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The Roman presbyters and la bella scrittura Filocaliana
The long‐standing collaboration between Bishop Damasus of Rome and Furius Dionysius Filocalus has prompted extensive scholarly research over the years, thereby forging a lasting and inseparable link between them. This article does not seek to undermine that bond; rather, it demonstrates – on the basis of surviving epigraphic evidence – that Filocalus ...
Julia Borczyńska
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Multispectral imaging on manuscripts. Case studies from Petrarca to Carlo Levi
The contribution presents the first significant results of the application to some important case studies - from Petrarca's Bucolicum Carmen (Fazion, Ventura), to some papers of Giuseppe Raimondi's Fund (Obbiso, Rossi), to Carlo Levi's Quaderno a ...
Sara Fazion +4 more
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IMPLICIT COMPARISONS: VISUALITY AND THE INTERLINEAR MANUSCRIPT PAGE
ABSTRACT A central question for European philology, informed by various agendas and ideologies, concerned comparison and the positing of hierarchies among languages. With this “traditional” question of philology in mind, but hoping to think in less traditional ways, this article asks how comparative understandings of Arabic and local languages of the ...
RONIT RICCI
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ABSTRACT This article presents an unpublished Sabaic inscription from the ʾAwām sanctuary of ʾAlmaqah, near Maʾrib. The inscription sheds new light on the mid‐third century ad adventures of a mqtwy (‘officer’) of the Sabaean kings already known from epigraphic evidence: Whbʾwm Yʾḏf.
Justine Potts
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Restoring Medieval Manuscripts in the Eighteenth-Century: Completing or Perfecting?
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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A case study in early modern latin palaeography
This article examines the palaeographic features of Latin lapidary inscriptions from Southern Istria dating from 1400 to 1900. By analysing a corpus of 239 inscriptions, it traces the shift from Gothic majuscule to Renaissance capitalis.
Šime Demo
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A “Documentary Turn” in the Medieval History of Egypt and Syria?
ABSTRACT The field of medieval Middle East history has seen a renewed attention to the use of documentary sources in recent years. These sources have long seen some neglect, and their interpretation has suffered from a stubborn narrative of paucity that has tended to relegate them to the fringe of this history. With the impact of other scholarly trends
Daisy Livingston
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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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The British Museum and the Abyssinian Campaign, 1867–8
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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DigiPal: Digital Resource and Database of Palaeography, Manuscript Studies and Diplomatic
This is a review of DigiPal: Digital Resource and Database of Palaeography, Manuscript Studies and Diplomatic.
Isabella Magni
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