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Bongianino, Umberto. "The origin and development of Maghribī round scripts : Arabic palaeography in the Islamic West (4th/10th-6th/12th centuries)." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2017. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:fcb869fc-e308-4c41-ac90-de03c693103a.
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This thesis aims to study the origin and development of Maghribī round scripts, i.e. the highly distinctive writing styles employed in the Arabic manuscripts and documents produced from the 4th/10th century onwards in the western Islamic world, and more specifically in the Iberian Peninsula, North-West Africa, and the Balearic Islands. In order to reconstruct the activity of Maghribī calligraphers, copyists, and secretaries, and to follow the development of their practices, the present work lists and discusses the earliest dated material written in Maghribī scripts, in chronological order: 123 non-Quranic manuscripts, 25 Quranic codices and fragments, nine chancery documents, and two private contracts, all of which produced between 270/883 and 600/1204. The palaeographic analysis of the scripts has made it possible to distinguish between different Maghribī sub-styles and 'schools' of calligraphy, some of which have been given a new definition. A particular attention has been devoted to the geographical and historical context in which these scripts developed - i.e. Umayyad al-Andalus - and to the cultural, and even ideological implications of their use and diffusion throughout North-West Africa. Codicological aspects have also been taken into consideration, such as the quality of scribal supports, the composition of quires and gatherings, the methods of ruling the pages, the choice of inks and pigments of different types, the style and techniques of illumination. Where possible, the autoptic study of the material has been combined with the information offered by primary sources of various kinds (historical treatises, biographical dictionaries, handbooks for notaries ...) so as to present a comprehensive picture of the Maghribī scribal tradition until the Almohad period. The resulting image is that of a calligraphic culture as rich and sophisticated as the eastern one, which constituted a key element in the creation and promulgation of the Andalusī identity throughout the Mediterranean, but whose formative process and full aesthetic range were still poorly understood.
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Smith, William Andrew. "Study of the Gospels in Codex Alexandrinus : codicology, palaeography, and scribal hands." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/9738.
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The fifth-century manuscript known as the Codex Alexandrinus contains the entirety of the Greek Old and New Testaments and is a landmark in the history of the Bible. Though Alexandrinus represents a primary witness to the biblical text, no modern palaeographical or codicological analysis of the manuscript has been performed: the most in-depth studies of the codex pre-date the great papyrological finds of the 20th century. By executing both palaeographical and codicological analyses of the manuscript in light of a modern understanding of the textual history of the Bible and of Hellenistic Greek, and by additionally introducing statistical analysis into what has traditionally been a subjective field of research, this dissertation processes the textual and paratextual data of the manuscript to a degree previously unattained. The focus of the analysis is on the Gospels, which are quite unique in Alexandrinus: they stand at the headwaters of the Byzantine text form; they contain the earliest extant implementation of the Old Greek chaptering system; and the interaction between the unit delimitation and the Eusebian Apparatus in the Gospels is unique among the great uncial manuscripts. However, the analyses extend to both the Old and New Testaments to provide a context in which to study the Gospels. Among the discoveries made in this dissertation, this study overturns the view that a single scribe was responsible for copying the canonical New Testament books and demonstrates that the orthography of the Gospels can no longer be used to argue for the Egyptian provenance of the codex. As the first in-depth study of unit delimitation in the Gospels of Alexandrinus, this work reveals the complex relationship between the paragraphing system, the chaptering structure, and the incorporation of the Eusebian Apparatus from a separate exemplar. Finally, one result of the examination of the Eusebian Apparatus introduces the cascading error as a newly identified category of scribal error.
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Rota, Gabriele. "The textual transmission of Cicero's Epistulae ad Brutum, ad Quintum fratrem, and ad Atticum." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2018. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/277880.
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My doctorate is a study of the manuscript transmission of Cicero’s Epistulae ad Atticum: a twenty-book corpus comprising one book Ad M. Brutum, three books Ad Quintum fratrem, sixteen books Ad Atticum and a pseudo-Ciceronian Epistula ad Octauianum. I have made a complete reinspection and partial recollation of the eighty-odd fully extant manuscripts, and reconstructed a new stemma codicum that may be used for both historical and editorial purposes. My thesis consists of four chapters, following the transmission of the corpus of Ad Atticum from the Middle Ages down to the Renaissance and the beginning of printing. In Chapter 1 I discuss the top of the stemma: Petrarch’s (1304–74) rediscovery of these letters in the Chapter Library of Verona in 1345, and the beginning of their dissemination in fifteenth-century Italy, thanks to the Florentine Chancellor Coluccio Salutati (1331–1406) and two humanists of his circle: Niccolò Niccoli (1364–1437) and Leonardo Bruni (c. 1370–1444). Editors of Cicero’s letters believe that the top of the stemma is bipartite, and that bipartition reflects separate strands of mediaeval transmission: I argue against their reconstruction and put forward a new pluripartite stemma. In Chapter 1 I also consider manuscripts independent of the Verona archetype: these witnesses survive only in tiny fragments and scattered readings cited by sixteenth-century critics. In Chapter 2 I study the northern Italian progeny of the Veronese archetype: here too I have significantly improved on the editors’ work, thanks to collation of a larger number of independent manuscripts and a more articulated understanding of the intricate dynamics of contamination affecting this branch. In Chapters 3 and 4 I investigate the Florentine transmission of the corpus of Ad Atticum. In Chapter 3 I study the closer descendants of the copy of the Verona archetype that in 1393 came from Milan to Florence at Salutati’s instigation. In Chapter 4 I focus on the thirty-odd descendants of the manuscript that in 1408 the humanist and Papal secretary Poggio Bracciolini (1380–1459) copied for Cosimo de’ Medici (1389–1464). The comprehensive stemmata that I put forward in Chapters 3 and 4 are completely new, since hitherto there has been no systematic attempt to map the genealogy of Salutati’s manuscript.
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Head, George. "Studies in the language, palaeography and codicology of MS Edinburgh, National Library of Scotland, Advocates' 19.2.2." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 1997. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/2989/.
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This thesis is an investigation into scribal method in the Older Scots period. It centres upon the practice of a single scribe, John Ramsay, and his work in a single manuscript, MS Edinburgh, National Library of Scotland, Adv. 19. 2. 2 compiled between 1488 and 1489. This manuscript contains the oldest extant copy of Bruce by the late fourteenth-century poet John Barbour and a copy of the fifteenth-century poem Wallace attributed to Blin’ Hary. In the first Chapter, the reasons for the choice of this manuscript are given and its historical context is outlined. This is done through a brief description of the manuscript, an account of the lives of the authors of the texts and an outline history of the Older Scots Language. In chapter two, an alternative context for the manuscript is suggested through a discussion of prototype theories of categorisation and how they articulate with current theories of linguistic investigation. In particular, the notions of inclusiveness, fuzziness, and focus and fixity are highlighted as being of particular importance in the study of language which is the subject of the chapter which follows. Chapter 3 is a commentary on the language of the manuscript, working from data presented in the appendices. This enables the various current methods of manuscript investigation to be studied for what they reveal of scribal practice. In particular, the concepts of variation and constraint are highlighted. Chapter 4 is an examination of the handwriting in the manuscript. Again working from data presented in the appendices, Ramsay’s range of letter forms and the contexts in which he uses them are investigated. Variation and constraint are again important concepts and the value of the study of handwriting as an aid to the identification of the work of a scribe is assessed. In Chapter 5 the codicology of the manuscript is considered. The watermarks in the paper are described and, as far as possible identified. A collation of the quires of the texts, based on the pattern of watermarks and chain-line indentations, is suggested. Ramsay’s methods of correction and abbreviation are then examined for what they reveal of his scribal practice.
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Mazzon, Ottavia. "Leggere per excerpta : la silloge di estratti conservata nel manoscritto greco Napoli, Biblioteca Nazionale II C 32." Thesis, Paris Sciences et Lettres (ComUE), 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018PSLEP014.
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Les intellectuels byzantins ne lisaient pas les œuvres anciennes de manière passive : en lisant, ils avaient toujours le calame à la main pour corriger les fautes du texte, ajouter des notes ou des scholies marginales, pour rédiger des commentaires ou pour en tirer des citations, qu’ils déposaient dans des cahiers de notes. L’étude d’un recueil d’extraits permet de s’approcher en quelque sorte du bureau d’un érudit du passé, de comprendre quels textes il lisait, pourquoi et comment il sélectionnait les passages à citer. Le Neap. II C 32 est un des témoins les plus remarquables de cette pratique de lecture active et il constitue le reflet des intérêts de lecture d’un érudit ou d’un groupe d’érudits, qui avait l’habitude d’annoter les passages les plus intéressants de toutes les œuvres qu’il lisait. Le codex a été écrit par un seul scribe : on peut l’identifier comme Georges Galésiotès, célèbre copiste professionnel qui travailla pour la chancellerie du patriarcat de Constantinople pendant la première moitié du XIVe siècle. Le Neap. II C 32 n’est pas d’un cahier de notes mais il représente la mise au propre de plusieurs brouillons, qui recueillaient plusieurs anthologies d’extraits. L’ordre du contenu du Neapolitanus ne semble pas fortuit, mais il correspond probablement à un projet précis. Le codex peut être divisé en trois sections : la première contient les extraits tirés de la Bible (ff. 1-27) ; la deuxième ceux sélectionnés des ouvrages à sujet religieux (ff. 28-149) ; la troisième est dédiée à la littérature profane. L’analyse critico-textuelle a permis de tracer la place des modèles de certaines anthologies d’extraits dans le cadre de la tradition directe des ouvrages présents dans le codex de NaplesByzantine scholars did not read ancient authors passively: when they read, they always kept a pen in their hands in order to be able to correct eventual mistakes, add notes or scholia, include commentaries. They often employed books to collect interesting quotes, which they annotated separately in handbooks, so that they were ready to be used in the composition of an original work. The study of an anthology of excerpts allows us to somehow approach the writing desk of a scholar of the past: in doing so, it grants us the possibility to understand which texts he read and why, and also analyze the method he used in exploiting his sources. Ms Neap. II C 32 is an exceptional witness of this form of ‘active’ reading. The codex constitutes the reflection of the literary interests of a group of scholars who used to annotate the most interesting passages they found while reading. The codex was written by an only scribe, i.e. George Galesiotes, who worked for the patriarchal chancellery of Constantinople in the first half of the 14th century. Neap. II C 32 is not a scholarly handbook: it is the fair copy of several handbooks. The anthologies of excerpts included in the manuscript have been organized according to a precise project. The codex can thus be divided into three main sections: the first one is dedicated to the Bible (ff. 1-27), the second one to works of religious nature (ff. 28-149), the third one contains profane authors. Textual-critical analysis allows us to situate some of the anthologies included in Neap. II C 32 within the main manuscript tradition of the authors
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Aussems, Johannes Franciscus. "Christine de Pizan : the scribal fingerprint." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/7789.
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This thesis is concerned with the supervised manuscripts of the works of Christine de Pizan (ca 1364-ca 1430), the first female author who could make a living from the products of her pen. During her long and prolific career as an author, she composed numerous works for noble and royal patrons of France, which were made into manuscripts by Parisian scribes and illuminators. Scholars have argued that Christine supervised the production of these manuscripts. Moreover, on several occasions the hypothesis has been raised that Christine also copied several of them herself, thus acting as scribe X alongside two other scribes, called P and R. The aim of this thesis is twofold: firstly, to gain a better understanding of the production process of the supervised manuscripts of Christine de Pizan's works and of the role played by the author; secondly, to develop and test a new methodology for distinguishing between scribal hands in medieval manuscripts. An account of Christine de Pizan's life and a survey of all surviving supervised manuscripts of her works clearly show that she had extensive knowledge of how they were made. Monotextual manuscripts of her works were often produced in series, in an attempt to economise and speed up the production process. The manuscripts of Christine's collected works show a production and editing process that resembles modern-day printing-on-demand. This thesis further demonstrates the use and success of the Scribal Fingerprint, a new and objective method of distinguishing between scribal hands that consists of three palaeographical core differentiators and two additional differentiators. A Scribal Fingerprint examination of the handwriting in MS Harley 4431, the most recent of the four surviving manuscripts containing Christine's collected works, generates highly heterogeneous differentiator values for the thirteen folios that were analysed. This analysis is combined with an examination executed by GIWIS, an innovative computer application for handwriting analysis. Both strngly suggest that MS Harley 4431, thought by some scholars to have been transcribed entirely by scribe X, was in fact copied by more than one scribe.
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Traxel, Oliver Martin. "Language, writing and textual interference in post-Conquest Old English manuscripts : the scribal evidence of Cambridge, University Library, Ii. 1. 33." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.368500.
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Grant, Angela. "The view from the fountain head : the rise and fall of John Gwenogvryn Evans." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2018. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:1c490921-9480-4cc6-bed2-f3e1948a4817.
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John Gwenogvryn Evans was an important figure in late nineteenth and early twentieth century Welsh Celtic Studies, because he published accurate diplomatic editions of medieval manuscripts that are still used today. He also compiled an important and detailed Report on Welsh Manuscripts for the Historic Manuscripts Commission that was of significant utility to scholars of his day, and still has uses for its detailed description of manuscripts. His extraordinary talent for accuracy in the reproduction of medieval script came to the attention of John Rhŷs, then Professor of Celtic at Jesus College, Oxford. Through Rhŷs he was exposed to the best scholarship of his day, and with the assistance of scholars such as Egerton Phillimore and John Morris Jones, he was enabled to produce work of enduring value. Due to his limited training in Welsh linguistics, and in research methodology, there were, from the start, serious flaws in his interpretation of early Welsh. Later, on losing contact with academic influences due to unwise actions, he fell into a pseudoscientific mentality more common earlier in the 19th century, seeking to find historical fact in poetry of legend and prophecy. Major errors arose from his later inclination to consider the date of a manuscript and the date of the content to be identical, and the ridicule that resulted from his 'amendments and translations' to early poetry so undermined his credibility that he never completed the full range of his intended series of texts. This study traces the origins, manifestations, and consequences of his dual nature through seven chapters. It considers the value of his solid earlier work, and balances it against the follies of his later translations, and seeks to give a fairer view of the value of his work to his own generation, and to those that followed on from him.
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Leontidou, Eleni. "The reception of Cyprian of Carthage in early medieval Europe." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2017. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/268102.
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This doctoral thesis deals with the transmission and reception of the works of Cyprian of Carthage in the early Middle Ages. The process of research combined the study of the manuscript transmission of Cyprian’s works with the study of texts that were (in an immediate way or not) influenced by these writings. The connections between the transmission of Cyprian’s writings and the publishing activities of various groups, from the Donatists in fourth-century North Africa to Carolingian priests, is a central part of the thesis. The appropriation of the Church Father by different groups, including Arian writers in the aftermath the Council of Aquileia, proves not only the sense of authority Cyprian’s works invoked but also the, often liberal, way in which ancient works were used or interpreted. In addition, Cyprian was the first Latin Church Father to connect the concept of the unity of the Church with the office of the bishop. He was therefore influential in medieval ecclesiological thought and in the shaping of episcopal identities throughout the early Middle Ages. The thesis examined how Cyprian’s works functioned as tools of legitimisation for the causes of ninth-century bishops, such as Hincmar of Reims; invocations of priestly and episcopal identity, which were often based on Cyprian’s contribution to Catholic theology, enabled influential bishops to affirm their place in a Christian society as major players in ecclesiastical and secular politics.
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Donnelly, Kiera Louise. "Dating the Life of St Chad: Reviewing the Evidence and Approaches." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2022. https://hdl.handle.net/2123/29388.
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The Life of St Chad is an anonymous Old English saint’s life and is extant only in Oxford, Bodleian, MS Hatton 116. Saint Chad (c. 634–672) was a Northumbrian monk, missionary, and bishop of Mercia. The Life is probably an Old English translation of a lost, original Latin vita, adapted from Bede’s Historia Ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum with an introduction and conclusion based on Sulpicius Severus’s Vita Sancti Martini. This thesis includes an originally edited edition of the text, alongside a translation and critical apparatus.
This thesis enters the debate about when the Old English Life was composed, with the central question of establishing the extent to which linguistic—and specifically vocabulary—evidence can be used to establish parameters for the date of the text and re-evaluating the evidence to date. More broadly, this thesis considers the dating methodologies employed in relation to early medieval English texts, and my approach offers new insights into these. I argue that a reasonable conclusion on the more likely date for a text is possible through employing probabilistic reasoning to analyse certain types of linguistic data, particularly the frequency and distribution patterns of pertinent vocabulary, when supported by the other literary, historical, and contextual evidence.
I conclude that it is most likely that the Life was composed by the first half of the tenth century, and probably prior to c. 930. Almost certainly, based on vocabulary evidence, it was composed much earlier than it was copied in the extant twelfth-century manuscript. The findings of this thesis offer a range of insights into the importance of the Life of St Chad in understanding the development of early English prose and continuing literary activity in Mercia after the advent of a West Saxon literary tradition at the end of the ninth century.
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Alvarez, Lopez Francisco Jose. "A Comparative Analysis of the Palaeography of the Manuscripts Containing the Aethelwoldian Translation of Regula Sancti Benedicti written in English." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.516339.
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The reign of King Edgar (959-975) has been greatly emphasised in recent years as a period of substantial achievements in both intellectual and religious terms. It is within this context that the flgures of tEthelwold of Winchester, Dunstan of Canterbury and Oswald of Worcester stand out. They are generally regarded as the leaders of the so-called Benedictine Reform which is generally accepted to have changed the landscape of the Anglo-Saxon church through an intensive process of establishment of Benedictine monasteries throughout Edgar's realm. Although the intensity of such reformation has been under thorough scrutiny recently, scholars generally agree on the impact that particularly.IEtheIwold and Dunstan had on the (mostly religious) literary production of the period. One of the texts that the bishop of Winchester composed is a historical record of the reforming endeavour (Edgar's Establishment of the Monasteries). This piece also gives evidence of how .lEthelwold was commissioned by the royal family to translate RSB into the vernacular. Only nine copies (some fragmentary) of this translation have survived, all of them from different periods and, arguably, from different origins. Their format is mostly bilingual (with the Latin text preceding the Old English translation chapter by chapter) and they range in date from the late tenth century to the early thirteenth. Departing from a general historical contextualisation of the moment when the translation was composed, this thesis presents a detailed investigation of each extant copy, its palaeographical and codicological features and the historical context in which it was produced and used. Each chapter is devoted to a full manuscript (or its relevant part In the case of composite volumes), which is presented in the contemporary context of the monastic community where it was manufactured andlor used (when known) before being thoroughly described. Finally, a conclusion to the thesis is presented to comparatively examine the outcome of all the individual analyses offered in the previous sections. The results of this analysis allow us to obtain a more accurate picture of the transmission of the vernacular RSB showing that this was much more widespread than generally believed. In addition, it evidences the persistent use of the tEthelwoldian translation beyond 1066, while providing valuable information about the ways in which this (mostly) bilingual text was employed in the context of a bilingual (and later trilingual) society.
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Sampath, Vinodh Rajan. "Quantifying scribal behavior : a novel approach to digital paleography." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/9429.
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We propose a novel approach for analyzing scribal behavior quantitatively using information about the handwriting of characters. To implement this approach, we develop a computational framework that recovers this information and decomposes the characters into primitives (called strokes) to create a hierarchically structured representation. We then propose a number of intuitive metrics quantifying various facets of scribal behavior, which are derived from the recovered information and character structure. We further propose the use of techniques modeling the generation of handwriting to directly study the changes in writing behavior. We then present a case study in which we use our framework and metrics to analyze the development of four major Indic scripts. We show that our framework and metrics coupled with appropriate statistical methods can provide great insight into scribal behavior by discovering specific trends and phenomena with quantitative methods. We also illustrate the use of handwriting modeling techniques in this context to study the divergence of the Brahmi script into two daughter scripts. We conduct a user study with domain experts to evaluate our framework and salient results from the case study, and we elaborate on the results of this evaluation. Finally, we present our conclusions and discuss the limitations of our research along with future work that needs to be done.
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Puyat, Tara Elena. ""The Gradual" at Oregon State University: A Rough Guide to Assessing the Identity of a Late Roman Catholic Chant Book." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/19190.
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In the 1930s, Oregon State University received an impressive oversized manuscript, now known as "The Gradual," as part of a large donation of books. Not much was known about this manuscript. It does not have documentation attached from the time of its acquisition, nor had any methodical study been undertaken regarding the manuscript. This thesis examines the OSU Gradual, aiming to provide research tools for the identification of musical manuscripts of unknown or unclear provenance that could be useful to conservators, archivists, and librarians, irrespective of musical training. It is conceived as a "rough guide" for working situations where there is no dedicated manuscript specialist, in particular, a fulltime Latin paleographer or a chant scholar overseeing a massive collection. Instead, its "how-to" nature addresses curators and catalogers managing smaller manuscript collections as generalists, offering an interdisciplinary approach both beneficial and suitable to the aims of this study.
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Munhoz, Renata Ferreira. "Correspondência oficial para o Morgado de Mateus: transcrição semidiplomática do livro n° 170 do AESP (de 1767 a 1775)." Universidade de São Paulo, 2009. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8142/tde-01122009-152250/.
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Este trabalho apresenta a edição semidiplomática de 68 documentos manuscritos da segunda metade do século XVIII, entre os anos de 1767 e 1775, referentes ao período de governo de Dom Luís Antonio de Sousa Botelho Mourão como Capitão General da Capitania de São Paulo. O conjunto desses documentos, originalmente avulsos, encontra-se reunido em um livro manuscrito de número 170 no Arquivo do Estado de São Paulo (AESP). A fim de melhor estudar tal livro manuscrito, esse trabalho compõe-se de um capítulo acerca da descrição codicológica e paleográfica, seguido da classificação das espécies documentais existentes no corpus transcrito. Além de um capítulo sobre o momento histórico em que foram executados os documentos. Após os capítulos de análise do corpus, há o núcleo do trabalho: a transcrição semidiplomática e justalinear face a face com a reprodução facsimilar de cada fólio dos documentos. No livro manuscrito há também páginas impressas, que foram anexadas após as transcrições, embora não façam parte do presente estudo. Uma vez que os documentos aqui publicados encontravam-se inéditos, a sua divulgação certamente contribuirá para os estudos filológicos, linguísticos e históricos da época.This essay presents the facsimilar copies and the semi diplomatic editions of 68 manuscripts from the second half of the eighteenth century, between the years 1767 and 1775, during the government of the General Captain of the São Paulo Captaincy, Dom Luis Antonio de Sousa Botelho Mourão. This corpus was selected in the Arquivo do Estado de São Paulo (AESP) and all of the documents are covered in the manuscript book number 170, where they follow the same order as presented here. In order to study the manuscript book, this work is composed by a chapter about Codicology and Palaeography of the studied documents, followed by the classifications of the documental species of the corpus. Before the transcriptions, there is a chapter about the historical moment in which the documents were executed. The transcription of the handwriting part of the codex is semi diplomatic, line by line and face to face with the respective facsimilar reproduction of each manuscript. There are also printed documents in the manuscript book, which were attached to this work, though they are not the object of study. Since the documents are not yet published, their divulgation can certainly contribute to the philological, linguistic and historical studies.
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Girardi, Lucas Werlang. "As tramas do Passo Honroso: uma análise comparativa entre as narrativas do evento do Passo Honroso de Suero de Quiñones." Universidade de São Paulo, 2018. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8138/tde-23112018-124808/.
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Esta pesquisa busca estabelecer a análise de diversas fontes produzidas entre os séculos XV e XVI, em território ibérico, ligadas a um evento denominado Passo Honroso de Suero de Quiñones. Dentro desta variedade de fontes, há uma narrativa detalhada do que ocorreu neste evento, que apesar de variações entre os textos, obedece a uma mesma linha mestra, um enredo. Assim, levanta-se o questionamento sobre qual a relação entre a constelação documental selecionada, de recorte temporal aproximado, e tratando de uma mesma narrativa, ainda que possam apresentar variações entre si. O trabalho percorrerá por apreciações individuais das fontes, assim como da comparação entre as mesmas, investigando suas características físicas de forma técnica, codicológica e paleográfica, e compreendendo suas composições, como os escribas participantes, suas interações entre os fólios, as lacunas e disposição dos conteúdos. Serão averiguadas relações de aproximação e distanciamento entre as fontes, dadas suas proximidades de produção e conteúdo. A análise comparativa será realizada através da colação das transcrições dos textos, e através de sistematizações em tabelas será abordada a construção da narrativa do evento a partir das variantes entre as versões do texto e as particularidades de cada escriba ao transmitir o conteúdo. Outra temática a ser questionada identifica-se como o gênero textual da narrativa do Passo Honroso, uma vez que seu enredo apresenta características diversas, abrangendo uma escrita supostamente historiográfica, por seu formato e intenção de legitimação, além de sua afinidade com a literatura, aspectos que devem abarcar discussões sobre as noções de história e verdade para os sujeitos do período.This research seeks to establish the analysis of several sources produced between the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, linked to an event denominated \"Passo Honroso de Suero de Quiñones\". Within this variety of sources, there is a detailed narrative of what occurred in this event, which despite variations between texts, they follow the same guideline, a plot. Thus, the question about the relationship between the selected documentary constellation, with an approximate time of production, and the same narrative, is raised, even though they may presente vairations from one another. The work will be based on an individual and comparative appreciation of these sources, investigating their physical characteristics in a technical, codicological and paleographic manner, and understanding their compositions, such as the participating scribes, their interactions among the folios, the gaps and the arrangement of contents. Relationships of approximation and distancing between the sources will be ascertained, given their proximity of production and content. The comparative analysis will be done through the collation of the transcriptions of the texts, and through systematizations in tables, will be approached the construction of the narrative of the event through the variants between the versions of the text and the particularities of each scribe when transmitting the content. Another theme to be questioned is the textual genre of the narrative of the Passo Honroso, since its plot presents diverse characteristics, covering a supposedly historiographical writing, its format and intention of legitimation, as well as its affinity with literature, aspects which should encompass discussions on the notions of history and truth for the people who lived in the period.
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Judson, Anna Penelope. "The undeciphered signs of Linear B." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2017. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/265630.
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More than sixty years after Michael Ventris’ decipherment of the Linear B script, 14 of its 87 syllabic signs still have no sound-values assigned to them. This group of ‘undeciphered’ signs represent a significant gap in our ability not only to read the Linear B script, but also to understand its development and use. Chapter 1 of this thesis analyses the origins and usage of signs with known sound-values to establish what types of values are in principle most likely to be found amongst the undeciphered signs: this investigation also enables an exploration of the development of Linear B, its relationship with its parent script Linear A, and the motivating factors underlying the creation of new Linear B signs. Chapter 2 consists of studies of each individual undeciphered sign, including a palaeographic analysis of their forms, discussion of their corpus of attestations, and an examination of their prospects of decipherment and possible sound-values in the light of the results of Chapter 1. Finally, Chapter 3 employs this group of signs in a case-study to explore the potential of palaeographic analysis to contribute to our understanding of wider issues concerning the Linear B script and its context of use within the Mycenaean palaces. This case-study focuses in particular on two main uses of palaeography: as a means of assigning a relative chronology to Linear B texts, and as evidence for the reconstruction of the Mycenaean scribes’ administrative work and training.
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Korte, Jannik, Claudia Maderna-Sieben, and Fabian Wespi. "Deciphering Demotic Digitally." Universitätsbibliothek Leipzig, 2016. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:15-qucosa-201668.
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In starting the Demotic Palaeographical Database Project, we intend to build up an online database which pays special attention to the actual appearance of Demotic papyri and texts down to the level of the individual sign. Our idea is to analyse a papyrus with respect to its visual nature, inasmuch as it shall be possible to compare each Demotic sign to other representations of the same sign in other texts and to study its occurrences in different words. Words shall not only be analysed in their textual context but also by their orthography and it should be possible to study even the papyrus itself by means of its material features. Therefore, the Demotic Palaeographical Database Project aims for the creation of a modern and online accessible Demotic palaeography, glossary of word spellings and corpus of manuscripts, which will not only be a convenient tool for Egyptologists and researchers interested in the Demotic writing system or artefacts inscribed with Demotic script but also will serve the conservation of cultural heritage. In our paper, we will present our conceptual ideas and the preliminary version of the database in order to demonstrate its functionalities and possibilities.
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Campopiano, Michele. "Il Liber Guidonis compositus de variis historiis : studio e edizione critica dei testi inediti." Doctoral thesis, Scuola Normale Superiore, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/11384/86031.
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Varelli, Giovanni. "Musical notation and liturgical books in late Carolingian Nonantola." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2017. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/264172.
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The musical notation of the northern Italian Benedictine abbey of St Sylvester in Nonantola has hitherto been neglected by most scholarship on early music scripts, mainly because of the paucity of surviving music manuscripts and their limited geographical diffusion. A new study was needed in order to develop a full understanding of the abbey’s role and importance in the first phases of development of the writing of music in the early Middle Ages. A Lombard foundation, Nonantola acquired much of its prestige from the links with the Carolingian court as early as the late eighth century. From the first decades after its foundation, the Po Valley abbey also benefited from an active scriptorium; this shaped a local type of text script that endured until after the fall of the Carolingian empire, when the abbey, including most of its library, was destroyed by the Hungarian invasion in 899 (§1). The study of the earliest surviving notated liturgical manuscripts revealed that, by the late ninth century, Nonantola already developed an institutional type of musical notation, making it the earliest known music script ever to be written in the Italic peninsula and, thus, among the earliest in Carolingian Europe (§§2–3). The unique design and use of musical signs showed that this northern Italic notation developed, for the most part, independently from a basic repertory of graphs derived from grammatical accents (§4). Finally, observations of the influences of the central Italic nota romana, which this study only began to explore, opened up the possibility that Nonantolan notation may preserve the oldest traces of graphic conventions for the representation of sound that can be associated with the city of Rome (§5). Placed between the northern and southern fringes of the Carolingian empire, the Benedictine abbey of Nonantola played an important role in the early history of music writing, and this study contributes to the breaking of new ground for further explorations.
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Gülden, Svenja, and der Moezel Kyra van. "„Altägyptische Kursivschriften“ in a digital age." Universitätsbibliothek Leipzig, 2016. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:15-qucosa-201629.
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The hieratic script has never been studied systematically regarding its peculiarities in abbreviations, orthography, functions or historical development, nor in comparison with cursive and monumental hieroglyphs as well as Demotic signs. After Möller’s Hieratic Palaeography volumes I to III, being based on merely 32 sources, Egyptologists compiled several more or less complete palaeographies on single texts, groups of texts or time spans. However, the comparability of signs is often hindered or impossible due to the heterogeneity of writing surfaces, the quality of facsimiles and photos or the choice of examples and the degree of detail. Furthermore, the word or sign context is often lacking.
Since April 2015 a long-term project for a possible maximum of 23 years is located at the universities of Mainz and Darmstadt, being financed by the Union of German Academies of Sciences and Humanities. The lecture presents the aims and methods of this project and discusses the state of affairs with regard to the development and structuring 1) of a digital palaeography of the cursive scripts, including all stages of hieratic, abnormal hieratic and cursive hieroglyphic scripts from the Early Dynastic period through to Roman times, and 2) of a database with extensive metadata that allows the study of various topics among which the emergence, development, regional use, context and economy of scripts as well as the identification of individual scribes’ hands. The project shall be understood as being decisively open for any cooperation among international experts.
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Faulkner, Mark. "The uses of Anglo-Saxon manuscripts, c. 1066-1200." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2008. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:b98cb64f-c896-4402-8aa1-9bd317675c12.
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This thesis examines the uses of Anglo-Saxon manuscripts in the 150 years immediately following the Norman Conquest. By focusing on the most common types of use evident in the manuscripts, it explores how readers actually interacted with books. It also treats manuscripts as cultural artefacts through which it is possible to observe the literary and social consequences of the Conquest. The Introduction summarises our current understanding of the literary culture of this transitional period. Chapter II, ‘Destruction and Conservation’, examines claims that Norman elites destroyed Anglo-Saxon manuscripts; finding these claims unjustified, it investigates the circumstances in which manuscripts were lost and identifies how readers evaluated the contents of pre-Conquest books. Chapter III, ‘The Movement of Pre-Conquest Manuscripts’, looks at the consequent loan, exchange and sale of pre-Conquest manuscripts after 1066. Chapter IV, ‘Updating Pre-Conquest Manuscripts’, discusses difficulties which Norman readers encountered with pre-Conquest books, including script, abbreviation, orthography and textual redaction, and examines how these technical features could be modernised. It also investigates more practical modernisations to liturgical books, chronicles and cartularies. Chapter V, ‘Glossing and Annotating’, concerns readers’ reactions to the texts found in pre-Conquest manuscripts, particularly vernacular homilies and translations. It argues that the post-Conquest classroom was essentially trilingual, though Latin became the lingua franca. Chapter VI, ‘Record-Keeping in Pre-Conquest Manuscripts’, explores the use of pre-Conquest manuscripts – copies of the gospels, liturgical books and patristic texts – as repositories for records. Chapter VII, ‘The Veneration of Pre-Conquest Manuscripts’, continues this exploration of the symbolic capital of pre-Conquest books by examining how Norman churchmen supported the veneration of particular manuscripts as secondary relics, and introduced new traditions regarding other books. The Conclusion refocuses the findings of this thesis on two key issues: early medieval reading practices and English literature between 1066 and 1200.
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Steenson, Allison L. "The clerical humanist and the language of service: neo-Latin ephemera and the Jacobean court in the Hawthornden manuscripts of William Fowler." Doctoral thesis, Università degli studi di Padova, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/11577/3422322.
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The research detailed in this thesis explores the largely uncharted territory represented by the Hawthornden manuscripts (Edinburgh, National Library of Scotland, MSS 2063-67) of William Fowler, Scottish courtier in Edinburgh and London and attached to the court of Queen Anna of Denmark between 1590 and 1612. The research has focused on material evidence of scribal culture, with the aim of clarifying issues of localization of specific texts and typologies of texts in relation to their social, literary and more broadly cultural background. Based on the fragmentary evidence in the Hawthornden manuscript, this project engages in the exploration of one of the “cultural places of the European Renaissance”, focusing on the early Stuart courtly establishment in the first decade of the seventeenth century. The aim is, on the one hand, to close a series of scholarly gaps in the field of manuscript-based studies of the Scottish Jacobean Renaissance, and on the other, to increase our knowledge of British Jacobean cultural life in the broader sense of the word.La ricerca presentata in questa tesi si concentra sugli “Hawthornden manuscripts” (Edinburgo, National Library of Scotland, MSS 2063-67). I manoscritti contengono le carte dello scozzese William Fowler, poeta petrarchesco e cortigiano a Edinburgo e Londra, impiegato come segretario della consorte di Giacomo VI, dal 1590 al 1612. La ricerca si è concentrata sul reperimento di dati riguardanti la cultura manoscritta contemporanea, con l'obiettivo di chiarire questioni di localizzazione della produzione fowleriana d'occasione all'interno del suo contesto sociale, letterario e più generalmente culturale. Sulla base delle testimonianze frammentarie raccolte negli “Hawthornden manuscripts”, questo progetto vuole esplorare uno dei “luoghi culturali del Rinascimento Europeo”. Si concentra in particolare sulla corte del sovrano a Londra nella prima decade del Seicento, con l’obiettivo finale di comprendere più a fondo alcuni aspetti specifici della congerie culturale Britannica, nonchè di raccogliere testimonianze materiali che ci permettano di comprendere più a fondo la produzione manoscritta scozzese del cosiddetto “rinascimento giacobita”.
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Mota, Ana Claudia de Ataide Almeida. "Documentos avulsos do Convento da Lapa (Salvador, Bahia, séculos XVIII e XIX): Edição e estudo." Universidade de São Paulo, 2011. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8142/tde-19102011-125754/.
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A presente dissertação apresenta a edição semidiplomática de documentos eclesiásticos, manuscritos entre meados do século XVIII e fim do XIX, provenientes do Convento de Nossa Senhora da Conceição da Lapa, localizado em Salvador Bahia. Este estudo visa fornecer fonte fidedigna para futuros estudos filológicos, históricos, culturais, religiosos e linguísticos do período. O corpus é constituído de 63 (sessenta e três) fólios avulsos, totalizando um conjunto de 46 (quarenta e seis) documentos. Para complementar a edição, apresenta-se a contextualização histórica dos documentos, detalhando a vida monacal das religiosas que possuem a guarda da documentação. Também aborda-se o estudo dos aspectos codicológicos, diplomáticos e paleográficos. Elaboraram-se os verbetes de cada documento, adaptando-os segundo o estudo apresentado pelo Projeto Resgate. As fichas com a descrição codicológica dos documentos estudados organizam e apresentam os principais elementos sobre a materialidade do corpus. O estudo paleográfico apresenta um quadro contrastivo entre a escrita dos cinco punhos mais variáveis no corpus. Esse corpus é relevante para o estudo da história do período, da instituição e representativo do estado de língua da época.This thesis presents a semidiplomatic edition of Church documents, manuscripts from the mid eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, from the Convent of Nossa Senhora da Conceição da Lapa, Salvador Bahia. This study aims to provide a reliable source for future philological studies, historical, cultural, religious and linguistic studies of the period. The corpus is constitued of 63 (sixty three) loose folios, totaling a set of 46 (forty six) documents. Complementing the issue, it presents the historical context of the documents. It also addresses the study aspects of aspects codicological, diplomatic and paleography. Were of each document was studies elabored, adapting them acording studies of the study presented by the Projeto Resgate. The codicological chips organize and present the main elements that detail the mateariality of the corpus of each item, besides the description of the origin of the paper, etc. The palaeographic study presents the picture of five wrists, which deals with the contrastive of the spelling of period in question. This corpus is relevant to the study of the history of the period, the institution and representative of state language studies of the time.
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Schulz, Matthias. "What remains behind - on the virtual reconstruction of dismembered manuscripts." Universitätsbibliothek Leipzig, 2016. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:15-qucosa-201759.
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Coptic is the latest stage of the indigenous Egyptian language written in the Greek alphabet with some additional characters taken from the Demotic script. Due to climatic conditions many manuscripts have survived from Egypt. The bulk of Coptic manuscripts of the 1st millenium A. D. is preserved in fragmentary condition and the remains are scattered – often as single leaves or small groups of leaves – over collections on three continents. So a major aim of scholarly work is the virtual reconstruction of codices. Assigning a fragment to a specific manuscript is often not easy. It’s not only necessary to compare the script for similarities but also to take into account the contents in order to identify the manuscript of origin and the position of the leave therein. In the case of known texts which have been recorded in a manuscript as full texts a mathematical approach can be used to estimate the position of a fragment. Special problems arise with manuscripts of uncertain arrangement, e.g. liturgical codices that do not have one continuous text. They combine texts from the scriptures, hymns, prayers, or lifes of saints. In these cases reliable estimates can only be given by comparing the identified text / texts on a single leave with a representative amount of data: this means collecting and indexing as much known material as possible and arranging it according to liturgical usage. The lecture presents ways of assigning fragments by use of palaeography to known codices. An important tool is the “palaeography data base” developed in the Institut für Neutestamentliche Textforschung at Münster (INTF) as a base instrument for virtual reconstructions in the Virtual Manuscript Room (VMR) of the INTF. Furthermore, electronic tools will be shown that are a by-product of the lecturer’s PhD for identifying texts, the order of manuscripts as well as for further research.
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Nafde, Aditi. "Deciphering the manuscript page : the mise-en-page of Chaucer, Gower, and Hoccleve Manuscripts." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2012. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:b2c67783-b797-494a-b792-368c14d1fe49.
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This thesis examines the production of the Middle English poetic manuscript. It analyses the mise-en-page of manuscripts created during a crucial period for book production, immediately after 1400, when there was a sudden explosion in the production of vernacular manuscripts of literary texts, when the demand for books increased, and the commercial book trade swiftly followed. It offers a close analysis of the mise-en-page of the manuscripts of three central authors: Chaucer’s, Gower’s, and Hoccleve’s manuscripts were at the heart of this sudden flourishing and were, crucially, produced when scribal methods for creating the literary page were still unformed. Previous studies have focused on the localised readings produced by single scribes, manuscripts, or authors, offering a limited examination of broader trends. This study offers a wider comparison: where individual studies offer localised analysis, the multi-textuality of this thesis offers broader perceptions of book production and of scribal responses to the new literary texts being produced. In analysing the layout of seventy-six manuscripts, including borders, initials, paraphs, rubrics, running titles, speaker markers, glosses and notes, this thesis argues that scribes were deeply concerned with creating a manuscript page specifically to showcase texts of poetry. The introduction outlines current scholarship on mise-en-page and defines the scribe as one who offers an individual response to the text on the page within the context of the inherited, commercial, and practical practices of layout. The three analytical chapters address the placement of the features of mise-en-page in each of the seventy-six manuscripts, each chapter offering three contrasting manuscript situations. Chapter 1 analyses the manuscripts of Chaucer, who left no plan for the look of his page, causing scribes to make decisions on layout that illuminate fifteenth-century scribal responses to literature. These are then compared to the manuscripts of Gower in Chapter 2, directly or indirectly supervised by the poet, which display rigorous uniformity in their layout. This chapter argues that scribes responded in much the same way, despite the strict control over meaning. Chapter 3 focuses on Hoccleve’s autograph manuscripts which are unique in demonstrating authorial control over layout. This chapter compares the autograph to the non-autograph manuscripts to argue that scribal responses differed from authorial intentions. Each of the three chapters analyses the development of mise-en-page specifically for literary texts. Focussing on the mise-en-page, this thesis is able to compare across a range of texts, manuscripts, scribes, and authors to mount a substantial challenge to current perceptions that poetic manuscripts were laid out in order to assist readers’ understanding of the meaning of the texts they contain. Instead, it argues that though there was a concern with representing the nuances of poetic meaning, often scribal responses to poetry were bound up with presenting poetic form.
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Mazzon, Ottavia. "Leggere per excerpta. La silloge di estratti conservata nel manoscritto greco Napoli, Biblioteca Nazionale II C 32." Doctoral thesis, Università degli studi di Padova, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/11577/3427279.
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Byzantine scholars did not read ancient authors passively: when they read, they always kept a pen in their hands in order to be able to correct eventual mistakes, add notes or scholia, include commentaries. They often employed books to collect interesting quotes, which they annotated separately in handbooks, so that they were ready to be used in the composition of an original work. The study of an anthology of excerpts allows us to somehow approach the writing desk of a scholar of the past: in doing so, it grants us the possibility to understand which texts he read and why, and also analyze the method he used in exploiting his sources.
Ms Neap. II C 32 is an exceptional witness of this form of ‘active’ reading. The codex constitutes the reflection of the literary interests of a group of scholars who used to annotate the most interesting passages they found while reading. The codex was written by an only scribe, i.e. George Galesiotes, who worked for the patriarchal chancellery of Constantinople in the first half of the 14th century.
Neap. II C 32 is not a scholarly handbook: it is the fair copy of several handbooks. The anthologies of excerpts included in the manuscript have been organized according to a precise project. The codex can thus be divided into three main sections: the first one is dedicated to the Bible (ff. 1-27), the second one to works of religious nature (ff. 28-149), the third one contains profane authors. The textual-critical analysis allows us to situate some of the anthologies included in Neap. II C 32 within the main manuscript tradition of the authors. This leads to the reconstruction of the literary circle where the codex was copied.Gli intellettuali bizantini non leggevano le opere antiche in modo passivo: essi si accostavano alla lettura sempre con il calamo in mano, così da poter correggere gli errori del testo, aggiungere annotazioni o scolii marginali, inserire commentari, oppure per raccogliere citazioni, che essi depositavano in quaderni di appunti. Lo studio di una silloge di estratti permette di accostarsi allo scrittoio di un erudito del passato, per comprendere quali testi leggeva, con quale scopo, e secondo quale metodo selezionava i passi da citare. Il Neap. II C 32 costituisce una testimonianza eccezionale di questa pratica di lettura attiva. Esso riflette gli interessi di lettura di un gruppo di dotti che avevano l’abitudine di annotare i passi più interessanti di tutte le opere che essi leggevano. Il codice è stato trascritto da un copista di professione, Giorgio Galesiotes, notaio presso il patriarcato di Costantinopoli nella prima metà del XIV secolo. Il manoscritto non costituisce un cahier de notes di un dotto, ma la messa in pulito di molteplici antologie di estratti. Le sillogi furono copiate e ordinate secondo un progetto preciso. Il codice, infatti, si può suddividere in tre sezioni: la prima è dedicata alla Bibbia (ff. 1-27), la seconda alle opere di argomento sacro (ff. 28-149), la terza agli autori profani (ff. 150-372). L’analisi critico-testuale degli estratti consente di collocare le sillogi tràdite dal Neap. II C 32 nell’ambito della tradizione manoscritta degli autori escerpiti e di ricostruire il network erudito nell’ambito del quale il codice fu prodotto.
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Valls, i. Pujol Esperança. "Els fragments hebreus amb aljamies catalanes de l'Arxiu Històric de Girona: estudi textual, edició paleogràfica i anàlisi lingüística." Doctoral thesis, Universitat de Girona, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/387552.
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In this thesis, we provide the palaeographic edition and the translation of the
Hebrew manuscript fragments of the Historical Archives of Gerona with Catalan
written in Hebrew characters (14th-15th centuries), reused as book bindings of
medieval notarial books. Textual and linguistic analyses are provided for this entire
corpus, and, through this examination, we value the use of the language among the
Jewish community.
The collection contains a diverse typology of documents of which we present an
overview. We have found many pages from moneylender registers concerning
money lent predominantly to merchants from Gerona and their surroundings and
also related to taxation. So we also focus on the study and contextualization of such
economic manuscripts.Aquesta tesi proposa l’edició paleogràfica i la traducció dels fragments de manuscrits hebreus dels segles XIV i XV, amb aljamies catalanes, que es van descobrir en els lloms dels protocols notarials custodiats a l’Arxiu Històric de Girona. Es porta a terme l’estudi textual i l’anàlisi lingüística del corpus català escrit en lletres hebrees i, a través d’aquest examen, valorem l’ús de la llengua entre els jueus de la comunitat. La col·lecció conté tota mena d’escrits de diversa tipologia dels quals en presentem una visió panoràmica. Una gran part d’aquesta documentació està relacionada amb el món del préstec i la fiscalitat medieval de la comunitat jueva gironina, especialment vinculada al món del crèdit rural de la rodalia de Girona. Així doncs, també fem especial atenció a l’estudi i contextualització d’aquesta mena de manuscrits econòmics.
En esta tesis se lleva a cabo la edición paleográfica y la traducción de los fragmentos de manuscritos hebreos de los siglos XIV y XV, con aljamías catalanas, que se descubrieron en los lomos de los protocolos notariales custodiados en el Archivo Histórico de Girona. Se lleva a cabo el estudio textual y el análisis lingüístico del corpus catalán escrito en letras hebreas y, a través de este examen, valoramos el uso de la lengua entre los judíos de la comunidad. La colección contiene todo tipo de escritos de diversa tipología de los que presentamos una visión panorámica. Una gran parte de esta documentación está relacionada con el mundo del préstamo y la fiscalidad medieval de la comunidad judía gerundense, especialmente vinculada al mundo del crédito rural de los alrededores de Girona. Así pues, también hacemos especial atención al estudio y contextualización de este tipo de manuscritos económicos.
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Roma, Barbara Lopes. "Cultura de corte no Traicitié de la forme et devis comme on fait les tournois (BnF, ms. Fr. 2695) de René d\'Anjou." Universidade de São Paulo, 2016. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8138/tde-13022017-123010/.
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O Traicitié de la forme et devis comme on fait les tournois (Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, ms. Français 2695) escrito por volta de 1460 pelo duque René dAnjou (1409-1480) merece destaque por sintetizar em um único trabalho práticas da cultura de corte principesca tardo-medieval e pela originalidade em combinar material textual e iconográfico para transmitir a mensagem pretendida pelo autor. Optamos pelo trabalho com o códice em questão devido à difusão de documentos através dos meios eletrônicos, pela singularidade da obra e carência de edições modernas. Manuscritos medievais são objetos foco de diferentes campos de pesquisa, o que nos leva a restringir o escopo do nosso trabalho à análise textual a partir da nossa transcrição paleográfica. O objetivo desse trabalho será examinar a dupla funcionalidade do ms. Fr. 2695 por meio da análise do discurso. Mediante o exame qualitativo e quantitativo do corpus lexical, e da comparação com fontes externas, investigaremos primeiramente a função do códice em registrar a prática do torneio para estabelecer como seria o combate idealizado pelo duque e quão longe estaria da prática corrente. Em seguida, procuraremos decifrar o influxo de escritos corteses, cavaleirescos e principescos no interior do tratado para determinar a construção ideológica, de maneira a persuadir o leitor a adotar um determinado comportamento frente à sociedade.The Traicitié de la forme et devis comme on fait les tournois (Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, ms. Français 2695) written around 1460 by the Duke René d\'Anjou (1409-1480) is noteworthy for synthesizing in a single work practices from princely court culture of the Late Middle Ages and the originality of combining textual and iconographic material in order to convey a message intended by the author. We opted for working with the codex in question due to the dissemination of documents by electronic means, by the uniqueness of the work and lack of modern editions. Medieval manuscripts are objects focus of different research fields, which leads us to narrow the scope of our work to textual analysis from our paleographic transcription. The aim of this study is to examine the dual functionality of the ms. Fr. 2695 through discourse analysis. Through qualitative and quantitative examination of the lexical corpus, and the comparison with external sources, first we will investigate the function of the codex to record the practice of the tournament, and then establish how the fight would be devised by the Duke and how far was from current practice. Second, we will try to decipher the influence of courtly, knightly and princely literature within the treatise in order to determine the ideological construction to persuade the reader to adopt a certain behavior in society.
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Giacomelli, Ciro. "Il trattato ps.-aristotelico De mirabilibus auscultationibus. Storia della tradizione, edizione critica e commento filologico." Doctoral thesis, Università degli studi di Padova, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/11577/3421820.
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The Ps.-Aristotelian treatise De mirabilibus auscultationibus, a collection of 178 brief chapters dealing with a wide range of topics, has been transmitted to us in little more than 20 Greek manuscripts, copied between the XIIth and the early decades of the XVIth century. The present study aims to reconstruct the relations between all the extant witnesses in view of a new edition of the text, which will finally substitute the one established by Immanuel Bekker in 1831: to this end all manuscripts have been collated afresh and studied in detail from a palaeographical and codicological point of view. The main results of our research may be summarized as follow: 1. The direct tradition of the text can be divided in three main branches (alpha, beta and gamma); the first two families, however, seem to be closely related and it is possible to infer the existence of a common ancestor (psi) linking these branches of the stemma. 2. After a careful eliminatio codicum descriptorum, only 7 manuscripts turned out to be independent witnesses: only these Greek manuscripts should therefore be retained for the constitution of the text. The study also includes some preliminary observations on the text of the extant Latin translations (the one by Bartholomew of Messina, XIIIth century, and the later Latin paraphrase by Antonio Beccaria, XVth century) and on the fragments of the medieval translation by Leontius Pilatus, preserved only in brief quotations by other authors (mainly Boccaccius and Domenico Silvestri). A section of the work is consecrated to the study of the most ancient indirect tradition (testimonia) and the early printed editions of the text (from 1497/98 up to the XVIIth century). The dissertation is concluded by a new edition of the Greek text, with an Italian translation, and a philological commentary.Il trattato ps.-aristotelico De mirabilibus auscultationibus, una raccolta di 178 brevi capitoli che vertono su una serie disparata di argomenti, ci e' stato trasmesso in poco piu' di 20 manoscritti greci, copiati in un lasso di tempo compreso fra la seconda meta' del sec. XII e i primi decenni del XVI. Il nostro studio mira alla ricostruzione delle relazioni stemmatiche fra tutti i testimoni superstiti, come base preliminare a una nuova edizione critica, che possa finalmente sostituire il testo stabilito da Immanuel Bekker nel 1831: a questo scopo tutti i testimoni manoscritti sono stati collazionati nella loro interezza e studiati nel dettaglio da un punto di vista paleografico e codicologico. I risultati principali dell'indagine possono essere riassunti nei termini seguenti: 1. La tradizione diretta del testo può' essere suddivisa in tre rami principali (alpha, beta e gamma); le prime due famiglie, tuttavia, sembrano essere strettamente imparentate ed e' possibile inferire l'esistenza di un antenato comune (ψ) che unisce questi due rami dello stemma. 2. Dopo una attenta eliminatio codicum descriptorum, solo sette codici sono risultati testimoni indipendenti: solo questi manoscritti greci devono dunque essere presi in considerazione per la costituzione del testo. Il nostro studio include inoltre alcune osservazioni preliminari sulle traduzioni latine superstiti (quella di Bartolomeo da Messina, del sec. XIII, e la piu' tarda parafrasi di Antonio Beccaria, XV sec.) e sui frammenti della traduzione medievale di Leonzio Pilato, conservata solo in brevi citazioni di altri autori (in particolare Giovanni Boccaccio e Domenico Silvestri). Una sezione del lavoro e' consacrata allo studio della tradizione indiretta piu' antica (i testimonia) e alle prime edizioni a stampa del testo (dal 1487/98 sino al sec. XVII). La dissertazione e' conclusa da una nuova edizione del testo greco, con traduzione italiana, e un commento filologico.
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Payne, Robin John. "An edition of the 'Conduct of Life' based on the six extant manuscripts with full commentary, complementary critical and codicological analysis, notes and introduction." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2018. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/283562.
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The Conduct of Life, also known as the Poema Morale, is a verse-sermon that has been largely ignored by literary histories, and despite the longevity of its textual tradition its various texts have never been the subject of extended study. This dissertation brings together the seven manuscript versions of the text, which date from the end of the twelfth to the end of the thirteenth centuries, and re-examines them individually and as a cohort exhibiting variance. It therefore offers a revealing indicator of how continuity and change actually operated through the interaction between preceding tradition and scribes and audiences. This is achieved through a three-fold analysis of the verse sermon which highlights the fluidity of the manuscript culture during this period and the willingness of scribes to adapt texts to suit new purposes, to create differences due to dialect and comprehension, or copy variants from a now lost exemplar. First, an edition of the text, based on the version found in Cambridge, Trinity College MS B. 14. 52, folios 2r-9v , explores, through the accompanying notes, the themes, style and phraseology which not only reflect the influence of earlier English literary and hortatory texts but also represent a living tradition which found popularity within diverse writing and social environments. Secondly, a diplomatic edition of each text is presented, preceded by an introduction to the text, grammar and dialect, with full codicological and palaeographic notes. Finally, a parallel text edition bears witness to the copying and reshaping of the text throughout its history. It is accompanied by extensive linguistic notes which highlight the adaptation and textual variance between each version of the Conduct of Life. Each new variant has not only been read in relation to the other versions of the same work but also in relation to the manuscript context it newly occupies as a result of its transmission. Each copy reshapes the material within an established structure of rhythm and metre and, therefore, the dissertation concludes that the sermon is recreated as a series of individual texts, which might be individually analysed, because each is different, particularly within their specific physical and historical moments. This fluidity or mouvance suggests for the Conduct of Life and, for that matter, the texts that preceded it in the historical narrative of the twelfth century that there is no authentic text; that the instability of the manuscript 'tradition' moves from manuscript to manuscript.
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Plucar, Jiří. "Les procédés de déchiffrement de l'écriture archaïque sur os et écailles de tortue : (Chine antique, XIIIe-XIe siècle av. J.-C.)." Thesis, Paris, INALCO, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013INAL0027.
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Après plus de cent ans de recherche sur les inscriptions gravées sur os et écailles de tortue datant de la fin de la dynastie Shāng, ce matériel graphique réévalue la paléographie chinoise qui est née au fur et à mesure de l’évolution de l’étude des inscriptions sur bronze entamée par les lettrés Sòng. Cette discipline à part entière qui est désormais inscrite dans l’étude de l’écriture chinoise, est marquée par le caractère interdisciplinaire qu’implique une approche multilatérale au vu de l’emploi de cette écriture en Chine antique du XIIIème au XIème siècle av. J.-C. dans un contexte de divination de la maison royale Shāng. Le présent travail se concentre sur l’identification et la compréhension de cette écriture, dont le déchiffrement constitue la tâche principale. Le déchiffrement graphique est soumis à l’épreuve visant à le définir et, tout particulièrement, à le systématiser dans un contexte philologique et culturel spécifique. La présente thèse se consacre à la tâche de repérer une méthodologie de base du déchiffrement de l’écriture sur os et écailles dans le cadre de l’avancement de son étude tout au long du XXème siècle et jusqu’à nos joursThe inscriptions on bones and tortoise shells of the late Shāng dynasty have been studied for more than one hundred years. These graphical materials have given a new value to Chinese palaeography which was developed gradually from the studies of bronze inscriptions by Sòng scholars. This independent discipline has now become part of the science of Chinese writing and is marked by its interdisciplinary character and multilateral approach. Such an approach is required in the investigation of a writing system that goes back to the 13th-11th centuries BC period, when it was used for divinatory purposes in China during the rule of the Shāng royal dynasty. This paper focuses on the identification and comprehension of this script with the ultimate objective of deciphering it. Graphical deciphering is tested in order to define and systematize it in a specific philological and cultural background. The main thrust of the paper is the search for a fundamental methodology of the deciphering process of oracle bone inscriptions in the framework of the advancement of this process in the course of the 20th century and until now
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Tessari, Silvia. "Il corpus innografico attribuito a Fozio. Edizione critica e analisi musicale." Doctoral thesis, Università degli studi di Padova, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/11577/3425314.
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The aim of the dissertation is to collect in one corpus all the Byzantine hymns (almost forty) that are attributed to Photius by the manuscript tradition or, in some cases, by the assumptions made in the editiones principes. In the case of hymns already published, I review the question of the attribution, re-publishing them on the base of a wider paradosis. Some unedited have been identified thanks to the recensio carried out by me (manuscripts from Paris, Lesbos and St. Catherine Monastery – Mount Sinai) and are published here for the first time. All of them are translated into Italian. I analyze issues related to structure, language and style of the hymns, in order to collect any evidence that could bring light on the identity of the hymnographer who wrote them, so far tacitly identified with the patriarch of Constantinople Photius (858-867, 877-886). Because we cannot consider the corpus simple “poetry”, but hymnody, ie intended to be sung at liturgical functions, together with the philological study, I deepened my knowledge in Byzantine musical palaeography, transcribing into staff-notation the melody of each hymn from at least three manuscripts, written in Middle-byzantine notation, dating from the Twelfth to the Sixteenth Century, and making a comparison with the oldest sources (in Palaeo-byzantine musical notation). The study of the melodic line (cadences, coincidence of textual and musical accents) made it possible to evaluate from time to time metric anomalies found in the text of the hymns, justifying or correcting them according to the strict union between words and music.Scopo della dissertazione è raccogliere in un corpus i componimenti innografici bizantini (una quarantina) che sono attribuiti a Fozio dalla tradizione manoscritta o, talvolta, solo dagli editori. Nel caso di inni editi, si riesamina la questione dell’attribuzione, ripubblicando i componimenti sulla base di una più vasta recensio da me condotta. Si dà inoltre la prima edizione di alcuni inediti tratti da codici custoditi a Parigi, a Santa Caterina del Sinai, a Lesbo. Gli inni sono tutti tradotti in lingua italiana. Affronto in dettaglio le questioni inerenti struttura, stile e metrica dei componimenti, al fine di raccogliere tutti gli elementi che possano portar luce sull’identità dell’innografo che li scrisse, sinora identificato con il patriarca di Costantinopoli Fozio (858-867; 877-886). Poiché il corpus considerato non è semplice poesia, ma innografia, destinato cioè ad essere cantato durante le funzioni liturgiche ortodosse, a fianco dello studio filologico si è intrapreso quello della paleografia musicale bizantina, trascrivendo su pentagramma la melodia di ciascun inno da almeno tre fonti manoscritte, vergate in notazione mediobizantina, databili dal XII al XVI secolo, e operando un confronto con testimonianze più antiche (in notazione musicale paleobizantina). Lo studio della linea melodica (cadenze, coincidenza di accenti testuali e musicali) ha consentito di valutare di volta in volta le anomalie metriche riscontrate nel testo degli inni, giustificandole o emendandole in base allo stretto connubio tra parola e musica.
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Spingou, Foteini. "Words and artworks in the twelfth century and beyond : the thirteenth-century manuscript Marcianus gr. 524 and the twelfth-century dedicatory epigrams on works of art." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2012. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:bd537f93-ab26-4a0c-8ee3-658da343effa.
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The thesis is divided into three sections. The first section discusses the manuscript Marcianus graecus 524, the second looks at the Greek text of the dedicatory epigrams on works of art from the same manuscript, and the third puts these texts in their context. In the first part, the compilation of the manuscript is analysed. I suggest that the manuscript was copied mainly by one individual scribe living in Constantinople at the end of the thirteenth century. He copied the quires individually, but at some point he put all these quires together, added new quires, and compiled an anthology of poetry. The scribe’s connection to the Planudean School and the Petra monastery in Constantinople is discussed. Although their relationship remains inconclusive, the manuscript provides evidence regarding the literary interests of late-thirteenth-century intellectuals. The second part contains thirty-five unpublished dedicatory epigrams on works of art. New readings are offered for the text of previously published epigrams. The third section analyses the dedicatory epigrams on works of art in their context. The first chapter of this section discusses the epigrams as Gebrauchstexte, i.e. texts with a practical use. The difference between epigrams intended to be inscribed and epigrams intended to be performed is highlighted. In the next chapter of this part, La poésie de l’objet, the composition of the dedicatory epigrams is discussed. The conventional character of the epigrams suggests that the poetics express the ritual aspect of the epigram. The last chapter considers the texts from a more pragmatic angle. After a short discussion of the objects on which the epigrams were written, the mechanisms of the twelfth-century art market are presented based on evidence taken mainly from the epigrams. At the end of this part, conclusions are drawn on the understanding of these texts in the twelfth century.
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Bonfiglio, Emilio. "John Chrysostom's discourses on his first exile : Prolegomena to a Critical Edition of the Sermo antequam iret in exsilium and of the Sermo cum iret in exsilium." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2011. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:df828fcd-dc2a-47b9-8bb1-c957c9199fb1.
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The Sermo antequam iret in exilium and the Sermo cum iret in exsilium are two homilies allegedly pronounced by John Chrysostom in Constantinople at the end of summer 403, some time between the verdict of the Synod of the Oak and the day he left the city for his first exile. The aim of the thesis is to demonstrate that a new critical edition of these texts is needed before any study of their literary and historical value can be conducted. Chapter one sketches the historical background to which the text of the homilies refers and a concise survey about previous scholarship on the homilies on the first exile, from the time of Montfaucon’s edition until our days. The problem of the authenticity occupies the last part of the chapter. Chapter two investigates the history of the texts and takes into account both the direct and indirect traditions. It discusses the existence of double recensions hitherto unknown and provides the prefatory material for the new critical edition of recensio α of Sermo antequam iret in exilium and of the Sermo cum iret in exsilium. Chapter three comprises the Greek editions of the two homilies, as well as a provisional edition of the Latin version of the Sermo antequam iret in exilium. Chapter four is divided into two parts, each presenting a philological commentary on the text of the new editions. Systematic analysis of all the most important variant readings is offered. The final chapter summarizes the new findings and assesses the validity of previous criteria used for discerning the authenticity of the homilies on the exile.
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Jasynovs'kyj, Jurij. "Ukraijns'ki ta bilorus'ki notolinijni Irmoloij 16-18 stolit': Katalog i kodykologicno-paleograficne doslidžennja, L'viv: Instytut Ukraijnoznavstva, 1996 (=Istorija ukraijns'koij muzyky, vyp. 2: Džerela) [Yurii Yasinovskyi, Ukrainian and Belarusian Staff-Notated Heirmologia1 from the Sixteenth through the Eighteenth Century: Catalogue and Codicological and Palaeographic Study, Lviv: Institute for Ukrainian Studies, 1996 (=History of the Ukrainian Music, vol. 2: Sources)] [Zusammenfassung]." Universitätsbibliothek Leipzig, 2017. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:15-qucosa-221011.
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Jasynovs''kyj, Jurij. "Ukraijns'ki ta bilorus'ki notolinijni Irmoloij 16-18 stolit': Katalog i kodykologicno-paleograficne doslidžennja, L'viv: Instytut Ukraijnoznavstva, 1996 (=Istorija ukraijns'koij muzyky, vyp. 2: Džerela) [Yurii Yasinovskyi, Ukrainian and Belarusian Staff-Notated Heirmologia1 from the Sixteenth through the Eighteenth Century: Catalogue and Codicological and Palaeographic Study, Lviv: Institute for Ukrainian Studies, 1996 (=History of the Ukrainian Music, vol. 2: Sources)] [Zusammenfassung]: Ukraijns''ki ta bilorus''ki notolinijni Irmoloij 16-18 stolit'':Katalog i kodykologicno-paleograficne doslidžennja, L''viv: Instytut Ukraijnoznavstva, 1996 (=Istorija ukraijns''koij muzyky, vyp. 2: Džerela) [Yurii Yasinovskyi, Ukrainian and Belarusian Staff-Notated Heirmologia1 from the Sixteenth through the Eighteenth Century: Catalogue and Codicological and Palaeographic Study, Lviv: Institute for Ukrainian Studies, 1996 (=History of the Ukrainian Music, vol. 2: Sources)] [Zusammenfassung]." Musikgeschichte in Mittel- und Osteuropa ; 2 (1998), S. 169-174, 2017. https://ul.qucosa.de/id/qucosa%3A15434.
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Pilát, Štefan. "Jazyková analýza Skopského apoštolu." Doctoral thesis, 2014. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-342352.
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The linguistic analysis of The Apostle of Skopje Štefan Pilát The Apostle of Skopje (Skop) is a Macedonian Church Slavonic manuscript, which contains a short Praxapostle. The scribal inscription on the last page places its compilation to the city of Skopje in the year 1313 thus allowing for its inclusion among the north-Macedonian texts. The goal of the present thesis was to evaluate its paleographic, orthographic and phonological characteristics and its morphological and syntactic peculiarities. The established facts were then compared with other north-Macedonian manuscripts and writing traditions of the Ochrid, Preslav, Tarnovo and Raška schools. Another aim was to evaluate how much could the reception of individual scribal norms be impacted by the north-Macedonian dialect and identify the dialect elements of Skop. On this account, I conclude that Skop, while belonging to the circle of north-Macedonian manuscripts and reflecting rather evident influence of the local dialect, remains conservative, especially from the perspective of paleography, orthography and phonology, a feature typical of the older tradition of the Ochrid School. In the Apostle pericopes, Skop however rather consequently receives the standardized use of the full scope of the iotified vowels, which is the norm most probably taken...
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Lahey, Stephanie Jane. "Offcut zone parchment in manuscript codices from later medieval England." Thesis, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/1828/13412.
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This dissertation engages with the production and use in late medieval England (c.1200–c.1500) of manuscript codices copied, in whole or in part, on offcuts: cheap, low-quality parchment scraps created as a byproduct of parchment manufacturing. After presenting a method for identifying offcuts, it explores the material through statistical techniques and case studies. Applying this mixed methodology to a corpus of 140 offcut-bearing production units spread across 75 handwritten books, it delineates a range of manuscript production stages, examining the sociocultural contexts of books recruiting offcuts as writing support. The dissertation pursues this study in four chapters. Opening with a terminological discussion, chapter one describes medieval parchment-making, clarifying how offcut traits arose during manufacture, distinguishing offcuts from similar types of parchment, and describing medieval uses for offcuts. Chapter two discusses quantitative codicology, justifying the mixed quantitative–qualitative approach, then delineates its dual-stage methodology: (i) establishing offcut diagnostic traits via linear regression analysis; (ii) assembling the corpus and analyzing it via a descriptive statistical lens. It finishes with an overview of the analysis’ main findings, noting that the corpus is dominated by Fachliteratur; lacking in texts often regarded as ‘popular’ (e.g., vernacular romances); and largely copied for personal consultation in professional, educational, or domestic contexts. Chapters three and four take up the primary subcorpora—one comprising common law books; another, miscellaneous, but chiefly theological and medical, provisionally sorted based on the medieval division of disciplines, quadrivium and trivium—engaging each via descriptive statistical overviews and case studies of representative books: London, British Library, Harley MS 912, Harley MS 1261, Harley MS 6644; Oxford, Bodleian Library, MSS Ashmole 1378, Digby 2, Digby 24.Graduate
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