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This article examines issues affecting the reuse of data relating to collections of medieval and Renaissance manuscripts in libraries, museums and archives. These manuscripts are increasingly being made available in digital formats, although the extent is perhaps less than expected; a recent report on the situation in Germany estimated that only about 7.5% of the country's 60,000 manuscripts had been digitized. Discovering these manuscripts is heavily dependent on the quality and consistency of descriptive data about them, but the current situation is very mixed and inconsistent, despite several national programmes (such as Manuscriptorium in the Czech Republic, e-codices in Switzerland, and Biblissima in France) and a major international effort by Europeana. This article reports on recent work in manuscript studies, drawing on two major international projects. The first, funded by the European Union between 2014 and 2016, focused on the manuscript collection assembled in the nineteenth century by Sir Thomas Phillipps. It investigated ways of reconstructing the history of this vast, but now-dispersed collection, by bringing together data from a range of digital and non-digital sources. The second project, Mapping Manuscript Migrations, funded by the Trans-Atlantic Platform under its Digging into Data Challenge from 2017 to 2019, extends the earlier work to a much larger scale, and implements a Linked Open Data framework for combining and managing data related to medieval and Renaissance manuscripts. It enables large-scale analysis and visualization of their history and movements over the centuries.

This article examines issues affecting the reuse of data relating to collections of medieval and Renaissance manuscripts in libraries, museums and archives. These manuscripts are increasingly being made available in digital formats, although the extent is perhaps less than expected; a recent report on the situation in Germany estimated that only about 7.5% of the country's 60,000 manuscripts had been digitized. Discovering these manuscripts is heavily dependent on the quality and consistency of descriptive data about them, but the current situation is very mixed and inconsistent, despite several national programmes (such as Manuscriptorium in the Czech Republic, e-codices in Switzerland, and Biblissima in France) and a major international effort by Europeana. This article reports on recent work in manuscript studies, drawing on two major international projects. The first, funded by the European Union between 2014 and 2016, focused on the manuscript collection assembled in the nineteenth century by Sir Thomas Phillipps. It investigated ways of reconstructing the history of this vast, but now-dispersed collection, by bringing together data from a range of digital and non-digital sources. The second project, Mapping Manuscript Migrations, funded by the Trans-Atlantic Platform under its Digging into Data Challenge from 2017 to 2019, extends the earlier work to a much larger scale, and implements a Linked Open Data framework for combining and managing data related to medieval and Renaissance manuscripts. It enables large-scale analysis and visualization of their history and movements over the centuries.

This article examines issues affecting the reuse of data relating to collections of medieval and Renaissance manuscripts in libraries, museums and archives. These manuscripts are increasingly being made available in digital formats, although the extent is perhaps less than expected; a recent report on the situation in Germany estimated that only about 7.5% of the country's 60,000 manuscripts had been digitized. Discovering these manuscripts is heavily dependent on the quality and consistency of descriptive data about them, but the current situation is very mixed and inconsistent, despite several national programmes (such as Manuscriptorium in the Czech Republic, e-codices in Switzerland, and Biblissima in France) and a major international effort by Europeana. This article reports on recent work in manuscript studies, drawing on two major international projects. The first, funded by the European Union between 2014 and 2016, focused on the manuscript collection assembled in the nineteenth century by Sir Thomas Phillipps. It investigated ways of reconstructing the history of this vast, but now-dispersed collection, by bringing together data from a range of digital and non-digital sources. The second project, Mapping Manuscript Migrations, funded by the Trans-Atlantic Platform under its Digging into Data Challenge from 2017 to 2019, extends the earlier work to a much larger scale, and implements a Linked Open Data framework for combining and managing data related to medieval and Renaissance manuscripts. It enables large-scale analysis and visualization of their history and movements over the centuries.

Andronikos Kallistos, a leading personality among the Greeks who participated in Italian Humanism, was a scholar, teacher and copyist of manuscripts. This book investigates Kallistos' scholarly and scribal activity by adopting a synergistic approach to historical, philological, codicological and paleographic data, in order to shed light on his role at the time of the transfer of Greek cultural heritage to Italy and, hence, throughout Europe.

Giovanni Caroli : life and works -- Giovanni Caroli in modern scholarly literature -- The historical background of the Liber dierum Lucensium : the drama of the Dominican observant reform movement in Italy in the fifteenth century -- The sources used in the Liber dierum Lucensium -- Style and genre of the Liber dierum Lucensium : between scholasticism and humanism -- Historical and cultural assessment of the Liber dierum Lucensium -- A synopsis of the Liber dierum Lucensium -- The codex and the method used in the edition and in the translation.

In his famous Crisis of the Early Italian Renaissance (1955) Hans Baron treated the Dominican political thinker Ptolemy of Lucca (1236-1327) as purely medieval, his ideas totally separate from the doctrine that Baron named civic humanism. However, in an unpublished, & previously-unstudied, manuscript written more than a decade earlier, Baron maintained that Ptolemy's ideology evolved into something quite close to civic humanism. He attempted to prove this through a comparison of early & late work of Ptolemy & through an analysis of Ptolemy's process of composition of his De Regimine Principum. This article analyses Baron's arguments & in general supports them, with some qualifications. Baron's manuscript supports the conclusions previously published by Blythe & is also significant in what it reveals about the intellectual evolution of one of the twentieth century's most significant historians of political thought. Adapted from the source document.

Cover Page -- Half-title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication Page -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations and A Note on Dating -- Introduction -- Map: The Ritual Geography of Venice -- Part one : Myth and Ritual -- one : The Myth of Venice -- The Meaning of the Myth -- Historiography of the Myth -- Myth and Reality -- The Myth Abroad -- From Myth to Ritual or from Ritual to Myth? -- Part Two : An Inheritance of Legend and Ritual -- Two : An Escaped Trojan and A Transported Evangelist:Auspicious Beginnings -- The Legends of the Origins of Venice -- The Festive Calendar -- Pax Tibi Marce Evangelista Meus -- Saints Theodore, George, and Nicholas -- Three : A Grateful Pope and A Dowered Bride.-Imperial Prerogatives -- The Donation of Pope Alexander III -- The Marriage of the Sea -- Four : Twelve Wooden Marys and A Fat Thursday: A Serene Society -- The Doge's Annual Visit to Santa Maria Formosa -- Giovedi Grasso and the Carnival Season -- Part Three : Government By Ritual -- Five : A Republic of Processions -- From Theory to Practice -- The Ducal Procession -- Six : The Ritual Occasion -- Annual Observances -- Corpus Christi -- Special Observances -- Seven : The Paradoxical Prince -- The Doge as Primus Inter Pares and as Princeps -- The Funeral and Coronation of the Doge -- The Dogaressa -- Conclusion -- Manuscript Sources -- Bibliography -- Index.

During the Italian Renaissance, laywomen and nuns could take part in every stage of the circulation of texts of many kinds, old and new, learned and popular. This first in-depth and integrated analysis of Italian women's involvement in the material textual culture of the period shows how they could publish their own works in manuscript and print and how they promoted the first publication of works composed by others, acting as patrons or dedicatees. It describes how they copied manuscripts and helped to make and sell printed books in collaboration with men, how they received books as gifts and borrowed or bought them, how they commissioned manuscripts for themselves and how they might listen to works in spoken or sung performance. Brian Richardson's richly documented study demonstrates the powerful social function of books in the Renaissance: texts-in-motion helped to shape women's lives and sustain their social and spiritual communities.

Michael Stolberg offers the first comprehensive presentation of medical training and day-to-day medical practice during the Renaissance. Drawing on previously unknown manuscript sources, he describes the prevailing notions of illness in the era, diagnostic and therapeutic procedures, the doctor–patient relationship, and home and lay medicine.

Intro -- CONTENTS -- ABBREVIATIONS -- PREFACE -- PART I -- CHAPTER ONE POPULAR GOVERNMENT IN SIENA -- CHAPTER TWO CHALLENGE AND RESPONSE -- CHAPTER THREE MAKING THE NOBLES UNWELCOME -- CHAPTER FOUR RADICAL POPULAR GOVERNMENT AND ITS DISCONTENTS -- CHAPTER FIVE AN INSECURE OLIGARCHY -- CHAPTER SIX TOWARDS A SIGNORIA -- PART II -- INTRODUCTION TO PART II -- CHAPTER SEVEN POPULAR GOVERNMENT -- CHAPTER EIGHT OLIGARCHY -- CHAPTER NINE STRIKING A BALANCE -- CHAPTER TEN POPULAR GOVERNMENT UNDER PRESSURE -- CONCLUSION -- GLOSSARY -- ARCHIVAL AND MANUSCRIPT SOURCES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX.

The paper aims to organise the issues concerning the great variety of manuscripts jointly referred to as the "election prophecy", supposedly made by Georg Joachim Rheticus. The author proposed to apply a model showing how the original text of the "prophecy", the autograph of which has not been preserved to this day, underwent contamination and interpolation after being introduced into manuscript circulation through correspondence and numerous copies, while at the same time serving as the basis for the creation of vernacular traditions of the text. These processes are depicted in source materials annexed to the paper, containing editions of the Latin, Polish and German variants of the text.

The paper aims to organise the issues concerning the great variety of manuscripts jointly referred to as the "election prophecy", supposedly made by Georg Joachim Rheticus. The author proposed to apply a model showing how the original text of the "prophecy", the autograph of which has not been preserved to this day, underwent contamination and interpolation after being introduced into manuscript circulation through correspondence and numerous copies, while at the same time serving as the basis for the creation of vernacular traditions of the text. These processes are depicted in source materials annexed to the paper, containing editions of the Latin, Polish and German variants of the text.