Programme for the year 2006-2007: The Xth Cairo Guenizah documents in North Africa

II.S.0.0. Introduction GAP II.S.0.1. This is the book of the abbreviated version of The Guide for the Reader, known as The Book of Essential Requirements. II.S.0.2. Its author begins and says: You, may God support you, asked me to abbreviate for you The Book of Rules, which is generally known as The...

II. Int.0.1. Preliminary Remarks This volume presents an edition and English translation of the sections of the Masoretic treatise Hidāyat al-Qāriʾ ‘Guide for the Reader’ that coNcerN the coNsoNaNts aNd vowels. This medieval work constitutes an important primary source for the reconstruction of the...

II.L.0.0. Introduction GAP II.L.0.1. […]‘for the day when I arise as a witness’ (Zeph. 3.8),‘The Lord is my light and my salvation’ (Psa. 27.1), which are two masculine nouns, since the accent is at the end and not the beginning of the word. Another example is(Ruth 2.6), which means ‘who returned’ a...

Another important milestone: 1'500 digital manuscripts edited on e-codices "Over the past ten years, e-codices has published about 15% of Swiss medieval manuscripts in digital form; this is a total of 1,500 manuscripts, about 1,300 from the medieval period. For more than 350 manuscripts, new scienti...

in the wooded roundroom of the University Library, Karin Zimmermann, Deputy Director of the Historical Collection, and Lisa Horstmann, art historian, present four medieval handwrites from the Welschen Gast of Thomasin von Zerklaere. They also provide an introduction to the digitalisation of manuscri...

Monday 17 December 17h30-19h30 B325 organised by Maxime Kamin What are the tools available to the innovator or experienced researcher in his process of transcription and analysis of medieval manuscripts? How do we learn how to look at old writing and get acquainted with their history? This is based...

DigiPal is an online resource managed by the Department of Humanistic Informatics of Kings College London. The project aims to provide new tools for the study of paleography and medieval diplomats (manuscripts of Anglo-Saxon area), combining the digital reproduction of documents with the description...

Theophile legend is complex and occupies a privileged position in the medieval West. It is represented in several manuscripts and on numerous windows. She is also sculpted on the walls of a few churches and has a vast textual tradition at an early stage. The aim of this study is to analyse this topi...

With famous music manuscripts such as the St Emmeram codex or the Trent codices and the rise of a musical elite with singer-composers around Dufay and Binchois, the years around 1430 belong to a crucial period in late-medieval music history. The present volume comprises 13 case studies on polyphonic...

At the end of the Middle Ages flowers are frequent in tapestries, manuscripts and paintings. The aim of this study is to prove they are not just decorative items but that they have their own function in images. These flowers, especially by means of their colours, make up a symbolical system aiming a...

Books before print – manuscripts – were modified continuously throughout the medieval period. Focusing on the ninth and twelfth centuries, this volume explores such material changes as well as the varying circumstances under which handwritten books were produced, used and collected. An important the...

Resumen: Este artículo presenta un estudio iconográfico, histórico y teórico de las ilustraciones del pasaje apocalíptico del «silencio en el cielo» (Apocalipsis 8:1) en un grupo de manuscritos del Comentario al Apocalipsis de Beato de Liébana datados entre los siglos X y XII. Se exponen las líneas...

Resumen: Tras la muerte de Alfonso X, se constata en el entorno de los monarcas castellanos la presencia recurrente de una serie de imágenes –reales o mentales– que reformulan ciertas metáforas cardinales para el imaginario del parentesco en Occidente. El análisis de estas obras –galerías regias sob...

The two polls, one in a garden at the foot of the wall of the modern château supposed to be built on the medieval enclosure wall, and the second at the foot of the round tower, have as their main objectives: to see whether the round tower is medieval or modern, as the study of the building did not a...

. This communication comes back to the idea that the classic topos of the medieval manuscript found is not based on any actual attendance of medieval manuscripts. The demonstration is based on a precise case study linking the literary activity of Marie-Jeanne L’Héritier de Villandon to the reading a...

From 14 August 2016 to 8 January 2017, at the Herzog August Bibliothek in Wolfenbüttel, an exhibition on an interesting representative of the modern collection of medieval manuscripts, Maquard Gude (1635-1689). The exhibition is entitled "Retter der Antike: Maquard Gude auf der Suche nach den Klassi...

The Liber de ordinatione et officio totius anni in ecclesia Metensi, usually designed under the name Cérémonial, is a lost medieval liturgy manuscript which was last kept at Metz municipal library (ms. 82). Nowadays, the full text is fortunately known thanks to the scientific edition led by Bishop P...

International audience Orthography is one of the fields of Latin grammar least studied by academics, more particularly when it comes to the Medieval period. The aim of this article is to provide an initial analysis of the subordinating conjunctions in the late Middle Ages. The manuscripts studied in...

http://www.leeds.ac.uk/library/spcoll/palaeogr.htm "Two online tutorials, providing interactive exercises for learning to read (a) Medieval and (b) Renaissance English handwriting, are now available for general use. [...] All the exercises are based on digitised facsimiles of manuscripts and documen...

Loren MacKinney, Medical Illustrations in Medieval Manuscripts. Part I: Early Medicine in Illuminated Manuscripts; Part II: Medical Miniatures in Extant Manuscripts: A Checklist compiled with the Assistance of Thomas Herndon (Publications of the Wellcome Historical Medical Library N. S. 5), London 1...

[Editor summary] Antiquity: Offering, nurturing, building, preserving... from Acropole to Asia Minor, archaeology and history of antique art shed light on the objects, images and exchanges of an enlarged Mediterranean world. Medium Age: How can medieval art be measured, between indiviualities and co...

So far, the oldest description that we have of the Franciscan Library of Assisi is an inventory made in 1381 by the friar John of Iolo. Friar John also labelled the manuscripts with strips of paper put on the covers and bearing the name of the author, the title and a call number of the manuscript.Th...

This workshop first provides a very general introduction to the forms and functions of heraldic in the Middle Ages, heraldic terminology and the main working instruments. A series of examples were then studied to understand how heraldic was used in medieval manuscripts (in particular as a mark of po...