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Le religieux maronite Buṭrus al-Tūlāwī (1657-1746) est bien connu auprès des chercheurs pour le rôle que ses ouvrages jouèrent dans les sphères religieuse et intellectuelle au Proche-Orient du XVIIe au XIXe siècles. Son œuvre philosophique a encore été peu étudiée. Dans un article précédent, avec Maroun Aouad, nous avons établi un inventaire détaillé des codex – connus et nouvellement identifiés – contenant l' un ou l' autre des textes philosophiques de notre auteur, où nous avons détaillé les noms des copistes, des possesseurs, des glossateurs, parmi d' autres détails sur l' histoire de ces témoins. Il conviendra de mettre à profit les informations répertoriées dans ce travail de description des codex – toujours en cours, d' ailleurs – afin d' analyser la diffusion de cette œuvre, vaste entreprise compte tenu du nombre de ses témoins connus (153 répartis dans 143 manuscrits). Dans cet article, nous proposons une étude préliminaire portant sur les colophons de huit témoins emblématiques de la Logique – deuxième volume de la philosophie d' al-Tūlāwī –, ainsi que sur d' autres inscriptions paratextuelles. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This article examines the origin and spread of Maghribi ṯuluṯ , a distinctive epigraphic style employed on buildings and inscribed artefacts in Northwest Africa and al-Andalus, from the late fifth/eleventh century onwards. The rise of Maghribi ṯuluṯ is part of a wider phenomenon that saw curvilinear scripts adopted in contexts and media previously dominated by angular "Kufic" scripts throughout the Islamic world, from Ghazna to Marrakesh. However, the circumstances of this epigraphic revolution differed from region to region, as did the techniques and stylistic features of the new curvilinear inscriptions. The development of Maghribi ṯuluṯ was the result of influences coming from the Eastern Mediterranean, assimilated and transformed in different ways within the cultural and artisanal milieux of Norman Sicily, Khurasanid Tunis, and the Almoravid Empire further west. This article considers the possible channels through which Maghribi ṯuluṯ spread across these regions – with an emphasis on chancery documents and practices – and how the Almohads ultimately transformed this script into a dynastic "brand" with ideological undertones. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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: " " ( ) . Marijn van Putten, The Regional Recitations of al-Jazuli's I Dala il al- ayrat i as Reflected in its Manuscript Tradition Marijn van Putten, Les styles régionaux de récitations du I Dala il al- ayrat i d' al-Jazuli d' après la tradition manuscrite. L' article traite de la production de copies du I Dala il i en Afrique du Nord au 17e siècle, probablement dans une région à l' Est du Maroc, qui devait être une des provinces ottomanes, la Tunisie ou l' Algérie. . Vincent J. Cornell, Mu ammad ibn Sulayman al-Jazuli and the Place of I Dala il al-Khayrat i in Jazulite Sufism Vincent J. Cornell, Mu ammad ibn Sulayman al-Jazuli et le rôle du I Dala il al-Khayrat i dans le soufisme jazulite Cet article présente la carrière de Mu ammad ibn Sulayman al-Jazuli (mort 869/1465), sa compilation du I Dala il al-Khayrat i et le rôle de cette oeuvre dans le soufisme jazulite. La transmission manuscrite du I Dala il al-Khayrat i en Afrique du Nord Le vaste projet d' une reconstitution de l' histoire et de la géographie de la diffusion du I Dala il al-Khayrat i implique nécessairement de se pencher sur les débuts de la transmission manuscrite du livre. [Extracted from the article]

This essay explores the mechanisms linked to the production of specific mistakes and textual alterations in Dunhuang Buddhist manuscripts, which provide information of codicological interest, in particular on the formal characteristics of a manuscript archetype, on its production phases/techniques, and its formal evolution. It also draws attention to the importance of surveying the alterations in the arrangement of textual and paratextual elements by means of a structural analysis revealing manuscript filiation based on formal characteristics, an approach that can help to explore not only the codicological evolution of a book in manuscript form, but also its philological ties with branches of a specific tradition. Résumé: Cet article explore, dans les manuscrits bouddhiques de Dunhuang, les mécanismes associés à la production d' erreurs de copie spécifiques et d' altérations textuelles fournissant des informations d' intérêt codicologique, notamment sur les caractéristiques formelles des archétypes d' un manuscrit, sur ses phases/techniques de production et son évolution formelle. Il attire également l' attention sur l' importance de l' examen des altérations dans la disposition des éléments textuels et paratextuels, par le biais d' une analyse structurale révélant des rapport de filiation entre manuscrits, basés sur leurs caractéristiques formelles, à savoir une approche qui peut aider à explorer non seulement l' évolution codicologique d' un livre manuscrit, mais également ses rapports philologiques avec des branches d' une tradition spécifique. 摘要: 本文就敦煌佛教寫本中特定錯誤及文字改動的生成機制展開研究，並由此揭示其背後所反映的抄本學內涵，尤其是一種原型寫本的形式特征，生成過程與技巧，及其形式上的演變。同時，本文通過一種能夠基於形式特征而推導出寫本之間從屬關係的結構性分析，提高我們對系統調查文本及副文本元素在安排上的改動的重要性。這種方法能助益於我們進一步探究的不僅是作為寫本的書籍在抄本學方面的演變，還有其與一種特定傳統下各種分支之間語文學層面的聯結。 [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

As shown in recent studies, East Syriac colophons were rather standardised, at least in the Ottoman period, and they incorporated into the main colophon body not only prose passages, but also poetic ones. The current article discusses one such passage that occurs in both prose and poetic forms in various manuscripts, namely the topos of 'the five twins that pulled a yoke from the forest through the white field'. It provides a fascinating example of the trope's transmission over the centuries, as well as the poetic creativity of East Syriac scribes as manifested in the Ottoman period. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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: Ali Boujdidi, The collection of Ibadi manuscripts in the al-Basi family Library in Djerba: A codicological approach Despite some titles having been lost, the Ibadi manuscripts of the al-Basi family library in Djerba, Tunisia, can contribute to the dating of the library as well as shed light on the history of the al-Basi family and the ebb and flow of its relationship with the Ibadis. Moreover, it affirms the prominence of the al-Basi family and its founders, al- ajj Salim and Uthman al-Basi, and reveals the diverse sources of the al-Basi manuscripts as well as the efforts of its founders to collect, copy, bind, and preserve them. L' objectif principal de l' article est de souligner l' importance des manuscrits pour la communauté ibadite du Mzab à cette époque et de démontrer son impact sur la vie intellectuelle et culturelle de la région. [Extracted from the article]

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This article retells the story of a Chinese language textbook, the Notitia linguæ sinicæ , written by a Catholic missionary in China for the use of Catholic missionaries to that country, and eventually printed by a Catholic mission press in China for the same purpose. It would have been a simple and short tale, if not for the fact that this many-faceted journey took one-hundred-and-sixty-five years to complete, involved crossing and re-crossing the two leading Christian traditions of Catholicism and Protestantism, took the work across great distances from Canton to Paris, London, Malacca, back to Canton and then to Hong Kong, and required the use of the Chinese language, both its higher form and the more day-to-day version, but also of Latin and English. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article examines and contextualizes a small Quranic manuscript, copied in al-Andalus in 533/1138–1139, whose importance has so far gone unrecognized. Among its many interesting features are: its early date; its lavish illumination; its colophon and the information contained therein; its system of notation and textual division; its use of different calligraphic styles, including Maghribī thuluth ; and a series of didactic notes written at the beginning and end of the codex. Presented in the appendix is an updated list of the extant Qurʾāns in Maghribī scripts dated to before 600/1203–1204, aimed at encouraging the digitization, publication, and comparative study of this still largely uncharted material. The advancement of scholarship on the arts of the book, the transmission of the Qurʾān, and the consumption of Quranic manuscripts in the Islamic West depends upon the analysis of these and many other surviving codices and fragments, related to Cod. arab. 4 of the Bavarian State Library and its context of production. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This paper unfolds parts of the dynamic, yet mostly hidden, history of MS Sinai Arabic 151 based on its paleographical, codicological, paratextual, and textual features. Combining these aspects opens new horizons of research in the Arabic Bible manuscripts that had previously received attention limited solely to the text. MS Sinai, Ar. 151 is an intact manuscript containing the Pauline Epistles, Acts of the Apostles, and the Catholic Epistles. Its fame derives mainly from its colophon, which dates it to 867 CE, and bestows it with the distinction of belonging to the earliest Arabic Bibles. In observing the various stages through which the manuscript evolved from two separate units of production into the codex preserved today, several aspects of the life of MS Sinai, Ar. 151, such as the copies made from it, its damage and restoration, and the functions it served, become clearer. Furthermore, for different reasons, scholars have cast shadows on its colophon's authenticity. Our investigation clarifies that there is no reason to suspect the authenticity of the colophon. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In 1197–1199 an anonymous scholar completed the translation of twenty-four medical works from Latin into Hebrew, which he listed in a Preface he wrote to the entire corpus. Some seventeen of these translations are extant. The translator describes himself as a Jew who took baptism but subsequently repented. His self-image as an apostate is reflected in his referring to himself as "Doeg the Edomite," an appellation we also use. Doeg's motivation to embark on his gigantic translation project was to keep Jews from flocking at the doors of Christian doctors, who prescribe to them medicines containing impure foodstuffs. Doeg also followed the aim of "enlightening" the Jews and reports that he was taken to task for this. The works translated by Doeg, which we seek to identify, mostly belong to the Salerno corpus. We argue that Doeg is likely to have worked in the setting of a Latin medical school, where the books he put into Hebrew were used in a program of learning. Doeg's use of Occitan vernacular words transliterated in Hebrew letters allows us to conclude that he lived in the Midi, suggesting that he was in contact with medical scholars in Montpellier. Doeg's corpus of translations is a significant index to the medical texts valued in Montpellier and sheds light on both Hebrew and Latin intellectual history. Comparisons of Hebrew passages from Doeg's translations with their Latin Vorlagen allow us to conclude that for the most part Doeg translated literally, although at times reverting to paraphrases or shortening his texts. We argue that, whereas in the domains of philosophy and science most translations in the Midi were made from Arabic, in medicine Latin-into-Hebrew translations were fairly frequent already in the thirteenth century. Doeg's story points to the causes of this difference: the medical field was one, comprising Jewish and gentile doctors and patients, with the ensuing collaborations or competition over patients compelling Jewish doctors to avail themselves of the best available knowledge. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses the debate that arose between art experts and artists in 17th century over their authoritativeness in developing critical vocabulary on art connoisseurship with regard to French and Dutch art. Topics include the narratives of philologist Franciscus Junius and doctor Govert Bidloo in support of theoretical knowledge; role of art dealers and amateur connoisseurs in the fall of the Dutch art market; and promotion of the balance of both art knowledge and skills.

This article uses two manuscripts, comprising collections (majmūʿa) of firmans, petitions, and letters from Qajar Iran, as a lens through which to explore Qajar governance. It begins by introducing the manuscripts, and then discusses who copied them and why, how the contents of the collections circulated in Qajar Iran prior to their compilation, what that circulation says about Qajar Iran, and finally, how collections how such manuscript compilations such as these open new avenues of research in Qajar political history. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper introduces the Sahidic Coptic fragments of Basil of Caesarea's Asceticon Magnum (CPG 2875). The first part of the article is devoted to the study of a Sahidic fragment of the Prooemium to Basil's Long Rules. The author demonstrates that the Sahidic text did not serve as a basis for the Arabic translation of the Prooemium , as some scholars assumed in the past. In the second part, a newly identified fragment of the Short Rules is presented. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The aim of this paper is to study specific clauses of certain Roman laws, namely Leges rogatae and municipal statutes, written between 204 a.C. and the Augustan period and exempting one's kindred (cognates and affins) from the prescriptions that they made (personae exceptae). The first section of this analysis reviews the epigraphic evidence, which is supposed to provide us with the most reliable phrasing of the laws; the paper then proceeds with studying texts of jurists and historians as transmitted by the manuscripts, and thus more doubtful formulations that require a thorough philological examination. On the basis of this twofold analysis, it is argued that Roman lawgivers repeatedly endeavoured to protect a nucleus consisting of a wide circle of cognates (generally going as far as the sobrinus, viz. at the 6th Roman degree) and of some close affins. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this research note I set out to show that the concept of "legitimation," widely employed as an explanatory device by historians of Islamic Central Asia, is of little help to explain the increase of Islamic institutions in the Khanate of Khiva. I do so by examining an endowment deed notarized after the establishment of the Qutlūgh Murād Ïnāq madrasa in Khiva and by reflecting on the purposes which Qunghrat dynasts wanted to achieve by putting in place a new education system in Khorezm. My contention is that such a system reflects different levels of connectivity within the Khanate of Khiva and around it. More specifically, I consider how the construction of madrasas was integral to Qunghrat governance within Khorezm and how it was connected to the educational economy of wider Muslim communities within the Russian Empire. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The influence of Arab geography upon the Latin tradition in the Middle Ages is difficult to assess due to several factors including the former's definition, content, and origin, as well as the tangled historiography on the question of its influence. The purpose of this paper is not to provide a comprehensive study of this complex issue but rather to define the terms of the problem and to examine some concrete cases of contact between both geographical cul-tures during the twelfth century. The author first considers the impact of the introduction of Greek conceptions, transmitted through the Arabic Sürat al-ard (The Picture of the Earth), upon medieval Latin cosmography. Special attention is devoted here to the influence of Greco-Arabic knowledge on contemporary Western Latin ideas about the habitability of the remotest parts of the earth. The author then deals with the relationship between both cul-tures in the field of descriptive geography and cartography. Unexpectedly, these different traditions can be shown to be largely isolated from one another, and the alleged Arab origin of some documents is, in most cases, dubious. The cause of the obvious lack of interest among Western Christians in Arab descriptive geography could lie in the general conditions of the Latin schools of the time, and perhaps also in the fact that Arabic writings and maps emphasize the domination of Islam over lands formerly under Christian rule. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Jerome travelled widely in East and West. Being a vir trilinguis, who was fluent in Greek and Latin and also knew Hebrew (and a few Syrian words), he was familiar with life in the desert and the cities. His letters make clear what living in the desert meant for him, and the same is true for life in the contemporary towns and cities. Thoroughly edu-cated in classical and biblical culture, he pictures the desert and the city in a rather peculiar manner, by placing them in the history of Rome and Israel with the addition of exegetical interpretation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Fourteenthand fifteenth-century medicine is characterised by a trickle-down effect which led to an increasing dissemination of knowledge in the vernacular. In this context, translations and compilations appear to be two similar endeavours aiming to provide access to contents pertaining to the particulars of medical practice. Nowhere is this phenomenon seen more clearly than in vernacular manuscripts on surgery. Our study proposes to compare for the first time two corpora of manuscripts of surgical compilations, in Middle French and Middle English respectively, in order to discuss form and matter in this type of book production. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Abstract The authenticity of the madrashe/hymns contained in the collection On Epiphany, which is traditionally ascribed to Ephrem the Syrian, is considered as doubtful by most scholars. One of the major arguments advanced against Ephrem's authorship is the fact that the collection presupposes the existence of the feast of Epiphany commemorating Jesus' baptism on 6 January, with which Ephrem certainly was not familiar. This, however, does not exclude the possibility that some of the hymns were written by Ephrem. It is argued in this article that the texts forming the nucleus of this collection actually were composed by him and, moreover, that they are important sources for the study of Ephrem's baptismal theology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Résumé Cet article rend compte des ouvrages suivants: Fr. Déroche, La transmission écrite du Coran dans les débuts de l'islam. Le codex Parisino-petropolitanus; David Powers, Muammad is not the father of any of your men. The making of the last Prophet. Il traite différents aspects de l'histoire du texte coranique, en particulier celui des modifications apportées à ce dernier, d'après certaines questions théologiques concernant kalāla, Zayd b. al-āria ainsi que le sens original de l'expression ātam al-nabiyyīn, etc. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper will present two recently discovered documents that shed light on the activities of the French chemist Guillaume François Rouelle. In 1746 the Swedish chemist and mineralogist Sven Rinman visited the private chemistry laboratory recently set up by Rouelle in Paris, and he has left us a record of this visit, including some rare sketches. Given the crucial contribution made by Rouelle's laboratory to the development of the science of chemistry in 18th-century Europe, Rinman's description is reproduced here in full. Rouelle also taught an extremely popular chemistry course at the Jardin des Plantes in Paris, and conserved in the archives of Antoine Laurent Lavoisier are some notes taken by Denis Diderot in 1757 which demonstrate that for a period the prominent Enlightenment figure attended these lectures regularly. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A short astrological treatise about the properties of the planets in the zodiac, called De motibus / iudiciis planetarum and attributed to Ptolemy (inc. Sub Saturno sunt hec signa Capricornus et Aquarius et sunt eius domus), appears from the thirteenth century onwards in two distinct traditions: in the encyclopedias of Bartholomew the Englishman and Arnold of Saxony, both written around 1230-1240, and in astronomical miscellanies copied in the fifteenth century either in or around Basel and in Northern Italy. These fifteenth-century manuscripts fall into two distinct groups of astronomical texts: the first is copied together with the De signis of Michael Scot, the second together with a part of the third book of Hyginus' De astronomia. The present article aims to describe the characteristics of the distinct textual filiations of De m. / iud. pl. and gives the first critical edition of the text. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]