A Typographical Odyssey: The 1505 Constantinople Pentateuch

1991 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 343-351
Author(s):  
Nigel Allan
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Printed Books ◽  
The Press

Although the Wellcome Collection of Hebraica does not constitute one of the larger and more distinguished collections of oriental material in the Wellcome Institute, it nevertheless comprises a number of important manuscripts along with early printed books representative of several sixteenth and seventeenth-century Hebrew presses. One of these is a fragment of a larger work printed in Constantinople in 1505 at the press of David and Samuel Nahmias. It is the second earliest example of printing in Turkey, the first also coming from the press of the Nahmias brothers.

Consort Music Manuscripts in Archbishop Marsh's Library, Dublin

1976 ◽  
Vol 13 ◽  
pp. 27-63 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Charteris
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Printed Books ◽  
The Press ◽  
Music Manuscripts ◽  
Music Books

Archbishop Marsh's Library, otherwise known as the Library of St. Sepulchre, is adjacent to St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, and was founded in 1704 by Narcissus Marsh D. D. (1638–1713), Archbishop of Armagh. Today the library contains over 20, 000 books and 300 manuscripts; the manuscripts and special books, including some music books, are located in the manuscript room, which is on the main landing before entering the first gallery of the library - all items in the manuscript room bear the press mark ‘Z’. To be found among the general holdings is a small, but valuable, collection of music manuscripts and printed books on music; some of the items were collected by Marsh himself, and date from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Among the seventeenth-century manuscripts is a group which contains instrumental consort music, and these are the ones which will be discussed in this article.

scholarly journals Prosthesis: From Grammar to Medicine in the Earliest History of the Word

2018 ◽  
Vol 38 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Brandon W. Hawk
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Disability Studies ◽  
Medical Knowledge ◽  
Early History ◽  
Archival Material ◽  
Printed Books ◽  
Study Of Medicine ◽  
History Of ◽  
Medical Treatises

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 growth of medical knowledge and discourse in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, as well as concepts about disability that remain part of disability studies even in the present field.

Cultures of collecting

2021 ◽  
pp. 138-164
Author(s):  
David Pearson
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Medieval Manuscripts ◽  
Printed Books ◽  
Book Collecting ◽  
The Right ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Material Evidence

Studies of private libraries and their owners invariably talk about ‘book collecting’—is this the right terminology? After summarizing our broadly held understanding of the evolution of bibliophile collecting from the eighteenth century onwards, this chapter considers the extent to which similar behaviours can be detected (or not) in the seventeenth, drawing on the material evidence of bookbindings, wording in wills, and other sources. Do we find subject-based collecting, of the kind we are familiar with today, as a characteristic of early modern book owners? Some distinctions are recognized in ways in which medieval manuscripts (as opposed to printed books) were brought together at this time. The relationship between libraries and museums, and contemporary attitudes to them, is explored. The concluding argument is that ‘collecting’ is a careless word to use in the seventeenth-century context; just as we should talk about users rather than readers, we should use ‘owners’ rather than ‘collectors’ as the default term, unless there is evidence to the contrary.

scholarly journals Membra disiecta from a Transylvanian Antiphonal in Budapest and Cluj

Fragmentology ◽  
10.24446/tk50 ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 5-34
Author(s):  
Gabriella Gilányi ◽  
Adrian Papahagi
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Fifteenth Century ◽  
Hungarian Academy ◽  
Medieval Music ◽  
Printed Books ◽  
National Archives ◽  
Romanian Academy ◽  
Academy Of Sciences ◽  
First Time

This article discusses four fragments from a fifteenth-century antiphonal with Hungarian chant notation. Two of these membra disiecta are kept at the National Archives of Hungary, and at the Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in Budapest, and are well-known to scholars of medieval music and liturgy. Two further fragments have recently been identified in the bindings of printed books at the Library of the Romanian Academy, in Cluj, and are studied here for the first time. The authors suggest that the original choir book was used in Transylvania and was possibly dismembered in the former Benedictine abbey of Cluj-Mănăștur in the late sixteenth or early seventeenth century.

Foundations of Religious Reform (Islah) and Cultural Revival (Nahda)

2020 ◽  
pp. 38-67
Author(s):  
Dyala Hamzah
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Middle East ◽  
Public Sphere ◽  
Cultural Revival ◽  
Religious Reform ◽  
Islamic Reform ◽  
The Press ◽  
Arabic Speaking ◽  
The Relationship

This chapter discusses the foundations of hegemonic reform and cultural revival discourses in the Arabic-speaking lands of the modern Middle East from the perspective of the most recent forays in scholarly fields such as Islamic and Ottoman studies. Teasing out periodization and geographies, it grounds the thought and practice of canonical and less canonical actors in the historical public sphere in which they operated, questioning the relationship between the Nahda and the Tanzimat, the Nahda and eighteenth-century revivalism, the Nahda and the seventeenth-century Arab-Islamic florescence, as well as the special status accorded “Islamic” reform within the Nahda. Finally, it probes the larger questions of modernity, subjectivity, and citizenship between the onset of the protectorates and the termination of the mandates, as these became encrypted within the major ideologies (pan-Islam, pan-Arabism, territorial nationalisms) and enacted through the most significant technologies mobilized by the actors (the press, the associations, the parties, and the schools).

scholarly journals Shaping the Spiritual Exercises: the Maisons des retraites in Brittany during the Seventeenth Century as a Gendered Pastoral Tool

2015 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 659-684 ◽  
Author(s):  
Silvia Mostaccio
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Spiritual Exercises ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Printed Books ◽  
Pastoral Tool ◽  
Large Groups ◽  
The City

In the second half of the seventeenth century, on the periphery of Catholic Europe, Brittany was the site of intensive missionary activity aimed at both men and women. Based on a heterogeneous corpus of manuscripts, printed books, and iconographic sources, this article shows how, far from Rome, Jesuits and devout laywomen adopted a gendered perspective in reconceptualizing mission. In the city of Vannes, the Jesuit Vincent Huby and the aristocrat Catherine de Francheville instructed large groups of men and women in the Spiritual Exercises. They supervised two retreat houses to welcome them and created a “missionary kit” of moral images adapted to their gendered pastoral field. The Breton context presents a particularly good example of the importance of gender to missionary interactions. Here, the Jesuit “way of proceeding” allowed for the integration of local communitarian perspectives, in order to enhance the effectiveness of the mission.

Toasting and the diffusion of radical ideas, 1780–1832

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rémy Duthille
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Social Behaviour ◽  
Speech Acts ◽  
Social Values ◽  
The United States ◽  
Historical Continuity ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Press ◽  
Radical Ideas

The 1780s saw the institutionalisation of radical dinners and the regular publication of toast lists in the press. Drawing upon archival evidence, in particular the minute books of the Society for Constitutional Information, Rémy Duthille analyses toasts as speech acts and as rituals of interaction, for toasting performed an integrative function in radical societies, fostering solidarity and mobilisation. He identifies the nature of these toasts, which were often used as rituals of remembrance that helped to build a sense of historical continuity with seventeenth-century England. Duthille uses examples of toast lists given in the contemporary press, including toasts drunk in France and in the United States. He analyses the linguistic structure of toasts and investigates the social values associated with toasts, in terms of what was regarded as acceptable or unacceptable social behaviour.

scholarly journals Cromwell's Edinburgh Press and the Development of Print Culture in Scotland

2011 ◽  
Vol 90 (2) ◽  
pp. 179-203 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Scott Spurlock
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Print Culture ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Printing Industry ◽  
Key Factors ◽  
Foreign Markets ◽  
The Press ◽  
Production And Distribution ◽  
Printed Word

Alasdair Mann, the noted scholar of book culture in early modern Scotland, has suggested that a significant change had occurred in Scotland's relationship with the printed word by the late seventeenth century. This study sets out to explain how the interregnum served as a ‘watershed’ during which a consumer demand was created for popular print and how this in turn necessitated a significant increase in the production and distribution of printed material. Beginning with the sale of the press and patent of Evan Tyler to the London Stationers’ Company in 1647, the article charts the key factors that transformed Scotland's printing industry from the production of official declarations and works for foreign markets to the production of polemical texts for a Scottish audience. These developments also witnessed publication of the first serial news journal and the growth of a competitive market for up-to-date printed news. More than just an anomaly that flourished during a decade of occupation, these fundamental changes altered Scotland by introducing the large-scale consumption of chapbooks and printed ephemera, thereby initiating the nation's enduring print culture.

A Spanish Farce of the Early Sixteenth Century

PMLA ◽  
1909 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-31
Author(s):  
J. P. Wickersham Crawford
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Ciudad Real ◽  
The Press ◽  
Jorge De Montemayor ◽  
First Time

This farce, which is here published for the first time, is found in a collection of manuscript poetry in the Biblioteca Nacional of Madrid with the press mark 2621. It bears number 1239 in Sr. Paz y Melia's catalogue of plays in the Biblioteca Nacional. The handwriting is of the early sixteenth century. The volume contains poems, for the most part anonymous, of the sixteenth century, in Castilian and Catalan. On the first page, in a hand of the seventeenth century, we read: “En este libro ay poesias de Jorge de Montemayor, de Juan Fernandez, de D. Luis Margarit, de D. Luis de Milan, de D. Diego Hurtado de Mendoza, de N. Torrellas, de D. Hernando de Acuña, de Alvaro Gomez de Ciudad Real y de otros autores inciertos.”

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