30 datasets found

The dataset contains information regarding donations of books, manuscripts, and money made to the Bodleian Library of the University of Oxford in the period 1600–1620. The data...

The manuscript known as the Aksumite Collection (Sinodos of Qǝfrǝyā, MS C3-IV-71/C3-IV-73, Ethio-SPaRe UM-039) is one of the most important—if not the most...

The manuscript known as the Aksumite Collection (Sinodos of Qǝfrǝyā, MS C3-IV-71/C3-IV-73, Ethio-SPaRe UM-039) is one of the most important—if not the most...

PAThs – Tracking Papyrus and Parchment Paths: An Archaeological Atlas of Coptic Literature. Literary Texts in their Geographical Context. Production, Copying, Usage,...

The manuscript tradition of the Betä Ǝsraʾel, the Jews of Ethiopia, has not been studied before. This article aims to provide a first tentative analysis of a number of...

It is known that, in the Middle Ages, both the Orient and the Occident employed the roll, in particularly in liturgical context, with the text nearly always arranged parallel to...

On 1 November 2016, the project ‘PAThs: Tracking Papyrus and Parchment Paths: An Archaeological Atlas of Coptic Literature. Literary Texts in their Geographical Context....

The essay explores the pricking and ruling in Ethiopic manuscripts. A few variations exist in the relative arrangement of the constituent elements defining the page layout:...

Project summary: Khartasia: Online Database on Asian Papers

Codicology, like other disciplines, is a two-way process: out of the observation of single objects it builds a treasure-store of knowledge about the whole class of objects; and...

Project summary of the LIGATUS project

Dismembered manuscripts are a particular challenge for book conservators, cataloguers, and philologists. The article describes the process and the result of an international...

The present article continues the introduction to Armenian codicology which appeared in COMSt Newsletter 4, 2012, pp. 18–23.

The brief article offers some remarks about the devotional requirement, the main formal features, and the historical relevance of the colophons often preserved by Coptic...

Reflections on statistics compiled from the Matenadaran Manuscript Repository (Erevan) summary catalogues, vol. I (mss 1-5,000, 1965), vol. II (mss 5,001-10,408, 1970). vol. III...

I am carrying out a precise codicological analysis of each of the thirteen manuscripts of Zotenberg's Egyptian Recension of 1001 Nights still existing, whether complete or...

At the end of the summer of 2013, the project ParaTexBib: Paratexts of the Bible: Analysis and Edition of the Greek Textual Transmission, an initiative called into life in 2012...

Coptic biblical titles have not received much attention until now. This article represents a preliminary study of them, dealing with their history and structural evolution. The...

It is very gratifying to find that my ideas have found an echo, and to see them well applied in a very useful and interesting article, such as that by Ronny Vollandt on...

Project summary: Forms and Functions of the Layout in Arabic Manuscripts