Anonymous Manuscript Research Articles

Al-Ṣiqillī or al-Ṣaqalī / Sicily or Tunisia?

AbstractThis article reconsiders the text and the authorship of an anonymous Arabic manuscript containing ink recipes. The text was first published by Eugenio Griffini in 1910, but the ink recipes have only recently attracted scholarly attention. Though the latest contributions on the manuscript consider it lost, it is in fact preserved at the Ambrosiana Library. Attributed to ‘the Sicilian’, an anonymous author, it is possible that it is the work of a 15th-century physician from Tunis. Griffini edited the text, but images of the manuscript are published here for the first time, as well as an English translation and a new edition. For comparison, other ink recipes, from a sixteenth-century manuscript in maghribī script are edited and translated as well.

The True Editor of the Manuductio ad linguam Tunkinensem (Seventeenth- to Eighteenth-Century Vietnamese Grammar)

The objective of this paper is to analyze the first two Vietnamese grammars written in Latin: (1) LinguaeAnnamiticae seu Tunchinensis Brevis Declaratio (1651), by Alexandre de Rhodes; and (2) Manuductio ad linguam Tunckinensem, a seventeenth- or eighteenth-century anonymous manuscript. Roland Jacques (2002) concluded that the editor of the Manuductio was Honufer Bürgin, and that Rhodes and Bürgin worked independently of each other starting with the same reference: the grammar of Francisco de Pina. This article also proposes a hypothesis about who the true editor of the Manuductio was.

New data on an old manuscript: An Andalusian version of the work entitled <em>Futūḥ al-Shām</em>

El manuscrito anónimo n.° XVIII de la colección Gayangos es una compilación que consiste en partes de dos obras: Futūḥ al-Šām de (ps.) al-Wāqidī y una obra sin título de Abū ‛Umar al-Talamankī. Un análisis del texto revela que la «compilación» de Talamankī no es una obra original suya, sino una transmisión del controvertido texto de Abū Ismā‛īl al-Azdī, también titulado Futūh al-Šām. La obra de al-Azdī fue considerada por muchos estudiosos como un fraude de la época de las Cruzadas. La transmisión de al-Talamankî, que murió décadas antes de la Primera Cruzada, demuestra que la obra de al-Azdī es más temprana, dando de ese modo fin a la controversia. Otras citas de al-Azdī recién descubiertas también apoyan esta conclusión. También se investigan los isnāds del manuscrito anónimo cuyos eslabones más antiguos coinciden con los de la obra de al-Azdī, algunos de los cuales, hasta ahora desconocidos, identificamos. El texto manuscrito es cotejado con las versiones publicadas de Futüh al-Sàm de al-Azdī y las innumerables variantes prueban que esta obra se transmitió en varias versiones (riwāya). El análisis del manuscrito y el cotejo desvelan algunos de los procesos que intervienen en la construcción de los textos.

O sinal da Cruz em um catecismo na língua geral da Amazônia [175-

O objetivo do trabalho é apresentar uma transcrição do primeiro capítulo de um catecismo manuscrito anônimo em língua geral e parcialmente em latim, produzido, com muita probabilidade, por um dos jesuítas de língua alemã que atuaram na Amazônia em meados do século XVIII. O capítulo trata sobre os temas do nome do “cristão” e da prática do sinal da cruz. A transcrição é acompanhada de notas com as traduções para o português, sendo precedida por um texto de apresentação com hipóteses acerca da autoria do catecismo, o contexto histórico da produção do documento e a situação linguística das missões do Grão-Pará no setecentos.

The Equivalence Problem in the Parallel Dictionaries of the 17th Century

[full article and abstract in Lithuanian; abstract in English]
 This paper deals with the parallel dictionaries of the 17th century Minor Lithuania, the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and Latvia: the anonymous manuscript Lexicon Lithuanicum (late 17th century) and Georg Mancelis’s Lettus (1638) as well as Konstantinas Sirvydas’s Dictionarium trium lingvarum (1642) and Georg Elger’s Dictionarium Polono-Latino-Lottauicum (1683). Two bilingual German-Lithuanian resp. Latvian language and two trilingual Polish-Latin-Lithuanian resp. Latvian language dictionaries were chosen for the research.
 The aim of this study is to investigate the equivalence of Lithuanian and Latvian correspondences in the parallel dictionaries of the 17th century, i.e., to reveal how the meaning of the headword (compound word) is reflected in each different language. In order to achieve this aim, the paper identifies what kinds of equivalents (derivatives, adapted loanwords, periphery) are chosen – in other words, the attention is drawn to the formal expression of equivalence. If the number of equivalents is increased, the systematic relations among them are investigated (loanword – native word, neologism – descriptive compound, several synonyms etc.).
 Next, the types of equivalents are defined according to their revealed semantic content: the equivalents corresponding or partially corresponding to the meaning as well as the equivalents that only explain the concept expressed by the word of the main language. The semantic content of the equivalents is analyzed based on thematic groups: (a) the names of persons; (b) the names of things; (c) the names of animals and plants; (d) place names; (e) names for a specific period of time; (f) food names; (g) the names of diseases. Later on, the influence of the headwords (German, Polish) on the correspondences of Lithuanian and Latvian is studied. The following step is to analyze the similarities and differences between the Lithuanian and Latvian equivalents in the parallel dictionaries when the same headwords or phrases are translated from German and Polish. It is quite clear that both the established loanwords and neologisms are chosen as equivalents in the researched dictionaries. Once the loanword has become established, it is taken as an equivalent and is regarded as the most relevant indicator of meaning. When a new reality and its translation are not known, a neologism is being created, the synonyms of the wider meaning are given or the meaning is described in a descriptive way. Foreign realities are often translated in a descriptive way by distinguishing an important semantic attribute. Lexicographers perceived the multiplicity of word meaning but did not always provide formal indicators.

The First Polish Translation of Kant’s The Contest of the Faculties in the Collections of Vilnius University Library

[full article, abstract in English; only abstract in Lithuanian] The collection of Vilnius University Library contains an incomplete, anonymous manuscript of a Polish translation of The Contest of the Faculties by Immanuel Kant. Numerous features of the manuscript (terminology, syntax and handwriting) confirm that it is a fragment of the lost translation by Jozef Wladyslaw Bychowiec, one of the most important popularisers of Immanuel Kant’s philosophy in Poland and Lithuania at the beginning of the 19th century. The manuscript is the earliest known work by Bychowiec, probably completed during his philosophical studies in Konigsberg.

Paralelos manuscritos de <em>Maḥbéret nusḥaot šel ha-Torá</em>

Maḥbéret nusḥaot šel ha-Torá es un manuscrito (s. XIII) que contiene textos bíblicos del Pentateuco hebreo-samaritano transcritos en caracteres árabes. Obra de autor anónimo, cita solamente pasajes que le llamaran la atención por algún motivo. Hay que pensar, pues, que se trataba de lecturas variantes respecto a las que el copista conocía. En el libro de Génesis hay 45 lecturas de las que 38 son todavía hoy lecturas únicas. A ellas se dedica este estudio.

Um desafio em forma de enigma proposto a Basílio da Gama

Depois de breves considerações sobre jogos poéticos e sobre o enigma, o autor edita um poema manuscrito anónimo dirigido a José Basílio da Gama (1741-1795), passando depois à sua análise e à tentativa de resposta à(s) adivinha(s) que ele contém.

Sztuka „akompaniamentu” klawesynowego w XVIII-wiecznej Francji Zasady realizacji basse continuë według anonimowego rękopisu Traité d’accompagnement du clavecin et abrégé de composition (c. 1700)

This article concerns the performance practice of harpsichord-playing in 18th century France. The starting-point for reflection is anonymous manuscript ‘Traite d’accompagnement du clavecin et abrege de composition’ (ca.1700) written in the times when the French harpsichordists and organists begin to open up to the style of keyboard playing developed in 17th century Italy. In this manuscript we can find the explanation of the system of abbreviation utilized to mark chordal relationships and the remarks on harpsichord ‘accompaniment’, ie the rules of playing a multi-voice harpsichord part based on the marks written above the bass line (the so-called ‘basse continue’).

La Rosa de Alejandría by Luis Vélez de Guevara

Reviewed by: La Rosa de Alejandría by Luis Vélez de Guevara Margaret Parker Luis Vélez de Guevara. La Rosa de Alejandría. Edición crítica y anotada de William R. Manson y C. George Peale. juan de la cuesta, 2018. 217 pp. the story of saint catherine of alexandria, the "Rosa de Alejandría" of the play by Vélez de Guevara, was immensely popular in Europe from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance and lived on into the nineteenth century in Spain. Her story is included in many Latin flores sanctorum and their vernacular progeny. She has been widely celebrated by Spanish writers, in anonymous manuscripts and early printed editions, in prose and verse, by a diverse array of authors over the centuries that includes Álvaro de Luna, Saint Teresa of Ávila, Lope de Vega, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, and Emilia Pardo Bazán. Several Jesuit colegio plays, most of them anonymous and unpublished, feature the Saint, and she is the subject of two plays with firm attributions by Pedro Rosete Niño and Luis Vélez de Guevara, the latter of which was previously accessible only in seventeenth-century collections of dramatic works. Now, thanks to the late William R. Manson and C. George Peale and to Juan de la Cuesta Hispanic Monographs, the Vélez comedia has been published in a beautifully presented edition. Saint Catherine is a legendary Saint whose story is set in Alexandria in the fourth century AD. In an early version of her passio, the young, beautiful, royal, and learned convert to Christianity hears of the emperor's order to sacrifice animals to the pagan gods. She confronts him, declares his religion to be false, and entreats him to accept her Christianity. Stunned by her beauty and amazed by her eloquence, he attempts but fails to refute her arguments and summons fifty sages from all over his realm to defeat her in public debate. She triumphs over them all, whereupon the emperor orders them burned alive and Catherine imprisoned. The empress and the emperor's chief adviser visit her in prison, where angels tend to her, and both are converted. Given a chance to renounce her religion and become empress, Catherine refuses. A wheel of torture is constructed and she is placed thereon, but when it turns, it is destroyed by lightening, killing many bystanders. The empress and chief [End Page 209] adviser announce their conversion and are killed. Catherine rejects a further offer from the emperor and is beheaded. Milk, rather than blood, flows from the wound, and angels deposit her body on mount sinai. The many versions of the saint Catherine narrative vary in multiple ways. The publication of the Vélez comedia is significant, as it presents the only printed text of a play on the subject and, while following the basics of the traditional story, it has very interesting differences. The editors have, again, produced a meticulous and readable edition, another in a long list of plays by Vélez de Guevara (thirty-eight at last count, with sixteen in preparation). The cover features one of the most beautiful of the many artistic representations of the Saint, a painting by Fernando Yáñez de la Almedina. The edition begins with a nota preliminar in which the editors thank the impressive list of entities and persons who contributed to the publication of the edition. The table of contents and a list of abbreviations follow. The introductory study, by Elisa Domínguez de Paz, is divided into five parts: an introduction, a treatment of the plot, a consideration of genre, structures, and performances of La Rosa de Alejandría, a discussion of a Jesuit source for the play, and an examinanation of its dramatis personae. The next section, by C. George Peale, describes the sole witness, in a seventeenth-century collection of Comedias escogidas, the complete title of which he reproduces. A copy held in the Biblioteca Nacional de España and that of the Vatican Library have different frontispieces, but the contents are identical. The text is marred by errors, for which he offers corrections in footnotes. He describes the editorial criteria, discusses...

Le traduzioni francesi delle “Vite parallele” di Plutarco prima di Amyot (1519-1559)

Between the end of the xv and the beginning of the xvi century, France rediscovered the ancient biography as a literary genre, and the spread of many lives of illustrious men of the past. Among these it is worth mentioning the translation of Plutarch’s Parallel Lives by Jacques Amyot. This project of French vulgarization of Plutarch’s literary work is however preceded by some texts, preserved as anonymous manuscripts, unpublished and undated in Bibliotheque Nationale de France, which include some isolated translations of Plutarch’s Lives. This study provides an analysis, which can be considered introductory to the setting-up of a critical edition, of the corpus and its intertextual relationships with Amyot’s translation, and it deals with the issue about its attribution: that is to say, whether it could be ascribable to the great interpreter or it could be a set of independent works, used by Amyot himself as a source.

Le Jeu de la Hache: A Critical edition and dating discussion

Abstract Twenty-six years after the first edition and translation by Sydney Anglo in 1991 of the anonymous manuscript Le Jeu de la hache , many elements can still be significantly improved. This paper offers a completely new critical edition of the text, and a major revision of the translation. This article includes a detailed glossary as well as notes to discuss the many ambiguous passages in the original text. Finally, the studies of the language, the vocabulary, the dialect, the writing style and the physical document make it possible to refine the dating of the manuscript to the third quarter of the fifteenth century, between 1460 and 1485, and its origin, probably Flanders or Wallonia in the entourage of the dukes of Burgundy.

Le Jeu de la Hache

Twenty-six years after the first edition and translation by Sydney Anglo in 1991 of the anonymous manuscript Le Jeu de la hache , many elements can still be significantly improved. This paper offers a completely new critical edition of the text, and a major revision of the translation. This article includes a detailed glossary as well as notes to discuss the many ambiguous passages in the original text. Finally, the studies of the language, the vocabulary, the dialect, the writing style and the physical document make it possible to refine the dating of the manuscript to the third quarter of the fifteenth century, between 1460 and 1485, and its origin, probably Flanders or Wallonia in the entourage of the dukes of Burgundy.

Księgi nauk puszkarskich Jana Radziwiłła. Unikatowy przykład włoskiego importu na polski grunt zabytków wojskowego piśmiennictwa technicznego

<p>Podczas pobytu na dworze książęcym w Ferrarze w latach 40. XVI w. Jan Radziwiłł otrzymał w darze od Herkulesa II d’Este anonimowy rękopis włoskiego dziełka poruszającego zagadnienia z dziedziny sztuki puszkarskiej. Z myślą o wzbudzeniu w wykształconej części braci szlacheckiej większego zainteresowania wojskową literaturą techniczną i tym samym zainaugurowania na gruncie polskim polemiki wokół nauk puszkarskich, najprawdopodobniej już po powrocie do kraju manuskrypt ten został przez niego przetłumaczony na język polski, przeredagowany i zatytułowany <em>O tajemnicach puszkarskich, każdemu rycerskiemu człowiekowi potrzebnych </em>(Wilno 1547 [?]). Zamierzeniem tego artykułu jest prezentacja historii pierwowzoru staropolskiego podręcznika technicznego na marginesie dyskusji prowadzonej w polskich i europejskich kręgach piśmienniczych na temat sprawy puszkarskiej.</p>

Le VIe traité du Theophrastus redivivus: Nature, Raison, bonheur et liberté?

In 1937, the scholar Spink (1909–1985) discovered at the Bibliotheque nationale de France a bulky anonymous manuscript, written in Latin, with an impressive title: Theophrastus redivivus, sive historia de iis quae dicuntur de diis, de mundo, de religione, de anima, de inferis et daemonibus, de contemnenda morte, de vita secundum naturam. Opus ex philosophorum opinionibus constructum et doctissimis theologis ad diruendum propositum. That text supposedly dated back to 1659. Translated, presented and annotated by Ostrowiecki-Bah, the VIth and last treatise of the Theophrastus (Life According to Nature), is reproduced in Volume II of, Libertins du XVIIe siecle. It is on that latter part that my study rests. That libertine voice, as eloquent as it is anonymous, is resolutely atheistic. From the outset, the author lists several philosophical doctrines from Antiquity, rejecting them one after the other because he finds them tainted with religion (rather surprising, especially for epicureanism). The only philosophical school he finds acceptable is stoicism, because it preaches that the sovereign good is to live according to virtue, that is “according to the experience of what conforms to that nature common to all animate beings and to Man…” For the Theophrastus, all that conforms to Nature also conforms inevitably to Reason, to which it attributes an absolute axiarchy, paradoxically resulting, in the end, in a tyranny just as oppressive as that of religion.

Singularities of Perspective in Spain: The ‘Other Treatises’ on Perspective and their Importance within the European Context

Regarding drawing perspective, Spanish tradition has hidden singularities that greatly distinguish it from other European traditions. Spanish tradition, however, simultaneously nurtures ideas from these traditions, such as those of Italy and France, creating multiple variations and novelties. This study presents a brief journey through the lesser-known exempla, which are lesser studied in the scientific community. The study focuses on the ‘angular perspective’ by architect Hernan Ruiz the Younger (el Joven), the innovative construction of figures in perspective by the carpenter Antonio de Torreblanca and the singular contributions to the anonymous manuscript Artes Excelencias dela Perspectiba. All three studies are similar in that they feature novel and heterodox premises within the general theory.

Editorial Remarks

Editorial Remarks Graham MacPhee This issue of College Literature marks the end of my term as editor. As we approach our forty-fourth year of publication, this is a moment to look forward to the continuing evolution and development of the journal and its future role in providing a critical venue for reflection on Anglophone and comparative literary studies. I warmly welcome my successor, Carolyn Sorisio, and wish her the very best of luck in taking on the role of editor and leading the journal into that future. It is also a time for me to thank all those who have worked so hard to build the success of the journal during my tenure, although they are too many to list by name. They include the members of our International Editorial Board, our associate editors, consulting editors, our book reviews editors, our editorial assistant, our revolving roster of graduate assistants, and our publishing partners at Johns Hopkins University Press, as well as the many supporters of the journal at West Chester University. And I should add to that list my fellow editors at various other journals who have given me advice, encouragement, and the benefit of their experience. I would like to take this opportunity to express my heartfelt appreciation for our many anonymous manuscript evaluators, the peer reviewers whose painstaking professionalism and intellectual generosity tends to go unremarked and unnoted, but who ultimately make scholarly [End Page 479] publishing possible. And I would also like to thank all of our contributors for entrusting their work to us. However, I should mention three people who have in different ways given me such invaluable support over the years. First, I would like to thank Hyoejin Yoon, who as Associate Dean has always tried to reconcile the scholarly imperatives of the journal with the bureaucratic functioning of the institution. Second, I want to reiterate my thanks to Paul Maltby both for his engagement with the intellectual concerns of the journal and for his practical help. And third, I’d like to acknowledge a debt of gratitude to Conor McCarthy for so often sharing my editorial travails, offering advice and understanding, and helping build the intellectual project. My greatest debt, as always, is to Sally. [End Page 480] Copyright © 2016 Johns Hopkins University Press and West Chester University

Elsenhans, Hartmut. Kapitalismus global. Aufstieg – Grenzen – Risiken.

Current Rese arch Findings and Controversial Discussions from all areas and sub-areas of Political Science: Politische Vierteljahresschrift (PVS) has been published since 1960 by the executive and advisory board of the German Association for Political Science (DVPW). The journal provides space for recent research findings from all sub-areas of political science. It therefore contains papers on political theory and the history of ideas; on comparative governance and politics; the domains of policy analysis, international relations and foreign policy; on political sociology; and papers in the areas of empirical social research and methodology. The PVS contains four categories of articles : The critical papers form the core category of the journal. In this section, are published theory-based and methodically reflected articles from all sub-areas of political science. Within the forum section, contemporary scientific controversies are debated. The commentaries contain scientifically well-grounded statements with reference to current issues of political developments or to the field of political science. The review essays provide a broad overview of the international state of the art of political science, as well as current developments and relevant published literature regarding a particular research-field. The PVS-Literatur publishes reviews of single publications from all sub-fields of the discipline of political sciences, as well as accumulative reviews presenting more than one new publication within an area of political sciences. Every paper published in the PVS (within the categories critical papers and forum) is run through a double-blind expertise process prior to publication. Generally, two external referees examine the anonymous manuscripts. The referee reports are also made anonymous before being handed back to the authors. Additionally, the authors can be provided with references from the editorial board. The editors rely on the collaboration of the colleagues in the scientific discipline as their referees and reviewers. Anyone interested in being a referee or reviewer is welcomed to complete and submit the PVS-reviewer-form or referee-form to the editor. Next to your name and address please indicate your field of investigative interest as well. This information will be added to the editorial database. Website: www.pvs.nomos.de

Onken, Holger. Parteiensysteme im Wandel. Deutschland, Großbritannien, die Niederlande und Österreich im Vergleich.

Current Rese arch Findings and Controversial Discussions from all areas and sub-areas of Political Science: Politische Vierteljahresschrift (PVS) has been published since 1960 by the executive and advisory board of the German Association for Political Science (DVPW). The journal provides space for recent research findings from all sub-areas of political science. It therefore contains papers on political theory and the history of ideas; on comparative governance and politics; the domains of policy analysis, international relations and foreign policy; on political sociology; and papers in the areas of empirical social research and methodology. The PVS contains four categories of articles : The critical papers form the core category of the journal. In this section, are published theory-based and methodically reflected articles from all sub-areas of political science. Within the forum section, contemporary scientific controversies are debated. The commentaries contain scientifically well-grounded statements with reference to current issues of political developments or to the field of political science. The review essays provide a broad overview of the international state of the art of political science, as well as current developments and relevant published literature regarding a particular research-field. The PVS-Literatur publishes reviews of single publications from all sub-fields of the discipline of political sciences, as well as accumulative reviews presenting more than one new publication within an area of political sciences. Every paper published in the PVS (within the categories critical papers and forum) is run through a double-blind expertise process prior to publication. Generally, two external referees examine the anonymous manuscripts. The referee reports are also made anonymous before being handed back to the authors. Additionally, the authors can be provided with references from the editorial board. The editors rely on the collaboration of the colleagues in the scientific discipline as their referees and reviewers. Anyone interested in being a referee or reviewer is welcomed to complete and submit the PVS-reviewer-form or referee-form to the editor. Next to your name and address please indicate your field of investigative interest as well. This information will be added to the editorial database. Website: www.pvs.nomos.de

Hegelich, Simon. Herrschaft – Staat – Mitbestimmung.

Current Rese arch Findings and Controversial Discussions from all areas and sub-areas of Political Science: Politische Vierteljahresschrift (PVS) has been published since 1960 by the executive and advisory board of the German Association for Political Science (DVPW). The journal provides space for recent research findings from all sub-areas of political science. It therefore contains papers on political theory and the history of ideas; on comparative governance and politics; the domains of policy analysis, international relations and foreign policy; on political sociology; and papers in the areas of empirical social research and methodology. The PVS contains four categories of articles : The critical papers form the core category of the journal. In this section, are published theory-based and methodically reflected articles from all sub-areas of political science. Within the forum section, contemporary scientific controversies are debated. The commentaries contain scientifically well-grounded statements with reference to current issues of political developments or to the field of political science. The review essays provide a broad overview of the international state of the art of political science, as well as current developments and relevant published literature regarding a particular research-field. The PVS-Literatur publishes reviews of single publications from all sub-fields of the discipline of political sciences, as well as accumulative reviews presenting more than one new publication within an area of political sciences. Every paper published in the PVS (within the categories critical papers and forum) is run through a double-blind expertise process prior to publication. Generally, two external referees examine the anonymous manuscripts. The referee reports are also made anonymous before being handed back to the authors. Additionally, the authors can be provided with references from the editorial board. The editors rely on the collaboration of the colleagues in the scientific discipline as their referees and reviewers. Anyone interested in being a referee or reviewer is welcomed to complete and submit the PVS-reviewer-form or referee-form to the editor. Next to your name and address please indicate your field of investigative interest as well. This information will be added to the editorial database. Website: www.pvs.nomos.de