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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"palaeography"”.
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Invisibility Spells in the Greek Magical Papyri: Prolegomena, Texts, and Commentaries
… bibliographies, and commentaries (on matters of palaeography, ritual practice, religious belief, and literary background) for each invisibility spell.
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Producing and Using Codices in Tenth Century Dunhuang
… 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 dissertation …
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The Medieval Tournament: Chivalry, Heraldry and Reality. An Edition and Analysis of Three Fifteenth-Century Tournament Manuscripts
… description, with an investigation of the palaeography, provenance, and miniatures of the three manuscripts. The second is a discussion of the origin of the production of the codex. It will be postulated that it was produced by heralds for heralds. In the third section explanatory notes are …
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The Undeciphered Signs of Linear B
… focuses in particular on two main uses of palaeography: as a means of assigning a relative chronology to Linear B texts, and as evidence for the reconstruction of the Mycenaean scribes’ administrative work and training.
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The reign of Lothar I (795-855), emperor of the Franks, through the charter evidence.
… to present a more rounded picture of Lothar. The palaeography, formulae and content of the charters are closely analysed. This analysis of the charter evidence reveals Lothar' s chancery and administration, and provides a picture of his court, its personnel and its politics. Lothar' s donations …
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ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚA ΓΡΑΜΜΑΤΑ: a linguistic analysis of the early Greek alphabets
… research, which was mostly concerned with palaeography, this thesis is a linguistic analysis of the epichoric alphabets that follows the latest trends in grapholinguistics and the methodology of comparative graphematics. The latter is a branch of writing systems research focused on the …
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The Young Sigurðr Section of the Codex Regius of the Poetic Edda (GKS 2365 4to): Compositional History and Interpretative Reading
… form and content through a combination of palaeography, philology, and literary analysis. The dissertation opens with an introduction outlining the main critical issues in the interpretation of the section, the most significant trends in past scholarship on it, and the principles upon which …
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Investigating the Provenance, Organisation and Themes of Erfurt, Forschungsbibliothek Gotha, I. 81
Erfurt, Forschungsbibliothek Gotha, I. 81 is a fourteenth-century English manuscript which contains sixty-five hagiographical texts dealing with around fifty saints, all of them born or buried in Britain. Unusually among legendaries of its kind, it is laid out by category: martyrs, confessors and …
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The Textual Transmission of Cicero's Epistulae ad Brutum, ad Quintum fratrem, and ad Atticum
My doctorate is a study of the manuscript transmission of Cicero’s Epistulae ad Atticum: a twenty-book corpus comprising one book Ad M. Brutum, three books Ad Quintum fratrem, sixteen books Ad Atticum and a pseudo-Ciceronian Epistula ad Octauianum. I have made a complete reinspection and partial …
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Dúngal: A Study of his Life and Works
This study provides the first comprehensive treatment of the life and works of Dúngal, cleric and scholar active on the European continent during the ninth century. This dissertation has two main aims. First, it seeks to clarify what we can know about Dúngal based on an examination of the texts and …
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The Reception of Cyprian of Carthage in Early Medieval Europe
This doctoral thesis deals with the transmission and reception of the works of Cyprian of Carthage in the early Middle Ages. The process of research combined the study of the manuscript transmission of Cyprian’s works with the study of texts that were (in an immediate way or not) influenced by …
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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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A Survey of the Latin Manuscript Fragments in Danish Collections with Special Consideration given the Gospel Books of the Archdiocese of Lund
This thesis offers a modern re-evaluation of the medieval fragmentary manuscript material kept in the two major collections in Denmark at the Danish National Archives and the Royal Library. The introduction offers an overview of the fragment collections in order to assess the Danish collections in …
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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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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 …