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Hardback, XIV+456 p., 7 b/w ill., 160 x 240 mm. ISBN 9782503525808. This volume presents twenty essays by leading scholars of Old Norse which bring into focus the nature of learned traditions - both oral and written - in medieval Scandinavia and the interpretation and re-interpretation of them over time. Theoretical frameworks for understanding Old Norse literature is the initial topic of the collection, which then moves on to present recent work on Old Norse myth and society; current perspectives on oral traditions in performance and text; and reflections on medieval ideas about language, both vernacular and Latin. The collection is rounded off by a section on prolonged traditions - the transformation of local and imported traditions into new literary forms. Individual essays in the volume offer significant primary research as well as reconsiderations of key issues in scholarship, their subjects ranging widely, both conceptually and chronologically, around the twin themes of learning and understanding. Like the research of the volume's honorand, Margaret Clunies Ross, Learning and Understanding in the Old Norse World exemplifies the diversity and vigour of current research in the field of Old Norse and draws together philological, literary, historical and anthropological perspectives on the subject. Languages : English, Old Norse.
Hardback, XX+411 p., 15 x 23. ISBN 9780888449061. Edward Lye (1694-1767) was an important contributor to the advancement of our understanding of the structure of the English language, its vocabulary, and its literature. Compared with the work of more celebrated pre-nineteenth-century Anglo-Saxonists and antiquaries, Lye's was a scholarly output of less original talent and reach (the role he gave himself was to 'remove the rubbish out of the way, as an underworkman'), but in the course of editing, improving, and publishing the hitherto unpublished work of others he made genuine advances in scholarship, particularly in the areas of English lexicography and Gothic studies. The Lye correspondence - in the main a collection of scholarly letters that are also sometimes the personal communications of friends - indicates how varied his interests were, how widely he read, and how frequently he discussed texts, elucidated cruces, and established correct textual readings, often for the first time. This edition presents the 193 letters known to have passed between Edward Lye and forty-five correspondents between 1729 and Lye's death in 1767. English translations are provided for letters written in Latin, Greek, and Swedish, as well as for words and passages in other languages (e.g. Old English, Gothic, Hebrew) discussed in the correspondence. The introduction provides a biography of Lye and a detailed examination of his major scholarly accomplishments: the edition of Franciscus Junius's Etymologicum Anglicanum, published in 1743 with extensive improvements and additions by Lye; the publication in 1750 of Eric Benzelius's edition and Latin translation of the Gothic Gospels (Sacrorum evangeliorum versio Gothica), together with Lye's own contribution of corrections and notes, preface, and a Gothic grammar; the Dictionarium Saxonico- et Gothico-Latinum, completed posthumously by Owen Manning and published in 1772; and an unfinished translation into Latin of the Old English poems of the Caedmon manuscript (Oxford, Bodl. MS. 11). Supporting materials, including biographical records and documents relevant to the edited letters and Lye's publications, are presented in several appendices; there are also biographical notes on Lye's correspondents and a bibliography of manuscripts and printed works. Like A Chorus of Grammars, edited by Richard L. Harris and published in the same series, this book will be of value to all those interested in Germanic philology, the history of Old English and Gothic scholarship, and the work of the sixteenth- to the eighteenth-century antiquaries in England and northern Europe. Languages : English.
Hardback, X+476 p., 1 b/w ill., 156 x 234 mm. ISBN 9782503528366. Saints Edith and AEthelthryth: Princesses, Miracle Workers, and their Late Medieval Audience narrates the lives of two Anglo-Saxon princesses who were venerated as saints long after their deaths. St Edith, the daughter of King Edgar, was renowned as a patron of the arts and the church during her lifetime; her posthumous miracles included protection of Wilton Abbey and the English royal family. St AEthelthryth, who retained her virginity through not one but two royal marriages, also worked numerous miracles at her tomb at the Abbey of Ely. The poems, composed at Wilton Abbey in the early fifteenth century, allow us to see how late medieval religious women practised their devotion to early medieval women saints. The Middle English verse texts are presented here in the original and in translation with explanatory notes and glossary. A thorough introduction provides extensive contextualization and analysis of the two poems as well as description of the manuscript and its language and prosody. These primary source texts are important contributions to the study of English history, language, literature, religion, and women's studies. Languages : English, Middle English.
Paperback, 2 vol., XXIV+1039 p., 16 x 25. ISBN 9782503512556. Latin Culture in the Eleventh Century is a collection of approximately sixty papers presented at the Third International Conference on Medieval Latin Studies held at the University of Cambridge in September 1998. The collection embraces a wide range of fields related to Medieval Latin, including poetry, hymnology, music, theology and philosophy, historiography, and inscriptions, in addition to Latin linguistics and metrics. Contributions are drawn from leading scholars from many European countries as well as from North America and Australia. The volume should prove invaluable to all students of this period. Languages : English, Latin.
Hardback, 762 p., 155 x 240 mm. ISBN 9782503511962. Le Compendy de la praticque des nombres, second traite du manuscrit S-XXVI-6 conserve a la Bibliotheque Malatestiana de Cesena en Italie, est au centre de ce travail. Il s'agit d'un traite d'algorisme affilie au groupe des "arithmetiques commerciales" francaises de la fin du Moyen Age. Ecrit au milieu du XVe siecle par le frere dominicain Barthelemy de Romans, il fut remanie par son auteur qui acheva en 1476 la redaction du texte que nous possedons. Le Compendy est un relais essentiel dans la transmission de l'algorisme. Inspire par un traite anonyme compose a Pamiers dans les premieres decennies du siecle, il a aussi puise a d'autres sources, proches du Liber abbaci de Leonard de Pise. Nicolas Chuquet s'en est par la suite fortement inspire pour les parties arithmetiques du Triparty en la science des nombres et comme fonds documentaire pour le choix des problemes. Barthelemy est un lettre, docteur en theologie, qui s'est interesse par ailleurs a la formation mathematique des marchands. Toutefois, dans le cas du Compendy, l'environnement commercial est surtout un pretexte a reflechir sur la resolution generale de quelques types de problemes lineaires. L'auteur souhaite affiner l'intelligence de ses lecteurs ; manifestement son ouvrage ne s'adresse pas au debutant et presente peu d'interet pour qui veut se former aux mathematiques du negoce. Le Compendy est une ?uvre originale et forte, a la frontiere entre manuel de pratique et essai de theorisation, qui se demarque nettement des autres arithmetiques commerciales de l'epoque. La premiere partie de ce livre est une etude autour du Compendy de la praticque des nombres, qui tente d'abord de cerner la place du traite dans le reseau des arithmetiques marchandes meridionales, puis se recentre sur les problemes lineaires privilegies par Barthelemy : analyse mathematique, regard sur les methodes, examen des sources historiques des problemes etudies. Une etude de la langue vient a la fin, qui scrute ses caracteres marquants et observe la maniere dont l'ecriture soutient a la fois des ambitions scientifiques inhabituelles et une volonte enseignante forte. La seconde partie est consacree a l'edition commentee du traite ; le texte est double d'une traduction en francais moderne pour la partie qui fait l'interet et l'originalite de l'ouvrage de Barthelemy. Languages : French.
Paperback, VIII+98 p., 150 x 230 mm. ISBN 9780888442918. The birth and flowering of canonical jurisprudence in the twelfth century is one of the most striking and fruitful developments of the age, marking an important turn in the history of the Church and in framing the essential elements of the rule of law in political and social life. Raymond of Penyafort was an important participant in these developments. Born near Barcelona in 1175, he became a teacher of canon law at Bologna, the greatest centre of legal studies. He joined the newly founded Order of Preachers (Dominicans), and championed multilingual education of the friars for a more effective evangelization of Muslims and Jews. He became Master General of the Order in 1238, and died in 1275. He was canonized in 1601 and has been declared the patron saint of canon lawyers. Pope Gregory IX appointed Raymond to produce a comprehensive compilation of papal legal decisions. The result, the Decretals of Gregory IX (1234), would remain normative in the Catholic Church until 1917. Raymond drew on it to compose his Summa on Marriage, a summary of learned reflection on the law of marriage, to aid his Dominican brothers in hearing confessions, where numerous problems touching on marriage would have been encountered. The definition of marriage and of its ends, stages and impediments, arrangements and consequences are the subject of the work. This translation of it offers students and scholars alike a comprehensive presentation of the medieval teaching on marriage - learned in content, practical in orientation. Languages : English, Latin.
Paperback, XCVII+237 p., 207 b/w ill., 210 x 297 mm. ISBN 9782503518404. The book contains editions of nine Old Uighur translations of Buddhist magical texts, which are compared to their Chinese and/or Tibetan counterparts. No parallel could be found for one sutra, which may be considered as an original Uighur composition and thus deserves special interest. These works based on Central Asian fragments from several Turfan and Dunhuang collections, mainly from the collection of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, through new light into the history of the well established domain of Uighur Tantric Buddhism during the 11th through 14th centuries. Six of these sutras are newly identified texts, while the edition of the well-known sutra on the Great Bear has been improved. German translations and notes accompany the transliterated and transcribed texts. A glossary as well as plates of the edited fragments conclude the volume. Languages: German.
Hardback, 634 p., 5 cartes et plans, 210 x 270 mm. ISBN 9782503507507. Au cours du Xe siecle, des moines de l'abbaye bretonne de Lehon, fuyant les ravages normands, parvinrent a Paris, apres un long periple, porteurs des reliques de saint Magloire, eveque de Dol, evangelisateur des iles anglo-normandes. Le duc des Francs, Hugues le Grand, les installa au sein de la Cite, dans la chapelle palatine Saint-Barthelemy ou son fils, Hugues Capet, fonda une abbaye benedictine sous le vocable de Saint-Magloire. Au debut du XIIe siecle, le monastere se transporta sur la rive droite de la Seine, rue Saint-Denis. Il fut ainsi associe a l'essor rapide des quartiers commercants de la "Ville" et, autour des batiments monastiques se constitua une censive progressivement lotie. Hors Paris, les donations, royales pour la plupart, assurerent son implantation en Ile-de-France, principalement dans la foret d'Yveline, la vallee de l'Orge et la Brie. Ce n'est pas seulement le developpement de l'abbaye durant les trois premiers siecles de son existence que nous permettent de suivre les 280 documents publies dans ce volume, tome I de la publication, dont les tomes II et III sont deja parus. C'est aussi la construction progressive des nouveaux quartiers de la capitale et leur peuplement, ainsi que la mise en valeur des terres d'Ile-de-France par les etablissements religieux qui s'y implanterent. Languages : French.
RARE monograph on the interrelationships of Prussian Jewish communities by the eminent German lawyer Hermann Makower (1830-1897), who served also as chairman of the Assembly of Representatives of the Jewish community of Berlin. 230x160mm. 116 pages. Marbled board Hardcover with black cloth spine. Cover rubbed and scratched. Cover corners and edges peeling. Front cover and spine stained. Cover corners and spine edges bumped. Spine rear hinge partly cracked. Whitepages missing. Binding loose and visible between rear inner cover and last page (contents page). Pen inscription on title page edge/corner. Title page upper edge/corner slightly worn. Stamp residues on title page. Library stamp on several pages. Pages 45-52 bottom corner creased. Pages yellowing. [SUMMARY]: This extremely rare book is in good condition for its age.
RARE monograph on personal laws in British-ruled Palestine by Edoardo Vitta, a lecturer in International Law at the Government Law School of Jerusalem, at the School of Law and Economics of Tel-Aviv and at the Middle East College of Public Administration, later becoming Professor of Law at the University of Florence. 240x170mm. XXXII+315 pages. Brown cloth Hardcover with gilt lettering on spine. Cover slightly curved. Cover bottom corners and spine edges bumped. Front cover bottom corner worn. Small scratch-mark on front cover. Rear cover edges age-stained. Spine stained. Spine edges peeling. Inner cover browning. Ex-library copy with stamp on whitepages and title page. Text-block age-stained. Pages slightly yellowing. [SUMMARY]: This extremely rare book on personal laws in Palestine under the British mandate is otherwise in good condition.
55 revues broch?es. 18x27 cm.
Augsburg, Haas & Grabherr, 1931. Contemp. hcloth. 2 portraits as frontispieces. 128 pp., 50 illustrations after photographs on plates at end. Clean and fine.
(Berlin, Haude et Spener, 1769). 4to. No wrappers as issued in ""Mémoires de l'Academie Royale des Sciences et Belles-Lettres"", tome XXIII, 1767, pp., 1 folded engraved worldmap in the Lambert projection.
(London, Harrison and Sons, 1883). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"" Year 1882, Volume 173 - 1883. Pp. 291-354. Textillustrations.
(Paris, Crochard, 1817). No wrappers. Extract from: Annales de Chimie et de Physique, Par MM. Gay-Lussac et Arago."", Series 2, Tome 4. Pp. 245-259.
Leipzig, J.J. Weber, 1847. Contemp. hcalf. Gilt spine with gilt lettering. A paperlabel pasted on upper part of spine. Stamps on title-page. Portrait as frontispiece. (2),158 pp. and 1 folded steelengraved map, coloured. Scattered faint brownspots.
Paris, Huzard, 1836. Small 8vo. Cont. hcalf. Blindtooled. 216,206,(1),212,211 pp., 7 lithographed plates, 7 large folded lithpgraphed plates.
Paris, Bossange et Masson, 1811. Contemp. hcalf. Spine gilt and with titlelabel with gilt lettering. X,656,(1) pp. and 12 mostly folded engraved plates. A few scattered brownspots.
In-4, 48-48p. Seizième et dix-septième années reliées en 1 volume de cette cette célèbre et recherchée revue de sciences naturelles neuchateloises. Texte entièrement autographié illustré d'innombrables dessins en noir. Contributions de Louis Favre, Marie Favre-Guillarmod, Auguste Bachelin, Paul Vouga, Fritz Berthoud, etc... Bel exemplaire.
Gr. In-8, 572p. Texte sur 2 colonnes, rousseurs éparses. Néanmoins bon exemplaire.
2 volumes In-4, 384-424p. Avec 2360 gravures in texte en noir et 12 h-texte en couleurs. Bel exemplaire.
Bruxelles, Artis, 1956; in-folio, environ 130 pp. chacun, reliures d'éditeur en toile. Images collées dans le texte. Bon état.
Paris, Librairie Polytechnique Ch. Béranger, Éditeur, 1903; in-8, 8-VIII-626 pp., 4-754-2 pp. + 16 pp. d'extrait du catalogue, reliure d'éditeur pleine percaline, dos lisse, tranches jaspées. 2ème édition française revue et annotée par F. Valton. Traduction de l'allemand par Barbary de Langlade. A. Lebedur était professeur de métallurgie à l'Ecole des Mines de Freiberg (Saxe). Nombreuses figures en noir et blanc in texte. Bon état.
PARIS, J.-J. Dubochet & cie - 1842 - In-8 Relié dos cuir à ' nerfs, titre doré - Plats marbrés - couverture conservée - Nombreuses figures et dessins dans le texte - 1595 + Index alphqabétique 37 pages - Ex. comme neuf
In -12°, pp. (2), LVI, 296. Ritratto all’antiporta e due tavole ft ripiegate alla fine. Brossura editoriale.
