scholarly journals Justice in the miniatures of Brunetto Latini's art of rhetoric: Columbia Library, Plimpton MS 281

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tina Montenegro
Keyword(s):  
Fifteenth Century ◽  
Thirteenth Century ◽  
Old French ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Columbia University ◽  
Rare Book ◽  
History Of

This article presents the miniatures in the art of rhetoric of a fifteenth-century French manuscript, Plimpton MS 281 (Columbia University, Rare Book and Manuscript Library). The text is Brunetto Latini’s Tresor, a thirteenth-century compilation written in Old French on the art of government. The iconography of Plimpton MS 281 seems to be new with regard to the art of rhetoric and to be intended for a legal milieu. By studying the images from the point of view of the history of the text, the aim is to understand what might have caused a change in the iconography of the art of rhetoric.

scholarly journals Actors and Structures in Machiavelli’s Istorie Fiorentine

2007 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 45-87
Author(s):  
Sverre Bagge
Keyword(s):  
Fifteenth Century ◽  
Thirteenth Century ◽  
Class Structure ◽  
Gradual Decline ◽  
Structural Forces ◽  
History Of ◽  
Individual Achievement ◽  
Dramatic Narrative ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The City

This article examines Machiavelli's understanding of the relationship between actors and structures in the history of Florence through a study of five selected episodes in the Istorie Fiorentine. Together, these episodes show the gradual decline of virtue in the city, from the relatively healthy conditions of the late thirteenth century to the pathetic incompetence of the Pazzi rebellion in 1478. These episodes also show that the main cause of this decline was not internal struggles, as stated in the preface, but the decline of military virtue which in turn was caused by changes in the class structure. In expressing these conclusions in the form of dramatic narrative and not only explicit reasoning, Machiavelli brings out tension between actors and structures, showing the limits the structural forces set to individual achievement as well as the possibilities for individuals to assert themselves under particular conditions. Generally, the scope for individual achievement increases as a result of the decline from the thirteenth-century republic, dominated by collective forces, to the fifteenth-century oligarchy dominated by the Medici family.

scholarly journals Poggio Bracciolini, Phyllis Goodhart Gordan, and the Formation of the Goodhart Collection of Fifteenth-Century Books at Bryn Mawr College

2020 ◽  
pp. 189-197
Author(s):  
Eric L. Pumroy
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Fifteenth Century ◽  
Bryn Mawr ◽  
Columbia University ◽  
World War ◽  
Bryn Mawr College ◽  
Rare Book ◽  
15Th Century ◽  
Printed Books

The Poggio Bracciolini conference was dedicated to Bryn Mawr alumna Phyllis Goodhart Gordan (1913-1994) one of the leading Poggio scholars of her generation and the editor of the only major collection of Poggio’s letters in English, Two Renaissance Book Hunters (Columbia University Press, 1974). Gordan and her father, Howard Lehman Goodhart (1887-1951) were also responsible for building one of the great collections of 15th century printed books in America, most of which is now at Bryn Mawr College. This paper draws upon Goodhart’s correspondence with rare book dealers and the extensive notes on his books to survey the strengths of the collection and to examine the process by which he built the collection and worked with rare book dealers in the difficult Depression and World War II years, the period when he acquired most of his books. The paper also considers Goodhart’s growing connections with scholars of early printing as his collection and interests grew, in particular the work of Margaret Bingham Stillwell, the editor of Incunabula in American Libraries (1940).

scholarly journals Science in the Archives: Pasts, Presents, Futures. Lorraine Daston, ed.

2017 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 134
Author(s):  
Eric C. Stoykovich
Keyword(s):  
Thirteenth Century ◽  
Rare Book ◽  
Human Dna ◽  
History Of

It is a bit unfortunate that, in current parlance, the word science now embraces less than it once did, while the word archive has come to encompass so much. As a result, those who encounter Science in the Archives: Pasts, Presents, Futures, a new volume edited by Lorraine Daston, may make unreasonable assumptions about its contents, when in fact the topics covered by the twelve historically framed essays are unexpectedly broad—from the history of the planets and earth’s stratigraphy, to the archiving of human DNA samples, to the use of “stop lists” in the thirteenth century and by Google. There is something here for all serious students of the rare book and manuscript field, not just science librarians or curators of data created by or for scientists.

scholarly journals Frederick II of Hohenstaufen and modern ecology

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 65-74
Author(s):  
Pekka Niemelä ◽  
Timo Vuorisalo ◽  
Simo Örmä
Keyword(s):  
Thirteenth Century ◽  
Species Concept ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Bird Species ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
History Of Biology ◽  
Western History ◽  
Modern Ecology ◽  
Bird Fauna ◽  
History Of

Emperor Frederick II’s early thirteenth-century book on falconry, De arte venandi cum avibus, is probably the most famous single source for scholars who survey the state-of-the-art in natural sciences in medieval times. Most of the research on his book has focused on the marginal illustrations featuring about 80 bird species. However, the book contains a large amount of ethological, ecological, morphological and faunistic knowledge about bird fauna. Frederick was also one of the first to conduct experiments with birds. Here, we describe the ornithological experiments and observations of Frederick and evaluate them from the perspective of modern ecology. In many contexts, Frederick expressed criticism of Aristotle and his work Liber Animalium. Frederick’s observation upon the geographical variation of species was partially in contrast to the Aristotelian typological or essentialist species concept. This is an important finding from the point of view of the western history of biology. De arte venandi cum avibus demonstrates Frederick’s deep knowledge of the ecology, morphology and behaviour of birds. This knowledge he gained via his long practice with falconry. The love of falconry made Frederick an early proponent of empiricism, and De arte venandi cum avibus was actually the most important achievement of empirical zoology in the thirteenth century.

scholarly journals Los Anales Cordubenses y la historiografía breve andaluza de la Baja Edad Media

TALIA DIXIT ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 59-83
Author(s):  
Carmen Benítez Guerrero ◽  
◽  
Covadonga Valdaliso Casanova
Keyword(s):  
Fifteenth Century ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Fourteenth Century ◽  
Thirteenth Century ◽  
Historical Records ◽  
Historical Writing ◽  
Early Middle Ages ◽  
History Of

Although traditionally it was considered that the annals were the form of historical writing in the Early Middle Ages and fell into decline in the thirteenth century, several witnesses prove that the series of annals –i.e., series of concise historical records arranged chronologically –were copied, corrected, expanded, and continued, bringing it up to date, in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. This article comprises a study of a series of annals copied in the fifteenth century, but composed before, that cover the history of the Castilian Crown, focusing especially on the so-called Reconquest. As we will try to show, its contents are closely related to other annals written in Andalusia in the first half of the fourteenth century, as well as to later similar compositions

Teika After Teika

Teika ◽  
2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul S. Atkins
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Fifteenth Century ◽  
Thirteenth Century ◽  
Modern Times ◽  
History Of

Criticisms and evaluations of Teika as a person and as a poet began during his own lifetime. The history of reception of Teika’s biography, poetry, and other works is surveyed from the thirteenth century up until modern times. Although Teika was generally regarded as an extremely skilled poet and occasionally venerated as a demigod of waka, factional battles among his descendants led to criticism of his poetry. Rumors of an illicit affair with his contemporary Princess Shokushi inspired a fifteenth-century noh play and further embellished his reputation among early modern readers. Teika’s distinctive calligraphy plays a prominent role in his posthumous fame.

Some Emendations in the Text of Maximus of Tyre, Dialexeis 1–21 (Hobein)

1991 ◽  
Vol 41 (2) ◽  
pp. 566-571
Author(s):  
M. B. Trapp
Keyword(s):  
Fifteenth Century ◽  
Thirteenth Century ◽  
The Third ◽  
History Of ◽  
Editio Princeps ◽  
Do So ◽  
Maximus Of Tyre

All surviving manuscripts of the Dialexeis of Maximus of Tyre descend from the oldest, Parisinus Graecus 1962 (given the siglum R in Hobein's Teubner text of 1910). Where they diverge, they do so as a result either of error or of attempts at correction. The history of the conjectural emendation of the Dialexeis thus begins with the second oldest manuscript, Vaticanus Graecus 1390 (Hobein's U), which dates from the third quarter of the thirteenth century. Since that time, the most significant contributions have come from two scholars, one of the fifteenth century and one of the eighteenth: Zanobi Acciaiuoli, librarian at the monastery of San Marco in Florence, many of whose corrections found their way anonymously into the editio princeps of 1557 via the manuscript used by Stephanus; and Jeremiah Markland, whose ideas are recorded as an appendix to the second, posthumous edition of John Davies's Maximus, published in 1740. J. J. Reiske's edition of 1774–5 and Friedrich Duebner's of 1840 (rev. 1877) also contain valuable material. But the field is by no means yet picked clean: witness most recently the useful articles of Professors Koniaris and Renehan. I offer the following gleanings of my own.

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