1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910823330403321

Titolo

Texts in transit in the medieval Mediterranean / / edited by Y. Tzvi Langermann and Robert G. Morrison

Pubbl/distr/stampa

University Park, Pennsylvania : , : Pennsylvania State University Press, , [2016]

©2016

ISBN

0-271-07796-4

0-271-07798-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (vii, 270 pages )

Disciplina

091.0937

Soggetti

Manuscripts, Medieval - Mediterranean Region

Civilization, Medieval

Transmission of texts - Mediterranean Region - History - To 1500

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

The role of oral transmission for astronomy among Romaniot Jews / Robert Morrison -- Rabbi Yedidyah Rakh on Ezekiel's "I heard" : a case study in Byzantine Jews' reception of Spanish-Provençal Jewish philosophical-scientific culture / Ofer Elior -- Gradations of light and pairs of opposites : two theories and their role in Abraham Bar Ḥiyya's Scroll of the Revealer / Y. Tzvi Langermann -- Cryptography in the late medieval Middle East : from Mosul to Venice? / Leigh Chipman -- Remembering, knowing, imagining : approaches to the topic of memory in medieval Islamic culture / Leonardo Capezzone -- Riccoldo da Montecroce's Epistolae V commentatoriae de perditione Acconis, 1291, as evidence of multifaceted textual movement in the Eastern Mediterranean / Brian N. Becker -- The wheat and the barley : feminine (in-)fertility in Eve and Adam narratives in Islam / Zohar Hadromi-Allouche -- Shiite underground literature between Iraq and Syria : The Book of Shadows and the history of the early Ghulat / Mushegh Asatryan -- Medieval Hebrew uroscopic texts : the reception of Greek uroscopic texts in the Hebrew Book of Remedies attributed to Asaf / Tamás Visi -- The transmission of Sephardic scientific works in Italy / Israel M. Sandman -- Medical translations and the Ḥikmet-i Ṭabīʻyye



problematic in eighteenth-century Istanbul / B. Harun Küçük.

Sommario/riassunto

"A collection of essays using historical and philological approaches to study the transit of texts in the Mediterranean basin in the medieval period. Examines the nature of texts themselves and how they travel, and reveals the details behind the transit of texts across cultures, languages, and epochs"--Provided by publisher.

2.

Record Nr.

UNISA996391355103316

Autore

Shakespeare William <1564-1616.>

Titolo

The famous historie of Troylus and Cresseid [[electronic resource] ] : Excellently expressing the beginning of their loues, with the conceited wooing of Pandarus Prince of Licia. Written by William Shakespeare

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Imprinted by G. Eld for R. Bonian and H. Walley, and are to be sold at the spred Eagle in Paules Church-yeard, ouer against the great north doore, 1609

Descrizione fisica

[94] p

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

In verse.

A reissue of STC 22331, with cancel title page and preface.

Signatures: A⁴ (-A1, +[par.]² ) B-L⁴ M² .

Running title reads: The history of Troylus and Cresseida.

The last leaf is blank.

Reproduction of the original in the British Library.

Sommario/riassunto

eebo-0018