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Osinkina, Lyubov. "The textual history of Ecclesiastes in Church Slavonic." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2008. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:105639ae-dbd0-49bb-a7aa-f36bac2ee221.
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So far only a limited number of biblical books in Church Slavonic has been studied and edited, and the book of Ecclesiastes does not feature among these. Ecclesiastes is not a mainstream book such as the Gospels and the Psalter but rather a peripheral biblical text never used in Eastern Orthodox liturgical services. Its late date and small number of witnesses, which also reflect its marginal status, are additional reasons why this particular book has not attracted much scholarly attention in the past. This thesis is intended to contribute to studies in the history of the Church Slavonic Bible by editing the unpublished text of Ecclesiastes including its catenary versions and discussing its textual tradition. Ecclesiastes surfaces as a complete text relatively late: the earliest extant Cyrillic manuscripts are from the 15th century. Such a late date may be an indication that there was no pressing need for translating the non-liturgical book of Ecclesiastes. Two Church Slavonic translations of Ecclesiastes are extant: one, attested in Cyrillic manuscripts, survives in three distinct types: a continuous version of the text (32 manuscripts of the 15th-17th centuries), a fragmentary commentated version (1 manuscript of the 16th century), a fragmentary commentated insertion (8 manuscripts of the 15th-16th centuries). The other translation is a Croatian Church Slavonic version in Glagolitic breviaries (17 manuscripts of the 13th-16th centuries). The structure of the thesis is determined by the nature of the subject, which deals with textual criticism. The chapters are organised into a series of sections which all have headings. This somewhat 'atomistic' approach is necessitated by the fact that we are faced with fragmentary and incomplete evidence of manuscript sources, and therefore only detailed examination and comparison of various manuscripts and versions of the text will enable us to solve, at least in part, the textual history of the book in question. The limitations of the present study are the scarcity of manuscripts and the lateness of the tradition. These, however, are familiar 'obstacles' recognised by Slavists working on similar subjects. The thesis consists of an introduction, which presents a brief historical outline of the Church Slavonic biblical translations, 4 chapters, conclusion, bibliography and 2 appendices: the first of these contains a variorum edition of the continuous text of Ecclesiastes; the second, the parallel texts from continuous, commentated and interpolated versions. Chapter 1 gives a list of all the extant manuscripts of Ecclesiastes with short descriptions including dating (on palaeographical grounds), and investigates the textual relationships between various groups of manuscripts using the classical method of textual criticism and stemmatics. This leads on to a discussion of the type of edition to be used. At the end of the chapter a stemma codicum is constructed. Analysis of the language is carried out in an attempt to date the translation on linguistic grounds. Chapter 2 provides an overview of the Greek and Slavonic catena and explores some of the key issues arising out of the existence of several versions and early fragments of Ecclesiastes. It deals with problems concerning the date and place of the translation of Ecclesiastes. Detailed analysis sheds some light on the textual peculiarities of the three versions: commentated, interpolated and continuous. The complex interrelationship between these three versions is investigated further and a comparison with the earlier extant fragments of the catena is also carried out. Chapter 3 deals with the quotations from Ecclesiastes in early translated texts and in original Old Russian literature. Quotations found in medieval Slavonic texts, both translated and original, appear to be independent of the translation of continuous Ecclesiastes known from manuscripts of around the 15th century. However, the quotations prove that parts of Ecclesiastes were known in some form of exegetical compilations. Chapter 4 investigates the translation of Ecclesiastes in the Croatian Church Slavonic breviary tradition. It examines claims made by scholars in the past and present with regards to its authorship and to the language of the source from which this text was translated. The conclusion is drawn that the text was translated purely from Latin. This conclusion is based on a number of findings: errors of translation, divergences in wording and grammatical forms between the Croat Glagolitic and Cyrillic Church Slavonic texts, and certain syntactical constructions such as periphrastic expressions for the future, which point unambiguously to a Latin original. In addition the date of the translation is placed roughly between the 12th and the 13th centuries. The conclusions summarize the findings of the study: textual analysis of the continuous text of Ecclesiastes indicates that all the extant Cyrillic manuscripts come from a single translation; this translation was made at some time between the 10th century and the beginning of the 15th century. Commmentated and interpolated versions should be treated as redactions deriving from a fuller catena. This fuller catena may have given rise to the continuous text through the removal of the commentary. Alternatively, the orginal plain text may have been added to the newly translated commentary to produce a commentated version. Bearing in mind that it is hard to decide conclusively between these possibilities, the difficulties of reconstructing archetypes of the plain text and the commentary are shown. The investigation of the text in the Croatian tradition demonstrates that the translation in the breviaries was made from Latin, and thereby eliminates the hypothesis that Methodius was the translator of this version. GB is chosen as a base text for the edition in Appendix 1. The main reason for doing so is pragmatic, for it offers as complete a text as is available to us. Besides, the availability of information on the cultural and historical circumstances surrounding the production of GB, in addition to its importance for the history of the East Slavonic biblical tradition makes it more worthwhile. By publishing the text from manuscript Sinodal'nyj 915 (GB) with a critical apparatus, supplying variants from other manuscripts, the editorial 'control' which the compilers of GB exercised while working with the text translated from Greek is illustrated. They appear to have compared their exemplar with another Slavonic witness to fill a lacuna in the middle of the text, and they shortened the interpolation by removing the commentary. It seems that they deliberately left the biblical verses in the interpolation intact. The textual evidence does not support the supposition that the compilers of GB collated their text of Ecclesiastes with any Greek or Latin sources. The choice of GB for the edition constitutes a significant step towards wider research into and eventual publication of the Gennadian Bible, which has received little attention hitherto, despite its significance as the first complete Church Slavonic Bible. In appendix 2 three versions of Ecclesiastes are presented in a tabular form: the continuous version is taken from the manuscript Sinodal'nyj 915 (GB), the commentated version from the manuscript Undol'skij 13, and the interpolated version from the manuscript Pogodinskij 1 with variant readings from the manuscripts of group 1. In the thesis several new findings are presented. These are: the absence of any link between the versions of Ecclesiastes in the Cyrillic and in the Glagolitic manuscripts, and the implausibility of a Methodian origin for the Croatian Church Slavonic text.
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Petzold, Andreas. "The use of colour in English, Romanesque manuscript illumination with particular reference given to the St. Albans psalter and related manuscripts." Thesis, Courtauld Institute of Art (University of London), 1986. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.252025.
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Stair, Jessica J. "Indigenous Literacies in the Techialoyan Manuscripts of New Spain." Thesis, University of California, Berkeley, 2019. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=13423818.
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Though alphabetic script had become a prevailing communicative form for keeping records and recounting histories in New Spain by the turn of the seventeenth century, pre-Columbian and early colonial artistic and scribal traditions, including pictorial, oral, and performative discourses still held great currency for indigenous communities during the later colonial period. The pages of a corpus of indigenous documents created during the late-seventeenth and early-eighteenth centuries known as the Techialoyan manuscripts abound with vibrantly painted watercolor depictions, alphabetic inscriptions, and vivid invocations of community elders’ speeches and embodied experiences. Designed in response to challenging viceregal policies that threatened land and autonomy, the Techialoyans sought to protect and preserve indigenous ways of life by fashioning community members as the noble descendants of illustrious rulers from the pre-Columbian past. The documents register significant events in the histories of communities, often creating a sense of continuity between the colonial present and that of antiquity. What is more, they provide the limits of the territory within a depicted landscape using a reflexive, ambulatory model. Representations of place evoke ritual practices of walking the boundaries from the perspective of the ground, enabling readers to acquire different forms of knowledge as they move through the pages of the book and the envisioned landscape to which it points. The different communicative forms evident in the Techialoyans, including pictorial, alphabetic, oral, and performative modes contribute to understandings of indigenous literacies of the later colonial period by demonstrating the diverse resources and methods upon which indigenous leaders drew to preserve community histories and territories.
The Techialoyans present an innovative artistic and scribal tradition that drew upon pre-Columbian, early colonial, and European conventions, as well as the contemporary late-colonial pictorial climate. The artists consciously juxtaposed traditional indigenous materials and conventions with those of the contemporary colonial moment to simultaneously create a sense of both old and new. Not only did the documents recount indigenous communities’ histories and affirm their noble heritages, they also proclaimed possession of an artistic and scribal tradition that was on par with that of their revered ancestors, thereby strengthening corporate identity and demonstrating their legitimacy and autonomy within the colonial regime.
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Ryley, Hannah. "Sustainability and recycling in fifteenth-century manuscripts." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2016. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:84a73526-0daa-4dad-9b10-554e56b1e48a.
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This thesis examines the sustainability of fifteenth-century manuscripts. It analyses the durability of manuscripts, and the ways in which people recycled and reused their books. During the long fifteenth-century (here, 1375-1530), book production in England flourished, driven by increased demand for books. Yet while the fast-developing commercial book trade produced new books in great quantity, significantly, older books were also sustained, recycled and reused. Although there is awareness within medieval scholarship of recycled manuscript components, such as flyleaves, no sustained study has yet been undertaken into recycled and reused materials in fifteenth-century manuscripts, or into book production's practices and processes of reuse. In addition, previous book history studies of recycling have focused on the book material reuse that followed the Dissolution. By contrast, this study offers a broader exploration of sustainable practices in fifteenth-century manuscript culture, as well as in-depth analysis of manuscript examples, to argue that book producers made and reused books in sustainable ways. The introduction outlines key concepts and relevant scholarship, such as studies that follow the material turn, and ecocriticism. The four chapters that follow address sustainability from different angles, focusing primarily on the evidence both in and written on books themselves. Chapter 1 explores the craftsmanship of parchment- making through contemporary recipes and physical evidence in manuscripts. Chapter 2 presents case studies of parchment reused sustainably in books, as off-cuts, quire guards, flyleaves, pastedowns, limp covers, and palimpsests. Chapter 3 surveys spaces reclaimed in books for opportunistic mark-making, in the form of doodles, jottings, and short verses. Chapter 4 presents three surveys of second-hand books and the inscriptions written onto their leaves. A conclusion draws together the findings. This thesis augments and nuances current scholarship by arguing that fifteenth-century reuse and recycling of book materials were customary aspects of book production and symptomatic of more widespread sustainability in manuscript culture.
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O'Driscoll, Joshua. "Image and Inscription in the Painterly Manuscripts From Ottonian Cologne." Thesis, Harvard University, 2015. http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:17467286.
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Focusing on a small number of richly illuminated manuscripts produced in Cologne around the year 1000—and known to scholars since the early twentieth century as the so-called "painterly" group of manuscripts—this dissertation takes the close study of a well-defined group of objects as the starting point for an examination of issues central to broader histories of medieval art. A diptych-like pairing of miniatures with inscriptions, each of which is given a full page, constitutes a characteristic feature of these manuscripts. Because these inscriptions were written specifically to accompany the facing images, the manuscripts from Cologne afford us a rare glimpse of a discourse on art and image making in the tenth and eleventh centuries, as well as providing insights into how such miniatures were meant to be viewed.
The first chapter establishes a theoretical framework for the project, which examines both the historical and the scholarly origins of the Cologne School. Moreover, the concept of a "painterly" style is scrutinized and its use is traced back to significant developments in German art-historical writing of the late nineteenth century. The second chapter—devoted to a remarkable, yet relatively unknown tenth-century gospel book in Milan—demonstrates how the manuscript's carefully-crafted pictorial program draws upon an impressive tradition of Carolingian poetry and epigraphy in order to instill a pointed moralizing lesson on its recipient. A closely related sister-manuscript, preserved today in Paris, forms the subject of the third chapter, which demonstrates how the designer of its program employed philosophical and dialectical terms—taken from the school texts of the day—in order to devise an ambitiously complex set of miniatures and inscriptions, centered on a contemplative engagement with the paintings. The dissertation concludes with a chapter on the more famous Hitda Codex, illuminated at the behest of a powerful abbess in the early eleventh century. Through an analysis of the manuscript's narrative program, the chapter details how both image and inscription coordinate the active engagement of the viewer—prompting a consideration of the ways in which the pairings function as allegories of introspection.
Throughout the dissertation I aim to reconcile the innovative formal qualities of the miniatures with the unusual complexity of their accompanying inscriptions. As a consequence of this study, it can be demonstrated that in the painterly manuscripts from Cologne, the close intertwining of image and inscription results in sophisticated programs of illumination, which elucidate an unprecedented contemporary reflection on the nature of painting in age otherwise known for its scarcity of written sources on art.History of Art and Architecture
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Nafde, Aditi. "Deciphering the manuscript page : the mise-en-page of Chaucer, Gower, and Hoccleve Manuscripts." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2012. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:b2c67783-b797-494a-b792-368c14d1fe49.
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This thesis examines the production of the Middle English poetic manuscript. It analyses the mise-en-page of manuscripts created during a crucial period for book production, immediately after 1400, when there was a sudden explosion in the production of vernacular manuscripts of literary texts, when the demand for books increased, and the commercial book trade swiftly followed. It offers a close analysis of the mise-en-page of the manuscripts of three central authors: Chaucer’s, Gower’s, and Hoccleve’s manuscripts were at the heart of this sudden flourishing and were, crucially, produced when scribal methods for creating the literary page were still unformed. Previous studies have focused on the localised readings produced by single scribes, manuscripts, or authors, offering a limited examination of broader trends. This study offers a wider comparison: where individual studies offer localised analysis, the multi-textuality of this thesis offers broader perceptions of book production and of scribal responses to the new literary texts being produced. In analysing the layout of seventy-six manuscripts, including borders, initials, paraphs, rubrics, running titles, speaker markers, glosses and notes, this thesis argues that scribes were deeply concerned with creating a manuscript page specifically to showcase texts of poetry. The introduction outlines current scholarship on mise-en-page and defines the scribe as one who offers an individual response to the text on the page within the context of the inherited, commercial, and practical practices of layout. The three analytical chapters address the placement of the features of mise-en-page in each of the seventy-six manuscripts, each chapter offering three contrasting manuscript situations. Chapter 1 analyses the manuscripts of Chaucer, who left no plan for the look of his page, causing scribes to make decisions on layout that illuminate fifteenth-century scribal responses to literature. These are then compared to the manuscripts of Gower in Chapter 2, directly or indirectly supervised by the poet, which display rigorous uniformity in their layout. This chapter argues that scribes responded in much the same way, despite the strict control over meaning. Chapter 3 focuses on Hoccleve’s autograph manuscripts which are unique in demonstrating authorial control over layout. This chapter compares the autograph to the non-autograph manuscripts to argue that scribal responses differed from authorial intentions. Each of the three chapters analyses the development of mise-en-page specifically for literary texts. Focussing on the mise-en-page, this thesis is able to compare across a range of texts, manuscripts, scribes, and authors to mount a substantial challenge to current perceptions that poetic manuscripts were laid out in order to assist readers’ understanding of the meaning of the texts they contain. Instead, it argues that though there was a concern with representing the nuances of poetic meaning, often scribal responses to poetry were bound up with presenting poetic form.
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Crick, Julia Catherine. "The reception of Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae : the evidence of manuscripts and textual history." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1989. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.314984.
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Maschke, Eva. "Notre Dame manuscripts and their history case-studies on reception and reuse." Thesis, University of Southampton, 2015. https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/381803/.
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This dissertation focuses on fragments of Notre Dame manuscripts that made their way to German speaking Europe during the medieval period. The first chapter focuses on their contexts of reuse. Dominican, Cistercian as well as Franciscan bookbinders played a role in these processes of medieval and early modern recycling. The potential for fragments to elucidate bookbinders’ techniques will be explored, and existing hypotheses as to the circulation of Notre Dame manuscripts will be critically reviewed. Furthermore, an emphasis is placed on the importance of the reconstruction of medieval book collections. The second chapter is dedicated to the discovery of a set of conductus fragments reused by a bookbinder of the Dominican convent of Soest. Taking one known fragment as a point of departure, I was able to assign five further leaves(now in Münster, Cambridge and New Haven) to this set of fragments. The third chapter sheds new light on the history of two host volumes, in which, during the twentieth century, organum fragments were discovered. It addresses questions of the changing ownership of manuscripts, focusing on the role of post Reformation and nineteenth century book collectors. The final chapter, a case study of the conductus Porta salutis ave, discusses editorial problems in conjunction with a close analysis of the piece’s main stylistic features. As the text was originally designed as a seal inscription, questions of material culture and music are also addressed. Furthermore, my systematic search for text sources for the distich Porta salutis ave revealed more than twenty previously unconsidered manuscripts transmitting the poetic text only, whose fuller, contents point to complementary contexts and functions to those suggested in the musical sources and the seals.
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Wallis, Christine. "The Old English Bede : transmission and textual history in Anglo-Saxon manuscripts." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2013. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/5459/.
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An unknown author translated the Old English version of Bede’s Ecclesiastical History (OEB) around the ninth century. Previous research focused on the text’s authorship, specifically on Mercian linguistic features in its earliest manuscript, rather than the reception and transmission of its manuscripts (Miller, 1890; Whitelock, 1962; Kuhn, 1972). This thesis considers the OEB’s reception and transmission as evident in its copyists’ scribal performances. Conservative and innovative textual variants are identified for the OEB, and scribal behaviour categorised according to the framework devised by Benskin and Laing (1981) in their study of Middle English scribes. A detailed linguistic comparison of OEB witnesses combined with a close examination of the physical manuscripts reveals the working methods of scribes involved in their production. The manuscripts examined are: Oxford, Bodleian Library Tanner 10 (T) Oxford, Corpus Christi College 279B (O) Cambridge, Corpus Christi College 41 (B) Cambridge, University Library Kk.3.18 (Ca) Each chapter analyses a particular scribal performance. O’s scribe created a Mischsprache text, combining Mercian and West-Saxon forms, yet conflicting views of what constituted a good text are revealed by O’s producers’ extensive textual corrections. Relict forms in B demonstrate that its exemplar was illegible in places and that the scribe was forced to make several textual repairs. Ca has long been considered a direct copy of O, however my detailed comparison of the two manuscripts reveals that this cannot be the case. Finally, some previously unnoticed and unpublished drypoint annotations to O’s text are presented and explored in the context of other Anglo-Saxon scratched material. This thesis shows the benefits of examining the OEB from a scribal viewpoint, identifying common modes of scribal behaviour across the medieval period. It proposes a set of features belonging to the original translation, some of which hint at an earlier date of composition than previously supposed.
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Zeiser, Sarah Elizabeth. "Latinity, Manuscripts, and the Rhetoric of Conquest in Late-Eleventh-Century Wales." Thesis, Harvard University, 2012. http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:10481.
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This dissertation explores the complex interactions among written text, language choice, and political context in Wales in the late-eleventh and early-twelfth centuries. I argue that writers in medieval Wales created in both their literary compositions and their manuscripts intricate layers of protest and subversion in direct opposition to the authority of the Anglo-Norman political hegemony and the aggrandizing spread of the Canterbury-led church. These medieval literati exploited language and script as tools of definition. They privileged Welsh or Latin when their audience shifted, and they employed the change from early Insular script to the Caroline script of the Normans as not just a natural evolution in script development, but as a selective representation of mimicked authority. The family of Bishop Sulien at Llanbadarn Fawr has been the focal point of this study, as they were active during a time of Anglo-Norman intervention in their community that is reflected in the shifting script of their manuscripts and the apprehensive though proud tone of their compositions, which include the vitae of saints David and Padarn and the poetry of Ieuan and Rhygyfarch ap Sulien. My work provides a much-needed cohesive portrait of the multilingual medieval Welsh literary culture at the turn of the twelfth century. Questions of audience and authority come into play, particularly when considering the growing hybridity of learned communities during the Anglo-Norman infiltration of Wales. Manuscripts themselves are viewed as vehicles of identity, for the evolution of script and design offers clues as to the methods of compromise practiced by Welsh intellectuals. This compromise in the written word can be viewed as an embodiment of the Welsh desire and need to mediate fraught political boundaries, as they did using both the ‘nation’-defining Welsh language and the vehicular prestige language of Latin, resulting in an intertextual exploration of identity through the act of writing itself. Writing is a critical demonstration of Welsh authorship and agency in medieval Britain, and one that can be used to reflect upon notions of Welsh identity.Celtic Languages and Literatures
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Helland, Madeline. "Syncretic Souvenirs: An Investigation of Two Modern Indian Manuscripts." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2018. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/1185.
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The objective of this project was to establish a provenance for two Indian manuscripts that were recently discovered in the collections at Scripps College. Based on their illuminations, script, and binding structure, I was able to conclude that these two manuscripts are Hindu religious texts created around the 19th or 20th century. To determine an approximate origin and the significance of these volumes, my research focused on the syncretism of religion, material history, and power dynamics in India. Their context was specifically framed within the history of manuscript construction and conservation.
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Mihok, Lorena Diane. "Cognitive dissonance in early Colonial pictorial manuscripts from Central Mexico." [Tampa, Fla.] : University of South Florida, 2005. http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/SFE0001352.
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Bourassa, Kristin. "Fforto tellen alle the circumstaunces: The royal entries of Henry VI (1431--32) and their manuscripts." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/28761.
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In 1429, the seven-year-old Henry VI was crowned king of England. He was crowned king of France in Paris in December 1431, a few days after his tenth birthday. Part procession, part spectacle, the civic-organized royal entries accompanying these events began with the greeting of the king by the city's officials outside the gates. The king was then led through the city, stopping to view pageants---often described by contemporaries as "mysteries"---along the procession route.
The only king to be crowned in England and France, Henry VI was also the only ruler to make royal entries as king into both London and Paris. This study examines both entries, considering the events themselves as well as the documents describing them. It asks, what was the function of the event of the fifteenth-century royal entry in Paris and London, as well as of the documents describing these events? It considers royal entries on both sides of the Channel from the perspectives of both history and literature, combining an examination of these entries and their manuscripts for the first time. These descriptions were produced by fifteenth-century writers for a fifteenth-century audience, and were as much a part of the royal entry as was the procession through the city. This study argues that civic officials used both the format of the royal entry itself and the written descriptions of entries to promote their city's interests. Both London and Paris royal entry organizers used the event as a form of negotiation with the visiting king, an opportunity to express the city's expectations to the ruler. Although the themes and routes of successive entries could appear similar, the speeches and signs explaining individual pageants expressed very different sentiments. In London, civic officials used the documents describing entries to elevate their city, creating pro-London descriptions that were circulated in London-centric manuscripts. They deliberately used royal entry descriptions to promote their city.
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Levado, Rosimeire Firão. "Para o estudo da formação e expansão da cultura e do dialeto caipira na região de Tietê." Universidade de São Paulo, 2009. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8142/tde-30112009-135537/.
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Este trabalho tem o objetivo de investigar se o modo de vida da população do século XIX interferia no seu comportamento linguístico. Segundo Amadeu Amaral, as variantes linguísticas presentes nestas populações compunham o dito dialeto caipira. Portanto, para fazermos este estudo, tratamos da história social da região tendo como base os documentos manuscritos datados do século XIX, todos emitidos da própria localidade estudada, que é a região de Tietê. E assim, faremos um estudo de como era formado o meio social destas pessoas, e se este meio social interferia no seu comportamento linguístico.This works aims to investigate whether the way of life of nineteenth century interfered in their linguistic behavior. According to Amadeu Amaral, linguistic variants present in these populations comprised the rustic dialect mentioned. So to do this survey, we deal with the social history of the region based on the manuscripts documents dating from the nineteenth century, all drawn from the studied area, which is the Tietê region. And so, we will make a study to show now the social environment of these people was formed, and if it interfered in the social linguistic behavior.
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Faulkner, Mark. "The uses of Anglo-Saxon manuscripts, c. 1066-1200." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2008. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:b98cb64f-c896-4402-8aa1-9bd317675c12.
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This thesis examines the uses of Anglo-Saxon manuscripts in the 150 years immediately following the Norman Conquest. By focusing on the most common types of use evident in the manuscripts, it explores how readers actually interacted with books. It also treats manuscripts as cultural artefacts through which it is possible to observe the literary and social consequences of the Conquest. The Introduction summarises our current understanding of the literary culture of this transitional period. Chapter II, ‘Destruction and Conservation’, examines claims that Norman elites destroyed Anglo-Saxon manuscripts; finding these claims unjustified, it investigates the circumstances in which manuscripts were lost and identifies how readers evaluated the contents of pre-Conquest books. Chapter III, ‘The Movement of Pre-Conquest Manuscripts’, looks at the consequent loan, exchange and sale of pre-Conquest manuscripts after 1066. Chapter IV, ‘Updating Pre-Conquest Manuscripts’, discusses difficulties which Norman readers encountered with pre-Conquest books, including script, abbreviation, orthography and textual redaction, and examines how these technical features could be modernised. It also investigates more practical modernisations to liturgical books, chronicles and cartularies. Chapter V, ‘Glossing and Annotating’, concerns readers’ reactions to the texts found in pre-Conquest manuscripts, particularly vernacular homilies and translations. It argues that the post-Conquest classroom was essentially trilingual, though Latin became the lingua franca. Chapter VI, ‘Record-Keeping in Pre-Conquest Manuscripts’, explores the use of pre-Conquest manuscripts – copies of the gospels, liturgical books and patristic texts – as repositories for records. Chapter VII, ‘The Veneration of Pre-Conquest Manuscripts’, continues this exploration of the symbolic capital of pre-Conquest books by examining how Norman churchmen supported the veneration of particular manuscripts as secondary relics, and introduced new traditions regarding other books. The Conclusion refocuses the findings of this thesis on two key issues: early medieval reading practices and English literature between 1066 and 1200.
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Öberg, Strådal Sara. "Depictions of physical order : diagrams in late Medieval English medical manuscripts." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2015. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/6484/.
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Diagrams and schemas included in medieval medical manuscripts are understudied within art historical scholarship. This thesis discusses the multivalence of meanings — medical, social and theological — generated within schemas included in sixteen different medical codices, produced in England in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. Through text-image analysis, by considering the diagrams in relationship to the texts that immediately surround them and the other texts included within the same codex, the following chapters show that diagrams, through different means, emphasised or legitimized the surrounding texts and medical practices. Additional analysis is interpictorial: the visual motifs are considered in relationship to similar and related pictorial subjects, familiar from other manuscripts and artistic contexts. Through consideration of the intervisual references to devotional art and other scientific schemas, the multiple meanings of the medical diagrams are further elucidated. Another feature of the codices that is studied is their status as physical objects, how they were held, used, leafed through and transported. Lastly, by situating the codices and their diagrams within a late medieval English social, ideological and religious milieu, a deeper understanding of their function is achieved. This thesis shows that rather than being simple tools used in medical practice or representations of medical theories, diagrams included in medical manuscripts functioned in multiple, prescriptive and descriptive, ways to define theological, civic and gendered ideas around social order.
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Iacobellis, Lisa Daugherty. "“Grant peine et grant diligence:” Visualizing the Author in Late Medieval Manuscripts." The Ohio State University, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1500504999935605.
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DeLuca, Dominique. "Ab Umbra Ad Umbram: Shadows in Late Medieval Secular Manuscripts." Case Western Reserve University School of Graduate Studies / OhioLINK, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1575545731721228.
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Giacomelli, Ciro. "Le traité ps.-aristotélicien Περὶ θαυμασίων ἀκουσμάτων (De mirabilibus auscultationibus) : histoire du texte et édition critique." Thesis, Paris Sciences et Lettres (ComUE), 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018PSLEP015.
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Le traité Ps. Aristotélicien Περὶ θαυμασίων ἀκουσμάτων (De mirabilibus auscultationibus) est un recueil de 178 brefs chapitres qui décrivent une variété de phénomènes merveilleux. Le texte a été transmis par une vingtaine de manuscrits grecs, copiés entre le XIIe siècle et les premières années du XVIe. Notre étude vise à la reconstruction des relations entre tous les témoins manuscrits afin d'aboutir une nouvelle édition critique du texte, qui doit remplacer l'édition de Bekker (1831), assez vieillie et fondée sur une connaissance assez réduite de la tradition. Tous les manuscrits ont été collationnés et étudiés d'un point de vue codicologique et paléographique. Les résultats peuvent être résumés comme suit : 1. La tradition directe du texte est constituée par trois branches que nous avons nommées αβγ. Les deux premières (αβ) semblent être étroitement liées et on peut en reconstruire un ancêtre commun (ψ). 2. Suite à une eliminatio codicum descriptorum, seulement 7 manuscrits ont été retenus pour l'établissement du texte. Les leçons de ces manuscrits seulement doivent être notées dans l'apparat critique. La thèse est complétée par l'étude des traductions latines médiévales et modernes du traité (dès Barthélemy de Messine, XIIIe siècle, avec édition critique du texte, jusqu'à Antonio Beccaria, fin XVe siècle). Une partie du texte a été consacrée à l'étude de la tradition indirecte et aux éditions imprimées (dès 1497/98 jusqu'au XVIIe siècle). La thèse est complétée par une nouvelle édition critique du texte grec, accompagnée par une traduction italienne et un commentaire philologiqueThe Ps.-Aristotelian treatise Περὶ θαυμασίων ἀκουσμάτων (De mirabilibus auscultationibus), a collection of 178 brief chapters dealing with a wide range of topics, has been transmitted to us in little more than 20 Greek manuscripts, copied between the XIIth and the early decades of the XVIth century. The present study aims to reconstruct the relations between all the extant witnesses in view of a new edition of the text, which will finally substitute the one established by Immanuel Bekker in 1831: to this end all manuscripts have been collated afresh and studied in detail from a palaeographical and codicological point of view. The main results of our research may be summarized as follow: 1. The direct tradition of the text can be divided in three main branches (αβγ); the first two families, however, seem to be closely related and it is possible to infer the existence of a common ancestor (ψ) linking these branches of the stemma. 2. After a careful eliminatio codicum descriptorum, only 7 manuscripts turned out to be independent witnesses: only these Greek manuscripts should therefore be retained for the constitution of the text. The study also includes some preliminary observations on the text of the extant Latin translations (the one by Bartholomew of Messina, XIIIth century, and the later Latin paraphrase by Antonio Beccaria, XVth century) and on the fragments of the medieval translation by Leontius Pilatus, preserved only in brief quotations by other authors (mainly Boccaccius and Domenico Silvestri). A section of the work is consecrated to the study of the most ancient indirect tradition (testimonia) and the early printed editions of the text (from 1497/98 up to the XVIIth century). The dissertation is concluded by a new edition of the Greek text, with an Italian translation, and a philological commentary
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McGoldrick, Lynne. "The literary manuscripts and literary patronage of the Beauchamp and Neville families in the Late Middle Ages, 1390-1500." Thesis, Northumbria University, 1985. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.354372.
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Asplund, Leif. "The Textual History of Kavikumārāvadāna : The relations between the main texts, editions and translations." Doctoral thesis, Stockholms universitet, Institutionen för orientaliska språk, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-94803.
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This study consists of three main parts. Part I contains introductory matter and a presentation of the manuscript material which contains stories about Kavikumāra, one of the Buddha’s earlier lives, and a rough classification of the material. Part II contains editions and translations of some of the texts containing this story and in addition one text which is the source of a part of one text. Part III contains summaries and analyses of the main texts. Part I begins with a characterization of the avadāna literature genre followed by definitions of some terms used and a characterization of the texts treated in this study. All the known texts containing a story about Kavikumāra and their manuscript sources are enumerated. In Part II editions of some of the texts mentioned in Part I are found. Different types of editions and the relations of those types with my editions are treated. The characteristics of some of the manuscripts are described. The edition of the Tibetan translation of a part of the Sanghabhedavastu of the Mūlasarvāstivādavinaya is used as a check on Gnoli’s edition of the Sanskrit text, which is translated. The central part of this study is the synoptic editions of chapter 26 of Kalpadrumāvadānamālā and a prose paraphrase of the text and their translations. Critical editions of two more Tibetan texts and a diplomatic edition of two Sanskrit texts are also given. In Part III summaries of and comparisons between three of the main texts containing stories about Kavikumāra are made. The structure of the text in Kalpadrumāvadānamālā is described and the sources for the different parts are indicated. This text has been chosen for analysis because it is the earliest text which incorporates all the parts which are found in later texts containing the story. The relations of an extremely fragmentary text with the other texts are treated. A comparison of the stories about Kavikumāra and the Hero Story is made. The conclusion summarizes the main findings.
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Juste, David. "Alchandreana: les plus anciens traités astrologiques latins d'origine arabe (Xe siècle)." Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/211731.
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Watson, Christine. "Tradition and Translation : Maciej Stryjkowski's Polish Chronicle in Seventeenth-Century Russian Manuscripts." Doctoral thesis, Uppsala universitet, Slaviska språk, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-171395.
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The object of this study is a translation from Polish to Russian of the Polish historian Maciej Stryjkowski’s Kronika Polska, Litewska, Żmódzka i wszystkiej Rusi, made at the Diplomatic Chancellery in Moscow in 1673–79. The original of the chronicle, which relates the origin and early history of the Slavs, was published in 1582. This Russian translation, as well as the other East Slavic translations that are also discussed here, is preserved only in manuscripts, and only small excerpts have previously been published. In the thesis, the twelve extant manuscripts of the 1673–79 translation are described and divided into three groups based on variant readings. It also includes an edition of three chapters of the translation, based on a manuscript kept in Uppsala University Library. There was no standardized written language in 17th-century Russia. Instead, there were several co-existing norms, and the choice depended on the text genre. This study shows that the language of the edited chapters contains both originally Church Slavonic and East Slavic linguistic features, distributed in a way that is typical of the so-called hybrid register. Furthermore, some features vary greatly between manuscripts and between scribes within the manuscripts, which shows that the hybrid register allowed a certain degree of variation. The translation was probably the joint work of several translators. Some minor changes were made in the text during the translation work, syntactic structures not found in the Polish original were occasionally used to emphasize the bookish character of the text, and measurements, names etc. were adapted to Russian norms. Nevertheless, influence from the Polish original can sometimes be noticed on the lexical and syntactic levels. All in all, this thesis is a comprehensive study of the language of the translated chronicle, which is a representative 17th-century text.
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Singleton, Antony E. "The Early English Text Society in the nineteenth century : a chapter in the history of the editing of Middle English texts." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2001. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:215a2ee2-b61f-4df1-9b44-f605311da0fb.
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Despite the importance of the subject to the discipline of Middle English studies, little research has been published on the history of the editing of Middle English texts. This thesis supplies a small, but essential portion of that history by examining the editorial practices that were used to produce the editions of Middle English texts published by the Early English Text Society in the nineteenth century. Then the dominant publisher in its field, EETS identified and printed almost the entire Middle English canon during a crucial time in the development of English studies the period in which it moved from being an almost exclusively amateur pursuit to one accepted and practiced by professional academics in the universities. To provide a context for my examination of EETS editions, I first investigate the financial and material conditions under which EETS' publications were produced and examine the ideas which guided EETS' editorial policy in the light of contemporary theories about the editing of Middle English texts. I then examine nine editions in detail, analysing the various methods by which the text is established and formal manuscript detail is represented in print. The analysis contained in these nine studies is based on the evidence I compiled by comparing sample extracts of the printed text and associated paratext of each edition with the manuscript evidence originally available to the editor. I then use the information gathered about these individual editions as part of an assessment of the editorial practices that define the nature of EETS' nineteenth-century editorial output as a whole. I find that a conservative editorial approach that valorises the evidence of individual manuscripts characterises the majority of EETS' publications, but that the Society also produced a great variety of editions that diverge from this approach, including several of the earliest applications of recension to Middle English texts published in England.
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Colwell, Tania Michelle. "Reading Mélusine : romance manuscripts and their audiences c.1380-c.1530." Phd thesis, Canberra, ACT : The Australian National University, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/109692.
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This thesis explores the historical reception of the prose Roman de Melusine and the poetic
Roman de Parthenay from the twin perspectives of the romance manuscripts and their
audiences. The Melusine romances attained wide popularity in manuscript form from their
composition in the late fourteenth century until the early sixteenth century. By investigating
the patronage, presentation, and ownership of the romance manuscripts, I ask how and why
the works appealed to and retained their hold on later medieval imaginations? What cultural
values did the romances express or reflect and what meanings did they attain which might
have facilitated their circulation far beyond the boundaries of Poitou? In exploring these
questions, my study offers a nuanced historical appraisal of the place of the Melusine
romances in the cultural lives of late medieval Francophone audiences.
The Melusine romances are located in over thirty surviving manuscripts. Employing an
interdisciplinary approach, my research analyses the relationships between the themes
expressed in these manuscripts, and the historical concerns of the French and Flemish nobility
who constituted the romances’ primary audience. In addition to exploring and revising
conventional explanations for the patronage of the romances, I examine the textual,
paratextual, and decorative mouvance to which the romances were subject, and the intertextual
relationships created by the inclusion of the romances within compilation manuscripts. From
this analysis, I identify a series of themes which demonstrably intersected with the interests
and anxieties of noble reading communities among whom the manuscripts circulated. This
thesis thus complements and extends existing studies of manuscript decoration and the
historical reception of early editions of the prose Melusine romance which were enjoyed by a
cross-section of social groups from the 1470s onwards.
My research suggests that the Melusine romances attained a significant position in late
medieval noble culture for two interrelated reasons. First, the medium of the manuscript itself
offered a flexible format which accommodated the changing preferences of patrons and
audiences of the romances. Second, and paradoxically, Melusine manuscripts persistently
expressed a range of concepts and attitudes of enduring relevance to their noble audiences
with respect to: issues of dynastic prestige and the legitimacy of territorial tenure;
metaphysical and spiritual concerns about fate and salvation; political propaganda;
government; and education.
The value of my study lies in the insights it offers into the mentalites of the later medieval
nobility, a numerically small but influential social group, and the relationships between elite
audiences and their preferred forms of literate culture. This thesis extends scholarly
understandings of, and offers fresh hypotheses for the patronage of the Roman de Melusine
and the Roman de Parthenay respectively. Further, it contextualises its analysis of the
Melusine manuscripts and compilation contents in the light of historical events and concerns
confronting late medieval noble audiences. It thus demonstrates the importance of combining
literary and historical approaches when exploring the values and meanings attached to
historical literature. While historical and literary approaches each offer unique insights into
medieval understandings of a work, it is only by contextualising each set of findings produced
by the two modes of analysis against each other that a nuanced appreciation of a literary
work’s historical role and importance can be produced.
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Christiansen, Bethany Joanne. "Women's Medicine in England, c. 850-1100 CE: Evidence of Medical Manuscripts with a Focus on the Herbarium Tradition." The Ohio State University, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1576865418758596.
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Swanson, Hernández Rebeca. "Tradicions i transmissions iconogràfiques dels manuscrits de la Ribagorça entre els segles X – XII." Doctoral thesis, Universitat de Barcelona, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/401465.
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La diòcesi de la Ribagorça i en concret la seva seu, Roda d’Isàvena, han sigut des de inicis del segle XX un focus d’estudi important pels historiadors de l’art, atès que els seus bisbes són els promotors de significatius vestigis d’art monumental. Anàlogament, és una diòcesi intensament estudiada també des d’un punt de vista històric ja des del segle XVI. Tanmateix però, poc se sap en referència a la seva complexitat cultural.
En conseqüència, la present recerca es planteja com una reconstrucció de la vida cultural de la diòcesi, i particularment de la biblioteca catedralícia de la seva seu, per tal de comprendre quines inquietuds existeixen darrera d’aquestes manifestacions artístiques, plantejant tanmateix, un millor coneixement dels diversos esdeveniments històrics succeïts entre els segles X i XII.
Els arguments, desenvolupats de manera crítica i objectiva, ens situen davant d’una seu de l’edat mitjana que formava part d’una extensa xarxa cultural per on confluïen persones, idees, llibres, pràctiques litúrgiques i formes artístiques. Es demostra com l’intercanvi de coneixement és una de les característiques més determinants de la seu ribagorçana de Roda d’Isàvena. Així mateix, la present recerca ofereix per primera vegada un catàleg complert dels diferents manuscrits que van formar part la biblioteca catedralícia.The diocese of Ribagorça and in particular its See, Roda d’Isàvena, has been a main research topic by art historians since the early twentieth century because its bishops were the promoters of significant preserved monumental art works. Similarly, and since the sixteenth century, the diocese has also been intensively studied from a historical point of view. However, little is known regarding its cultural complexity. Therefore, the following investigation is conceived as a reconstruction of the cultural life of the diocese, particularly of the See’s cathedral library, in order to understand the concerns behind the several artistic evidences, providing also, a better understanding for the various historical events occurred between the X and XII centuries. The in-depth research, developed in a critical and impartial way, reveals that the studied medieval See was part of an extensive cultural network where people, ideas, books, liturgical practices and art works were intimately intertwined. It is stated how the exchange of knowledge is one of the most significant features the See of Roda of Isábena. Additionally, a complete catalogue of the several manuscripts comprised within the cathedral library is also provided for the first time.
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Cartlidge, Neil. "The treatment of marriage in early medieval literature : a study based upon three groups of texts associated by English manuscripts of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1995. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/272993.
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Chaabane, Zouhour. "Les causes et les symptômes (Al-Asbāb wa-l-ʿalāmāt) d’al-Samarqandī. Édition critique avec présentation et annotations." Thesis, Paris 4, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013PA040212.
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Al-Asbāb wa-l-ʿalāmāt « Les causes et les symptômes » de Nağīb al-Dīn al-Samarqandī (m. 619/1222) est un traité de médecine qui a fait la renommée de son auteur. Toutefois, et malgré le fait qu’il ait été signalé dès 1935 par l’historien des sciences Max Meyerhof comme l’un des ouvrages « à publier de préférence », il est resté inédit. C’est une édition intégrale de ce traité que nous proposons.Il s’agit d’un vademecum dont l’auteur a fondé la rédaction sur trois sources, notamment le Canon d’Avicenne. Il a ainsi respecté la tradition médicale de l’époque qui classifiait les maladies d’une part en pathologies spécifiques à chacun des organes du corps, d’autre part en affections non spécifiques « générales », celles qui touchent tout le corps telles les fièvres. Il a aussi traité de la cosmétologie, des poisons, des maladies de la peau, des blessures, des fractures et luxations, cela dans un esprit d’exhaustivité. La description des pathologies est assortie de l’exposé des symptômes auxquels notre auteur préconise des remèdes à base de médicaments simples ou composés. Nous avons édité le texte en arabe en veillant à respecter l’orthographe et la grammaire du manuscrit de base.Cet ouvrage riche en vocabulaire technique nous a permis d’établir plusieurs glossaires, représentant la première classification détaillée du vocabulaire médical arabe médiéval en langue française. Nous voulons contribuer par cette édition à enrichir le corpus des textes médicaux, en particulier celui du XIIIe siècle, et lutter contre les idées reçues qui font de cette époque une période historique de décadence, sinon le début d’une sclérose culturelle et scientifique dans le monde arabeAl-Asbāb wa-l-ʿalāmāt "The causes and symptoms" by Nağīb al-Dīn al-Samarqandī (d.619 / 1222), is a medical treatise which made its author famous. However despite the fact that in 1935 it was acclaimed by science historian Max Meyerhof as a book that "should be published", it never made it to print. This work, the object of this thesis, is a critical edition of a complete version of the treatise.The redaction of this vade mecum was based by the author on three sources, particularly the "Canon" of Avicenna. He therefore respected the medical tradition of the time, which classified diseases on the one hand by pathologies specific to each organ of the body, and on the other hand by non-specific conditions (which we could qualify as general) affecting the entire body such as fevers. He also examined cosmetology and poisons, skin diseases, wounds, fractures and dislocations in a spirit of completeness. For every disease described, the author included its associated symptoms, advocatingtreatments based on simple or compound remedies.We edited the Arabic text while strictly observing the spelling and grammar of the original manuscript.This book, rich in technical terms specific to the field of anatomy and pathology, has allowed us to establish several glossaries that represent the first detailed classification of medieval Arabic medical vocabulary in French.Our aim, in this text edition, is to contribute to enrich the corpus of medical texts and in particular that of the thirteenth century and to counter the accepted ideas claiming that this era was a historical period of decline, if not the beginning of a cultural and scientific sclerosis in the Arab world
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Preston, Andrew S. "Moving Lines: The Anthropology of a Manuscript in Tudor London." University of Akron / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1406395368.
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Liles, Linda Kathleen. "Guide to the pilgrim churches at Rome a late 15th century manuscript in Yale University's Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1990. http://www.tren.com.
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Fedorenko, Gregory. "The texts, manuscripts and historical significance of the prose Chronique de Normandie and Geste de France (c.1180-c.1230)." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2012. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.610656.
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Chambert-Protat, Pierre. "Florus de Lyon, lecteur des Pères : documentation et travaux patristiques dans l'Eglise de Lyon au IXe siècle." Thesis, Paris, EPHE, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016EPHE4052.
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On conserve un nombre inhabituellement élevé de manuscrits ayant appartenu à la bibliothèque du chapitre cathédral de Lyon au IXe siècle, dont bon nombre ont été personnellement utilisés ou produits par le principal acteur de la vie intellectuelle lyonnaise de l’époque, le diacre Florus (floruit v. 825–855). Comme on connaît par ailleurs plusieurs grandes compilations rassemblées également par lui, Florus représente pour nous une double occasion particulièrement rare d’étudier la bibliothèque d’une école cathédrale carolingienne et les méthodes de travail d’un intellectuel de ce temps. Les comparaisons et les nombreux recoupements que permet cette situation étayent et alimentent notre connaissance des livres qu’on utilisait et qui circulaient à l’époque, mais aussi des hommes qui les lisaient et les échangeaient, et des conditions dans lesquelles le travail de Florus a pu passer dans la tradition manuscrite des Pères (première partie). Ces analyses nous peignent Florus un homme de son temps, formé dans un certain milieu à de certaines méthodes, mais que son expérience et ses goûts poussèrent à faire évoluer, tout au long de sa carrière, ses propres méthodes au service de ses propres projets (seconde partie). Un travail d’historiographie est aussi proposé, qui n’avait pas encore été entrepris, et qui fait apparaître les voies de la redécouverte de Florus au cours du XVIIe siècle, puis au XXe. La place de Florus et de sa bibliothèque d’usage, dans l’histoire intellectuelle et dans l’histoire de la transmission des textes antiques, en ressort mieux circonscrite et qualifiée plus précisément, en même temps que se dévoile le cours de sa propre évolution intellectuelleAn unusual amount of manuscripts that belonged to the Cathedral library of Lyons in the IXth century has been preserved, among which a number were firsthand used or produced by its prominent intellectual figure, the deacon Florus (floruit ca. 825—855). As we also know several large compilations that were gathered by the very same, Florus represents a rare double opportunity to investigate both a Carolingian cathedral library and the work methods of a Carolingian scholar. Numerous comparisons and crosscheckings can strengthen and supply informations regarding the books that were used and circulated at the time, but also regarding the men that read and circulated them, and clarify how Florus’s work on the Fathers has spread in the manuscript tradition (first part). Such analyses depict Florus as a man of his time, who was educated in a certain environment and to use certain methods; but who was then driven, all along his career, by his own experience and taste, to evolve his own methods in the pursuing of his own projects (second part). A historiography study is also held, which was never undertaken before, and reveals the how and why of Florus’s rediscovery in the XVIIth century, and then again in the XXth. Florus’s part and his work library’s, in the intellectual history and in the history of ancient texts transmission, is thus better circumscribed and more precisely described, as is unvailed the course of his own intellectual evolution
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Tsui, Chung-hui, and 崔中慧. "A study of early Buddhist scriptural calligraphy: based on Buddhist manuscripts found in Dunhuang andTurfan (3-5 century)." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2010. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B4545694X.
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Delire, Jean-Michel. "Vers une édition critique des Sulbadipika et Sulbamimamsa, commentaires du Baudhayana Sulbasutra: contribution à l'histoire des mathématiques sanskrites." Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/211507.
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Gebre-Meskel, Haddis. "A survey of representative land charters of the Ethiopian Empire (1314-1868) and related marginal notes in manuscripts in the British Library, the Royal Library and the university libraries of Cambridge and Manchester." Thesis, SOAS, University of London, 1992. http://eprints.soas.ac.uk/28456/.
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The aim of this study is to compile and analyse information about ownership, sales and disputes of land in Ethiopia between 1314 and 1868 on the basis of documents which are preserved in the marginalia of Ethiopic manuscripts in the Collections of the British Library, the Royal Library at Windsor Castle and the University Libraries of Cambridge and Manchester. While the specifically royal charters were drawn up in some cases as far back as the early fourteenth century, numerous other documents dealing with sales and disputes of land were written between 1700 and 1868. In that year, these manuscripts were looted by members of the Napier Expedition after the citadel of Emperor Tewodros II fell into their hands and were subsequently brought to the United Kingdom. While almost all the royal charters were written in Ge'ez, the rest of the documents dealing with personal bequests or gifts, sales and disputes of land were written in Amharic and thus, apart from their historical significance, they are al.so important as they illustrate the development of modern Amharic. Out of some 2,100 documents which are preserved in the marginalia of 49 manuscripts, I have here selected 274 and it is hoped that they will serve as a representative documentation of the land tenure system and administration of land of the country for more than half a millennium. The number of documents dealt with in this thesis thus exceeds the number of those described by Conti Rossini, who translated some 100 other land charters and related notes compiled from the marginalia of Ethiopian manuscripts in the Bodleian Library at Oxford and in the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris. The documents reproduced in this thesis are put in chronological order and an effort has been made to find the equivalent European dating whenever the documents fail to supply a precise date. The documents are also translated and annotated and are classified into five sections, namely: Church Lands, Private Lands, Crown Lands, Land Sales and Land Disputes. Copies of the transcripts of the original Amharic and Ge'ez documents are also included together with glossaries of titles and terms. As far as the locations of the lands referred to in the documents (i.e., personal land bequests or gifts, sales and disputes of land) are concerned, the city of Gondar and the regions around it are largely covered, while additional references to land grants to the sovereigns themselves and to members of the royal family, churches and individuals are also available for other areas of the country. The main findings of this study are that income from land, or more accurately a land tax, was used as a means to compel submission and obligation. The allocation or distribution of such an income to the Church and notable individuals was finely balanced and kept in equilibrium by the members of the Solomonic dynasty who ruled Ethiopia between the years 1314 and 1769. In the subsequent years, however, the country entered into the so called Era of the Princes (1769-1855), where local nobles succeeded in fragmenting the central power, so, in the absence of absolute power, the weak sovereigns were forced to grant ever more land to influential individuals rather than to the Church.
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Alsaleh, Yasmine F. ""Licit Magic": The Touch And Sight Of Islamic Talismanic Scrolls." Thesis, Harvard University, 2014. http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:11479.
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The following study traces the production and history of the talismanic scroll as a medium through a Fatimid, Ayyubid, and Mamluk historical periods. My dissertation understands the protocol of manufacturing and utilizing talismanic scrolls. The dissertation is a study of the Qur'an, prayers and illustrations of these talismanic works. I begin by investigating a theory of the occult the medieval primary sources of the Neo-platonic tenth century Ikhwān al-Safa and al-Bunī (d.1225). I establish that talismans are generally categorized as science (`ilm). Next, a dynastic spotlight of talismanic scrolls creates a chronological framework for the dissertation. The Fatimid talismanic scrolls and the Ayyubid pilgrimage scrolls are both block-printed and are placed within the larger conceptual framework of pilgrimage and devotion. The two unpublished Mamluk scrolls from Dar Al-Athar Al-Islamiyyah are long beautiful handwritten scrolls that provide a perspective on how the occult is part of the daily life of the practitioner in the medieval Islamic culture. Through an in depth analysis of the written word and images, I establish that textually and visually there is a template for the creation of these sophisticated scrolls. Lastly, I discuss the efficacy of these scrolls, I use theories of linguistic anthropology and return to the Islamic primary sources to establish that there is a language of the occult and there are people that practiced the occult. The word of God and the Qur'ān empower the scrolls I studied. As for the people who practiced the occult, I turn to the tenth century Ibn al-Nadim and Ibn al-Khaldun (d.1406), the people of the occult are understood. Yet, keeping in mind, that there is always a tension with the theologians that condoned practices of Islamic magic.History of Art and Architecture
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Alsancakli, Sacha. "Le Šarafnāma de Šaraf Xān Bidlīsī (ca. 1005/1596-1597) ˸ composition, transmission et réception d’une chronique des dynasties kurdes entre les Safavides et les Ottomans." Thesis, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018USPCA143.
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Le Šarafnāma est un ouvrage écrit en persan par Šaraf Xān Bidlīsī (949-1009/1543-1600), gouverneur kurde de la principauté de Bidlīs, en 1005/1596-1597 environ. Il s’agit d’une chronique des dynasties et tribus kurdes, commençant avec la dynastie des Marwānides, à la fin du IVe/Xe siècle, pour se terminer avec les événements de l’année 1005/1596-1597 et le récit de l’histoire des Diyādīnides de Bidlīs, lignée dont était issu l’auteur. La chronique est composée d’une introduction (muqaddima) et de quatre ṣaḥīfas (livres). À cette chronique, l’auteur a également ajouté un épilogue (xātima) constitué par des annales ottomanes et safavides. Il existe, à ce jour, une quarantaine de manuscrits du Šarafnāma encore existants. Notre première tâche a été d’identifier ces manuscrits et de les consulter, sous forme physique ou numérique, afin de les comparer et de produire un stemma codicum des copies de l’ouvrage. Une fois ceci fait, notre recherche a plus particulièrement porté sur les manuscrits produits du vivant de l’auteur, dans les années 1005-1007/1596-1599, ainsi que sur les copies effectuées au XIe/XVIIe siècle, soit le siècle suivant la composition de l’ouvrage. Après une première partie consistant en une étude générale sur le travail historiographique de Šaraf Xān, nous avons, dans une deuxième partie, étudié spécifiquement les trois manuscrits transcrits de sa main ou sous sa supervision, afin de mettre en lumière le caractère réfléchi et collaboratif du processus de composition de l’ouvrage. Dans la troisième partie, nous nous sommes intéressés à la dizaine de manuscrits produits au XIe/XVIIe siècle à Bidlīs, Kilīs, Alep et dans la région d’Ardalān, et aux processus de réappropriation et de réinterpréation de l’oeuvre originale visible dans ces copiesThe Šarafnāma is a book written in Persian by Šaraf Xān Bidlīsī (949-1009/1543-1600), Kurdish governor of the principality of Bidlīs, in about 1005/1596-1597. It is a chronicle of Kurdish dynasties and tribes, starting with the Marwānid dynasty, at the end of the 4th/10th century, and concluding with the events of the year 1005/1596-1597 and the story of the Diyādīnids of Bidlīs, the author’s own household. The chronicle is composed of an introduction (muqaddima) and four ṣaḥīfas (books). The author has also added an epilogue (xātima), which is an annalistic history of the Ottomans and the Safavids. There are around forty extant manuscripts of the Šarafnāma. Our first task has been to identify and physically or digitally consult these manuscripts, in order to compare them and produce a stemma codicum of the book’s copies. Once this was done, we have focused our research on the manuscripts copied during the author’s lifetime, in the years 1005-1007/1596-1599, as well as on the copies made in the 11th/17th century, immediately following the book’s composition. The first part of our work is a general study of Šaraf Xān’s historiographical outlook. In the second part, we have studied the three manuscripts transcribed by the author or under his supervision, in order to highlight the thought out and collaborative nature of the book’s composition. In the third part, we have focused on the dozen manuscripts produced in the 11th/17th century in Bidlīs, Kilīs, Aleppo and the Ardalān region, and on the processes of reappropriation and reinterpration of the original work manifest in these copies
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Krijgsman, Rens. "The rise of a manuscript culture and the textualization of discourse in early China." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2016. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:0cae14e6-f30c-4512-a1b5-f3ce264493fc.
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This thesis analyses a change in the ways people composed and engaged with texts during the Warring States (481-221 BCE) period in Early China. It examines changes in the textual sphere as a result of an emergent manuscript culture, that is to say, the increased spread and reliance on manuscript texts for the communication of ideas. This shift moved away from the predominantly oral, commemorative, and ritual use of text in earlier periods, and provided key elements that would function in the text based discourse of the early empires. It influenced the way text across a variety of genres of writing was used and understood, structured and composed, and how it was collected and combined to form new arguments. I focus on texts from the Documents ?, and Odes ? genres, in addition to philosophical texts dealing with the past, and collections of sayings and arguments dealing with questions from cosmological to ethical issues. These materials form the mainstay of Warring States intellectual discourse, and exemplify the following textual developments: 1) the rise of collecting materials into compilations; 2) the emergence of genre classification; 3) the development of new authorship functions, 3) an increase in textual structuring and the integration of lore about the past, 4) the development of commentarial traditions, 5) the emergence of an explicit, self-reflexive understanding of writing and transmission, 6) advances in material structuring of manuscript-texts that interrelate form and content. The analysis is based primarily on excavated materials not edited during the early empires, and engages with comparative and interdisciplinary theory. It argues against models solely based on transmitted sources, which explained Warring States developments as a response to socio-political contexts. Instead, it posits developments in the textual culture itself as a necessary condition to explain the changes in intellectual discourse of the period.
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Martina, Piero Andrea. "La produzione manoscritta del romanzo francese in versi : modelli materiali e modelli di cultura." Thesis, Sorbonne université, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018SORUL051.
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Cette thèse propose de parcourir l’histoire d’un genre littéraire à travers l’analyse de sa production manuscrite. Notre recherche porte ainsi sur la relation entre le texte et le manuscrit, et la problématique à laquelle nous souhaitions apporter quelques éléments de réponse concerne les rapports que l’on peut établir entre une typologie de textes et une typologie de manuscrits. S’il est possible, dans un ensemble de textes varié, d’ébaucher les traits qui distinguent le ‘roman en vers’ des autres productions, la même démarche est-elle transposable aux manuscrits de cette catégorie générique ? En envisageant l’ensemble de la production manuscrite des romans en vers au Moyen Âge, cette étude met en relief des modèles matériels et des typologies de codex pour ce genre littéraire particulier. Les analyses menées dans ce cadre ont par ailleurs contribué à reparcourir l’histoire du genre romanesque et de sa diffusion sous un angle nouveau, ainsi que de mettre en lumière quelques aspects de sa fortune. Les moments charnières de l’évolution du roman en vers sont d’autant plus riches d’enseignements qu’ils ouvrent de nouvelles perspectives de recherche, en particulier concernant la lecture et le mode de réception de ces textes. Parallèlement à l’examen approfondi de cinq aspects de la relation entre le texte et son contexte manuscrit – production des textes, production des manuscrits, dimensions des codices, mise en page et mise en recueil –, la thèse propose un catalogue des romans retenus et un catalogue des manuscrits (entiers ou fragmentaires) contenant un ou plusieurs romans en versThis thesis intends focuses on the history of a literary genre, starting from the study of its manuscript production. The aim of the study is to investigate the relation between the text and the manuscript and the existence of a relation between a typology of text and a typology of manuscript. If it is possible, in a variety of texts can the same be accomplished for the ‘verse romance manuscript’ as well? Research on the entire manuscript production of medieval romans en vers allowed us to trace the material models and codex typologies associated with this genre. It also enabled us to retrace the history of this genre, its diffusion and some aspects of its fortune, also giving us some valuable insights into the copyists’ awareness of their work and their cultural role. The presence of key points is particularly interesting and leads to new research perspectives, especially with respect to the way these texts were read. Together with the study of five aspects of the relationship between the text and its manuscript context (production of texts, production of manuscripts, codices’ dimensions, layout, collection), the thesis includes a catalogue of selected novels and a catalogue of manuscripts – intact or fragmentary – containing novels in verse
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Martelli, Cristina Arrigoni. "The Waters of Momo: An Avant-garde Village in the Development of the Northern Italian Hay Industry Seen through Five Thirteenth and Fourteenth Century Manuscripts." Fogler Library, University of Maine, 2007. http://www.library.umaine.edu/theses/pdf/MartelliCA2007.pdf.
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Depnering, Johannes M. "Sermon manuscript in the late Middle Ages : the Latin and German codices of Berthold von Regensburg." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2014. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:f76c3e99-6d2a-417e-9088-58766c17cfb4.
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This thesis on medieval sermon manuscripts aims to increase our understanding of the Franciscan Berthold von Regensburg, who is considered to be the most significant German preacher of the late Middle Ages. For this reason, I have selected twenty-one Latin and six German codices, dating from the thirteenth to the fifteenth century. These codices have been analyzed to identify the writing material, internal structure and paratextual features. The underlying idea is that the codicological and paratextual organisation delivers insight not only into the date and provenance of the manuscripts, but also into their function and actual use. I set out, in my first chapter, with some general thoughts about the specific process of communication involved in sermon manuscripts. The focus of my second chapter is on the structural and guiding elements in manuscripts, such as indices, numbering systems and various types of rubrication. The third chapter is concerned with marginal annotations, which can refer to the content of the text, call for attention, or even aim to deter from reading or copying a particular passage. In chapter four, I discuss a number of current issues in codicology and the complexity of codicological structures, which leads me to the proposition of a new concept of ‘corresponding codicological units’. In the fifth chapter, I argue that the attribution of Berthold’s sermons to his name fades in the late-thirteenth century, in favour of the term Rusticanus, which fills the position of the author for the the most part of the fourteenth century. In my final chapter, I discuss different concepts of book ownership. By demonstrating the significance of material and structural features, I show the strength of a codicological approach in achieving a new, in-depth understanding of Berthold von Regensburg and medieval sermon culture in general.
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Andriukonis, Tomas. "Originalieji Antano Baranausko tekstai (1853–1863 m.) – rašymo istorija." Doctoral thesis, Lithuanian Academic Libraries Network (LABT), 2013. http://vddb.laba.lt/obj/LT-eLABa-0001:E.02~2013~D_20130916_082355-84350.
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Disertacija skirta svarbiausio XIX a. lietuvių poeto Antano Baranausko rankraštinių tekstų (dienoraščio, Baranauskų silva rerum bei eilių rinkinio Wiersze) tyrimui. Darbe aprašomas šių lenkiškai rašytų rankraščių kultūrinis kontekstas, komunikacinis pobūdis. Pasitelkus rašymo istorijos koncepciją, nagrinėjamas rankraščių rašymo kelias ir aptariamas rašančiojo asmens, tekstinės bendruomenės bei kūrybinės savimonės formavimasis, funkcionavimas ir kaita. Paskutiniame disertacijos skyriuje aptariami lietuviškai rašyti Baranausko tekstai, jų dainavimo tradicija bei santykis su vieta. Disertacijoje poeto kūrybinis kelias neskirstomas į lenkišką ir lietuvišką. Jo kūrinių kalbos ir poetikos permainos siejamos su socialinių statusų kaita – taip kuriamas vientisas pasakojimas apie Baranausko rašymo istoriją.The thesis analyses the manuscripts of the most famous Lithuanian poet of the 19th century Antanas Baranauskas, including his diary, the family book (silva rerum) of the Baranauskas family and the collection of poems Wiersze. The thesis exposes the cultural context of manuscripts written in Polish and their communicative nature. Through the conception of the history of writing, the author of the thesis examines the process of writing the manuscripts and scrutinises the formation, functioning and transformation of the writer, the portrayed community and creative self-consciousness. The final section of the thesis deals with Baranauskas’s poems in Lithuanian, the tradition of turning them into songs and their relationship with an environment. The poet’s creative biography is reviewed without splitting it into Polish and Lithuanian. His turn from one language to another and shifts in his poetics are associated with a change in social status and thus represents an integral narrative of the history of Baranauskas’s writing.
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Quick, Laura Elizabeth. "Scribal culture and the composition of Deuteronomy 28 : intertextuality, influence and the Aramaic curse tradition." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2016. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:46fcfbc4-eec7-41bd-a646-817a6bbde36f.
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It is often noted that Deuteronomy 28 seems to parallel portions of a Neo-Assyrian treaty, 'The Succession Treaty of Esarhaddon', known as EST. However, while there are undeniably points of similarity between Deuteronomy 28 and EST, affinities to Deuteronomy 28 may also be found in curses from Old Aramaic epigraphs of the first-millennium. In this thesis I consider the relationship of Deuteronomy 28 to the curse traditions of the ancient Near East. I argue that the crux of the issue is the linguistic means of the transmission of these ancient Near Eastern curse traditions to Deuteronomy. Consideration of this is then the prerequisite to a study of the cultural means of transmission: treatments of this problem must encompass a far broader range of materials than hitherto considered, including the Old Aramaic inscriptions. My primary aim in this context is to ascertain whether we may characterize the relation of all these texts to Deuteronomy as one of influence or of intertextuality - terminological categories which I introduce in order to clarify the exact nature of the problem with more precision than that of previous studies. Ultimately it will be found that Deuteronomy 28 reflects a complex interplay between Mesopotamian and Levantine traditions, against previous interpreters who had referred Deuteronomy 28 to an exclusively Mesopotamian horizon. Nevertheless, we cannot consider this interplay to have stemmed from the influence of any one Old Aramaic or Mesopotamian text such as EST in terms of a direct literary connection. Rather, as putative Aramaic vectors of mediation must be posited between the Mesopotamian tradition and Deuteronomy due to the linguistic competence of Judaean scribes in the late monarchic period, this must be understood as a relationship of intertextuality. While the specific literary (or ritual) Vorlage is thus unreconstructable in terms of the documentary evidence, we can nevertheless hypothesize what the Northwest Semitic curse tradition from which this Vorlage was a part may have looked like, based upon the textual traditions to which we do have access - and this tradition is reflected in Deuteronomy 28.
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Monte, Vanessa Martins do. "Documentos setecentistas: edição semidiplomática e tratamento das sibilantes." Universidade de São Paulo, 2007. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8142/tde-07022008-112845/.
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A presente dissertação trata da edição semidiplomática de documentos da segunda metade do século XVIII, conservados no Arquivo Histórico Nacional - Rio de Janeiro, à qual se segue um estudo lingüístico sobre o tratamento das sibilantes nesse corpus. O trabalho apresenta dois objetivos gerais: o primeiro, ligado ao objetivo da disciplina Filologia, é a publicação de uma edição fidedigna e confiável de nove documentos que podem constituir fontes tanto para o estudo da história do Brasil quanto para estudos de história da língua, já que a edição realizada preserva os traços lingüísticos dos documentos; o segundo objetivo é verificar o tratamento dado às sibilantes em documentos setecentistas. Na primeira parte do trabalho, apresenta-se o estudo filológico, que contempla a análise codicológica e a análise paleográfica dos manuscritos. A análise codicológica descreve para cada documento: o suporte material utilizado, com a informação da marca, linhas d\'água e filigranas; sua composição, com a quantidade e dimensões dos fólios, bem como a forma de estruturação dos cadernos; a organização da página, com as dimensões das manchas, número de linhas, forma de numeração e localização de reclames; a informação de data, lugar de origem, particularidades e conteúdo. A análise paleográfica estuda a variação grafemática encontrada nos documentos e define os critérios para o estabelecimento dos grafemas utilizados para representar as sibilantes. Ao final da primeira parte, apresenta-se a edição semidiplomática dos manuscritos, acompanhada do fac-símile. A segunda parte do trabalho apresenta a metodologia de levantamento das sibilantes no corpus; um estudo sobre a história dos fonemas sibilantes desde o início da língua portuguesa até o surgimento da primeira norma oficial, em 1911; a norma preconizada pelos ortógrafos de Setecentos; a discussão sobre a existência ou não de uma norma gráfica em Portugal no século XVIII e a análise dos dados encontrados no corpus. Verifica-se que os grafemas ç e z são preferidos pelos autores dos documentos para representar, respectivamente, a sibilante surda e a sibilante sonora. Tal dado parece se relacionar à redução do quadro de quatro sibilantes a apenas duas no português padrão, já que tais grafemas eram utilizados justamente para representar as consoantes sibilantes pré-dorsais, que permaneceram na língua padrão. Comprova-se que a dificuldade dos ortógrafos em elaborar norma para o uso de s e z está de acordo com a confusão entre esses grafemas observada nos manuscritos. Duas importantes conclusões referem-se à primeira parte do trabalho. A primeira é que não se pode elaborar uma edição fidedigna e confiável prescindindo de um estudo filológico, que contemple as análises codicológica e paleográfica. A segunda, ligada à paleografia, demonstra que a determinação de um grafema não depende somente da morfologia da letra, que, comparada a outras ocorrências dentro do mesmo punho, revelará a melhor leitura, mas depende também do estudo das ocorrências em contextos específicos de posicionamento silábico.The present dissertation treats of the semidiplomatic edition of documents dated from the second half of the 18th century and conserved at the Arquivo Histórico Nacional - Rio de Janeiro and it proposes a study of the sibilant treatment in this corpus. The paper has two general objectives: the first, related to the purpose of Philology as a discipline, which is the publishing of a faithful and reliable edition of the set of nine documents that constitute a source for the study of Brazilian history as well as for the study of the history of the language, once the presented edition preservs the linguistic traces of the documents. The second objective is to study the treatment given to the sibilant in 18th century documents. In the first part, it is presented a philological study which comprehends a codicological and a paleographical analysis of the manuscripts. The codicological analysis describes for each set of documents: the employed support, with information about the brand, waterlines and filigrees; its composition with the quantity and dimensions of the folio, as well as its structure; the page organization, with the number of lines, ways of numbering and localization of the catchwords; date, place of origin, particularities and contents. The paleographical analysis refers to the study of the graphematic variation found in the documents and the criteria for the establishment of the graphema used to represent the sibilants. At the end of the first part, it is presented the semidiplomatic edition of the manuscripts, followed by the fac-simile. In the second part of this work it is presented the methodology for the sibilant surveying in the corpus, a study of the sibilant phonemes since the origin of the Portuguese Language until the first official norm which came out in 1911; the norm proclaimed by the orthographers of that century; the discussion about the existence of an official ortographical rule in Portugal in the 18th century and the corpus data analysis. It is noticed that the graphemes ç e z are preferred by the authors to represent, respectively the voiceless sibilant and the voiced sibilant. Such fact seems to be related to the reduction of the four sibilants into only two in the standard Portuguese, since such graphemes were used to represent the predorsals sibilant consonants, which remained in the standard language. It is proved that the difficulty of the orthographers elaborating a rule for the use of s and z is in accordance to the confusion between these graphemes observed in the manuscripts.Two important conclusions can be related to the first part of this dissertation. The first one is that it\'s not possible to elaborate a faithful and reliable edition leaving aside a philological study which fullfill both codicological and paleographical analyses. The second, related to the paleography, demonstrates that the determination of a grapheme doesn\'t depend only on the morphology of the letter, which compared to other occurrences inside the same handwriting, will reveal the best reading, but it also depends on the study of the occurrences in specific contexts of silabic position.
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Madrinkian, Michael Alex. "Producing 'Piers Plowman' to 1475 : author, scribe, and reader." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2016. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:1d0f9bd5-04d8-4edd-bccb-2f95b403165e.
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My doctoral thesis, "Producing Piers Plowman to 1475: Author, Scribe, and Reader," charts a new material history of William Langland's fourteenth-century dream vision, Piers Plowman, from its earliest composition to the onset of print in England. The study is divided into three sections, which examine the production of Piers from three perspectives: textual history, manuscript circulation, and medieval reception. The first section of the thesis conducts a study of Langland's revisionary process, presenting a new theory of authorial revision from the A to B version that has important implications for our understanding of authorship in Piers Plowman and for the future editing of the poem. The second section transitions into an examination of the early circulation of the Piers manuscripts in various geographical and social milieux. It examines two case studies of manuscript circulation in the Southwest Midlands and East Anglia, linking them to regionalized networks of scribes and patrons. Finally, Section III moves into a discussion of the literary contexts in which Piers circulates, particularly in multi-text manuscripts, examining how the poem's reception by a medieval audience affected its development as a literary text. This section treats production from a more theoretical standpoint, investigating the relationship between the poem's audience and the "production" of meaning in a social and historical context. As I will argue, each of these sections acts as an important frame of reference for understanding the multifaceted formation of Piers Plowman as a literary text and cultural landmark. In particular, the thesis emphasizes the importance of Piers's various contexts, from its textual genesis in the author's composition and revision to its circulation and reception in an unstable manuscript culture. It suggests that the people and the places that surrounded Piers Plowman in its early development fundamentally shaped the poem we have today.
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Puentes-Blanco, Andrea. "Música y devoción en Barcelona (ca. 1550-1626): Estudio de libros de polifonía, contextos y prácticas musicales." Doctoral thesis, Universitat de Barcelona, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/666286.
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Esta Tesis Doctoral estudia los libros manuscritos de polifonía sacra renacentista copiados entre ca. 1550 y 1626 que se conservan en dos bibliotecas de Barcelona, examina su repertorio y explora su relación con la vida musical en Barcelona durante ese periodo. Esta investigación se centra en dos áreas hasta ahora insuficientemente consideradas en los estudios sobre la música en Barcelona durante la segunda mitad del siglo XVI y principios del siglo XVII: por un lado, los libros de polifonía conservados, que carecen, la mayoría, de estudios exhaustivos y actualizados, y, por otro, la exploración de la vida musical religiosa en la ciudad adoptando una perspectiva urbana, distinta al enfoque institucional y biográfico que ha prevalecido en trabajos previos.
La Tesis consta de cuatro capítulos estructurados en dos partes (Volumen I: Estudio), y de diecisiete apéndices (Volumen II: Apéndices). La Parte I (Capítulos I y
II) está dedicada al estudio de los libros manuscritos de polifonía de la época que se conservan en bibliotecas de Barcelona y de su repertorio. El Capítulo I investiga en detalle veinte manuscritos de polifonía sacra (ca. 1550-1626) de la Biblioteca de Catalunya y del Centre de Documentació de l’Orfeó Català. Cada manuscrito se analiza a partir de su codicología y de su contenido musical, lo que conduce a presentar hipótesis razonadas sobre su origen y cronología. Los veinte libros analizados muestran conexiones con instituciones eclesiásticas de Barcelona, pero también con otras localidades de Cataluña: Vic, Mataró, Tarragona, La Seu d’Urgell, Girona y Castelló d’Empúries. El Capítulo II estudia las características y circulación de la polifonía sacra en Cataluña entre ca. 1550-1626 a través de las más de 500 obras copiadas en los manuscritos estudiados; el Capítulo se organiza por géneros musicales: misas, motetes, salmos, himnos, magníficats, antífonas, pasiones, lamentaciones y responsorios. Este estudio se complementa también con la evidencia que proporcionan tanto inventarios de libros redactados en la época como los 119 libros impresos de polifonía conservados en bibliotecas de Barcelona.
La Parte II (Capítulos III y IV) explora la vida musical religiosa en la ciudad. El Capítulo III muestra cómo el estatus privilegiado de la Catedral respecto al resto de instituciones eclesiásticas de la ciudad se concretó en prerrogativas específicas en materia musical, litúrgica y ceremonial. Mediante el análisis de los calendarios litúrgicos diocesanos y otras fuentes se realiza una aproximación a cómo los cambios litúrgicos propugnados por el Concilio de Trento incidieron a nivel local, y se explora la presencia de la música en el ceremonial de la Catedral, enfatizando la proyección que éste tenía en el espacio urbano. A continuación, se estudian, por una parte, el rol de la música en distintas tipologías de ceremonial funerario y, por otra, rituales festivos, de acción de gracias y de rogativas en los que el canto del himno Te Deum laudamus constituía la principal actividad musical. El Capítulo IV explora prácticas musicales vinculadas a la devoción mariana en el contexto de las cofradías de la Barcelona de la época. Al inicio del Capítulo se realiza una aproximación a la topografía de la devoción mariana en la ciudad, identificando los lugares de culto a la Virgen que existían en el espacio urbano y prácticas musicales que tenían lugar en algunos de estos espacios. Empleando fuentes documentales muy diversas, se muestran las actividades musicales de las que posiblemente fueron las dos cofradías marianas más destacadas en la ciudad: la cofradía de la Concepción en la Catedral y la cofradía del Rosario en el convento de Santa Caterina. El Volumen II contiene diecisiete apéndices que incluyen inventarios detallados de los veinte manuscritos estudiados, un censo completo de los libros impresos de polifonía en bibliotecas de Barcelona y abundante documentación relacionada con la investigación.This Doctoral Dissertation studies manuscript books of Renaissance sacred polyphony extant in two Barcelona libraries copied between ca. 1550 and 1626, examines their repertoire, and explores their relationship with sacred musical life in Barcelona during that period. This research focuses on two areas hitherto insufficiently considered in music studies about Barcelona during the second half of the sixteenth and beginning of the seventeenth century: on the one hand, the books of polyphony, which lack, most of them, exhaustive and updated studies, and, on the other hand, the investigation of the sacred musical life in the city adopting an urban perspective, different from the institutional and biographic approach that has prevailed in previous research. The Dissertation consists of two volumes: Volume I (Study), with four chapters structured in two parts, and Volume II (Appendices). Part I (Chapters I and II) is devoted to the study of manuscript books of sacred polyphony (ca. 1550-1626) in two Barcelona libraries and their repertoire. Chapter I investigates in detail twenty manuscripts of sacred polyphony at the Biblioteca de Catalunya and the Centre de Documentació de l'Orfeó Català. The codicology and repertoire of each manuscript is analyzed, which leads to establish reasoned hypotheses about its origin and chronology. The twenty books of polyphony are related to ecclesiastical institutions in Barcelona and in other Catalan locations: Vic, Mataró, Tarragona, La Seu d’Urgell, Girona y Castelló d’Empúries. Chapter II analyses the characteristics and circulation of sacred polyphony in Catalonia from ca. 1550-1626 through more than 500 works copied in the studied manuscripts; the Chapter is organized by musical genres: masses, motets, psalms, hymns, magnificats, antiphons, passions, lamentations and responsories. This study is also complemented by the evidence provided by book inventories of the time and by the 119 printed books of polyphony preserved in Barcelona libraries. Part II (Chapters III and IV) explores religious musical life in the city. Chapter III shows the Cathedral’s privileged status —with particular musical, liturgical and ceremonial prerogatives— with respect to the other ecclesiastical institutions of the city. Through the analysis of the diocesan liturgical calendars and other sources, Chapter III explores how the changes promoted by the Council of Trent affected local liturgy, and describes the Cathedral’s music ceremonial, emphasizing its projection in the urban space. Chapter III studies the role of music in different types of funerary rituals, and the celebratory events, as well as processions for thanksgiving and rogations in which the singing of the hymn Te Deum laudamus was the main musical activity. Chapter IV is devoted to the study of musical practices linked to Marian devotion, a subject that leads to explore the world of the confraternities of Barcelona at that time. The chapter presents an approach to the topography of Marian devotion in the city, identifying places of Marian worship and musical practices that took place in some of these places. Chapter IV explores the musical activities of what were possibly the two most important Marian brotherhoods in the city: the Confraternity of the Immaculate Conception in the Cathedral and the Confraternity of the Rosary in the convent of Santa Caterina. Volume II contains seventeenth appendices that include detailed inventories of the twenty studied manuscripts, a complete census of printed books of polyphony in Barcelona libraries, and abundant documentation related to this research.
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Kinsella, Karl. "Edifice and education : structuring thought in twelfth-century Europe." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2016. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:e7b2e623-e6a1-4bc4-970d-bb4af9868d34.
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This thesis explores the diverse range of textual and visual architectural representations in twelfth-century didactic texts. It argues that these representations are not arbitrarily chosen frameworks for holding data; instead, architecture can perform a certain pedagogical role. In this role architectural representations mediate between imperceptible abstract concepts in the text and the tangible world of the reader. By focusing on the relationship between text and image this thesis argues that the two play a meaningful part in conveying intangible elements of the world to the reader. The thesis creates an alternative to the historiography on architecture and its representations by redirecting focus from the development of technical drawings and onto the intellectual context of the drawings, and ultimately questions why architecture, in particular, appears so frequently in didactic manuscripts of the period. The argument is framed by two points. First, it recognises the manifold ways in which architectural representations appear by focusing on three particular examples: quadrivial texts, Richard of Saint Victor's In visionem Ezechielis, and Honorius Augustodunensis' Gemma animae. These texts provide case studies to argue the primary point of thesis, namely, that architectural representations were used to provide tangible or kinaesthetic models to aid readers' understanding of difficult material. Second, the language and structure of the three studies reflect a dimensional framework that was used to articulate particular aspects of the drawings. The dimensional aspects of the drawings appear in texts as references to length, width, height, and the typological qualities of architecture. Overall the thesis has two important implications. First by recognising the important relationship between text and image it is possible to draw out the pedagogical aims and processes present in some twelfth-century didactic works. Second, common examples of architectural representations, such as Gospel canon tables, are recognised as part of a broader spectrum of heuristic images and diagrams.
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Verweij, Sebastiaan Johan. ""The inlegebill scribling of my imprompt pen" : the production and circulation of literary miscellany manuscripts in Jacobean Scotland, c.1580-c.1630." Thesis, Thesis restricted. Connect to e-thesis to view abstract, 2008. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/329/.
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Stone, Heather Brenda. "Companionable forms : writers, readers, sociability, and the circulation of literature in manuscript and print in the Romantic period." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2015. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:63f652fc-c4c2-4c3a-bc5c-893d4b922db1.
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Following recent critical work on writers' representations of sociability in Romantic literature, this thesis examines in detail the textual strategies (such as allusion, acts of address, and the use of 'coterie' symbols or references) which writers used to seek to establish a friendly or sympathetic relationship with a particular reader or readers, or to create and define a sense of community identity between readers. The thesis focuses on specific relationships between pairs and groups of writers (who form one another's first readers), and examines 'sociable' genres like letters, manuscript albums, occasional poetry, and periodical essays in a diverse series of author case-studies (Anna Barbauld, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Charles Lamb, John Keats and Leigh Hunt). Such genres, the thesis argues, show how manuscript and print culture could frequently overlap and intersect, meaning that writers confronted the demands of two co-existing audiences - one private and familiar, the other public and unknown - in the same work. Rather than arguing that writers used manuscript culture practices and produced 'coterie' works purely to avoid confronting their anxieties about publishing in the commercial sphere of print culture, the thesis suggests that in producing such 'coterie' works writers engaged with and reflected contemporary philosophical and political concerns about the relationship between the individual and wider communities. In these works, writers engaged with the legacy of eighteenth-century philosophical ideas about the role (and limitations) of the sympathetic imagination in maintaining social communities, and with interpretative theories about the best kind of reader. Furthermore, the thesis argues that reading literary texts in the specific, material context in which they are 'published' to particular readers, either in print, manuscript, or letters, is vital to understanding writer/reader relationships in the Romantic period. This approach reveals how within each publication space, individual texts could be placed (either by their writers, by editors, or by other readers) in meaningful relationships with other texts, absorbing or appropriating them into new interpretative contexts.