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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"manuscript culture"”.
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Language, Orthography and Buddhist Manuscript Culture of the Tai Nuea - an apocryphal jātaka text in Mueang Sing, Laos
The focus of this study is a single manuscript in a Tai Nuea village near Mueang Sing in northwestern Laos, copied in 1935 and entitled Pukthanusati (Pali buddhānussati) ‘the Recollection of the Buddha.’ It is written in the Tai Nuea language and Lik Tho Ngok or ‘Bean Sprout’ script, and is in the …
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Garland of devotees: Nābhādās' Bhaktamāl and modern Hinduism
… considering the Bhaktamāl, its commentaries, manuscripts, and print editions, this thesis traces crucial aspects of the development of modern Hinduism from the early seventeenth century until the beginning of the twentieth. Priyādās completed the first major commentary on the Bhaktamāl in …
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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
This study re-examines a fifteenth-century manuscript which is known primarily as being one of only three surviving witnesses to the short Middle English romance, ‘Sir Orfeo’: London, British Library, Harley MS 3810/I. This study presents a new codicological description of this unassuming …
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Ralph Crane and Early Modern Scribal Culture
This thesis investigates the twenty-six manuscripts which survive in the hand of the scribe Ralph Crane (1565?-1632?), and the manuscript culture in which he wrote and circulated these copies. It introduces six previously unknown Crane manuscripts, and fully evaluates Crane's scribal work as a …
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Reading and meaning : the reception of Boccaccio's Teseida, Decameron and De mulieribus claris to 1520
… how the presentation of Boccaccio's autograph manuscripts reflects his intended readership. In Chapters 6-8 I proceed to discuss the reception of the Teseida, Decameron, and De mulieribus, focusing on the physical structure and presentation of a sample of manuscripts and printed books …
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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
… 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 despite the …
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The Indian Map Trade in Colonial Oaxaca
… as visual aids to distribute land for agriculture, ranching, subsistence farming, and mining, they served as legal titles to property, and they participated in large-scale royal projects including aqueducts and assessments of human and natural resources. Map production is examined from four …
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Chronographia and Imperium: continuing the chronicle tradition of Eusebius-Jerome and Sigebert of Gembloux in twelfth-century Normandy
The Eusebius-Jeromian tradition of universal chronicle, as transmitted in twelfth-century Normandy via Sigebert of Gembloux, embodied an understanding of time (chronographia) as framed by the succession of the political order (imperium). Whereas earlier scholars attributed the twelfth-century …