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Some years ago the authors of the present paper found in the Fondo Padoa lying in the Mathematical Library of Genoa University a manuscript of 11 pages by Alessandro Padoa with the title A proposito di un nuovo sistema fondamentale della geometria elementare. It seems to be ready for publication and contains also typographical instruction for printing. Other investigations on Padoa and his rôle in Peano's school led in a series of recent papers to a probably complete list of Padoa's publications where, however, the above mentioned manuscript is not present and, therefore, is likely to be considered an unpublished paper. It's a matter of fact that the whole of Padoa's scientific production has to be integrated by some works that he didn't publish. The unpublished paper under examination deals with the axiomatization of elementary geometry given by Mario Pieri in 1899 in "Della geometria elementare come sistema ipotetico deduttivo. Monografia del punto e del moto", where, as it is well-known, elementary geometry is based on the primitive notions of point and movement and on 20 postulates. Padoa agrees with Pieri's proposal to define segment starting from point and movement; he suggests, however, some modification to the original set of postulates and gives a (partial) proof of their independence. The unpublished paper reveals the interest of Padoa in this subject-matter and, in some sense, his idea of participating in the already consolidated field of research represented by Pieri's results. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article focuses on papers that was reported to the government agency Direzione generale Archivi of Italy published by Glauco Buffarini Guidi in 1970. Topics discussed include reorganization of the archive of Italian explorer Lidio Cipriani, endocrinologist Nicola Pende's private papers and the autographed manuscripts of different authors.

This paper analyses a neglected text on medical praxis, the Canon XLV of Ibn Jazla's Tacuinus egritudinum et morborum, together with the commentary (additio) of the Parisian magister Dudo. The aim of the paper is to examine the connections between the two texts, the intellectual horizont and the cultural background of the commentator, and the relationship with the academic medical curriculum and the scholastic debate developed in Paris at the end of the thirteenth century. The appendix offers a transcription of the additio, transmitted in a codex unicus, the manuscript Paris, BnF, latin 15362. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper intends to illustrate the typology of the manuscripts of the preaching friars, highlighting their specificity from a palaeographical, codicological and textual point of view and demonstrating how this is destined to be lost in the printed form. They are open containers of a mobile and living text that is the result of a participatory author-reader-audience relationship. A recoverable dimension beyond the confines of the printed book. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper examines an important medieval manuscript now preserved in America at the Maria José Lafragua Library in Puebla, Mexico. Dating from the second half of the fourteenth century, this codex, which contains a breviary, can be considered the oldest medieval manuscript of European origin preserved in a Mexican public institution to date. Although the manuscript has been considered to be of French production on stylistic and ornamental grounds, further analysis of the liturgical content and the notes added to the calendar have shed light on where it was actually created and subsequently used. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper discusses the ms. Sessoriano 442 (a. 1540) in the Central National Library of Rome, containing the first Italian translation of Thucydides' The Peloponnesian War. As one or more pages at the beginning are missing, the ms. remains untitled and anonymous. The wording reveals that the translator used Lorenzo Valla's Latin translation of Thucydides (a. 1452) as source text, and that he took it from the editio princeps (1482?). Furthermore, some hints (marginalia, variant readings) suggest he possibly also made use of a Greek manuscript and the copy of Valla's translation now Cors. 43 E 23. A codicological description of the ms. is included in the appendix. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper focuses on the concept of man in the thought of Pietro Galatino in the light of two unpublished works contained in the manuscript Vat. lat. 5577. The works place the thinker within the lively debates that raged in the Renaissance. The concepts of soul and microcosm are the cornerstones around which the idea of the centrality of man in the cosmos is illustrated. A careful analysis of the works allows us to obtain a new, broader and more complex vision of Galatino's philosophy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The purpose of this brief paper is to review the bibliography on the phenomenon of manuscript fragments produced in the last twenty years also thanks to the advancements of research in the field due to the contribution of Digital Humanities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Three hitherto unknown fragments of lost manuscripts of Dante's Commedia from the second half of the 14th century have been discovered in recent years. They are preserved in the bindings of two registers and in printed books: the former are now at the Archivio Storico comunale in Lodi, the latter at the library of the Seminario Vescovile in Pavia. The paper provides a codicological and paleographic description and an interpretative edition of the text. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this paper is to shed new light on three passages of Ps.-Scylax's Periplus: at 99.1-3, the words τñς Κνíδου (that we read on the margin of the Paris. Suppl. Gr. 443) should be not included in the text (as Shipley does); at 26.1, the sentence καì Αἵας ποταµὀς ... παραρρεī should be retained; at 110.10 read έστιυ ίσθµός σταδίωυ ρπ´ (i.e. 180 stadia wide). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The textual tradition of Andocides' De Mysteriis is simple: codex unicus, almost no papyri, almost no indirect tradition. Editors are therefore bound to rely on their ingenium only. This paper discusses five passages of the oration, thus showing examples of some of the problems scholars have to face in studying it. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present essay intends to address an aspect of Bif's anglomania as it appears from his partial translation from the original English language of the epistolary novel The History of Lady Julia Mandeville (1763), found among his manuscript papers. The name of Frances Brooke, the author of the novel, is not given with the title in the manuscript and was probably totally ignored by Bif and by the Italian readership at large. The paper explores the reasons that might have led Bif to start such an enterprise, the kind of appeal Brooke's novel could have to his curiosity, and also why he suddenly dropped the experiment and lef the translation at a very early stage. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The paper presents a methodological focus on recent projects related to the description of incunabula, which started in 2015 in Sicily, in Syracuse, and then landed in other Italian regions and even across the border, in San Marino and Nova Gorica. The praxis applied addresses the study and description of incunabula with a codicological method, an approach that is not considered more scientific than others, but - according to those who practice it - is the one that allows one to observe details of both textual and material nature with greater attention, and also to highlight certain descriptive difficulties. One could perhaps speak, therefore, of an experimental methodology for describing incunabula-although almost ten years have already passed since its first application - which looks back to the manuscript model, but points forward to the description of the ancient printed book. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This paper investigates the collection of fifty love letters that a Vienna codex, which dates from the 12th to 13th century and was discovered in the "Terra d'Otranto", attributes to an author conventionally identified by the name Aristaenetus. Almost two centuries after the historic commentary of Boissonade (1822) and despite the care of authoritative twentieth-century scholars - the most notable being Albin Lesky and William Geoffrey Arnott - numerous questions remain unanswered. In particular, the validity of the Vienna manuscript's attribution of authorship to Aristaenetus; the historical-literary identity of the author; and the dating of the collection. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article proposes a follow up of Fazzo's contributions on the stemma codicum of aristotle's Metaphysics -- including her Chôra 2015 paper, its completion in the 2017 Revue d'Histoire des Textes and, most recently, a contribution on the text of Zeta 17 in Aristotelica 1 2022. all of these are summarized and framed here in the context of today's lively debate. We then introduce the data of Marco ghione's collation and comparison of the readings of the two oldest manuscripts J and E : J, the Vind. phil. gr. 100, early 9th century -- the so-called "aristotle of Vienna" -- is thus extensively compared with E, Paris. gr. 1853, early 10th century, with selected reference to the earliest hands at work (J, J2, E1). Based on Paul Maas' theory of errors, we are now in condition to face the crucial issue : does the latter depend on the former ? This helps resolving the one residual opacity or incertitude concerning the upper part of the Metaphysics' stemma. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper adds a new item to the library of Pius II. A hitherto unknown manuscript that was dedicated to the pope when he was staying in Siena on his return from the diet of Mantua in 1460 has recently appeared on the antiquarian book market. It is the presentation copy of a little-known dialogue by Girolamo Aliotti; it offers a point of view on the outcome of the crusade which is quite different from the numerous texts on this subject. The coat of arms on the first leaf resembles coats of arms on some other manuscripts connected to Pius II and painted by an unidentified artist. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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In this paper, I put together some preliminary notes on the Latin translation of al-Gāfiqī's Kitāb al-adwiya al-mufrada. This translation, known as Liber de simplici medicina, was translated by a certain, not yet identified, "magister G." in Lerida in 1258, and has not been examined in full so far. In this paper, I provide some new information about the Latin translation and its manuscript transmission, as well as on its characteristic. The article is completed by an appendix in which I provide a transcription of some selected chapters taken from the Liber and the Capitula de simplicibus medicinis, a short pharmacological collection handed over by the same manuscripts transmitting the Liber de simplici medicina, and attributed to Arnold of Bamberg. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The aim of this paper is to continue the discussion begun at the end of the 19th century comparing the reliability of both the 'indirect tradition' of Contra Celsum (represented by the Philocalia) and the 'direct tradition' (preserved only in the manuscript Vaticanus graecus 386 = A). In the first part of this paper, important conclusions resulting from the above discussion are recalled. Since some readings of Manuscript A are still considered problematic to this day, the second part of this paper deals with the question of whether the reliability of the 'indirect tradition' text has been underestimated in specific cases. Based on recent research on the Alethes Logos and a new analysis of Origen' s reply to Celsus' polemic, it is shown that in three selected fragments (fr. I 9, fr. VI 3 and fr. VI 1) the original words used by Celsus are to be found in the Philocalia instead of Manuscript A, i.e. the source that the modern editors of Contra Celsum followed. In part three of this paper it is shown that by preferring the words of the Philocalia for fr. VI 1, a door opens for a reinterpretation of the larger context of the passage for both the Alethes Logos as well as Contra Celsum. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper proves the importance of Philology of Reception and the importance of the indeterministic view on Lachmann's method, with a focus on the manuscript tradition of Dante's Commedia. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This paper identifies the lexicon preserved at ff. 27r -32r of ms. Laur. Plut. 57.24 (first half of the 14th cent.) as an epitome of the Lexicum Seguerianum περi σuvtaξεως, recently edited by D. Petrova in 2006. Additionally, it argues that, for this very section of the codex, ms. Laur. Plut. 57.24 is the apographon of ms. Coisl. gr. 345 (10th cent.), the only surviving witness of the lexicon περi σuvtaξεως in its versio plenior. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article focuses on the Susan Barbara Tallmon Sargent Collection, one of the numerous digital collections at the J. Willard Marriott Library at the University of Utah centered upon the papers of Susan Tallmon Sargent, a physician who served as a medical missionary in China in the early 20th century. The collection includes correspondence relating to her education which culminated in her graduation from Northwestern in Chicago in 1902 and other documents about medical missionaries in China.

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This paper deals with the MS 29 (70) of the Bibliothèque Municipale of Chartres, a 10th century witness of Joseph Flavius’ Antiquitates Iudaicae and Bellum Iudaicum. The manuscript was severely damaged by the fire from 1944 and 211 fragments of it survive in different state of conservation, out of the 245 folios that once formed the codex. The research has allowed to reestablish the correct textual sequence of the fragments, all digitized in the Bibliothèque virtuelle des manuscrits médiévaux, describe the codicological and paleographical features of the manuscript, date it to the second half of the 10th century and make an hypotesis on its localisation between Fleury and Saint-Père of Chartres, two abbeys tightly connected from the second half of the 10th century inwards. The paper also gives some hints on the position of the manuscript in the textual transmission and investigates its relations with the MS 183 from the Burgerbibliothek of Bern. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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In the domain of Indo-European linguistics, Tocharian is now playing a more important role, which has been favoured by the increasing availability of the texts. The present article examines the concept of "creativity" in historical linguistics, by analysing palaeographic and linguistic matters related to hapax legomena, emendations, and conjectural readings in Tocharian manuscripts. The goals of this short paper are twofold: (1) on the one hand, it aims to provide a new reading of the line b4 in the Tocharian B fragment B530 and comment on the new discovered word TB nekīta '±destroyer'; (2) on the other hand, it is finalised at analysing the apparent irregularities of the paradigm of TB pīto 'price, cost'. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The paper intends to examine the importance of the medieval Armenian versions from Greek texts: the versions of the so-called Hellenistic School (Yunaban dprocʽ) have a very characteristic feature because they translate the texts in a strictly literal manner: for these characteristics they often allow the philologist to go back to the original Greek text. In particular, the paper investigates and discusses several passages of the translations from Nemesius’ De natura hominis and from Dionysius Areopagites. In the case of pseudo-Dionysius, we can remark that the Armenian version in some passages agrees with the ancient Syriac version, in opposition to all the Greek manuscript of the direct tradition [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Schola medica salernitana was the first and most important medical institution in Europe thanks to which the care and promotion of the human body became a ‘popular’ knowledge to be passed on to future generations. Prevention and psycho-physical well-being had a fundamental importance in the Hippocratica Civitas, so much so as to have led to the compilation of the famous Regimen Sanitatis Salernitanum. This paper aims to illustrate the most important and complete collection of editions of the Regimen belonging to Bernardo Altieri, a lawyer and a passionate bibliophile from Salerno. The Altieri Collection brings together precious specimens that tell of the evolution of printing techniques and the printing places that produced them, and are witness to the editorial success that the work encountered before, during and after the Murattian suppression that involved the Schola medica salernitana in 1811. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this paper is to trace the history of the manuscript tradition of the Metaphrasis in Theophrastum by the Greek philosopher Priscian of Lydia (6th cent. CE), with a view to constituting a new critical edition of the text. A detailed analysis of the eight extant codices shows that Laur. Plut. 87. 20 is the common ancestor of the others. Nevertheless, Monac gr. 461 should also be given due consideration, since it testifies to Marsilio Ficino's textual emendations, which are also reflected in his Latin translation of the Metaphrasis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, I investigate the relationship between the text and the images in medieval Latin bestiary manuscripts. Medieval bestiaries, which are derived from the ancient Physiologus, comprise a nearly 1800-year-old tradition and have spawned several hundreds of copies throughout Europe, including a smaller subset of Latin bestiaries. Summarizing the first ever comprehensive analysis of the entire corpus of Latin bestiaries, this paper examines the patterns of deviations, or exceptions from the rigorous canon governing bestiary illustrations. I use the deviations to investigate the relationship between the work of the scribe and that of the artist in the production of bestiary manuscripts in order to determine to what extent medieval artists used already existing illustrations, and, conversely, when and to what extent they were willing or able to deviate from the canon. In the latter case, I try to explore the artist’s possible motivations, as well as the reasons for choosing specific motifs.

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This paper starts from an analysis of the role of astronomy in the De congressu and De opificio by Philo of Alexandria. As a 'queen' among the encyclical disciplines, astronomy represents the vehicle which allows the attainment of philosophy and the aspiration to the knowledge of God. Centuries later, again in Alexandria, in another homonymous De opificio preserved in the same manuscript as that of Philo, John Philoponus seems to put into practice what was theorised by Philo. More mature from a scientific point of view, he will make astronomy his exegetical tool to interpret the cosmogony of Genesis while maintaining the interweaving of exegesis and philosophy already visible in Philo. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

RNB.Pogodin.11 (P11) is an ancient East-Slavic Gospel lectionary (of the esk-type), for which various datings have been proposed, going back to the 11th century. This manuscript was given a prominent position in the 19th century editions of the Slavic version of the Gospels, as a witness of the 'ancient' redaction. Nevertheless, only in recent times has it become the object of extensive study. In the present paper, the text of P11 is preliminarily contextualized within the Slavic tradition, by use of the corpus of textual nodes, developed at the Münster Institute for New Testament Textual Research (): the analysis shows that the text of this codex has few points of contact with the tradition of the feast (esk) lectionary, while it is very close to the text of the Mstislav Gospel (except for the Mark cycle). From a typological point of view (moderate increasing of particular variants at the expense of the so-called 'Byzantine text'), P11 places itself between the 'first redaction' and the 'second redaction', i.e. between the 'ancient text' and the 'Preslav text'. The influence of the latter is particularly evident in the John cycle, especially in the first folios of the manuscript. In comparison to the Mstislav Gospel, the text of P11 seems to be more innovative, but with a strongly archaic lexicon. It confirms that 'text' and 'lexicon' are independent layers within the Slavic Gospels textual tradition, and were already perceived as such by the copyists. Adopting the distinction between 'form' and 'substance' of a text used by Romance philologists, I propose to interpret the innovative lexical forms of the Mstislav Gospel as a 'linguistic coat' (patina linguistica), while P11, both from the textual and the lexical point of view, seems to be 'formally' a more archaic stage of the same 'substance' (the so-called 'ancient text' or 'first redaction'). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Ethiopian bookbinding is one of the material expressions of the ancient manuscript culture of Ethiopia and Eritrea, which is the research field of the Beta maṣāḥǝft project. Despite the significance of the materials and techniques adopted in bookbinding manufacture for the understanding of the manuscript they enclose, they have never been systematically recorded, until very recently. The present paper introduces the Beta maṣāḥǝft project’s innovative approach to bookbinding descriptions and its customization of the TEI schema to record the small variations of Ethiopian bookbinding elements. Since a standard vocabulary for Ethiopian bookbinding features was lacking, Beta maṣāḥǝft developed a tailored taxonomy to create consistent descriptions. The encoding of the binding occurs in the element, within which a element is assigned to each significant bookbinding feature. The descriptions consist partly of free text and partly of markup using keywords enforced by the taxonomy. This paper presents some applications offered by the Beta maṣāḥǝft project that use the recorded bookbinding features, and it shows how the encoding of this large amount of previously ignored data could open new research perspectives on Ethiopian book production.

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