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Publication and the papacy in late antiquity and the middle ages
This Element explores the papacy's engagement in authorial publishing in late antiquity and the Middle Ages. The opening discussion demonstrates that throughout the medieval period, papal involvement in the publication of new works was a phenomenon, which surged in the eleventh century. The efforts by four authors to use their papal connexions in the interests of publicity are examined as case …
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- 9781009111089
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- 108 PG.
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- 070.5094 PUB p
The vienna genesis : material analysis and conservation of a Late antique ill…
The Vienna Genesis (Austrian National Library, Codex Theologicus graecus 31) is a fragmentary Greek manuscript of the Book of Genesis written on purple dyed parchment with silver ink. It is assumed that the book was created in the first half of the 6th century in the Near East. 24 folios with 48 miniatures have survived and have been stored at the Austrian National Library since 1664. The Vienn…
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- edision 16
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- 9783205210580
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- 745.67487. THE c
Fakes and forgeries of written artefacts from Ancient Mesopotamia to Modern C…
Fakes and forgeries are objects of fascination. This volume contains a series of thirteen articles devoted to fakes and forgeries of written artefacts from the beginnings of writing in Mesopotamia to modern China. The studies emphasise the subtle distinctions conveyed by an established vocabulary relating to the reproduction of ancient artefacts and production of artefacts claiming to be ancien…
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- 9783110714333
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- VI, 338 p.
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- Volume 20 in the series Studies in Manuscript Cultures
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- 098.3 FAK f
Handbook of stemmatology : history, methodology, digital approaches
Stemmatology studies aspects of textual criticism that use genealogical methods to analyse a set of copies of a text whose autograph has been lost. This handbook is the first to cover the entire field, encompassing both theoretical and practical aspects of traditional as well as modern digital methods and their history. As an art (ars), stemmatology’s main goal is editing and thus presenting …
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- 9783110684384
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- VI, 668 p.
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- 091 HAN h
Dunhuang manuscript culture : end of the First Millennium
Dunhuang Manuscript Culture” explores the world of Chinese manuscripts from ninth-tenth century Dunhuang, an oasis city along the network of pre-modern routes known today collectively as the Silk Roads. The manuscripts have been discovered in 1900 in a sealed-off side-chamber of a Buddhist cave temple, where they had lain undisturbed for for almost nine hundred years. The discovery comprised …
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- 9783110726572
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- VIII, 289 p.
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- 091.095145 GAL d
Exploring Greek manuscripts in the library at Wellcome Collection in London
This book offers new insights into a largely understudied group of Greek texts preserved in selected manuscripts from the Library at Wellcome Collection, London. The content of these manuscripts ranges from medicine, including theories on diagnosis and treatment of disease, to astronomy, philosophy, and poetry. With texts dating from the ancient era to the Byzantine and Ottoman worlds, each man…
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- 9780429470035
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- XIV, 196 p.
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- 011.31 EXP e
Studies in historical documents from Nepal and India
This volume is the outcome of the conference “Studying Documents in Premodern South Asia and Beyond: Problems and Perspective”, held in October 2015 in Heidelberg. In bringing together experts from different fields—including Indology, Tibetology, History, Anthropology, Religious Studies, and Digital Humanties—it aims at exploring and rethinking issues of diplomatics and typology, the pl…
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- 9783946054702
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- XI, 535 p.
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- Documenta Nepalica
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- 954.96 STU s
Verse and transmutation : a corpus of middle English alchemical poetry (criti…
Identifies and investigates a corpus of twenty-one anonymous Middle English recipes for the philosophers' stone dating from the fifteenth century. Verse and Transmutation: A Corpus of Middle English Alchemical Poetry identifies and investigates a corpus of twenty-one anonymous recipes for the philosophers’ stone dating from the fifteenth century. These were circulated and received in associat…
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- 9789004254831
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- History of Scienceand Medicine Library VOl. 42
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- 540.112 TIM v
A Buddhist ritual manual on agriculture : Vajratuṇḍasamayakalparāja - cr…
This volume is the first in-depth study of a recently discovered Sanskrit dharani spell text from around the 5th century CE surviving in two palm-leaf and three paper manuscript compendia from Nepal. This rare Buddhist scripture focuses on the ritual practice of thaumaturgic weather control for successful agriculture through overpowering mythical Nagas. Traditionally, these serpentine beings ar…
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- 783110621051
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- VIII, 146 p.
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- Beyond Boundaries, 3
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- 294.3095496 HID a
Studies on Greek and Coptic majuscule scripts and books
The volume contains a critical review of data, results and open problems concerning the principal Greek and Coptic majuscule bookhands, based on previous research of the author, revised and updated to offer an overview of the different graphic phenomena. Although the various chapters address the history of different types of scripts (i.e. biblical majuscule, sloping poitend majuscule, liturgica…
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- 9783110575446
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- XVI, 260 p.
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- Studies in Manuscript Cultures, 15
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- 800 ORS s
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