there is probably no need for extensive exploration to believe that movable type invention had a tremendous and historical impact on expansion of science and emergence of renaissance in europe, as tens of articles and research books have already been dedicated to this fact; but the real question which requires historical explanation is how the man before invention of printing had preserved his ...

The article examines the production of books in islands eastern Mediterranean basin thirteenth-sixteenth centuries, based on information contained colophons written by manuscript copyists at conclusion their work. copyists' mention - times place copying teaches deployment Jewish communities this region. Books were produced even small these islands, and not only relatively large community Crete....

N o area of mathematics has attracted more international attention in the past decade than the Palimpsest of Archimedes. The 1998 auction at Christie’s, followed by collaborative work centered at the Walters Art Museum led to traveling museum exhibits, newspaper articles, television specials, and dozens of presentations. Mathematicians and other scholars attracted a new and significant audience...

After a short introduction on media evolution and its implication on human history, the paper presents an account of two experiences the authors had while using new technologies in disseminating bibliographical and historical information. The first experience concerns the Web publication of a bibliography on Beneventan manuscripts and arose from the need to overcome the long delays in publishin...

In this paper we will focus on the scribal variation in manually copied medieval texts. Using a lazy machine learning technique, we will argue that it is possible to discriminate between scribes, implying that they did adapt texts when copying them. Consequently, we will assess to what extent scribal interventions compromise our ability to detect the original authorship of medieval texts. It wi...

Abstract The article is devoted to a lengthy incipit, here in the meaning of copyist’s addition preceding main text, which constitutes longest and most substantial later Kalīla wa-Dimna . it argued, makes usable as an anthology ethical practical advice geared wide audience. incipit evinces scholastic structure, whose parts are analyzed placed relation similar elements within book’s other prefac...

This essay approaches the medieval Hebrew literature on women's healthcare, with the aim of analysing notions and ideas regarding fertility, pregnancy and childbirth, as conveyed in the texts that form the corpus. Firstly, the work discusses the approach of written texts to pregnancy and childbirth as key elements in the explanation of women's health and the functioning of the female body. In t...

Automated music formatting helps composers and copyists to speed up the process of music score editing by facilitating complex evaluations needed to produce music sheets in terms of symbol positioning, justification, etc. Music justification is a complex task to be automatically performed. It involves the evaluation of a large number of parameters and requires context evaluation. In this paper,...

The word tradition has a very specific meaning in linguistics: the passing down of a text, which may have been completed or corrected by different copyists at different times, when the concept of authorship was not the same as it is today. When reading an ancient text the word tradition must be in the reader's mind. To discuss one of the problems an ancient text poses to its modern readers, thi...