In the 13th century a complex group of texts that exalt the Virgen Mary in a courtly way and also with elements of
the clerical literature were elaborated under the authority of the king Alfonso X ...‘the wise’. This work has been
illustrated in several codices. We then examine in this work about how the image expresses the bipolarity, the
tension that sustains the game of the elements that structure the discourse.
En el siglo XIII se elabora bajo la autoridad del rey Alfonso X el Sabio un conjunto complejo de textos que exaltan
a la Virgen tanto a la manera cortés como con elementos de la literatura clerical; esta obra ha sido ilustrada en
varios códices. Se interroga pues este estudio sobre cómo expresa la imagen la bipolaridad, esta tensión que
sostiene el juego de los elementos que estructuran el discurso.
The Madrid Codex, one of only a few existing pre-Hispanic Maya codices that survived the Spanish destruction, has been analysed in situ at the Museo de América in Madrid by means of an array of ...non-invasive techniques. This investigation has provided information concerning the colouring materials used in its manufacture, namely calcium carbonate, red ochre, vegetal carbon black and Maya blue pigments observing bright blue to grey hues. A discussion of archaeological implications of the materials identified, as well as some comparative observations with those previously acquired on the Central Mexican Codex Cospi have been addressed.
•A non invasive study of pigments was carried out on a pre-Hispanic Maya codex.•Calcium carbonate was found as preparation layer.•Maya blue and Maya grey were identified along with carbon black and red ochre.•Materials identified were compared with those of a Central Mexican codex.
"The years 1921 to 1927 were the most productive of Robinson Jeffers's career. During this period, he not only wrote many of his most well-known lyric poems but also "Tamar," "The Tower Beyond ...Tragedy," "Roan Stallion," and "The Women at Point Sur"-the long poems that first established his reputation as a major American poet. Including an introduction, chronology, and critical afterword, the "Point Alma Venus" manuscripts presented here gather Jeffers's four unfinished but substantial preliminary attempts at what became "The Women at Point Sur," which Jeffers believed was the "most inclusive, and poetically the most intense" of his narrative poems. The "Point Alma Venus" fragments and versions shed important light on the composition and themes of "The Women at Point Sur." Further, they likely predate other key work from this crucial period, making them a necessary context for those who wish to clarify Jeffers's poetic development and to
Here, we report on the analytical findings and their cultural implications of a multidisciplinary study of the pre‐Columbian Codex Fejérváry‐Mayer. Today conserved at the World Museum in Liverpool, ...it is one of the finest Mesoamerican codices among the few extant. Thanks to the exploitation of non‐invasive analytical methodologies accessible through the MOLAB European mobile facility, the study allowed us to disclose the chemical composition of the painting materials used in the codex, which have never been analysed before. The results are discussed and compared with the outcomes of previous studies on other Mesoamerican codices.
To understand the manuscript creation process practiced by Indigenous intellectuals in the Americas this essay examines the work of the Nahua scholars who, along with Bernardino de Sahagún, created ...the Florentine Codex (1575-1577). Now fundamental to studies of the Codex is an evaluation of its three 'texts': the Nahuatl-language alphabetic text, the Spanish-language annotations including loose translations, and its bountiful images. Two sources served as iterative kinds of drafts for the Codex project: the Primeros memoriales (1558-1561) and the Manuscrito de Tlatelolco (1561-1566). Each of the manuscripts contains its own three texts, thus they are threefold, that enable an examination of nine separate but interrelated source texts. In considering the differences among the cumulative nine texts, this article uncovers new insights into an unstudied process of negotiation between the Nahua scholars, the elders whom they consulted, and their Spanish colleagues. As sites of mediation among colonial actors, the threefold manuscripts manifest on their folios the competing interests and agendas that shaped the production of knowledge in New Spain.
This bilingual volume (Latin text with English translation) is the second in the series presenting hagiographical narratives from medieval Central Europe. It contains the most important ...hagiographical corpus of medieval Hungarian history: that of Saint Margaret (1242–1270), daughter of King Béla IV, who lived her life as a Dominican nun. Margaret’s cult started immediately after her death and the demand to examine her sanctity was first formulated in 1272. The canonization process recommenced in 1276, followed by further initiatives across the centuries. Margaret was eventually canonized only in 1943. Besides the full Latin text and the English translation of her oldest legend, written between 1272 and 1275, the acts of the 110 testimonies of the papal investigation concerning her sainthood, recorded between July and October 1276 are presented, prepared on the basis of existing source editions. Furthermore, the volume contains a series of recently discovered documents, including a petition by the bishop of Várad (Oradea) to promote the cause, and the notarial records of a set of miracles that occurred at the grave of Margaret in the second half of the fifteenth century. The book is complete with select bibliography and hagiography of Saint Margaret of Hungary.
I. Kurzbeschreibung
Unter dieser Bezeichnung und den Sigeln Tr 87–93 versteht die musikgeschichtliche Forschung sieben umfangreiche Papierhandschriften mit mehrstimmiger Musik des 15. Jahrhunderts...
In studies of early Qurʾānic manuscripts, determining the provenance of these manuscripts is a thorny issue because in most cases they lack endowment notes or colophons. The reports in early Islamic ...sources regarding textual variants of regional codices (
) may contribute to find a solution to this problem. A list of regional variants, mostly based on al-Dānī’s
, can be found in
et al.’s
. However, as the authors have stated, a comparison of some of the early Qurʾānic manuscripts in the
with this table of
variants indicates that the traditional reports are unreliable for identifying the provenance of Qurʾānic manuscripts because none of these codices can be attributed to any particular region. The present article is an attempt to demonstrate that this problem results from relying solely on the data provided by al-Dānī and ignoring earlier and more significant sources, such as al-Sijistānī’s
It attempts to provide a new and more precise classification of regional variants by reading afresh the reports on the features of
, taking into account the sources which were not used by
et al., especially al-Sijistānī’s
, thus making the list of
variants more accurate, thereby the variants of each of these early Qurʾānic Codices tally more with the reports preserved for the characteristics of one of the
in literary sources. As the texts of the surviving manuscripts are not of a diverse nature we are able, with some certainty, to draw conclusions that substantiate the reports as to the peculiarities of the
s of different cities.
Den Kern des Buches bilden Beitrage des 3. internationalen Wortkshops Coptica - Gnostica - Mandaica , der im Herbst 2017 in Prag stattfand. In ihnen werden mit Blick auf Wirkung und Rezeption ...biblischer Texte in auerbiblischem Kontext jungste Forschungsergebnisse aus Koptologie, Religionsgeschichte und Theologie prasentiert. Im Mittelpunkt der Untersuchungen stehen Schriften aus dem koptischen Handschriftenfund von Nag Hammadi, doch kommen auch Texte unter anderem zu Manichaismus und Mandaismus zu Wort und werden Uberlegungen zu antiker und moderner Ubersetzerpraxis angestellt. Insgesamt werden in diesem Band verschiedenartige Themen behandelt, die von allgemeinen Erwagungen, philologischen, literaturwissenschaftlichen und exegetischen Fragestellungen bis hin zu missions- und rezeptionsgeschichtlicher Darstellung in Wort und Bild reichen und das Interesse von Religionshistorikern, Koptologen, Theologen und klassischen Philologen finden durften.
This book is a new cultural and intellectual history of the natural world in the early medieval Latin West. It examines the complex relationships between language, texts, and the physical world they ...describe, focusing on the manuscripts of the Physiologus—the foundation of the medieval bestiary. The Physiologus helped to shape the post-Roman worldview about the role and place of human beings in Creation. This process drew on classical ideas, but in its emphasis on allegory, etymology, and a plurality of readings, it was original and distinctive. This study demonstrates precisely how the early medieval re-contextualization of existing knowledge, together with a substantial amount of new writing, set the course of ideas about faith and nature for centuries to come. In doing so, it establishes the importance of multi-text miscellanies for early medieval written culture.
