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- Bede; Carolingian period; computus; De temporum ratione; glosses; Greek; Latin; mathematics; paleography; St. Gall Stiftsbibliothek (1)
- Caroline minuscule; optcal character recognition; gothic script; medieval manuscripts; open source; (1)
- Early modern dictionaries; grammar; media studies; prosthesis; rhetoric (1)
- Isidore of Seville; Etymologiae; biblical language; biblical translation; Genesis; Old English; (1)
- Online manuscripts; primary source; History of the English Language; Blickling Homilies; (1)
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Full-Text Articles in Medieval Studies
A Greco-Latin Numerical List In A St. Gall Fragment, Brandon W. Hawk
A Greco-Latin Numerical List In A St. Gall Fragment, Brandon W. Hawk
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This article provides a detailed examination of a manuscript page in St. Gall, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 1395, with special attention given to an unnoticed Greco-Latin numerical list. The main content of the page derives from Bede’s De temporum ratione, and the fragment offers information about the transmission of this computational text. Furthermore, scribal notes accompanying the list show early medieval uses of Greek learning alongside Latin sources—a phenomenon reflected in a number of other manuscripts from the same time period. Such glosses are also related to the overall trends of Carolingian learning, as well as some possible Insular connections.
Prosthesis: From Grammar To Medicine In The Earliest History Of The World, Brandon W. Hawk
Prosthesis: From Grammar To Medicine In The Earliest History Of The World, Brandon W. Hawk
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This article provides an examination of the earliest history of the term prosthesis in English, re-evaluating other such histories with previously unrecognized archival material from early printed books. These sources include sixteenth- and seventeenth-century early printed books such as handbooks of grammar, English dictionaries, British Latin dictionaries, and medical treatises on surgery. Such an investigation reveals both a more nuanced trajectory of the early history of the word in English and fuller context for a shift in meaning from usages in the study of grammar and rhetoric to the study of medicine and surgery. This narrative, then, speaks to the …
Modelling Medieval Hands: Practical Ocr For Caroline Minuscule, Brandon Hawk, Antonia Karaisl, Nick White
Modelling Medieval Hands: Practical Ocr For Caroline Minuscule, Brandon Hawk, Antonia Karaisl, Nick White
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This article presents the results of a series of experiments with open-source neural network OCR software on a total of 88 medieval manuscripts ranging from the ninth through thirteenth centuries.[5] Our scope in these experiments focused mainly on manuscripts written in Caroline minuscule, as well as a handful of test cases toward the end of our date range written in what may be called “Late Caroline” and “Early Gothic” scripts (termed “transitional” when taken together).[6] In the following, we discuss the possibilities and challenges of using OCR on medieval manuscripts, neural network technology and its use in OCR …
The Gospel Of Pseudo-Matthew, The Rule Of The Master, And The Rule Of Benedict, Brandon W. Hawk
The Gospel Of Pseudo-Matthew, The Rule Of The Master, And The Rule Of Benedict, Brandon W. Hawk
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The reliance of the apocryphal Gospel of Pseudo-Matthew on the Rule of Benedict has been long acknowledged. The most significant scene to demonstrate intertextuality between the Rule of Benedict and Pseudo-Matthew is chapter 6, which depicts Mary's ascetic life in a community of virgins. This scene adds much that is not in the main source, the Greek Protevangelium of James, based on the Benedictine life of work and prayer. Recent work on the sources of the apocryphal gospel, however, gives rise to questions about the sources involved in Pseudo-Matthew, especially opening up the possibility that the author of …
Teaching History Of The English Language With The Blickling Homilies, Brandon W. Hawk
Teaching History Of The English Language With The Blickling Homilies, Brandon W. Hawk
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The increasing digitization of medieval and early modern archives provides a wealth of materials for teaching with primary sources beyond printed textbooks. The growth of online manuscripts is especially a boon for presenting primary sources in facsimiles of their original forms for History of the English Language courses.[1] While a general textbook works to give students a sense of the overall scope of each period and the developments in the language—for this iteration of the course, I used the second edition of The English Language: A Historical Introduction, by Charles Barber, Joan C. Beal, and Philip A. Shaw—primary materials …
Psalm 151 In Anglo-Saxon England, Brandon W. Hawk
Psalm 151 In Anglo-Saxon England, Brandon W. Hawk
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The Psalms were a central aspect of Anglo-Saxon religious and biblical learning, and for this reason they have garnered much attention in recent scholarship. Yet the apocryphal, supernumerary Psalm 151 in particular would benefit from greater sustained attention. By focusing on this individual psalm, the present article situates the apocryphon within its intellectual, material, and literary contexts. In the first part of this essay, the surviving patristic and medieval evidence for learned attitudes toward the psalm in relation to the rest of the canonical Psalter are discussed, as well as the manuscript witnesses in AngloSaxon England. In the second part …
Isidorian Influences In Ælfric's Preface To Genesis, Brandon W. Hawk
Isidorian Influences In Ælfric's Preface To Genesis, Brandon W. Hawk
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In this article, I propose Isidore of Seville’s Etymologiae as a source for three passages in Ælfric’s Preface to Genesis. With these source identifications established, I further develop the argument to claim that Isidorian techniques are a key influence on Ælfric’s assumptions about biblical language, translation, and interpretation as reflected in the Preface. Such assumptions, in fact, inform the vernacular pedagogical project at the heart of the Preface as an introduction to his translation of Genesis into Old English.
The Expositio In Epistolas Beati Pauli Ex Operibus S. Augustini By Florus In Strasbourg, Bnu Ms.0.309, Brandon W. Hawk
The Expositio In Epistolas Beati Pauli Ex Operibus S. Augustini By Florus In Strasbourg, Bnu Ms.0.309, Brandon W. Hawk
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The purpose of this article is to correct the catalogue description for Strasbourg, Bibliothéque Nationale et Universitaire MS.0.309. While the catalogue identifies the contents of the manuscript as a compilation of comments on Paul’s epistles collected by Bede, the work is actually a similar collection by Florus of Lyon. The article contains an overview of previous scholarship identifying and distinguishing these two collections, as well as a corrected description of the contents of Strasbourg 309 based on the author’s examination.