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Javier del Barco (researcher at Instituto de lenguas y Culturas del Mediterráneo y Oriente Próximo, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas — CSIC, Madrid). The presentation published below was made in the context of the ANR ACHN 2016 MBH project and the Paul-Albert Fériedic Centre seminar o...

It is not easy to include this text in a particular category. It is not a manual of papirology or codicology, as it addresses a time span that is too long compared to the life of the volume alone or code and allows for the practice of copying and reading as well; on the other hand, it is not a text...

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 paper investigates the collation of the first Fight Book, the Leeds, Royal Armouries, Ms I.33. It critically reviews previous hypotheses about the composition of the quires and the identification of the material lacuna, and proposes a new hypothesis. This investigation is based on observation o...

Recent global events have underscored the need for broad access to digitized library special collections. At the same time, a burgeoning field of scientific and historical inquiry is finding a goldmine of data in the physical old books and manuscripts stored for centuries on library shelves. This ar...

The books are not only the support of ideas, cultures and knowledge, they also exist in their materiality, in their concreteness, therefore we say that a work has two dimensions: one on its ideas, its subject, its content, called corpus misticum and another on the material support, called corpus me...

Among the more than thirty works written in the genre of historical and biographical literature “Tabaqat al-hanafiya”, the work by Mahmud ibn Sulayman al-Kafawi holds a special place, since in this work al-Kafawi first used the productive approach collecting and organizing the chains of tradition tr...

This article comprises four parts: 1) Codicological study of a book written on parchment, which contains a copy of the royal charters granted to the city of Murcia. I have examined the composition of the cuadernos, the layout of the text and the decoration; I have traced the history of the manuscrip...

Ever since its rediscovery in 1831 and the first report issued on it in 1846, the CodexpurpureusRossanensishas attracted the attention of scholars, chiefly on account of its decorative and textual characteristics. Far less commonplace are studies specifically dedicated to the analysis of the codex’...

National Library of the Czech RepublicKlementinum 190, 110 00 Praha 1E-mail: Zdenek.Uhlir@nkp.czAutorius the article discusses the digitisation of old historical documents such as medieval and new age manuscripts, incunabula (books up to 1500), old printed books (up to 1800), historical maps and, if...

El presente trabajo aborda el análisis del manuscrito Ms. Lat. 83 que contiene la obra de san Gregorio Magno Moralia in Iob custodiado en la John Rylands Library de Manchester. Se trata de uno de los escasos códices conservados en escritura visigótica. Hasta la actualidad el único estudio monográfic...

This study aims to reveal the values of syncretism in the text of Sastra Mistik (Mystic Literature). This manuscript was found and stored in the Museum Lambung Mangkurat of South Kalimantan Province. This study was conducted with a philological approach. The scope of this study consists of codicolog...

Abstract Biocodicology, the study of the biological information stored in manuscripts, offers the possibility of interrogating manuscripts in novel ways. Exploring the biological data associated to parchment documents will add a deeper level of understanding and interpretation to these invaluable ob...

This paper presents an unpublished Bible dating from the second half of the 13th century, acquired from Montecassino’s Abbey in 1882, where it was held in the Private Archive (Montecassino, Archivio Privato dell’Abbazia, 3). The manuscript mirrors the features of the so-called ‘Paris Bible’, with ve...

The lack of a systematic classification of the old manuscripts preserved in Spanish libraries has made it exceedingly difficult to come to definite conclusions about which tendencies were predominant in the elaboration of Lat-in codices throughout the centuries. Nevertheless, in the...

In June 2018, Master’s II students in Archives, Library and Codicology of the University of Florence made a study trip to Switzerland with the aim of knowing and connecting with the Swiss library context. This article describes the Swiss National Library, its organisation, history, services and proj...

This article is an English translation by Anna-Grethe Rischel of Julius von Wiesner’s pioneering study of the oldest specimens of rag paper of Central Asian origin conducted soon after the discovery of large collections of manuscripts found in Dunhuang. This work, impor­tant for philology, codicolog...

The article abovementioned was elaborated from a medieval Anniversary Book, mostly unpublished, hence the importance of editing it entirely, which was produced in the Collegiate of Santiago of Coimbra. We, basically, discuss the contribution for the study of the implementation of the Jacobean cult i...

Twenty-six years after the first edition and translation by Sydney Anglo in 1991 of the anonymous manuscript Le Jeu de la hache , many elements can still be significantly improved. This paper offers a completely new critical edition of the text, and a major revision of the translation. This article...

LA CODICOLOGIA: Role, ORIENTAMENTS AND NEW FRONTIEREEreview of the meaning of Codicology, in the term and concept, from the intuition of Montfaucon through the most significant interpretations of the history of studies, to arrive at the author’s conclusions, which, by placing the symbiosis between t...

Bustarret Claire, Basset Anne-marie. The Impression Books from Africa: the contribution of codicology to genetic study. In: Genesis (Manusates-Recherche che-Invention), Issue 5, 1994. pp. 153-165.

Christine Ferlampin-Acher (dir.) Artus de Bretagne. From a manuscript to print (nineteenth century) Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2015 cross-secting approaches (literature, book history, codicology, iconography), this book examines the text of Artus de Bretagne and its six centuries changes, fro...

thematic folder of REMMM 99-100, composed of twelve articles and headed by Geneviève Humbert (CNRS), on the history of texts, codicology, paleography and cataloguing of manuscripts in Arabic alphabet, which have been expanding in recent years (see Abs. IR. 20-21, C.R. No. 40; ABS. IR. 22, C.R. No. 2...