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The British Museum and the Abyssinian Campaign, 1867–8
History, Volume 110, Issue 391, Page 326-345, June 2025.Abstract In 1867–8, the British Museum sent a staff member on the Abyssinian Campaign. Richard Holmes, an assistant in the Manuscript Department, was embedded in the military invasion and looted important and sacred objects and manuscripts from the fortress of Emperor Tewodros II at Maqdala.
ZOE CORMACK
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Digital Medievalist, 2011 The second of the series Schriften des Instituts für Dokumentologie und Editorik, this volume, entitled Codicology and Palaeography in the Digital Age assembles twenty-one papers that were to be subsequently presented at an international symposium in ...
Ségolène M Tarte
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The Computer and the Classification of Script [PDF]
, 2009 In the 1970s Bernhard Bischoff famously predicted that, thanks to technology, palaeography was on the road to becoming an art of measurement. The journey down this road has not been smooth, however, for several reasons.
Stansbury, Mark
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Biblical exegesis at Wearmouth‐Jarrow before Bede? The Hereford commentary on Matthew
Early Medieval Europe, Volume 33, Issue 2, Page 183-219, May 2025.This article examines a previously neglected fragment of an early medieval commentary on Matthew’s Gospel, the bifolium Hereford Cathedral Library, P. II. 10. I argue on palaeographical grounds that this fragment was produced in Bede’s monastery of Wearmouth‐Jarrow in the first decades of the eighth century, at roughly the same time as the production ...
Samuel Cardwell
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Open Information Science, 2021 The present paper addresses the issue of how interest-driven learning can enhance an attitude of student-generated inquiry in the learning process so to promote student participation in university research projects. The research question is how wonder as
Molinari Alessandra
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Artefacts and Errors: Acknowledging Issues of Representation in the Digital: Imaging of Ancient Texts [PDF]
, 2011 It is assumed, in palaeography, papyrology and epigraphy, that a certain amount of uncertainty is inherent in the reading of damaged and abraded texts.
Terras, Melissa M.
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Studia Anglica Posnaniensia, 2019 Among the different topics studied by palaeography, punctuation has traditionally been disregarded by scholars for being considered arbitrary and unsystematic (Salmon 1988: 285).
Barranco Jesús Romero
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Restoring Medieval Manuscripts in the Eighteenth-Century: Completing or Perfecting?
Perspectives Médiévales, 2020 While today’s digital era raises new questions for the preservation of medieval manuscripts, the desire to preserve and transmit the literature of the Middle Ages is not new.
Delphine Demelas
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Lucifer and the Arabic palaeography. A contribution on the Oriental glosses of the bible of Cava de' Tirreni [PDF]
, 2018 This contribution is intended to fill a gap in the series of studies already devoted to the glosses of the famous codex Cava 1, a Biblical manuscript written in early 9th-century Spain, and to contribute to its better understanding from a cultural and ...
D'Ottone, Arianna
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Cuatro inscripciones pertenecientes al antiguo Convento de San Vicente de Villamayor de los Montes
Medievalista, 2013 The epigraphic group presented here belongs to the old monastery of St. Vicente de Villamayor de los Montes and is kept in the cloisters of the present Cistercian temple.
Alejandro García Morilla
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