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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"codicology"”.
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The Scribes and Correctors of Codex Vaticanus: A Study on the Codicology, Paleography, and Text of B(03)
In this thesis, I investigate the production of Codex Vaticanus (B[03]) through the lens of its scribes and earliest correctors. While this manuscript, which contains the Greek Old and New Testaments, is recognized as one of the most important witnesses for Septuagint scholars and New Testament …
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A Codicological and Linguistic Typology of Common Torah Codices from the Cairo Genizah
… Tiberian, and they pay little attention to codicology. Likewise, Bibles which do not fit a certain level of codicological sophistication have never been systematically assessed (for a significant corpus). This thesis takes a representative sample of ~ 1,500 Torah fragments (~1,800 if numbers …
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The Dindshenchas in the Book of Leinster
… a material perspective. An investigation of the codicology reveals that the Dindshenchas was produced by four compilers, independent from one another to varying degrees. Furthermore, these individual collections were themselves compiled over a period of time as poems and items of prose were …
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Producing and Using Codices in Tenth Century Dunhuang
… in the Sinophone world. Inspired by western codicology and palaeography, this dissertation pays particular attention to the materiality of manuscripts and reconstructs their production and use as well as the human activities and the specific circumstances that shaped the manuscripts. This …
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The life of a book: British Library manuscript additional 35157 in historical context
… arose. Chapter 4 discusses issues related to the codicology of Add.35157, suggests a new date for the manuscript's construction, discusses the work of its scribes and provides several new catalogue descriptions of the manuscript. Chapters 5 through 8 analyse the contributions and detail the …
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Modes of Manuscript Book Production in Late Medieval England with special reference to British Library, Harley MS 3810/I and Related Manuscripts
… of Psalms and short romances and compares their codicology and mode of production to the two small Harley books to see how common these kinds of productions were. A group of manuscripts from within this corpus show patterns of production which echo that of the Harley scribe and suggest that the …
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Multilingualism and Knowledge Exchange in English Manuscripts, c.1215-c.1415
This thesis analyses the use of medieval languages in the context of manuscript production and circulation. A corpus of about 250 English volumes forms the basis of this investigation, and shows that multilingualism, and the interaction between different languages, was more common than previously …
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The Small Masorah: Genealogical Relationships in 112 Early Hebrew Bible Codices Based upon the Masorah Parva
The thesis consists of a study of the Tiberian Masorah parva of 112 early Hebrew Bible manuscripts. Most codices can be dated to the 10–12th centuries. In order to integrate the vast amount of data available, select subsections of the Masorah of these 112 manuscripts were collated, amounting to ca. …
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Musical Notation and Liturgical Books in Late Carolingian Nonantola
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 …
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Simple books for devout readers: Recovering a fifteenth-century middle English genre
This project recovers an overlooked fifteenth-century genre using a methodology informed by Object-Oriented Ontology. I collected fourteen manuscripts based on shared core features—portable size, small text box, textualis-leaning script, simple layout, primarily black ink with sparse yet helpful …
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An edition of the Conduct of Life based on the six extant manuscripts with full commentary, complementary critical and codicological analysis, notes and introduction
An edition of the Conduct of Life based on the six extant manuscripts with full commentary, complementary critical and codicological analysis, notes and introduction. The Conduct of Life, also known as the Poema Morale, is a verse-sermon that has been largely ignored by literary histories, and …
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Timurid Manuscript Production: The Scholarship and Aesthetics of Prince Bāysunghur’s Royal Atelier (1420-1435)
Considered one of the pinnacles of the arts of the book in the entire history of Persian art, the life of the Timurid prince, Bāysunghur (1397-1433) and his royal library-atelier have been studied for more than a century. Yet previous scholarship, although solid on it own terms, has not combined …
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Using Animals: the use of non-human animals from the material to the metaphorical, 1100-1380
This thesis applies Animal Studies theory to a selection of texts from medieval literature and visual culture. In particular, it is concerned with the ways that the ‘fact of interaction’ impacts on an evaluation of non–human animal (NHA) and human–animal relationships. The thesis re–examines a …
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Books, Homilies, and Medicine: Sogdian Christians and Christian Networks along the Silk Roads
Along the trade routes of late antique and early medieval Eurasia, Sogdian Christians stood within a confluence of networks. As Sogdians, they belonged to a people recognized for maintaining one of the most expansive and renowned trading networks in history. On these so-called Silk Roads, Sogdian …