The locust problem in Cyprus

1988 ◽  
Vol 51 (2) ◽  
pp. 279-313 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ronald C. Jennings
Keyword(s):  
Fifteenth Century ◽  
To Come ◽  
Great Damage

The fifteenth-century Cypriot chronicler Leontios Machaeras, whose Recital concerning the sweet land of Cyprus concludes in 1432, first mentions locusts thus: ‘And in 1351 the locust, with God's blessing, began to come to Cyprus (and did great damage).’ Strange as it may seem, this may have been the first visit of locusts to the island in numbers sufficient to be destructive. Soon other local chroniclers, as well as travellers, pilgrims, and merchants, joined Machaeras in recording such invasions. They may have been no surprise to the Cypriot chronicler, writing a little under a century later, but in 1351 they could well have been the cause of surprise, even terror, on the island.

scholarly journals III. A Letter to John Gage, Esq. F.R.S. Director, by William Young Ottley, Esq. F.S.A., &c., on a Manuscript in the British Museum, believed by him to be of the Second or Third Century, and containing the translation of Aratus's astronomical Poem by Cicero, accompanied by Drawings of the Constellations: with a preliminary Dissertation in proof of the use of Minuscule Writing by the ancient Romans; and a corrected edition of the Poem itself, including ten lines not heretofore known

Archaeologia ◽  
1836 ◽  
Vol 26 ◽  
pp. 47-214 ◽  
Author(s):  
William Young Ottley
Keyword(s):  
Fifteenth Century ◽  
Good Deal ◽  
British Museum ◽  
Third Century ◽  
The Subject ◽  
To Come

You are aware that I have, at intervals, employed myself a good deal in the manuscript room of the British Museum, during the last four years, in researches among the Illuminated MSS. of the fifteenth century, on the subject of Costume; for the purpose of helping me to form a right judgment of the ages and country of certain books of wood-engravings, which are known by bibliographers under the name of Block-Books; and are commonly supposed to have given rise to the invention of Typography: for the controversy concerning this subject has long occupied my attention; and, although so many books have been written upon it during the last two centuries, I have become more and more persuaded, that the evidence on both sides must be subjected to a nicer examination, and sifting, than it has yet had, before we can hope to come to a right decision concerning it.

Muḥammad Fużūlī’s The Debate of Weed and Wine (Beng ü Bāde) Revisited: Towards a New Interpretation

DIYÂR ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 219-239
Author(s):  
Benedek Péri
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Fifteenth Century ◽  
Literary Tradition ◽  
Short Description ◽  
Central Asian ◽  
New Interpretation ◽  
To Come ◽  
Narrative Poem ◽  
Short Narrative

Muḥammad Fużūlī’s (d. 1556) Beng ü Bāde (The Debate of Weed and Wine), a short narrative poem written sometime between 1510 and 1524 by one of the outstanding authors of the classical Turkish literary tradition, has induced many scholars to come forward with an interpretation. A common feature of all these attempts is that they look at Fużūlī’s work as a unique text and tend to forget that there are two other versions of the story. Yūsuf Amīrī’s Beng ü Çaġır was written in Central Asian Turkic in the early fifteenth century and the recently found Esrār-nāme was composed in Ottoman. The present paper aims to give a short description of the Esrār-nāme and provide the reader with a new interpretation of Fużūlī’s Beng ü Bāde, in light of the comparative analysis of the three texts.

XXI.—The Earl of Warwick's Virelai

PMLA ◽  
1907 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 597-607
Author(s):  
Henry Noble MacCracken
Keyword(s):  
Fifteenth Century ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Introductory Note ◽  
Long Life ◽  
To Come ◽  
The Middle Ages

The career of Richard Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick, from 1401 to 1439 is hardly to be equalled in the annals of chivalry, even by that earlier Richard, Cœur-de-Lion It is no part of this introductory note to his Virelai, to rehearse in detail the extraordinary events of his long life of travel, adventure, warfare, and diplomacy. Mr. James Gairdner's life of the hero tells the story of his chief exploits, and those to whom Dugdale's Warwickshire is accessible may read it in detail. But to come upon a literary personality in the fifteenth century is so rare a thing, and the character of Richard Beauchamp is so happy an example of a true knight of the Middle Ages, that these few notes upon him and his family, most of them not in Gairdner's article, will not come amiss to the student of the period.

scholarly journals Identifying Medieval Fragments in Three Musical Instruments Made by Antonio Stradivari

Fragmentology ◽  
10.24446/v4ub ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jean-Philippe Échard ◽  
Laura Albiero
Keyword(s):  
Fifteenth Century ◽  
Musical Instruments ◽  
Common Origin ◽  
Relative Dating ◽  
Book Of Hours ◽  
The Common ◽  
To Come ◽  
The Hill ◽  
Made In

This article identifies ten fragments, used as reinforcements in the sounding boxes of three instruments made by Antonio Stradivari (Cremona, c.1648-1737), which are now kept at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford (the ‘Cipriani Potter’ violin, 1683, and the ‘Hill’ guitar, 1688), and at the musée de la Musique in Paris (the ‘Vuillaume’ guitar). The fragments appear to come from a single book of hours, made in Italy no later than the mid-fifteenth century. This identification allows the documentation of the use of parchment fragments in the making process of Stradivari. The authors discuss what the common origin of parchment fragments found in three distinct instruments implies for the authenticity and relative dating of their making. Finally, this study sheds light on the potential of documenting reused parchment fragments, which are widely present in many string musical instruments produced in the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries.

ON THE TREATMENT OF FEVER (IN CHILDREN AND ADULTS) IN FIFTEENTH CENTURY ENGLAND

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1970 ◽  
Vol 45 (6) ◽  
pp. 1028-1028
Author(s):  
T. E. C.
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Fifteenth Century ◽  
Mustard Seed ◽  
The Third ◽  
Oak Trees ◽  
Patient Will ◽  
To Come ◽  
Medical Treatises ◽  
Cover Up ◽  
Do So

The treatment of children with a fever, or for any other symptom, was rarely mentioned in most medical treatises compiled before the eighteenth century. One widely used method to treat fevers in English patients, of all ages, during the fifteenth century, was as follows: For Fevers: Take half an ounce of pepper, and kermes (round reddish, pea-sized grains found on scarlet oak trees) half an ounce, and (an equal amount) of ginger, two or three good raisins and make all this into a powder; and then take as much of senvy (mustard) seed as of all these others, and stamp it small in a mortar; and then mingle all these with six spoonfuls of vinegar, and the third part of a quart of stale ale; and seethe it till it be almost boiled away unto eight Sups [about a teaspoonful], and then sip it up and do so three days during (the time of fever) until the cold beginneth to come, and thou shalt be whole on warranty (certainly), for it hath been proved. But when thou dost so, let the bed (either for children or adults) be made with fresh sheets, and cover up warmly, and if thou do so three [days], the patient will shake (shiver, or tremble) no more.1

scholarly journals 'A Thing of Beauty is a Joy Forever’

2018 ◽  
Vol 66 (3) ◽  
pp. 254-269
Author(s):  
Frits Scholten
Keyword(s):  
Fifteenth Century ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Late Middle Ages ◽  
Central Image ◽  
Private Devotion ◽  
To Come ◽  
Late Fifteenth

A somewhat neglected late fifteenth-century panel from the collection of the Amsterdam-Swiss surgeon and art collector Otto Lanz, which he cherished, is investigated here. This article argues persuasively that the panel is a devotional tabernacle, intended for private devotion, of a kind that often hung on the wall of a bedchamber in the late Middle Ages. The missing central image may have been a Virgin and Child or a Pietà. Lanz attributed the carving to the woodcarver Antonio di Neri Barili or Barile (1453-1516). Barile was the most important woodcarver in Siena, who worked for distinguished clients, among them the Piccolomini family, which was responsible for introducing the Roman all’antica style to Siena shortly after 1500. The tabernacle contains the family’s coat of arms and various motifs that correspond to documented work by Barili, and was carved in his characteristic crisp, open style. If this panel is indeed by Barili, it would be the smallest surviving object in its own right to come out of his workshop.

The Monetary Pattern of Sixteenth-Century Coinage: The Prothero Lecture 1970

1971 ◽  
Vol 21 ◽  
pp. 45-60 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. Grierson
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Fifteenth Century ◽  
The Status ◽  
To Come ◽  
Late Fifteenth

THE equipment of any well-appointed counting house in the late sixteenth century would include, as a matter of course, one or more money-books illustrating and evaluating all coins likely to come its master's way. Such money-books had originated in the late fifteenth century, when the invention of printing had made it possible to illustrate the official ordonnances, tariffs, or placards listing coins approved for circulation and giving their legal values. The earliest ones were no more than flysheets: a Flemish one of 1499 illustrating the nine ‘good florins of the Electors’, an English one of 1504 illustrating two English groats and a Flemish double patard. In the early sixteenth century these flysheets grew into small brochures, as their publishers found it convenient to take account of coins not mentioned in official proclamations but found commonly in circulation. They were, in fact, becoming illustrated versions of the privately compiled lists of coins and values which are known to us from the time of Pegolotti onwards. In due course they attained the status of substantial volumes, their format being often made tall and narrow, like that of account ledgers, so that they could stand with these on the merchant's shelves.

scholarly journals Governare la città

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Giovanna Petti Balbi
Keyword(s):  
Fifteenth Century ◽  
Small Town ◽  
Political Organization ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Dynamic ◽  
History Of ◽  
To Come ◽  
City State

The social and political organization and the power culture of an important medieval city-state constitute the glue of the essays recollected here. The approach to the history of Genoa concerns different aspects, which lie outside from the mere small town reality, with raids on the territory especially in Riviera di levante. It is a history of enterprising men, which project in different directions their own ambitions and their desire to achievement. The homely strategies, the social dynamic, the language of institutio and society come together to outline the unsettled orders of Genoa which tries, unsuccessfully, to come in the fifteenth century to government and representation forms similar to ones completed in others Italian spheres.

scholarly journals Michele Da Colle’s account books (1462-63): the first example of double entry in Portugal?

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 158
Author(s):  
Ana Clarinda Cardoso ◽  
Joana Sequeira
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Fifteenth Century ◽  
Preliminary Analysis ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Business Activity ◽  
Evolution And Development ◽  
To Come ◽  
Double Entry

The title of this article puts forward the research question: can the books of the merchant Michele Da Colle be considered as the oldest example of the use of the double entry method in Portugal? Michele was a Tuscan merchant and agent to the Pisan Salviati-Da Colle firm, established in Lisbon as of the second half of the fifteenth century. The first years of his business activity in Portugal are recorded in two account books that are kept today at the Salviati Archive, in the Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa. To answer the research question, this article thoroughly examines the characteristics of these documents. The aim is to determine if these records follow the general principles of double entry bookkeeping proposed by different scholars. This investigation thus seeks to contribute to the debate on the introduction of double entry in Portugal via Italian influence.The preliminary analysis of these books shows that we are, indeed, in the presence of double entry records. The example does contain formal imperfections, but it has strong similarities with the context of Tuscan accounting of the time, which can arguably mean that it represents a stage of evolution and development of the double entry method. Since we do not have any other examples, Michele Da Colle’s account books can be considered the earliest records in double entry in Portugal.Evidence also suggests that Italian merchants exerted influence on Portuguese merchants for the adoption of this method, although it didn’t last in the centuries to come. This explains why several Portuguese works on arithmetic from the sixteenth century fail to mention the double entry system, which was only regularly applied in Portugal as of the mid-eighteenth century.

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