, and Publilius Syrus, Sententiae, is missing.
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Who Were the Scribes of Latin Manuscripts?
2020This chapter discusses scribes from antiquity and the early Christian era through the late Middle Ages: their professions, class, gender, education, religion, age, etc. The status of scribes varied dramatically from period to period, reflecting changes in literacy and respect for the written word. The author discusses monastic attitudes towards writing,
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