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MS Tunis, Dār al-kutub al-waṭaniyya, 7116, is the only extant manuscript containing a complete copy of the Isḥāq/Ṯābit version of the Almagest. Paul Kunitzsch has underlined the close similarities between the marginal notes in the Tunis manuscript and those in Gerard of Cremona's Latin translation of the Almagest , so that Kunitzsch has concluded that Gerard of Cremona had a manuscript close to the Tunis manuscript before him during the revision of his translation of the Almagest. A note in MS Tunis, Dār al-kutub al-waṭaniyya, 7116, points out that this manuscript was copied from a model owned by al-Arawšī, a bibliophile living in Valencia famous for the size of his library, a significant part of which was looted by al-Maʾmūn b. Ḏī l-Nūn and sent to Toledo, arguably shortly before Ṣāʿid al-Andalusī wrote his Ṭabaqāt al-umam. Based on MS Tunis, Dār al-kutub al-waṭaniyya, 7116, the present contribution explores the significance of al-Arawšī's looted library as an important link between Umayyad Cordoba and Toledo. It also calls attention to the highly unusual paper of MS Tunis, Dār al-kutub al-waṭaniyya, 7116, made of woven fibers, maybe flax. Résumé: Le manuscrit de Tunis, Dār al-kutub al-waṭaniyya, 7116, est le seul manuscrit existant contenant une copie complète de la version d'Isḥāq/Ṯābit de l' Almageste. Paul Kunitzsch souligna les fortes similitudes entre les notes marginales du manuscrit de Tunis et celles de la traduction latine de l' Almageste par Gérard de Crémone, de sorte qu'il conclut que Gérard de Crémone avait devant lui un manuscrit proche du manuscrit de Tunis lors de la révision de sa traduction de l' Almageste. Une note dans le manuscrit de Tunis, Dār al-kutub al-waṭaniyya, 7116, signale que ce manuscrit a été copié d'après un modèle appartenant à al-Arawšī, un bibliophile vivant à Valence et célèbre pour la taille de sa bibliothèque, dont une importante partie fut pillée par al-Maʾmūn b. Ḏī l-Nūn et envoyée à Tolède, sans doute peu avant que Ṣāʿid al-Andalusī ne rédige ses Ṭabaqāt al-umam. S'appuyant sur le manuscrit de Tunis, Dār al-kutub al-waṭaniyya, 7116, la présente contribution explore l'importance de la bibliothèque pillée d'al-Arawšī comme lien essentiel entre la Cordoue omeyyade et Tolède. Elle porte également une attention particulière au papier très inhabituel du manuscrit de Tunis, Dār al-kutub al-waṭaniyya, 7116, fait de fibres tissées, peut-être du lin. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims at re-evaluating two of Hungarian artist Dóra Mauer's films, the video work PROPORTIONS (1979) and the 16mm film TIMING (1973/80). Both films follow a rigid structure. In PROPORTIONS, Maurer uses a paper roll to compare her own body measures repeatedly; in TIMING, she repeatedly folds a white linen to compare the rhythm of her arm movements. Through her use of paper and the gesture of folding, the two films can be read as references to the very origin of the term format , as coined in early letterpress printing. When the notion of format is understood as a determination of a ratio and, as such, as an indexical reference to given social relationships (Summers, 2003), these films unfold sociocultural and political meanings. The present paper traces this spectrum of meaning through the pointed inclusion of historical discourses surrounding early motion studies, the art scene in socialist Hungary in the 1970s, and early time experiments before the advent of precision clocks. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

While contrary-to-fact conditions in Homeric narrative have already received considerable attention, those that occur in character speech, which potentially share some of the important and even metapoetic qualities as narrative conditions, have been understudied. This paper begins by offering a new classification of different kinds of counterfactuals that occur in direct speech, incorporating some of the methods of pragmatic linguistics. By building on this classification, it becomes possible to see new resonances in the way that Homeric characters speak and present themselves. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The adoption of paper in the Middle East changed literacy practices and improved economic performance, yet current accounts remain unhelpful for understanding why and how it happened. This paper offers a new analysis of the long-term factors behind the adoption of paper in the Middle East, combining insights from economic theory, economic history and evidence from quantitative studies. The paper establishes a long-term trend in the price of writing material and books in the Middle East, and suggests an explanation based on economic factors which led to a decline in the price of inputs in paper production. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses use of scarce pages on an editorial that could be used instead for authors' work for periodical.