Some sixty years after the Spanish conquest of Mexico, a group of Nahua intellectuals in Mexico City set about compiling an extensive book of miscellanea, which was recorded in pictorial form with ...alphabetic texts in Nahuatl clarifying some imagery or adding new information altogether. This manuscript, known as the Codex Mexicanus, includes records pertaining to the Aztec and Christian calendars, European medical astrology, a genealogy of the Tenochca royal house, and an annals history of pre-conquest Tenochtitlan and early colonial Mexico City, among other topics. Though filled with intriguing information, the Mexicanus has long defied a comprehensive scholarly analysis, surely due to its disparate contents. In this pathfinding volume, Lori Boornazian Diel presents the first thorough study of the entire Codex Mexicanus that considers its varied contents in a holistic manner. She provides an authoritative reading of the Mexicanus’s contents and explains what its creation and use reveal about native reactions to and negotiations of colonial rule in Mexico City. Diel makes sense of the codex by revealing how its miscellaneous contents find counterparts in Spanish books called Reportorios de los tiempos. Based on the medieval almanac tradition, Reportorios contain vast assortments of information related to the issue of time, as does the Mexicanus. Diel masterfully demonstrates that, just as Reportorios were used as guides to living in early modern Spain, likewise the Codex Mexicanus provided its Nahua audience a guide to living in colonial New Spain.
In February 1978, the L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E newsletter, founded and edited by Charles Bernstein and Bruce Andrews, established the first public venue for the thriving correspondence of an emerging set of ...ambitious young poets. It circulated fresh perspectives on writing, politics, and the arts. Instead of poems, it published short essays and book reviews on the model of the private letter. It also featured extensive bibliographies and excerpts of cultural, social, and political theory. Bruce Andrews and Charles Bernstein's L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E: The Complete Facsimile makes available in print all twelve of the newsletter's original issues along with three supplementary issues.
The present book is a critical edition of Mongolian ritual manuscripts preserved in Czech collections. It offers palaeographic descriptions and transcriptions for all the manuscripts, accompanied by ...English translations and selected facsimiles. The edition includes the majority of popular ritual text categories written in Classical Mongolian (mostly incense offering rituals) commonly circulating in the extramonastic milieu of premodern Mongolia: texts on fire-worship, White Old Man, Offering of the Fox, Geser Khan rituals, hunting rituals, while several texts related to cults of local deities, protection of livestock, as well as popular religious songs and individual prayers are appearing in the scholarly literature for the first time.
Dando tardia continuidade a um projecto iniciado em 2006, este contributo dá a conhecer mais sete cadernos de Fernando Pessoa. Estes cadernos complementam outros conhecidos, quer digitalizados, quer ...editados (localizados, estudados, transcritos e anotados). A publicação dos cadernos pessoanos, seguindo uma linha do tempo, contribui para ter uma visão de conjunto destes documentos e para acompanhar a vida e obra de Pessoa página a página. Quase todos os textos ora revelados são de 1906-1907, salvo alguns poucos ligeiramente mais tardios, e iluminam o período em que Pessoa, muito interessado pela Filosofia, foi aluno do Curso Superior de Letras.
Abstract
‘To trace the history of the Jewish people in its books but also by its books, was ... for a long time the leading idea of the collector’, Salman Schocken noted in 1933. His personal ...Hebraica library developed into a semi-public research collection, and his extraordinary collection of German literature seems to reveal a similar approach—the use of books as objects and texts to reflect the historical development and intellectual scope of thought within literary tradition—although the latter collection appears to have remained private. The rise of National Socialism, Schocken’s migration to Mandatory Palestine, and the destruction of Jewish life in Europe had a strong impact on both collections. This article explores the joint history of Salman Schocken’s Novalis collection and two medieval Haggadot in order to identify some of the collector’s ideas on German and Jewish cultural property. This case study provides insights both into Salman Schocken’s collections and the ways in which he made use of his personal collection in order to engage with German and Jewish history.
