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Best practice in a digital library of Arabic manuscripts
… libraries, museums, and archive centres. Arabic manuscripts, as one of the most fragile and valuable examples of mankind's heritage, are kept in different parts of the world. With the increasing demand for these manuscripts by users, many Arabic manuscript holders have tended to use technology in …
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The manuscripts of the works of Gerald of Wales
My dissertation is a palaeographical study of the manuscripts of the works of Gerald of Wales (c. 1146-1223). Gerald was a churchman, a member of the court of King Henry II and a prolific author. His extensive works include historical and topographical descriptions of Ireland and Wales, theological …
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Sixteenth Century Morisco Devotional Manuscripts in their Mediterranean Contexts
… composition and contents of their devotional manuscripts, I demonstrate an alternative perspective from the current historiography. While the predominant narrative tends to focus upon the Moriscos as 'crypto-Muslims' and 'minorities', this was not the case for all Moriscos. The manuscripts …
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Cruciform runes in the manuscripts of some Old English poems
<p>The point of view of the present study presupposes that OE runes—in their genesis a product of pagan Germanic times, replete with established phonetic and lexical levels of meaning—ought to be considered from the further perspective of their literal configuration as found in MSS, as well as in …
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The first in the archives: Zelia Nuttall and Mexican manuscripts
… through European and Mexican archives for manuscripts. Nuttall characterized her motivation for seeking out indigenous writings in these archives as altruistic, and she often asserted that this work was carried out purely in the interest of science. Not content to simply uncover these …
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Studies in the language of some manuscripts of Gower's Confessio Amantis
Summary available: p. vii.
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Schemata: The Language of the Body in Middle Byzantine Illuminated Manuscripts
… an individual manuscript or a small group of manuscripts. These books all contain lavish, narrative illustrations, and so they are an ideal context in which to study the forms and meanings of figural programs. The three chapters deal, in turn, with posture, gesture, and repeated iconic …
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The Classification of the Greek Manuscripts of the Epistle of James
<p>Although a significant number of the Greek manuscripts of the Epistles of I and II Peter, I, II, and III John, and Jude have recently received long overdue classification, only a very few Greek manuscripts of the Epistle of James have been given comparable treatment.</p> <p>In this dissertation, …
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The Patterning of George Herbert's 'The Temple' (1633): Critics and Manuscripts
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Pilgrimage through the pages: pilgrim's badges in late medieval devotional manuscripts
… on books containing actual pilgrims’ badges and manuscripts with painted representations of souvenirs. In the first portion, I will investigate how the particular location of pilgrims’ badges within a manuscript affected the reader’s interaction with the souvenirs and the book’s contents, whether …
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Multilingualism and Knowledge Exchange in English Manuscripts, c.1215-c.1415
… use of multiple languages within single texts or manuscripts. The adoption of a quantitative methodology to analyse this varied corpus of late medieval books builds on these approaches, and demonstrates that languages did not correspond to specific taxonomies of knowledge. Multilingualism was a …
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En/gendering representations of childbirth in fifteenth-century Franco-Flemish devotional manuscripts
… in fifteenth-century devotional and historical manuscripts are invariably depicted as postpartum confinement scenes in a domestic interior. These images appear to show a `gendered space' in which women care for each other and men are marginalized. Neglected by medieval art historians, such …
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The Old English Bede: Transmission and Textual History in Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts.
… than the reception and transmission of its manuscripts (Miller, 1890; Whitelock, 1962; Kuhn, 1972). This thesis considers the OEB’s reception and transmission as evident in its copyists’ scribal performances. Conservative and innovative textual variants are identified for the OEB, and …
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The Circulation And Recontextualization Of Dramatic Excerpts In Seventeenth-Century English Manuscripts
… the 1590s. In my second chapter, I focus on the manuscripts of William Sancroft (1617-1693), best known as the non-juring Archbishop of Canterbury. Sancroft's dramatic excerpts reveal his taste in plays, his perception of the Shakespearean canon, and his participation in the print and manuscript …
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"Aristotle's ""analytics"": A Textual History With New Collations Of The Major Manuscripts"
… tell us of the relationships between surviving manuscripts; a tentative stemma is suggested which departs from the accepted notion of the relative independence of manuscript "n" (Ambrosianus L 93 sup.), and which incorporates the evidence of the correctors of the various manuscripts for what it …
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