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Mezger, Christopher K. Mezger. "The Two Syriac Manuscripts in the Rare Books Collection of The Ohio State University’s Thompson Library." The Ohio State University, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1524085445098928.

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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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Lemos, Maria da Assunção Oliveira Costa. "As ilustrações ingénuas do manuscrito "Fortalezas do Oriente"." Master's thesis, Instituições portuguesas -- UNL-Universidade Nova de Lisboa -- FCSH-Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas -- -Departamento de História da Arte, 1987. http://dited.bn.pt:80/29805.

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Fāt̤imah, Nasīm. "Urdū mak̲h̲t̤ut̤āt kī keṭalāg sāzī aur miʻyārbandī taḥqīq, tajziyah, masāʼil aur uṣūl /." Karācī : Lāʼibrerī Promoshan Biyuro, 2000. http://books.google.com/books?id=qgnhAAAAMAAJ.

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Drechsler, Stefan Andreas. "Making manuscripts at Helgafell in the fourteenth century." Thesis, University of Aberdeen, 2017. http://digitool.abdn.ac.uk:80/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=236533.

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This thesis examines a cultural revolution that took place in the Icelandic artistic landscape during the medieval period. Within just one generation (c. 1350–1400), the house of canons regular of Helgafell rose to become the most important centre of illuminated manuscript production in western Iceland. This study delivers a comprehensive and critical multidisciplinary study that combines methodologies and sources from the fields of Art History, Old Norse-Icelandic Manuscript Studies and Medieval Nordic History. It maps important changes in the art historical market, as well as major movements of ideas between three distinct manuscript cultures: from Helgafell in Iceland, Norwich and surrounding East Anglia in England, and the region between Bergen and Trondheim in Western Norway. By conducting cross-disciplinary research, the philological and historical data, combined with a sound social network analysis methodology, this study presents a comprehensive approach that respects both the historical setting of the illuminated manuscript production and the products themselves. It thereby contributes to a new and multidisciplinary area of research that studies not only one but several western European cultures in relation to similar domestic artistic monuments and relevant historical evidence. By using the interdisciplinary approach outlined above, it offers a detailed perspective of one cultural site – Helgafell – in particular in regard to its artistic connections to other ecclesiastical and secular scriptoria in the broader North Atlantic region.
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Moore, Jan Kirsten. "Copy and print in English books of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1989. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.241341.

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Silva, Marcelo de Lima da. "Biografia de um livro raro: manuscrito jesuítico na Biblioteca de Oswaldo Cruz." reponame:Repositório Institucional do FGV, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10438/16501.

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The objective of this study is a rare book which is part of the rare book collection of the Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. The book, entitled Formulário Médico, was written in 1703 by Jesuits. It is a manuscript, composed of 225 pages, that describes medical prescriptions for the cure of various diseases through the use of flora and fauna found in locations where the Jesuits had missions. In addition to tracing the biography of this book, investigating its trajectory in the Fiocruz collection, our research examined how Formulário Médico was handled in the collection during decades. By dealing with this aspect, we hope to make significant contributions to the realization of the importance and responsibility of institutions which have collections such as this one regarding the appropriate manner of preserving works like this manuscript for the future.
O objeto desta pesquisa é um livro raro e especial, integrante da Biblioteca de Obras Raras da Fundação Oswaldo Cruz (Fiocruz). Trata-se do Formulário Médico, escrito em 1703 por jesuítas. Esse livro é um manuscrito, composto por 225 páginas, nas quais estão descritas receitas médicas para a cura de diversas doenças, através da utilização da fauna e da flora dos locais onde as missões jesuíticas se instalaram. Além de traçar uma biografia dessa obra, investigando sua trajetória no acervo da Fiocruz, a pesquisa também analisou a forma como o Formulário Médico foi tratado no acervo ao longo de décadas. Ao abordar também esse aspecto, esperamos contribuir significativamente para as reflexões sobre a responsabilidade das instituições de guarda, em geral, no que diz respeito à forma e à preservação de tais obras para o futuro.
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Hunt, Elizabeth Moore. "Illuminating the borders of northern French and Flemish manuscripts, ca. 1270-1310 /." free to MU campus, to others for purchase, 2004. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/mo/fullcit?p3137712.

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Franses, Henri. "Portraits of patrons in Byzantine religious manuscripts." Thesis, McGill University, 1987. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=22359.

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Byzantine religious manuscripts were commissioned by people from many levels of society. Several contain portraits of their commissioners, represented together with a holy figure. An analysis of these scenes, examining features such as the holy figures represented and their specific iconographic meaning, and the relation of mortal to divine, reveals many facets of Byzantine art, religion and society. This analysis indicates a major distinction between portraits representing the emperor, and those depicting all other patrons. Non-imperial portraits show deep personal devotion and piety. The manuscripts in which they occur were commissioned to honour the holy figure, and many request salvation in return. Imperial commissions, on the other hand, were not votive gifts. Their portraits stress the public, political, and occasionally religious role of the emperor as the elected of God upon earth, and head of state. These portraits are thus highly informative of several aspects of Byzantine life.
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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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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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Jackson, Cailah. "Patrons and artists at the crossroads : the Islamic arts of the book in the lands of Rūm, 1270s-1370s." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2017. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:2d687f25-fb80-4470-b259-72714ba24386.

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This dissertation is the first book-length study to analyse the production and patronage of Islamic illuminated manuscripts in late medieval RÅ«m in their fullest cultural contexts and in relation to the arts of the book of neighbouring regions. Although research concerning the artistic landscapes of late medieval Rūm has made significant progress in recent years, the development of the arts of the book and the nature of their patronage and production has yet to be fully addressed. The topic also remains relatively neglected in the wider field of Islamic art history. This thesis considers the arts of the book and the part they played in artistic life within contemporary scholarly frameworks that emphasise inclusivity, diversity and fluidity. Such frameworks acknowledge the period's ethnic and religious pluralism, the extent of cross-cultural exchange, the region's complex political situation after the breakdown in Seljuk rule, and the itinerancy of scholars, Sufis and craftsmen. Analyses are based on the codicological examination of sixteen illuminated Persian and Arabic manuscripts, none of which have been published in depth. In order to appropriately assess the material and to partially redress scholarly emphases on the constituent arts of the book (calligraphy, illumination, illustration and binding), the manuscripts are considered as whole objects. The manuscripts' ample inscriptions also help to form a clearer picture of contemporary artistic life. Evidence from further illuminated and non-illuminated manuscripts and other textual and material primary sources is also examined. Based on this evidence, this dissertation demonstrates that Rūm's towns had active cultural scenes despite the frequent outbreak of hostilities and the absence of an effective centralised government. The lavishness of some manuscripts from this period also challenges the often-assumed connection between dynastic patronage and sophisticated artistic production. Furthermore, the identities and affiliations of those involved in the production and patronage of illuminated manuscripts reinforces the impression of an ethnically and religiously diverse environment and highlights the role that local amīrs and Sufi dervishes in particular had in the creation of such material.
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Swanepoel, Liani Colette. "Aeneas se onderwêreldse reis in illustrasie : 'n resepsie-historiese studie van tonele in Aeneïs VI /." Link to the online version, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/1690.

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Theodoropoulou, Marina. "Alessandro Scarlatti - soprano cantatas : edition, commentary and recorded performances of the autograph cantatas in Yale University, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Osborn Music MS 2." Thesis, University of York, 2012. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/3808/.

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The current doctoral study uncovered and revived 28 autograph cantatas for Soprano and Basso Continuo composed between 1704 and 1705 by Alessandro Scarlatti (1660-1725). The studied cantatas are held in a manuscript containing 36 cantatas (one of which misses the beginning) in Yale University, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Collection, Call Number: Osborn Music MS 2. The historical context in which the cantatas were written and performed is introduced. A physical description of the manuscript follows, with the aim to assist the reader in achieving a better appreciation and understanding of these cantatas in terms of performance practice. The relation between the text and the music, and the adaptation of the rhetorical characteristics of the text into music, are two of the most salient features of this cantata collection. These features are described in great detail and their implications for the performance of the cantatas have been explored. A major contribution of this study in the field of performance practice is the production of a modern performing edition with an editorial commentary and of a recording of the 28 autograph cantatas with harpsichord accompaniment.
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Sheppard, Jennifer M. "The Giffard Bible Bodleian Library MS Laud misc. 752 /." New York : Garland Pub, 1986. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/11970124.html.

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Magruder, James A. "The Sinope gospels an illuminated gospel book as anti-Chalcedonian polemic /." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2003. http://www.tren.com.

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Gil, Marc. "Du Maître du Mansel au Maître de Rambures le milieu des peintres et des enlumineurs de Picardie, ca. 1400-1480 /." Lille : A.N.R.T., Université de Lille III, 2000. http://bibpurl.oclc.org/web/30345.

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Lindgren, Nelly. "Akt︠s︡entologicheskai︠a︡ kharakteristika severnorusskoĭ rukopisi XVII veka." Stockholm, Sweden : Almqvist & Wiksell International, 1990. http://books.google.com/books?id=tm9gAAAAMAAJ.

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Sheehan, Jennifer Karr. "Intangible Qualities of Rare Books: Toward a Decision-Making Framework for Preservation Management in Rare Book Collections, Based Upon the Concept of the Book as Object." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2006. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc5213/.

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For rare book collections, a considerable challenge is involved in evaluating collection materials in terms of their inherent value, which includes the textual and intangible information the materials provide for the collection's users. Preservation management in rare book collections is a complex and costly process. As digitization and other technological advances in surrogate technology have provided new forms representation, new dilemmas in weighing the rare book's inherently valuable characteristics against the possibly lesser financial costs of surrogates have arisen. No model has been in wide use to guide preservation management decisions. An initial iteration of such a model is developed, based on a Delphi-like iterative questioning of a group of experts in the field of rare books. The results are used to synthesize a preservation management framework for rare book collections, and a small-scale test of the framework has been completed through two independent analyses of five rare books in a functioning collection. Utilizing a standardized template for making preservation decisions offers a variety of benefits. Preservation decisions may include prioritizing action upon the authentic objects, or developing and maintaining surrogates in lieu of retaining costly original collection materials. The framework constructed in this study provides a method for reducing the subjectivity of preservation decision-making and facilitating the development of a standard of practice for preservation management within rare book collections.
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Münch, Christoph. "Musikzeugnisse der Reichsabtei Lorsch eine Untersuchung der Lorscher musikalischen Handschriften in der Bibliotheca Palatina in der Vatikanischen Bibliothek /." Lorsch : Verlag Laurissa, 1993. http://books.google.com/books?id=6xTjAAAAMAAJ.

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Cochrane, Laura E. "'Where there is no time' the quadrivium and images of eternity in three eleventh-century Anglo-Saxon manuscripts /." Access to citation, abstract and download form provided by ProQuest Information and Learning Company; downloadable PDF file, 250 p, 2009. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1818417331&sid=3&Fmt=2&clientId=8331&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Baker, Donna Tsuruda. "The artistic and sociological imagery of the merchant-banker on the book covers of the Biccherna in Siena in the early Renaissance /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/6244.

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Pulliam, Heather. "Opening the senses : the Gospel book as an instrument of salvation as articulated by the minor decoration and full-page illustrations of the Book of Kells." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/15322.

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This thesis argues that the minor decoration and full-page images of the Book of Kells reflects a cohesive theme: the role of the gospel book in man's apprehension of God. This is demonstrated by an examination of the decorated initials and smaller images in relation to the text and a reinterpretation of the full-page images within the context of patristic commentary and the writings of the period. It is argued that the decorated initials and minor imagery are not merely ornamental but instead emphasize and comment upon the text. They do so in three ways: Firstly, they draw the eye to passages of gospel text that describe the visual apprehension and recognition of Christ as the Son of God. In demonstrating this, the assumption that the decorated initials operate in a traditional manner, such as marking lections or Eusebian sections, is rejected. The atypical function of the decoration, highlighting themes rather than liturgical or content divisions, indicates the unique function of the manuscript. Secondly, it is argued that the decorated initials employ the metaphorical imagery of the Psalms to describe the distinction between the manuscript's audience who acknowledge Christ as the Son of God, and those described within the text as confused and unable to recognize the identity of Christ despite his presence in their midst. Thirdly, the imagery of the decorated initials describes the manner in which the Godhead is literally contained within the text of the gospel book. The larger images also emphasize the recognition of Christ and distinguish between those who look to the Word of God and those who fail to do so. Additionally, the full-page imagery instructs the audience in the use of the manuscript. To an even greater extent than the minor decoration, the larger images articulate the role of the Gospel book and liturgy as a visible guide to an invisible deity and shield against temptation.
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Ensor, Lael J. "Decoration in early Qur'an manuscripts: A close look at the Walters Art Museum's W.554." Access to citation, abstract and download form provided by ProQuest Information and Learning Company; downloadable PDF file, 56 p, 2009. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1885754571&sid=3&Fmt=2&clientId=8331&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Szántó, Péter-Dániel. "Selected chapters from the Catuṣpīṭhatantra." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2013. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.669874.

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Linardou, K. "Reading two Byzantine illustrated books: the Kokkinobaphos manuscripts (Vaticanus graecus 1162 and Parisinus graecus 1208) and their illustration." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2004. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.504872.

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Roth, Paul. "Histoire de la première destruction de Troie (manuscrits Paris, Bibliothèque de l'Aresenal, 5068 Paris, Bibliothèque nationale, fr. 1414 et 1417) : edition critique avec introduction, notes, table des noms et glossaire /." Tübingen : A. Francke, 2000. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/44835722.html.

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Naughton, Joan Margaret. "Manuscripts from the Dominican monastery of Saint-Louis de Poissy /." Connect to thesis, 1995. http://eprints.unimelb.edu.au/archive/00000680.

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Corral, Jessica Olga. "Preparation of rare-earth (Eu3+, Tb3+, and Yb3+) doped Y2O3 luminescent ceramics by the use of reverse micelles." abstract and full text PDF (free order & download UNR users only), 2004. http://0-gateway.proquest.com.innopac.library.unr.edu/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:1434067.

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Spyra, Ulrike. "Das "Buch der Natur" Konrads von Megenberg die illustrierten Handschriften und Inkunabeln /." Köln : Böhlau, 2005. http://books.google.com/books?id=LuXaAAAAMAAJ.

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Hansen, Kelli Bruce. "The Cross of Oviedo in medieval Spanish art /." free to MU campus, to others for purchase, 2003. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/mo/fullcit?p1418028.

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McClelland, Lauren S. "Studies in pre-Reformation Carthusian vernacular manuscripts : the cases of Dom William Mede and Dom Stephen Dodesham of Sheen." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2013. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/5256/.

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In the field of manuscript studies, the identification of individual scribes and the reconstruction of their lives and work through examination of manuscript material has recently undergone revival. This thesis contributes to that field by presenting two biobibliographical case-studies of two fifteenth-century scribes and Carthusian monks, William Mede and Stephen Dodesham of Sheen. It sets out to demonstrate the value of an integrated biographical and comparative approach in the examination of the making and circumstances of making of manuscript books. This is demonstrated by building scribal biographies based on the integration of evidence from documentary record and the analysis of the material manuscript output of Mede and Dodesham. Dodesham, as the more prolific of the two, has been more fully investigated in recent scholarship. New documentary evidence, however, has necessitated a fresh appraisal of his life and the contexts of his copying, contexts which I argue are strongly educational. I show that Mede’s life and work as a Carthusian reader, copyist, and perhaps writer, is therefore worth further scholarly investigation. Chapter one considers the current state of the field of historical biography and, more specifically, scribal biography. It assesses the usefulness of integrating biographical and codicological approaches in the study of manuscripts and provides a definition of codicology in its broader sense (as a means of writing biobibliographical histories). As not all aspects of codicology are considered here, I also identify those aspects of codicological enquiry I have chosen to apply to the manuscripts of Mede and Dodesham. The case is made for the usefulness of codicological methods as a means of interpreting historical material. As the main focal points of this study are the lives and work of two Carthusian scribes, chapter two provides context on the Carthusian life, incorporating an evaluation of recent work on Carthusian textual culture, a brief summary of the Order’s history, its administrative structure, Carthusian spirituality, its participation in the intellectual culture of the late medieval period, how it responded to changing patterns in devotion, and its members’ attitudes and approaches to the acts of reading, writing and copying. This background is essential in contextualising the scribal activity of Mede and Dodesham and will be referred to in the following chapters. Chapters three and four are dedicated to the case studies examining the lives and work of William Mede and Stephen Dodesham of Sheen. Chapter three, containing the case study of William Mede, includes analysis of his Anglicana and other idiosyncratic features of his hand; full descriptions of each of the six manuscripts so far attributed to him; and study of his language and punctuation practices, which vary, I argue, depending upon for what sorts of audience Mede is writing or copying. A detailed study of the Speculum devotorum demonstrates this adaptive scribal behaviour in action and also investigates the possibility that Mede may have been the author of the text. The above are all discussed in relation to the making and circumstances of making of Mede’s manuscripts. The conclusion to the chapter offers a summary of Mede’s life and work and makes the case for the importance of further investigation of this Carthusian scribe. Chapter four, the case study of Stephen Dodesham, includes a reappraisal in light of new evidence of his early scribal career, including his ordination at Sheen charterhouse, potential connections with the prominent Dodesham family of Somerset and connections with middle-class, professional families in London and around the south-western counties of England. This new evidence has made it possible to more firmly place the contexts of Dodesham’s manuscript copying. Much of chapter four is dedicated to analysing his language, and providing brief descriptions of those manuscripts so far attributed to him; the above all discussed in relation to the making and circumstances of making of Dodesham’s manuscripts. The conclusion offers a summary of Dodesham’s life and work and makes the case for the importance of further investigation as of particular interest in the areas of developing literacy and education. In chapter five, I bring both case studies together, assess the usefulness of the biographical approach in the context of this particular study, and evaluate its successes and limitations as a framework for combined biographical and codicological investigation.
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Glatzer, Mordechai Isaac ben Abba Mari. "ʻIṭur sofrim (Sefer ha-ʻIṭur) le-Rav Yitsḥaḳ ben Rav Aba Mari : pirḳe mavo /." Yerushalayim : ha-Universiṭah ha-ʻIvrit bi-Yerushalayim, ha-Faḳulṭah le-madaʻe ha-ruaḥ, 1985. http://books.google.com/books?id=TKTjAAAAMAAJ.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--ha-Universiṭah ha-ʻIvrit bi-Yerushalayim, Jerusalem, 1983.
"Ittur sofrim (Sefer ha-ittur) of R. Isaac b. Abba Mari"--Added t.p. Includes bibliographical references (vol. 1, p. 164-167) and index.
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Pasṭernaḳ, Nurit. "Be-yaḥad u-leḥud : kitve-yad ʻIvriyim be-Firentseh ba-meʼah ha-ḥamesh-ʻeśreh : ʻeduyot le-mifgash ben Yehudim le-Notsrim, melekhet ha-sefer, ha-tsarkhanim, ha-tsenzurah /." [Yerushalayim] : [ḥ. mo. l.], 2009. http://primage.tau.ac.il/libraries/theses/humart/free/002196084.pdf.

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Swanepoel, Liani Colette. "Aeneas se onderwêreldse reis in illustrasie : ’n resepsie-historiese studie van tonele in Aeneïs VI." Thesis, Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/1690.

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Thesis (MA (Dept. of Ancient Studies) -- University of Stellenbosch, 2005.
Throughout the centuries artists have visualised the imaginative works of Publius Vergilius Maro in a variety of art forms. Paintings, frescoes, sculptures and even tapestries have made the wordscenes of his great epic, the Aeneid, concrete. The thesis investigates only the illustration of the epic in manuscripts and printed texts or translations. The illustrations of scenes in Book VI – the journey of Aeneas in the underworld – are studied using the reception-historical approach. This is to determine whether the illustrations of the Trojan hero’s journey in the underworld reflect the reception of the Aeneid in the different eras or periods. The illustrator is a “reader” of the Aeneid text or translation and consequently his/her illustration of a particular scene reflects his/her own visual interpretation thereof. Illustrations of Book VI in manuscripts like the Vergilius Vaticanus of late Antiquity and the mid- 15th century Riccardiana Vergilius of Apollonio di Giovanni are examined. A study of illustrations in printed texts or translations range from the 1502 Grüninger edition of Vergil edited by Sebastian Brant to the Book VI illustration of Thom Kapheim in a textbook published in 2001. The aim is to establish how illustrators associated with Book VI, interpreted it, how their environment and the spirit of the age influenced their visualisation and how their illustrations reflect the reception of the epic throughout the centuries. Such a study hopes to provide a contribution to Vergilian reception and Nachleben. In the process a better understanding can be obtained for the importance and changing role of Aeneid VI and the whole epic in different eras. It is found that the illustrators of the Aeneid – influenced by the different spirit of their times and environments – brought forth unique visual interpretations of scenes in Book VI that suggest a particular reception of the epic at that specific point of time. The illustrative spectrum of Book VI throughout the centuries can be summarised as follows: revival, allegorisation, pedagogic, realistic decoration and eventually increasingly unrealistic decoration. From late Antiquity to the beginning of the 21st century, the illustrative visualisation of the journey of Aeneas in the underworld indicates that there has always been a definitive response to Vergil and his epic.
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Fedeli, Alba. "Early Qur'ānic manuscripts, their text, and the Alphonse Mingana papers held in the Department of Special Collections of the University of Birmingham." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2015. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/5864/.

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The Special Collections of the Cadbury Research Library at the University of Birmingham hold seven early Qur’ānic pieces on parchment and papyrus dating from the seventh century. Alphonse Mingana purchased them from the antiquarian dealer von Scherling in 1936. Through investigation of the private correspondence of Mingana and archival documents, this research provides new information about the origin and history of the fragments, whose reception has been influenced by the European cultural context at the beginning of the twentieth century, in contrast with the public image proposed in catalogues, official documents and previous studies. Furthermore, this research is an attempt to initiate an alternative perspective in analysing and editing the physical objects and texts of early Qur’ānic manuscripts by applying digital philology, thus using XML-encoded expressions to transcribe all of the richness of manuscripts in reconstructing the history of their transmission. This perspective interprets the process of the making of the manuscript text and the context in which the manuscript was written, thus editing its mobile and multi-layered text, differently from previous examples of the edition of early Qur’ānic manuscripts.
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Scalliet, Marie-Odette Payen Antoine. "Antoine Payen peintre des Indes orientales : vie et écrits d'un artiste du XIXe siècle (1792-1853) /." Leyde : Research School CNWS, 1995. http://books.google.com/books?id=f7nZAAAAMAAJ.

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Cox, Maureen Elizabeth. "The Choir Books of Santa Maria in Aracoeli and Patronage Strategies of Pope Alexander VI." Scholar Commons, 2013. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/4657.

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This study examines painted leaves and fragments that were extracted from a set of choir books created in the last decade of the fifteenth century for the basilica of Santa Maria in Aracoeli in Rome. These remnants are currently housed within various library and museum collections throughout Europe and the United States. The set is agreed upon generally by scholars to have been commissioned by Alexander VI (Rodrigo Borgia, 1431-1503), who was pope from 1492 to 1503, as a gift to the church during his time as pontiff. The choir books for Santa Maria in Aracoeli contain the bulk of the known body of work by the enigmatic illuminator Fra Antonio da Monza. The best known items from this set of choir books are a complete gradual (or book of chants for the Mass) currently housed in the Getty Museum, called the Ludwig Aracoeli Manuscript, and a montage of cuttings in the Albertina Museum, Vienna, that features a miniature of the Pentecost. These are studied in the context of the artistic patronage of Alexander VI, and political and diplomatic gift cultures in papal Rome during the last decade of the Quattrocento. Alexander VI's gift to Santa Maria in Aracoeli served multiple functions. It advanced church music, but is also an example of a pontiff using custom luxury books for cultural diplomacy. The intent of the choir books was to build social relationships and augment the prestige of Alexander VI's regime with a local audience. Alexander VI sought to acknowledge the symbolic resonance of Santa Maria in Aracoeli and attempted to recuperate the site's importance for his reign through the gift. This study argues that the choir books were commissioned by the pontiff to promote his cultural and religious authority through abbellimento or "embellishment", the practice of commissioning ostentatious liturgical objects and additions to religious ceremonies for the purpose of developing esteem for an ecclesiastical office. This thesis argues that another purpose of the bestowment was to appease the Observant Franciscans in charge of the basilica in anticipation of Alexander VI's reforms of the Franciscan order.
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Williams, Kenneth R. "The De Villers Book of Hours." DigitalCommons@USU, 1996. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/182.

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Created in France during the late fifteenth century, the illuminations, text, and family genealogy (added by one of many owners) found in De Villers Book of Hours make it an excellent example among other French books of hours from this period. In addition to acting as a repository of the style and iconography of French fifteenth-century illumination, the book's rich decorative program and varied textual content provide a remarkable document of contemporary devotional piety. This thesis provides the first detailed description and analysis of the De Villers Book of Hours. Following a description of books of hours in general, the overall makeup of the De Villers Hours is addressed, including the decorative program with a suggested method and example for description, a sample of textual transcription, comments on the provenance, a brief discussion of the family genealogy, and a concluding section with a sample collection register and worksheet for cataloging.
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Dufresne, Laura Jean. "An assembly of ladies : the fifteenth-century pictorial tradition of Christine de Pizan's La cité des dames and Le trésor de la cité des dames /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/6238.

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Kanakala, Raghunath. "Exploring the synthesis of hexaborides the basis of a new chemistry for the preparation of electro-chemical materials /." abstract, 2008. http://0-gateway.proquest.com.innopac.library.unr.edu/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3339123.

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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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Hoffmann, Ingrid-Sibylle. "Der Meister der Pollinger Tafeln : Wege der Erneuerung in der bayerischen Malerei des mittleren 15. Jahrhunderts /." Weimar : VDG Verl. und Datenbank für Geisteswissenschaften, 2007. http://deposit.d-nb.de/cgi-bin/dokserv?id=2929787&prov=M&dokv̲ar=1&doke̲xt=htm.

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Silva, Rocha Jorge Manuel Gomes da. "L'Image dans le Beatus de Lorvão: figuration, composition et visualité dans les enluminures du Commentaire de l'Apocalypse attribué au scriptorium du monastère de São Mamede de Lorvão-1189." Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/210535.

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L’Apocalypse de Lorvão appartient au cycle des commentaires illustrés de la vision de Jean aujourd’hui connus sous le nom de «Beatus». Ces œuvres d’exégèse, enluminées surtout dans le nord de la péninsule Ibérique pendant l’occupation musulmane, constituent un ensemble pictural à l’identité artistique indéniable. Cependant, le manuscrit copié et illustré dans le scriptorium du monastère de São Mamede de Lorvão en 1189 diverge à plusieurs reprises des options iconographiques des autres codex et les solutions picturales et stylistiques de l’oeuvre portugaise se détachent significativement de celles des Beatus de la même époque comme par exemple ceux de Manchester, Cardeña ou Navarre. L’oeuvre se différencie aussi du travail produit dans les scriptoria portugais les plus réputés de Santa Cruz de Coimbra et Santa Maria de Alcobaça et amène à nous interroger sur le contexte de création de l’œuvre et sur la visualité qui a été à l’origine de ces images peintes. A partir de l’analyse du travail de figuration du moine artiste on constate que la nature conceptuelle du texte interprétatif s’est superposée à la dramatisation des visions de Jean et qu’elle a conditionné l’attitude créative. C’est donc dans le rapport conceptuel et spirituel entre le travail pictural et le texte exégétique que les images du manuscrit de Lorvão trouvent, en grande partie, leur singularité. La proximité entre l’image et l’exégèse semble aussi avoir été transmise aux enluminures de Lorvão par l’archétype utilisé, dépositaire probable d’une orientation plus conceptuelle et minimale qui serait une caractéristique des enluminures des premiers Beatus. Cela peut aussi avoir une répercussion importante dans la reconfiguration du stemma pictural des Beatus.
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Ólafsson, Davíð. "Wordmongers : post-medieval scribal culture and the case of Sighvatur Grímsson." Thesis, St Andrews, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/770.

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Johnston, Michael Robert. "The sociology of middle English romance three late medieval compilers /." Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1186773637.

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Diniz, Kollontai Cossich. "Desenho de letras em livros das Reduções Jesuíticas Guarani." Universidade de São Paulo, 2014. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/16/16134/tde-30062014-153808/.

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Nesta dissertação examino o desenho das letras em livros produzidos nas Reduções Jesuíticas Guarani, empreendimento missionário de religiosos da Companhia de Jesus na região do Rio da Prata entre 1609 e 1768. Os primeiros Jesuítas chegaram à região em 1585, vindos do Peru e do Brasil. Apesar das dificuldades dos primeiros tempos, fundaram a primeira Redução em 1609 e, tão logo conquistaram alguma estabilidade, comunicaram-se intensamente com Roma e Madrid, entre 1633 e 1645, a fim de obterem uma imprensa e licenças para imprimir nas Reduções. Porém, foi apenas entre 1700 e 1705 que finalmente o realizaram -- e não foi por meio de uma prensa vinda da Europa, mas de prensa construída nas missões. Antes disso, os livros eram copiados à mão, uma prática que continuou existindo nas Reduções mesmo depois da instalação da imprensa. À imprenta guaranítica e aos manuscritos guaraníticos cabe um lugar de destaque na História da imprensa e do livro no Novo Mundo. Os relatos dos padres geraram consensos ainda hoje repetidos na historiografia da região, especializada ou não na História dos livros, sobre a habilidade dos guaranis para copiar letras e sobre a construção de todo o aparato para impressão -- a prensa tipográfica construída com madeira local e tipos móveis fundidos com uma liga de metais da região. Dos doze livros e um tanto de panfletos que certamente foram impressos nas Reduções, é possível localizar hoje exemplares de oito títulos apenas. Analisei o desenho das letras na folha de rosto e no miolo de seis títulos impressos e em três títulos manuscritos. As análises do desenho das letras nestes livros levaram-me a indagar se de fato fundiu-se tipos nas missões (resultado das análises das letras impressas) e a apontar a variedade de desenho de letras manuscritas ao invés da duplicação de modelos europeus (resultado das análise das letras manuscritas). Os resultados são uma contribuição à historiografia que busca questionar o uso da documentac?a?ção textual como principal forma de testemunho da empresa missionária e, sobretudo, que busca questionar o ponto de vista de onde a história da produção livreira e da escrita nas Reduções Jesuíticas Guarani tem sido contada. Um ponto de vista que serve mais à manutenção da \"rareza\" dos livros guaraníticos do que ao esforço pela sua compreensão.
In this dissertation I examine the letterforms on books from the Guarani-Jesuit Reductions, a missionary enterprise of the religious fathers of the Jesus Company, in the River Plate area from 1609 to 1768. The first jesuits arrived in the region in 1585, coming from Peru and Brazil, and despite the difficulties of the early years, they settled the first Reduction in 1609. As soon as they conquered some stability, they communicated intensely with Rome and Madrid, from 1633 to 1645, supplicating for a printing press and the necessary licenses to print in the Reductions. Notwithstanding, it was only around 1700 that they finally achieved their intentions -- and it was not by means of a printing press brought from Europe, but of a printing press built in the missions itself. Before this, books were copied by hand, a craft that continued after the establishment of the printing press. The guarani prints and the guarani manuscripts have a distinguished place in the History of the book and printing in the New World. Reports written by the jesuit fathers from the Reductions generated some consensus that are repeated still today in the historiography of the region, specialised or not in book and printing, about the guaranis\' great ability to copy letters by hand and about the construction of the whole apparatus necessary for printing -- a printing press built with local wood and sorts cast with a metal league from the region. Of the dozen books and some pamphlets that were certainly printed in the Reductions, today it is possible to find copies of only eight titles. I analysed the letterforms in six of these books and in three manuscripts. The analysis made me question if type was really cast in the missions (result of analysing the printed books) and made me point out the variety of manuscript letterforms instead of the duplication of european models (result of analysing the manuscript books). The results are a contribution to the historiography that questions the use of textual documentation as the main source of testimonies about the missionary enterprise, and, above all, the historiography that questions the point of view from which the history of book production and the history of writing in the Guarani-Jesuit Reductions have been told. A point of view that promotes the \"rarity\" of the guarani books instead of the effort for its understanding.
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Meyer, Linda M. "Discovering the Nuances in the Book of Hours of the Virgin: A Book of Hours in the Toledo Museum of Art (1955.28)." University of Toledo / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=toledo1305040445.

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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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Rodrigues, Márcia Carvalho. "Livros raros na Universidade de Caxias do Sul: identificação e catalogação descritiva." reponame:Repositório Institucional da UCS, 2007. https://repositorio.ucs.br/handle/11338/232.

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Elabora-se, pela primeira vez, o levantamento e a catalogação descritiva do acervo de livros raros da Universidade de Caxias do Sul com vistas à sua publicização. O trabalho inclui a síntese histórica da Biblioteca Central (BICE/UCS), desde sua fundação, em 1970. Inclui um panorama da estrutura e funcionamento da BICE/UCS e do Sistema de Bibliotecas da UCS (SIBI/UCS). Examina o conceito de raridade bibliográfica e a importância do estabelecimento de critérios de raridade em bibliotecas universitárias. Discute os critérios adotados pela BICE/UCS.
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It is elaborated, for the first time, the survey and the descriptive cataloging of the collection of rare books of the University of Caxias do Sul with sights to its publicization. The work includes the historical synthesis of the Central Library (BICE/UCS), since its foundation, in 1970. It includes a panorama of the structure and functioning of the BICE/UCS and the System of Libraries of UCS (SIBI/UCS). It examines the concept of bibliographical rarity and the importance of the establishment of criteria of rarity in university libraries. It argues the criteria adopted for the BICE/UCS.
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