Browsing by Subject "Manuscript"

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    Early Modern Medicine in Manuscript and Print: A Triangulation Approach to Analysing Spelling Standardisation
    (Universidad de Murcia, Servicio de Publicaciones, 2020) Tyrkkö, Jukka
    The standardisation process of English spelling largely came to its conclusion during the Early Modern period. While the progress of standardisation has been studied in both printed and manuscript texts, few studies have looked at these processes side by side, especially focusing on the same genre of writing and by using corpora that are sufficiently large for quantitative comparison. Using two Early Modern medical corpora, one based on manuscripts and the other on printed sources, this paper compares the trajectories of spelling standardisation in the two textual domains and shows that while spelling standardisation progressed in an almost linear fashion in printed texts, the manuscripts reveal a much more varied and shallow cline toward standardisation.
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    Sainte Agnès: version anonyme francese (BnF, fr. 1553)
    (2018-01-22) Solla, Beatrice
    This paper will discuss the Vie de Sainte Agnès, a hagiographic narrative text in décasyllabes monorimes of the late 13th century, preserved exclusively in manuscript BnF: Fr. 1553. This paper aims to investigate literary sources and their re-elaborations in an at- tempt to seize all the peculiarities of the text. It will also analyze the poem in relation to the manuscript context, and will propose a hypothesis about possible authorship, as well as providing a first examination of the language, to point some typical features of the scripta.
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    The decoration of the Danila Bible: Aniconism as royal ideology in ninth-century Iberia.
    (Sociedad Española de Estudios Medievales, 2019-12-18) Rodríguez Viejo, Jesús
    The so-called Danila Bible (Cava dei Tirreni, Biblioteca della Badia, Ms. 1) is the earliest surviving manuscript created in the early medieval Iberian Peninsula displaying a cohesive decorative programme of figurative nature. Although its exact provenance has been matter of extensive discussion, current research points to the northern Kingdom of Asturias during the reign of King Alfonso II (791-842). The decoration of this monumental bible displays a complex aniconic programme made of decorated initials, frontispieces, and other symbols, such a number of crosses and cross-shaped motifs of large dimensions and different forms. This study aims to analyse in particular the different nature of these cross-shaped motifs displayed in the Danila Bible. This research also intends to shed light on the reception of aniconism in the Kingdom of Asturias, as well as its Visigothic background, one century after the Islamic conquest of 711 and in the wake of the First Iconoclasm and the Council of Frankfurt.
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    The Hound of the Falconer. Roman and Byzantine hawking in the Venetian cynegetica
    (Revista de la Sociedad Española de Bizantinística, 2023-02-09) Espí Forcén, Carlos; Historia del Arte; Facultad de Letras
    Un manuscrito ilustrado de la Cynegetica de Pseudo-Opiano, albergado en la Biblioteca Marciana de Venecia, ha merecido la atención de la historiografía por contener una importante colección de imágenes de zoología, mitología y caza que podrían remontarse a un modelo original romano. Sin embargo, un estudio pormenorizado de algunas de sus miniaturas revela detalles que pueden entenderse mejor en un contexto bizantino. Este es el caso de una escena de cetrería en el fol. 2v del manuscrito. Un análisis general de la cetrería y la caza desde la Antigüedad al tardo Imperio bizantino nos permitirá estudiar al detalle cada uno de los elementos de dicha escena. El cetrero, el perro y las perdices representadas por el miniaturista bizantino de nuestro códice desvelan que esta imagen no es sólo una ilustración del texto, ni la copia de un modelo antiguo, sino la representación de una actividad ampliamente practicada en el mundo bizantino.
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    Transparently Hierarchical: Punctuation in the Townshend Family Recipe Book
    (Universidad de Murcia, Servicio de Publicaciones, 2020) Thaisen, Jacob
    The three scribes of a mid-seventeenth-century collection of medical recipes resemble each other in how they have punctuated the recipes, although they did not work simultaneously. They draw on similar repertoires of marks and they mark similar functions, but they do not use the same marks for the same functions. The principal function is the global one of indicating where the constitutive elements of the recipes begin and end. This function of indicating a text’s structural hierarchy goes back centuries and can seem old-fashioned for an Early Modern English manuscript produced when grammarians had started to discuss whether punctuation should mark syntactic units. A key observation is that recipes stand out among text-types by having a fixed, transparently hierarchical structure. This feature of them facilitates the researcher’s appreciation of how the punctuation functions and dismisses any impression of the scribes having deployed the marks haphazardly.