Classification Of Manuscripts Research Articles

A Typological Classification of Cyrillic Manuscripts Containing Texts from Piotr Skarga’s Book Żywoty Świętych

The article is devoted to the typological classification of manuscripts containing Ruthenian and Church Slavonic translations of the extensive Polish book Żywoty świętych written by the Jesuit Piotr Skarga. Unlike the Polish original, these translations have not been studied extensively and represent a specific part of Cyrillic writing of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Kingdom of Poland. The objectives of the article are to show (1) what types of manuscripts did the translated texts from the book of the lives of Piotr Skarga fall into and to answer (2) which manuscripts contain a higher concentration of the translations. The data from special works on this topic were taken into account; the list of sources known from these works was significantly expanded. Most of the manuscripts were examined de visu. A description of the content has been prepared for each manuscript, the identified translations are included in the compiled consolidated catalog of such translations, and the results obtained were verified by comparing them with the lists of translated texts available in the studies. Both the internal structure and the content of the manuscripts in question made it possible to distinguish six typological groups, namely, miscellanies of the lives from Żywoty Świętych, miscellanies with mixed content, miscellanies of the Menaion type, the Festal Homiliary (Torzhestvennik), Didactic Gospels, and Synaxarion (Prologue). Apart from the unique miscellany containing nothing more than Cyrillic versions of hagiographical texts from Skarga’s Żywoty Świętych, the greatest concentration of these translations is attested in the Menaion type of miscellanies, which are structurally quite close to their printed Polish source.

On the Classification of the Slavic Menaia Manuscripts

In the present paper we analyze nine manuscripts from the 11th–14th century Menaia (Greek: μηνάιον), Old-Slavic hymnographic texts, using a vector space model. The analysis and classification of the manuscripts in previous studies have been rather subjective. In an attempt to be objective we use contemporary research methods. Vector analysis allows one to separate the Putyatina Menaion and the Menaion Q.п.1.25 from the set of analyzed texts, since both manuscripts share both textological and lexical similarities. Similar findings were reached in existing studies. Manuscript BAN 16.14.13 is shown to be quite similar to the set of analyzed texts. The results are new to the literature.

A Survey of Evidence in the Journal of Veterinary Internal Medicine Oncology Manuscripts from 1999 to 2007

To survey and monitor trends in evidence for oncology manuscripts published in the Journal of Veterinary Internal Medicine (JVIM) between 1999 and 2007 based on an evidence-based medicine (EBM) standard. All veterinary oncology-related articles published in JVIM and 7 other high-impact journals from 1999 to 2007 were collected by database searches. Relevant manuscripts then were characterized including investigator affiliation, subject matter investigated, retrospective or prospective study design, manuscript type, and classifications of manuscripts using an EBM standard. A total of 172 relevant veterinary oncology manuscripts were identified in JVIM between 1999 and 2007. The proportion of oncology manuscripts published each year rose with the total number of manuscripts published in JVIM (mean, 13%; range, 8-15%). The author affiliations and subject matter were similar during this evaluation period. Case series represented the most common manuscript type (40%). With the exception of a progressive increase in prospective manuscripts and a reduction in case reports, no significant changes in the classification of manuscripts using EBM standards were seen. During this same period, veterinary oncology manuscripts published in 7 high-impact journals were associated with higher standards of evidence including prospective studies and randomized trials. The standards of evidence for veterinary oncology manuscripts published in JVIM have remained static between 1999 and 2007. This survey provides an informative benchmark for the state of evidence in previous JVIM oncology manuscripts and may be useful in identifying specific opportunities that may raise the standards of evidence in future publications in JVIM.

Errors in manuscript classification

Errors in manuscript classification

Historical Aspects of Cataloging and Classification in Iran

SUMMARY This article consists of three parts: (1) Introduction, (2) Cataloging and classification of manuscripts, and (3) Cataloging and classification of printed matters in Iran. In the introduction, after a short review of Iranian libraries, the historical background of Fihrist is touched upon. In the second section, the historical development of cataloging of manuscripts is discussed, emphasising the catalogs of manuscripts of the Parliament, Astani Qods, and the National Library as examples. In the third section, the history of cataloging and classification of printed books in modern times is reviewed: This event was initiated in Iran through formal and informal courses taught mainly by foreign lecturers. The initiation of the MLS degree at the University of Tehran and the establishment of TEBROC paved the way for standard rules and methods. With the amalgamation of TEBROC in the National Library, modern ways and means were developed more rapidly, hence computerization of cataloging, CIP, and IRANMARC.

THE BASIS OF THE TEXT OF PLATO'S CHARMIDES

AbstractBuilding on the classification of manuscripts established in Mnemosyne 43 [1990], 316-40, this paper examines the relations among textual witness to the Charmides. Despite horizontal transmission of variants, the primary MSS. form a bipartite stemma: B|WQ || T (sc. Oxon. Bodl. Clarke 39, Vind. suppl. gr. 7, Par. gr. 1813, and Ven. Marc. gr. app. cl. 4.1). Against recent doubts, Q's independence is supported by its maiuscule errors that the first hands of B or W correct, by its freedom from false corrections introduced by those hands, and by a host of minor W errors of the sort that correctors generally overlook. The known Greek exemplars of Ficino's Latin version lack words that he did translate. These recur in the W tradition, of which he may have used Flor. conv. soppr. 54. Poliziano's fragmentary Latin translation rests on a copy of T. Both translators solve certain textual problems. No new source of Cornarius' translation shows itself. Stobaeus confirms the antiquity of certain variants, which agree most often with B. The few quotations in other ancient authors are too scanty to reveal their place in the tradition.

The Making of Chaucer's English: A Study of Words by Christopher Cannon (review)

information about the content and classification of manuscripts and texts is graduallyrefined. First, there is an up-to-date location list arranged according to language and mode of publication: Anglo-Norman, Latin, and Middle English manuscripts,followed by the earlyprinted editions (pp. xvii-xxxvi). The introduction (pp. 1-65), which is like a monograph on the Brut,is divided into six sections. The firstis an overview of the contents and versions in Anglo-Norman, Latin, and Middle English. Under the second heading, 'Cultural and Historical Influence' (pp. 8-29), Matheson assembles details about the text and its manuscripts concerning circulation, ownership, and audience as well as use and influence to build up a fascinatingpicture of the culturalsignificanceof the Brutin the Middle Ages and beyond. Sections 3 and 4 (pp. 30-47) analyse as far as is possible the textual traditions of the Anglo-Norman and Latin Bruttexts. Sections 5 and 6 (pp. 47-56) introducethe remainderof the volume by outliningthe Middle English versions and the methods used for classifying the manuscripts. The broad classificationsof texts that Matheson uses here are the same as those he devised in early articles and essays: the 'Common Version', the 'Extended Version', the AbbreviatedVersion',and 'PeculiarTexts and Versions'.These classificationswork well, and admit sub-divisionsas distinctivethreadsin the differenttextual traditions emerge. There are three appendices to the introductionwhich are concerned with portions of text that have particularsignificancefor the classificationprocess. The remainderof thevolume (pp. 67-348) consistsof accountsof witnessesto the Brutin English and their classifications.This begins with a useful 'synoptic inventory of versions' (pp. 67-78) followed by detailed accounts of the manuscripts and early printings. The whole enterprise is admirably organized and presented. In both the introductionand the commentarieson the individualmanuscripts,Mathesonwrites with the assuranceof a scholarwho has labouredlong and hard over thisvast body of material and has made it his own. The volume will answerquestions or provide useful leads for scholarswhose work has led them to the subjectof the Brutand its witnesses;no longer will this text and its manuscriptsseem such an impenetrable maze. It is to be hoped as well that scholarswill feel the confidence to set about editing some of the recensions that Matheson has isolated and thereby uncover differentways in which, through revisions and continuations, the Brutreflectsand was used to shape the national consciousness in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.This volume will keep an armyof scholarsbusyformany yearsto come. UNIVERSITY OF WALES, LAMPETER C. W. MARX The Making of Chaucer'sEnglish: A Study of Words. By CHRISTOPHER CANNON. (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature), Cambridge, New York, and Melbourne:CambridgeUniversityPress. 999. xiii + 435 PP. ?45; $69.95. Part I of ChristopherCannon's new study consists of an introduction followed by five chapters: 'The Making of English and the English of Chaucer', 'Traditional English', 'The Development of Chaucer's English', 'Invented English', and 'The Myth of Origin and the Making of Chaucer's English'. Part II consists of an analytical listing of Chaucer's vocabulary, summarizing and occasionally supplementing the MiddleEnglishDictionary, with some extra material from the Oxford English Dictionary. Cannon, ambitiously,aimsto develop a dialoguebetween modern criticaltheory, in which he is expert, and nineteenth-century philology, and there are many perceptive points made here (although somewhat repetitively:I think the author information about the content and classification of manuscripts and texts is graduallyrefined. First, there is an up-to-date location list arranged according to language and mode of publication: Anglo-Norman, Latin, and Middle English manuscripts,followed by the earlyprinted editions (pp. xvii-xxxvi). The introduction (pp. 1-65), which is like a monograph on the Brut,is divided into six sections. The firstis an overview of the contents and versions in Anglo-Norman, Latin, and Middle English. Under the second heading, 'Cultural and Historical Influence' (pp. 8-29), Matheson assembles details about the text and its manuscripts concerning circulation, ownership, and audience as well as use and influence to build up a fascinatingpicture of the culturalsignificanceof the Brutin the Middle Ages and beyond. Sections 3 and 4 (pp. 30-47) analyse as far as is possible the textual traditions of the Anglo-Norman and Latin Bruttexts. Sections 5 and 6 (pp. 47-56) introducethe remainderof the volume by outliningthe Middle...

The Bodleian classification of manuscripts

In 1887 E. W. B. Nicholson devised a simple classocation scheme for the manuscripts in the Bodleian Library. His system, which is still employed, is described and compared with the British Museum's practice. The suggestion is made that this scheme, and particularly the use of size—division in notation, might, with modifications, be suitable for other libraries.