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Showing 1 to 20 of 40 for “"Scribal."”.
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Ralph Crane and Early Modern Scribal Culture
… Crane manuscripts, and fully evaluates Crane's scribal work as a whole for the first time. Chapter One considers the place of manuscript copies in early modern England. It introduces Crane as one of the figures responsible for the production of these copies, and details what is known of his life …
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Scribal Tendencies in the Fourth Gospel in Codex Alexandrinus
… study seeks to gain an understanding about the scribal tendencies observed in the Fourth Gospel in Codex Alexandrinus using the method of isolating and classifying singular readings similar to what was first proposed by Colwell, and later modified by Royse and others. In addition to singular …
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The scribal fingerprint: a graphetic analysis of MS Glasow University Library Hunter 83
… and Linguistic Profiles in order to identify scribal idiosyncrasies. By applying the graphetic element of this theory to MS Hunter 83, the main body of this thesis presents two ‘scribal fingerprints’, ultimately singling out graphetic behaviour characteristic of both hands. The primary aim of …
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The Scribal Invention of False Prophecy of Salvation in the Book of Jeremiah
… circumstances of ancient Israelite prophecy to scribal hermeneutics—that is to say, from the putative extra-textual realities of prophecy in ancient Israel to the textual realities of the developing Israelite prophetic literature. My argument is that false prophecy of salvation in the book of …
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Drafting Israel’s borders : reassessing the compositional history of Joshua 18—19 in light of later scribal activity.
… of text-critical data. By analyzing the later scribal changes throughout the passage, this study coheres with many text-critical studies in Joshua that suggest that the OG often preserves the earliest witness for Joshua 18—19. Though the earliest recoverable version of Joshua 18—19 may date to …
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Scribal culture in Ben Sira (Sir 38:1-15; 41:1-15; 43:11-19; 44-50)
… study in biblical scholarship has been that of scribal culture, written sources and physical remains left behind by societies with manuscripts and a scribal profession. While scholarship on Ben Sira has centred on his use of texts and on his sociocultural background, these issues might be better …
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The Old English Bede: Transmission and Textual History in Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts.
… and transmission as evident in its copyists’ scribal performances. Conservative and innovative textual variants are identified for the OEB, and scribal behaviour categorised according to the framework devised by Benskin and Laing (1981) in their study of Middle English scribes. A detailed …
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Translators as Scribes--A Comparison of Scribal Practice and Translation Practice: Exodus 1-14 in the Hebrew Manuscript Tradition and the Old Greek
… that situates the Septuagint within the broader scribal culture of the ancient world. Drawing on theory from the field of Translation Studies and a comparative analysis of textual and translation data in Exodus 1-14, I argue that the phenomena of translation and textual transmission are …
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The narrative of the Scottish nation and its late medieval readers: non-textual reader scribal activity in the MSS of Fordun, Bower and their derivatives
… by late-medieval readers (non-textural reader scribal activity) have been identified, recorded and subjected to thematic analysis. To further demonstrate the process under consideration, an edition of particular reader interest is presented as an appendix. The result of this research is that …
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Music copyists in late sixteenth-century England, with particular reference to the manuscripts of John Baldwin.
This dissertation examlnes scribal practice in English music manuscripts of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, with one scribe, John Baldwin (d.1615), as its point of reference and centre of interest. Baldwin is known to be the copyist of three manuscripts: British Library, …
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The Hands That Write: Life and Training of Greco-Roman Scribes
… Chapter 4 details how scribes mastered scribal tools and techniques, balancing ancient archaeological evidence alongside the specialized artisan knowledge preserved by well-attested scribal traditions. This synthesis of evidence focuses on the lived experiences of the creators of our …
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Retrieving the textual environment of the "Old English Bede": a digital remediation of Cambridge, Corpus Christi College MS 41
… textual evidence for creative and intellectual scribal engagement: Old English charms, homilies, a fragment from the Old English Martyrology and an extract of the wisdom poem Solomon and Saturn as well as Latin charms, masses, prayers and offices for the liturgical season were added to the …
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A Survey of the Latin Manuscript Fragments in Danish Collections with Special Consideration given the Gospel Books of the Archdiocese of Lund
… Following this scribe’s career, a model of his scribal hand development is constructed with a number of fragmentary manuscripts, pieces of which can be found across the various Scandinavian manuscript fragment collections, revealing a web of interconnected scribes working at Lund. Chapter Three …
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The "unlikely female" characters of the Mabinogi
… The continuing role of the author and scribal author is essential to understanding texts which were transcribed for over a hundred years. Scribal authors had agency and often modified or expanded texts. They were also influenced by the Church and their culture. References to mythology, …
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The Scribes and Correctors of Codex Vaticanus: A Study on the Codicology, Paleography, and Text of B(03)
… it has been shown that knowledge of the scribal habits is necessary for understanding the overall textual value of the witness. This thesis, therefore, assesses the material, paratextual, and paleographic evidence concerning the number of scribes responsible for copying B(03), followed by …
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Beyond the Tregian Theory: Physical Analysis and Content of the Fitzwilliam Virginal Book; Egerton Ms 3665; Drexel Ms 4302; and Christ Church Mus. 510-14, Layer 2
… confirmed some significant organisational/scribal changes. Ruling measurements revealed the original generous page set-ups, and confirmed that a minority of now-separated copies once belonged together. Scribal analysis uncovered multiple distinct music scripts, and several literary text …
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Language, Orthography and Buddhist Manuscript Culture of the Tai Nuea - an apocryphal jātaka text in Mueang Sing, Laos
… roles of the Lik and Tham orthographies, scribal vocation, manuscript production, uses and functions, and the contents of the texts. The Pukthanusati text is then the basis for examination of phonological aspects of language use in the recitation of Lik manuscript literature and the …
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The unpunctuated Chaucer : a guide to reading the Medieval manuscripts of The Canterbury Tales.
… read. Medieval readers, scribes, and thus their scribal marks, give clues as to how Chaucer was read in the fifteenth century, and thus, how we might read him in the twentieth century. Finally, I include a transcript of the Hengwrt manuscript's "Merchant's Tale." I call Chapter Five my …
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Sefer Tagin—Olde Face, Slab-Serifs and Semi-Ligatures. Covenantal warnings and reassurance. Re-housing the Temple within the Torah.
… forms unworkable according to modern stricter scribal halakhic standards. Thus, Sefer Tagin has largely been abandoned in modern scribal practice. Understanding the form and function reframes the work against the author’s original intention. This can help guide future generations of scribes who …
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