on the occasion of the seizure of medieval reason books in Jonas, we found a very useful tool, developed by GDR 2649 under the direction of J.-P. Bardet and F.-J. RUGGIU: a census of the private forum’s written records (books of reason, family books, newspapers, etc.) written between the end of the...

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...

In 1945, Gustave Cohen wrote that the ‘De translatione studii... extends to the west in the direction of apparent sun walking’, referring to the development of the Atlantic Mediaeval Studies [1]. The foundation of the Mediaeval Academy of America in Harvard and its speculum magazine in 1925, as well...

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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...

Inventory of sources on old libraries is a working tool to identify all documents, whether handwritten or printed, describing or mentioning medieval libraries, whether medieval or modern. A first edition was published in 1987 and now needs to be updated and enriched. What are the orientations for th...

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In this study, socialization of libraries in Medieval Europe has been examined by means of the growing of cities and movements of ideologies. Cities, as results of economic based changes, caused the apperance of merchantiles in produce and consumption flows. Cities, by selecting an area outside of f...

The case study presented in this article is an analysis of Portuguese literary manuscripts which deal with religious Jewish controversies during the Middle Ages (13th to the 15th centuries). These documents came down to us through the subsequent centuries and are available in the Libraries of Portug...

The “living book”, a new format from the Life Sciences, made it possible to take stock of a subject, to highlight a corpus of images, an advanced research and a bibliography. This hybrid, Web-oriented format is re-positioning the producer, the user and the technology. In a simple, lean and rigorous...

LIBER's Manuscript Librarians Group held its third conference, entitled 'Communicating Manuscripts' in Berlin from 28-30 November 2007. More than 70 participants from all over Europe came to discuss their experiences and opinions concerning manuscripts (ranging from medieval codices to modern papers...

The Tripartite Mahzor (Lake Constance, Southern Germany, ca. 1322) is an illuminated manuscript of an Ashkenazi Hebrew prayer book used on special Sabbaths (Saturdays) and festivals. The Tripartite Mahzor gets its name from the fact that it is divided into three manuscripts housed in three distinct...

Certainly, the concept of the musical work has not always existed. Yet deciphering precisely when the work emerged has proved an immensely difficult task for musicologists.1 In particular, the publication of Lydia Goehr’s The Imaginary Museum of Musical Works—in which she famously argued that the wo...

In 1991, the alternative rock band Dead Can Dance released an album that caught the attention of music reviewers by constructing an aural allegiance to the Middle Ages. Suitably called A Passage in Time, the album was described as imitating medieval chant, troubadour music, Latin hymns and courtly s...

Medieval handwritten witnesses revealing the dissemination of Arthurian literature in the Iberian Peninsula are rare and their transmission, which was more coincidence than the desire to preserve these literary works, responds to very different ways of preservation: Membra disiecta extracts from old...

Todavía en demasiadas ocasiones se ha dejado de lado el panorama hispánico en el contexto europeo. Por eso presento aquí un estudio de los ejemplares aristotélicos conservados en las bibliotecas catedralicias y universitarias del reino de Castilla.  La revisión de los inventarios y catálogos de manu...

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...

Abstract Efforts to read medieval manuscript waste recycled as bookbinding material in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries have resulted in the chemical analysis of four books housed at the University Library of Southern Denmark and the Smithsonian Libraries in Washington DC. Four green coloured...

The book “Philosophical Thought of the Crimean Khanate” by Mikhaylo Yakubovich offers a comprehensive study of the religious and philosophical heritage of the Crimean Khanate. It should be mentioned that up to the present there was no such work among the list of available research monographs. There...

Contrary to what should happen, proximity to Portugal does not encourage knowledge of its history and the history manuals of Spain are very rare, in which the importance it actually plays is given to the Portuguese Middle Ages, and in the European Medieval History treaties the space dedicated to Por...

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The untimely passing of James McKinnon in 1999 remains a point of great sorrow not only among scholars of medieval liturgy and chant but also among the musicological community at large. The publication of his magnum opus The Advent Project (2000) and subsequent scholarly debate sparked by its provoc...

This article undertakes the palaeographic study of documents written by the wives of Manuel I of Portugal, Isabel and María. It examines the alphabet, links, abbreviations, special symbols, forms of correction and validation used by the queens in their autographed documents, and their signatures on...