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The colophons of the Armenian manuscripts take a special place with their original and rich information among the medieval Armenian written monuments. In the work we have attempted to thoroughly examine the components of the Armenian... more
This essay examines women’s scribal self-identification in Renaissance Italy through a study of colophons (scribal production notes) left by nuns at the end of the manuscripts they copied. Within the realm of female monastic book... more
Նյութում համառոտ կերպով ներկայացված են հայկական ձեռագրական մշակույթում լայնորեն տարածված հիշատակարանագրության ավանդույթին առնչվող տեղեկություններ, ինչպես նաև գրավոր այս հուշարձանների կառուցվածքին, լեզվին և տարբեր դրսևորումներին վերաբերող... more
"Skiredj, Abu-l-Abbas Ahmed ibn al-Iyyashi Sukayrij al-Khazraji Al-Ansari al-Fasi (d.1363/1943). Irshād al-mutaˋallim wa-al-nāsī fi sifat ashkāl al-qalam al-Fāsī إرشاد المتعلم والناسي في صفة أشكال القلم الفاسي، لأحمد العياشي سكيرج،... more
This short essay aims to provide a few glimpses into the life of scholars in ancient Mesopotamia. What we focus on here, in particular, are textual sources that highlight his or her work ethics, tasks and aspirations. It is not the... more
This article treats the Armenian manuscripts housed in the Vatican Library, offering an overview of their main contents and principal value, as well as surveying the scholarly work undertaken on the collection. After a brief sketch of... more
The topic of the book is the study of the codicological features of Yemeni manuscripts (VI th -IX th c./XII th -XV th c.) trhough the analysis of the data recorded from a corpus of some 170 Yemeni manuscripts from Milan (Ambrosiana... more
The present article identifies a series of book scribes from the medieval dioceses of Oradea and Transylvania, active at home or abroad between the late fourteenth and the early sixteenth century. The study analyses the strategies of... more
The essay takes into examination the Anglo-Saxon manuscripts of a the poem 'Nauta rudis...' which is attributed to Alcuin, but also considered a mere colophon. The peculiarity of its collocation in each codex and the layout of the lines... more
The study of the scriptoria in Yerevan and its environs revealed the name of a productive scribe form the second half of the 17th century, who has copied about three dozens of manuscripts in Yerevan, Noragavit‘ and the Mother See of Holy... more
In this article, we examine the relationship between Armenian dictionaries and colophons, which we present in three groups: a. words which are known to dictionaries only from the colophons. b. words which are known to dictionaries in one... more
Анализируется ряд эпизодов в истории русско-английских связей в сфере культуры в XVI в. Особое внимание уделено рассмотрению случаев заказа и покупки русских рукописных и печатных книг английскими купцами. Показано, что это было связано с... more
In medieval Greek manuscripts, scribes often compared their completion of the transcription of a codex to a ship reaching a harbor. Scholars have noted that this nautical imagery shaped how poets conceptualized their work as an author,... more
Using epigraphic sources, this paper provides an analysis of how the city of Colophon's relationship with Rome developed over the course of two and a half centuries from their arrival as the Attalids' successors in Asia Minor until the... more
Reconsideration of the archaeological evidence from the North and North-East necropolis of Colophon (LBA-early archaic period).
Very few Greek and Roman agoras in western Asia Minor have been studied in detail. Most agoras in Ionia and Aiolis remain unexplored, with the exceptions of Kyme, Priene and Smyrna. This brief paper focuses on some of the least known... more
The attribution of a worn, bronze obol turned into a mission to unmask a mysterious magistrate. (A study of Colophon coinage.)
The placement of v. 20 in Psalm 72 has long puzzled scholars and has raised a number of questions: Why is תפלה used? Why does the verse state that the prayers of David are ended? Where does this leave Solomon (v. 1)? Why is the verse... more
How the man of letters met the king himself and how this event was recorded in MS Sin. slav. 20/N.
In this article, we have examined the colophons of manuscripts copied by a productive scribe from the second half of the seventeenth century named Grigor Yerevants‘i, the codicological, historical, and linguistic features of these written... more
В колофонах буддийских сутр, переведённых на монгольский язык с тибетского, встречается выражение debisker-tür baγulγabai (букв. «поставил(и) на подстилку»). Это монгольское словосочетание служит для передачи тибетского выражения gtan la... more
Colophons of Armenian manuscripts are replete with yet untapped riches. Formulae are not the least among them: these recurrent stereotypical patterns conceal many clues as to the schools and networks of production and diffusion of books... more
In this article the origin of oldest Baltic texts is related to the Prague court (1365-1380) of prince Butautas, who escaped in 1365 from the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and in Konigsberg converted to Christianity. It is made paleographic,... more
In a former article (« The Geometric graves of Colophon after the excavations of H. Goldman, 1922. Reflexions on the burial customs of early Iron Age Ionia. », in A. Mazarakis Ainian (éd.), The Dark Ages Revisited. From the Dark Ages to... more
Most cuneiform literary tablets contain copies of texts on earlier tablets. However, many of them include a part that, by definition, cannot have been copied: the colophon. Especially in the Late Babylonian period, colophons feature many... more
Lors de la saison de fouilles de 2011 a été découverte dans le sanctuaire de Claros la partie gauche d’une stèle sur laquelle sont gravés un décret d’Aigai et le décret réponse de Colophon-sur-Mer. Cette découverte permet de restituer... more