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

apart from Kemptener Klosterchroniken: http://www.bayerische-landesbibliothek-online.de/kemptener-klosterchroniken Johann Birk s. http://archiv.twoday.net/stories/6418517: CGM 713 http://daten.digitale-sammlungen.de/0006/bsb00061175/images See http://www.handschriftencensus.de/3684 Bl. 3r The fragme...

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...

Programme for the year 2017-2018: Caribbean and rabbanite courts in Fustat: input from the paleographical analysis of documents from the Genizah du Cairo.

Between the end of the xv and the beginning of the xvi century, France rediscovered the ancient biography as a literary genre, and the spread of many lives of illustrious men of the past. Among these it is worth mentioning the translation of Plutarch’s Parallel Lives by Jacques Amyot. This project o...

not only the Paris Schembartbook Ms. Alland 259?p=6450#comments, but also Ms. 334 'Wandelart-Fragment http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b525031211/f7.item [The other: http://goo.gl/k8nQzx Ms. 76, 84, 127, 150, 305, 381] When searching for everything and restricting it to manuscripts, a number of...

The main purpose of this article is to consider the question: Do authors always decide on the final form of their works? To explore the answer, this essay describes relations between authors and editors in chief. To this end, the essay provides some examples of the various forms this activity can ta...

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The publication of novel manuscripts by Marguerite Duras in 2006, Les Cahiers de la War and other texts, at the same time as highlighting the process of literary creation on the part of that author, one day to shed light on the generic affiliation of the text published in 1984, which will award him...

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...

This paper describes my digitization project of two nationally representative samples of the 1848 and 1868 Egyptian censuses from the original manuscripts at the National Archives of Egypt, and introduces an application of the data in the field of Egyptian economic history. Our knowledge about pre-m...

A black and white photograph of the exterior of the Woman's Building at the World's Columbian Exposition in 1893. Source: Arnold, C. D. Collection of Photographs Illustrating the Construction and Progress of the World's Columbian Exposition. 1893. Dimensions: 10"x13". The World's Columbian Expositio...

"Paul Klee teached imaging and design teaching at the Bauhaus in Weimar and Dessau between 1921 and 1931. These manuscripts include, on the one hand, the small book on the teaching of imaging and, on the other hand, a synopsis of about 3 900 pages with teaching notes. Clover described this material...

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...

Ukazuje se na tragove crkvenoslavensko-čakavskih matica (predložaka) u dvama najstarijim dubrovačkim (ujedno i najstarijim hrvatskim) molitvenicima — Vatikanskom hrvatskom molitveniku (iz vremena oko 1400. g.) i Akademijinu dubrovačkom molitveniku (iz sredine 15. stoljeća). Ti su tragovi zamjetni na...

The estate of Rudolf Weser (1869-1942), the best in the Schwäbisch Gmünd city archive. D03 has been delivered, 28 more manuscripts are now available online as digitalisates. This brings a total of 60 manuscripts Wesers online; an overview of all manuscripts that have already been digitised can be fo...

manuscripts circulating on the private market: Digitalisation and Analysis As part of the ring lecture ‘Inspecting the Digital Humanities’ at the University of Bern, Dr Simon Gabay of the University of Geneva presented the research project ‘Quantifying the unknown — circulation of manuscripts on the...

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...

Study of the illustration of Jean Corbechon’s French encyclopaedia, translation of Barthélemy l’English’s ‘De proprietatibus rerum’, through the handwritten tradition (47 manuscripts), with emphasis on the preferred illustration of books on animals. Study of the case of a ms. where all the chapters...

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...

National audience “It’s the work of all my life”, says Flaubert, referring to La Tentation de saint Antoine. Over almost thirty years, manuscripts record the development of the writer and his time, aesthetic and epistemological transformations. Mr Flaubert wrote a first version before Ms Bovary and...