List Of Manuscripts Research Articles

The Lost Plays of Ralph Sheldon (1623–1684)

Abstract This article traces the fate of an important group of early English plays in fifty-six volumes, collected by the Warwickshire antiquary Ralph Sheldon (1623-1684) and sold at a Christie’s country house sale at his home nearly a hundred years later. The sale itself in 1781 was an early example of the booksellers ‘ring’ and involved some of the major collectors of early English drama, notably David Garrick, Edmond Malone, and the Earl of Charlemont. The earlier portion of the Sheldon plays, recorded by Anthony Wood in a manuscript list, may have survived as part of the Malone bequest to the Bodleian Library. The Restoration Plays remained largely intact, in some thirty volumes, until the ill-fated sale of Lord Charlemont’s library by his descendants at Sotheby’s in 1865, discussed by Arthur and Janet Ing Freeman in The Library, VII, 23 (March 2022).

Direct Composite Restorations on Permanent Teeth in the Anterior and Posterior Region - An Evidence-Based Clinical Practice Guideline - Part 2: Recommendations for Composite Processing.

Part 2 of this German S3 clinical practice guideline provides recommendations for the process of manufacturing composite restorations. It covers key aspects like caries removal, field isolation, matrix and adhesive techniques, as well as light curing and polishing. The outcomes of interest include survival rates and restoration quality. A systematic literature search was conducted by two methodologists using MEDLINE and the Cochrane Library via the OVID platform, including studies up to December 2021. Additionally, the reference lists of relevant manuscripts were manually reviewed. Six PICO questions were developed to guide the search. Consensus-based recommendations were for- mulated by a panel of dental professionals from 20 national societies and organizations based on the collected evidence and ex- pert opinion. The guideline advocates for one-stage selective caries removal near the pulp and underscores the effectiveness of various isolation techniques, adhesive systems, and the crucial role of light polymerization. The use of anatomically pre- formed sectional matrices and phosphoric acid etching is recommended to enhance restoration quality. Additionally, polish- ing composite restorations is advised to improve surface finish. This guideline provides comprehensive recommendations that inform clinicians on optimizing the composite restor- ation manufacturing processes. The adoption of these best practices can improve the quality and longevity of dental restorations.

An mHealth Intervention for Gay and Bisexual Men's Mental, Behavioral, and Sexual Health in a High-Stigma, Low-Resource Context (Project Comunică): Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial.

The World Health Organization reported that 80% of new HIV diagnoses in Europe in 2014 occurred in Central and Eastern Europe. Romania has a particularly high HIV incidence, AIDS prevalence, and number of related deaths. HIV incidence in Romania is largely attributed to sexual contact among gay and bisexual men. However, homophobic stigma in Romania serves as a risk factor for HIV infection for gay and bisexual men. The Comunică intervention aims to provide a much-needed HIV risk reduction strategy, and it entails the delivery of motivational interviewing and cognitive behavioral therapy skills across 8 live text-based counseling sessions on a mobile platform to gay and bisexual men at risk of HIV. The intervention is based on the information-motivation-behavior and minority stress models. There is preliminary evidence suggesting that Comunică holds promise for reducing gay and bisexual men's co-occurring sexual (eg, HIV transmission risk behavior), behavioral (eg, heavy alcohol use), and mental (eg, depression) health risks in Romania. This paper describes the protocol for a randomized controlled trial designed to test the efficacy of Comunică in a national trial. To test Comunică's efficacy, 305 gay and bisexual men were randomized to receive Comunică or a content-matched education attention control condition. The control condition consisted of 8 time-matched educational modules that present information regarding gay and bisexual men's identity development, information about HIV transmission and prevention, the importance of HIV and sexually transmitted infection testing and treatment, heavy alcohol use and its associations with HIV transmission risk behavior, sexual health communication, finding social support, and creating sexual health goals. Participants undergo rapid HIV and syphilis testing and 3-site chlamydia and gonorrhea testing at baseline and the 12-month follow-up. Outcomes are measured before the intervention (baseline) and at the 4-, 8-, and 12-month follow-ups. The study was funded in September 2018, and data collection began in May 2019. The last participant follow-up was in January 2024. Currently, the data analyst is cleaning data sets in preparation for data analyses, which are scheduled to begin in April 2024. Data analysis meetings are scheduled regularly to establish timelines and examine the results as analyses are gradually being conducted. Upon completion, a list of manuscripts will be reviewed and prioritized, and the team will begin preparing them for publication. This study is the first to test the efficacy of an intervention with the potential to simultaneously support the sexual, behavioral, and mental health of gay and bisexual men in Central and Eastern Europe using motivational interviewing support and sensitivity to the high-stigma context of the region. If efficacious, Comunică presents a scalable platform to provide support to gay and bisexual men living in Romania and similar high-stigma, low-resource countries. ClinicalTrials.gov NCT03912753; https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT03912753. DERR1-10.2196/52853.

List of Manuscripts Cited

List of Manuscripts Cited

Critical Edition and Philological Analysis of the Isa 53 Text Based on the Coptic Manuscript of sa 52 (M 568) and Other Coptic Manuscripts of the Sahidic Dialect and the Greek Text of the Septuagint

The article is a critical edition, translation, and philological analysis of the Isa 53 text, prepared on the basis of the Coptic manuscript of sa 52 and other available manuscripts, written in the Sahidic dialect. Its first part outlines general information about the section of codex sa 52 (M 568) that contains the analyzed text. This is followed by a list and brief description of other manuscripts that contain at least some verses from sa 53. The most important part of the article is the presentation of the Sahidic text and its translation into English. The differences identified between the Coptic translation and the Greek Septuagint were presented in a table. It includes, for example, additions and omissions in the Sahidic translation, lexical changes, and semantic differences. The final part of the article aims to clarify more challenging philological issues observed either in the Coptic text itself or in its relation to the Greek text of the LXX.

Plot of ATU 160 in Oirat Monument “Tale of Nectar Teaching”

The article continues the study of the Oirat monument “The Tale of Nectar Teaching” (“Aršāni nomiyin tuuǰi”). Three unpublished manuscript lists are introduced into scientific circulation. For the first time, the international plot ATU 160 “Grateful Animals. Ungrateful Man. Salvation from the Pit” is considered based on four stories from “The Tale of Nectar Teaching”. The source of the study was the lists “Aršāni nomiyin tuuǰi”, stored in the manuscript department and archive of Orientalists at the Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, and the Scientific Library of the Eastern Faculty of St. Petersburg State University. Catalogs, indexes with international plots, folklore materials, translations of written monuments in Tibetan, Chinese, ancient Indian and Mongolian languages were used as additional materials. It is shown that all analyzed works represent a holistic picture of the ATU 160 plot, complementing each other. Common characteristics are identified, among which the most stable is the same composition. It is noted that the texts end with an explanation and a moral lesson. It is asserted that the basis of the ATU 160 plot is foreign material, which is slightly transformed in the compositions. The author concludes that the plot “Grateful Animals; Ungrateful Man. Salvation from the Pit”, presented in different works, is evidence of the unity of the IndoTibetan-Mongolian-Oirat literary fund.

“To Sing on Shabbat, Night and Day, Each Person at Their Table”: On the Formation of the Custom of Singing Shabbat Zemirot in Medieval Europe

Abstract: This essay traces the development of the custom of singing table songs known as Shabbat zemirot during Shabbat meals in medieval Europe. Though a popular custom, its medieval formation has yet to receive scholarly attention. Informal Shabbat table singing was likely common for centuries, yet the earliest extant instructions to sing specific songs were written in thirteenth-century northern France and appeared shortly thereafter in Ashkenaz and Italy. The many manuscripts containing Shabbat zemirot reveal the custom's spread, growth, and popularity in these regions. Though preserved in writing, Shabbat zemirot and their tunes were primarily disseminated orally by families singing within their homes. Such orality encouraged flexibility and diversity in how the custom was performed. Once the songs were printed in the sixteenth century, a more rigid construction of the practice and its repertoire took shape. Included as appendices are lists of manuscripts containing Shabbat zemirot and tables of the most common songs.

List of Manuscripts Cited

List of Manuscripts Cited

A Corpus of Illuminated Qurʾāns from Coastal East Africa

Abstract This article examines a little-known corpus of illuminated Qurʾān manuscripts that were produced between ca. 1750–ca. 1850 in the Swahili city-states of Pate, Siyu, and Faza on Pate Island in the Lamu archipelago (Kenya). Now dispersed in collections in Kenya, Tanzania, Oman, the UK, and the USA, the manuscripts have many distinctive features: decorative frontispieces, sūra titles, basmalas, and division and prostration markers; locally developed Arabic script styles; colophons containing names of copyists and completion dates; endowment dedications; northern Italian-made paper; and, blind-stamped, leather covers. The list of known manuscripts presented in the appendix is aimed at encouraging the identification, digitization, and study of other manuscripts in the corpus. The study of their content, materiality, and contexts of production can advance scholarship on the histories of Islamic manuscript production in coastal East Africa and provide comparative material for manuscript studies in other regions of Eastern Africa and the Indian Ocean.

List of Manuscripts Cited

List of Manuscripts Cited

IS CHATGPT A SILVER BULLET FOR SCIENTIFIC MANUSCRIPT WRITING?

Open AI, an artificial intelligence laboratory of San Francisco California released their new AI model called ChatGPT in November, 2022.1 Chatbots are computer programs which are designed to carry out conversa­tion with humans through input via text or voice. GPT (Generative Pre-Trained Transformer) is a machine model that utilizes supervised learning techniques for understanding and generating human like language.2 It is an artificial intelligence Natural Language Process­ing (NLP) module which uses algorithms for analyzing and interpreting human language in the form of text or speech to extract meaningful and useful information based on human input. However, ChatGPT can extract data and phrases from over 150 billion parameters stored on the internet and can carry out long dialogues with its users.4 Chatbots using GPT can respond to questions very similarly as to a human's own response thus perfectly simulating human conversation. They can predict the next word in a sequence by detecting the context of previous words.3 ChatGPT has revolutionized scientific manuscript writing. It can assist in literature search and helps in gathering consistent and accurate data at a faster speed and with more ease. It also helps in reviewing and editing. In addition, ChatGPT can be used as a tool to assist in manuscript writing by helping authors draft a manuscript as per their (Journal’s) requirements A re­searcher’s time and efforts are significantly saved with ChatGPT, hence allowing them to concentrate more on data analysis and its interpretation.4 Ever since ChatGPT made its debut it has taken the scholarly world by storm, gaining authorship positions in four different published and pre-print articles.5-8 On the other hand, the place ChatGPT holds in author­ship criteria is currently being hotly debated among researchers, editors and publishers.9 According to the recommended authorship criteria, since ChatGPT can­not take responsibility for, or ensure the accountabil­ity and integrity of research, it is unlikely to fulfill the authorship criteria. This is endorsed by well reputed journals like “Nature” and “JAMA”, making necessary changes in their policies of publication, by advising au­thors to mention AI in Methods or acknowledgement, if used.10,11 Likewise, the representative body of inter­national medical editors, World Association of Medical Editors (WAME) has banned inclusion of ChatGPT in the authors list of manuscripts.12 ChatGPT cannot replace human medical writers be­cause it lacks the expertise and level of understanding that humans possess. It can generate text that is con­vincing or “Sounds Plausible” but can possibly be non­sensical or incorrect.1 This is a common phenomenon exhibited by language models and has been termed as “Hallucination”. ChatGPT, at this moment, cannot pro­vide citations or references. It may also overuse phras­es. Moreover, errors and biases in the text generated by ChatGPT cannot be overruled. Articles generated with ChatGPT are not free of plagiarism and need to be corrected. As ChatGPT relies on previously stored data, text repetition can be a possible consequence, which may result in a lack of innovation, creativity and origi­nality. Another shortcoming of ChatGPT is that it cannot distinguish between fact, fiction and unreliable infor­mation. As a result, the potential misuse of ChatGPT cannot be overlooked as ChatGPT can be tricked and misused.13 In a nutshell, ChatGPT is an AI machine that can serve as a friend and guide to its user. It is a powerful authors tool that helps writers in accomplishing many tasks but despite its usefulness in medical manuscript writing, ChatGPT is not a Silver Bullet and can commit errors.14 The limitations and risks of ChatGPT should be given due consideration while adopting it for the purpose of medical manuscript writing.15 While on one hand ChatGPT can serve as a useful authors tool for writing, on the other hand the integrity of ChatGPT generated manuscripts are a challenge for editors as it can deceive inexperienced peer reviewers by generat­ing fabricated articles.16 ChatGPT has been termed as a “double-edged sword” and the scientific community has been advised to proceed cautiously with regards to it.17 The limitations of the ethical uses of ChatGPT in medical manuscript writ­ing have yet to be determined though. Dow­ling beautifully narrated the role of ChatGPT in research as “It ain’t what you do, it’s the extent that you do it, and that’s what gets (ethically acceptable) results.”18

Vladimir Ivanov’s “Jewish Manuscripts”. Part 1. The Collection And The Archive

The “Bukharian Collection” of Vladimir A. Ivanov included dozens of Jewish manuscripts. They came to the Asian Museum in St. Petersburg in 1915, and Alexander A. Freiman systematized some of them – in Judeo-Persian only – by 1918. Over the past century, there have been several (re-)inventories, so nowadays one cannot rely on those obsolete publications, working with these monuments. Part of the provenance has been lost. Basing on Ivanov’s archive and the inventory books of different years, this article is an attempt to update the information on all Jewish manuscripts acquired in Bukhara. The Aramaic and Hebrew manuscripts are new to the scientific circulation, the provenance of the Judeo-Persian manuscripts is clarified. Ivanov’s personal notes for each manuscript are scarce. Nevertheless, they are the primary source about the manuscripts, and today his “notebook” on the “Collection” is kept in the Archive of Orientalists of the Institute of Oriental Studies RAS. Using Ivanov’s list of manuscripts and their description by Freiman, as well as the current inventory, I managed to restore the provenance of almost all monuments. Some last Hebrew manuscripts in this list are particularly difficult to identify, while other monuments within the Jewish fund have been erroneously attributed to the “Collection” for a long time. Only one manuscript from Bukhara has remained unidentified. Checking the rest of the manuscripts for Ivanov’s notes at the margins in his “notebook” helped to match and connect the archival data with the source data of the manuscripts.

The Library at Bræðratunga: Manuscript Ownership and Private Library-Building in Early Modern Iceland

Library institutions did not exist in early modern Iceland, meaning that private ownership was central to the preservation of pre-modern manuscripts and literature. However, personal collections are poorly documented in comparison to the activities of manuscript collectors such as Árni Magnússon. This article examines the case study of Helga Magnúsdóttir (1623–1677) and book ownership at her home of Bræðratunga in South Iceland, concluding that Helga Magnúsdóttir engaged in library-building as a social strategy following the death of her husband, Hákon Gíslason (1614–1652). The inventory of the Bræðratunga estate from 1653 includes only four books, all printed. However, nine manuscripts are conclusively identified as having been at Bræðratunga at least briefly during the period from c. 1653 to 1677, and evidence for the presence of another five items is discussed. Examination of surviving volumes suggests that Helga’s goal was to participate in an active culture of sharing manuscript material across distances, rather than to accumulate a large stationary collection of printed books and codices for Bræðratunga. She thereby played an important but easily overlooked role in the survival of Old Norse-Icelandic literature in the early modern period. Of the manuscripts at Bræðratunga, at least two likely came from Helga’s childhood home of Munkaþverá in North Iceland, the former site of a Benedictine monastery. Her cousin Bishop Brynjólfur Sveinsson of Skálholt (1605–1675) also gifted books to Helga and her family, and on his death she inherited half of his collection of Icelandic books and manuscripts, making her the owner of one of the most significant collections of Icelandic manuscripts in the country. The survival of books from Helga’s library was negatively impacted by the Fire of Copenhagen in 1728, the extinction of her family line in the eighteenth century as a long-term consequence of the 1707–1709 smallpox epidemic and collector Árni Magnússon’s antagonistic relationship with two of her children’s heirs. Árni’s relationship with Oddur Sigurðsson (1681–1741), Helga’s grandson and last living descendent, did eventually improve; an appendix includes a list of manuscripts that Oddur loaned to Árni and may have come from the library at Bræðratunga.

An alleged homily on the paralytic by John Chrysostom in the codex Athonensis, Lauras A 112 (Eustratiadis 112)

Through the efforts of the Institut de Recherche et d’Histoire des Textes (IRHT), a list of manuscripts is available that preserves homilies on the healing of the paralytic. Included in this list is the codex Athonensis, Lauras A 112 (Eustratiadis 112), which, according to those who provided its second description, preserves in the last four folios ‘a homily on the paralytic by John Chrysostom’. After a brief presentation of what is known about this codex, this article offers a detailed examination of the codex’s last four folios, revealing that the description of them by Spyridon Lauriotis and Sophronios Eustratiadis is inaccurate.Contribution: This article provides the first thorough examination of the last four folios of the codex Athonensis, Lauras A 112 (Eustratiadis 112), demonstrating that they do not contain ‘a homily on the paralytic by John Chrysostom’ but rather several fragments of homilies on Thomas, Mid-Pentecost and the Ascension. Thus, the article contributes to the description of the codex and to the identification of a previously unknown manuscript witness to several homilies.

The effects of curcumin supplementation on high-sensitivity C-reactive protein, serum adiponectin, and lipid profile in patients with type 2 diabetes: A protocol for systematic review and meta-analysis.

Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) is an ensemble of metabolic diseases that has reached pandemic dimensions all over the world. There is a lack of evidence on the contribution of curcumin in the treatment of T2DM. We conducted a protocol for systematic review and meta-analysis to evaluate whether curcumin supplementation is effective and safe in T2DM patients. The systematic review will follow the guidelines of Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-analyses Protocols (PRISMA-P). We will obtain studies through PubMed, Cochrane Library, Embase, Web of Science, and Medline databases. In addition, we will also collect 4 databases of China: China National Knowledge Infrastructure, China Biomedical Literature Database, China Science Journal Database, and Wan-fang Database. Eligible study conference abstracts and reference lists of manuscripts will be searched. The data collection and analysis will be conducted independently by 2 reviewers. Meta-analysis will be performed using Review Manager software, version 5.3 (Update Software Ltd, Oxford, Oxon, UK). The results of this systematic review and meta-analysis will be published in a peer-reviewed journal. The findings of this systematic review may encourage supplementation of curcumin and its preparation specifically in T2DM patients. Nevertheless, the application of curcumin supplementation in clinical practice should be taken with individual's contributing factors.

Pilot trial comparing COVID-19 publication database to conventional online search methods

Background and objectivesLiterature review using search engines results in a list of manuscripts but does not provide the content contained in the manuscripts. Our goal was to evaluate user performance-based...

When a King of Norway Became a King of Russia

When a King of Norway Became a King of Russia

Sex Education, Songs, and Spiritual Guidance: An Eighteenth-Century Servants’ Library

Abstract This article brings to light a record for the largest known servants’ library of the eighteenth century. Found in a manuscript list in the hand of Elizabeth Percy, duchess of Northumberland (1715–1776), a keen collector and cataloguer of books, it comprises 131 titles. The list reinforces what we know about increased book use among the lower classes, particularly servants, but also provides new evidence of specific titles and, by extension, genres and formats of the books. Numerous chapbooks of prose-fiction, songs, and jests exist alongside evangelical tomes and pedagogical works. While the list cannot inform us about the extent of reading or use in the Northumberland household, the titles and genre statistics offer new insights, as well as some surprising anomalies.

List of Manuscripts Cited

List of Manuscripts Cited

Reflections of the Activities of the Vocal-Instrumental Chapel of the Carmelites of the Ancient Observance of Bialyničiai in Several Manuscript Sources of the Second Half of the Eighteenth–the First Half of the Nineteenth Century

So far, a separate musicological work on the musical activities in the church of the Carmelites of the Ancient Observance of Bialyničiai (Belarusian Бялы́ нічы, Polish Białynicze) has not been prepared. The lack of a sheet music library prompted the study into several manuscript sources from the second half of the eighteenth century to the first half of the nineteenth century, which are stored in manuscript libraries in Vilnius and Minsk. Using the book of registration of income and expenses of the Carmelites of the Ancient Observance of Bialyničiai, which was the primary source of information, a list of the members of the chapel of the Carmelite Order of Bialyničiai, who were paid in the second half of the eighteenth century, was compiled, with their names, surnames, time of service, and positions. The exact information on the size and the composition of the chapel that used to play in the church of the Carmelites of the Ancient Observance in Bialyničiai in 1824–1825 and in 1832, found in the inventory, the visitation, and the audit, is also provided. With the help of sheet music lists, attempts were made to determine the musical genres predominant in the chapel’s performances and the composers whose vocal-instrumental works were performed. The names of the composers are often distorted in the manuscript lists found, but it is possible to identify some of them or to make assumptions. The seventeenth-to-nineteenth-century heritage of the vocal-instrumental chapels of the Catholic monasteries of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania requires further research in order to produce a synthetic summary of this phenomenon.