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Un lettore armeno di Gregorio di Nazianzo in un manoscritto greco di Gerusalemme (Hierosol. S. Sepulcri 29)
No full textThis contribution concerns the manuscript Hierosol. S. Sepulcri 29 (= Taphou 29: XIIXIII
saec.), a Greek hagiographical-homiletic codex that is little studied and which is preserved
in the library of the Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem. An analytical description
is provided that clarifies the manner of its production and distinguishes the various hands of
the Greek scribes — amongst whom figures an otherwise unknown Leo deacon of Nyssa —
thereby adding this codex to the dossier of medieval Greek manuscripts produced in southern
Anatolia. This article focusses above all, however, on the Armenian version of Or. 38 of
Gregory of Nazianzus, which an anonymous medieval reader transcribed during the 13th century on the margin of the Greek text on fols. 43r-53r. We analyse here both the Armenian
text and its script. The Armenian text corresponds to the ancient translation that is believed
to have been made towards the end of the 5th century, which is transmitted by numerous
codices, but was here modified by the 13th-century Armenian annotator at various points so
as to make it better correspond to the Greek text that he had in front of him. Furthermore,
the Armenian script he makes use of gradually passes from the formal bookhand minuscule
(bolorgir), which is used initially, to the Armenian cursive (šłagir), which is also attested in another Greek manuscript where the same hand seems to have added the Armenian translation
of a Byzantine poem (Vat. gr. 1445, fol. 2r). In fact, šłagir is a script-type which was hitherto
scarcely documented in its medieval phase and is in any case little attested or noted so early in
the context of book production or para-literary texts. The testimony of Taphou 29 is especially
interesting because, among other things, it confirms the reconstruction of the evolution of medieval Armenian handwriting proposed by scholars such as Hrač‘eay Ačaṙean and Yakovbos
Tašean. Between the end of the 19th and the early decades of the 20th century, in fact, these
illustrious scholars had already suggested that Armenian cursive (šáagir) derived directly from
the calligraphic minuscule (bolorgir), rather than from the later «notary script» (notrgir) that
the communis opinio has instead considered an intermediary between the two
Perioperative dexamethasone reduces post-surgical sequelae of wisdom tooth removal. A split-mouth randomized double-masked clinical trial
No full textThe effect of endo-alveolar and sub-mucosal administration of dexamethasone sodium phosphate to prevent inflammatory sequelae after surgical removal of lower third molars was studied. Forty-three patients underwent bilateral extractions of lower third molars and were randomly assigned to receive either dexamethasone 4 mg (group A) or 10 mg (group B) as endo-alveolar powder or 10 mg as sub-mucosal injection (group C) unilaterally. The controlateral site served as control and did not receive any steroid administration. Facial edema, trismus and pain perception were evaluated at the 2nd and 7th postoperative day. A multivariate analysis revealed that treatment and ostectomy time were both significantly positively associated with the degree of postoperative trismus and edema. Other baseline classification variables (e.g., molar classification) were also predictive of the degree of change in all clinical parameters. Test sites treated (any steroid application) showed greater reductions in all clinical parameters recorded compared to control. No statistically significant differences were observed between the three test groups. Both sub-mucosal and endo-alveolar administration of dexamethasone are effective in reducing postoperative sequelae of surgical removal of lower wisdom teeth
Ἀΰλοις ἐν στόμασι...: lavori in corso su due database dedicati all’innografia bizantina. Corpus dei manoscritti innografici bizantini antiquiores / Initia Hymnorum Ecclesiae Graecae
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Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Frammenti da recupero codicologico, dalle carte del card. Giovanni Mercati (Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana)
No full textThis article deals with some parchment fragments that, rediscovered in all likelihood in the library of the chapter of the Cathedral of Milan, were sent in December 1920 by the then director of the library, Mgr. Marco Magistretti, to Giovanni Mercati, who at that time was the prefect of the Vatican Library. These fragments, which had been re-employed in the binding of a seventeenth-century printed volume, had been extracted from it in September 1920, when the printed book was discarded (perhaps because damaged and therefore deemed useless). Giovanni Mercati, after receiving them, seems not to have had an opportunity to study them in detail. The fragments come from a lost parchment witness of the unpublished commentary of Nicetas of Heraclea (XI-XII cent.) on the homilies of Gregory of Nazianzus (IV cent.), and they contain in particular a brief passage of the section of the commentary dealing with Or. 43 (the funeral oration for St Basil of Caesarea). The manuscript from which the fragments come had been copied in the «Salentine baroque style» script, and seems to date to the very last years of the fourteenth century or to the beginning of the fifteenth. In fact, it seems possible to identify in them the hand of the scribe Thomas, who was a hieromonk of the well-known monastery of St Nicholas at Casole, near Otranto: a scribe active between the very last years of the 1300s and the first decades of the 1400s, whose hand is known from the manuscripts Vaticanus graecus 1870 and Parisinus graecus 2558. The discovery of these fragments, therefore, has allowed us: 1) to reflect on the characteristics and aims of the manuscript production of Thomas of Casole; 2) to discuss afresh the spread in Salento, and more generally in southern Italy, of the commentary of Nicetas of Heraclea on the homilies of Gregory of Nazianzus and to discuss the type of «scholastic» use that was made of it in late medieval Salento; 3) to hypothesize within the monastery of St Nicholas at Casole still in the course of the 1400s – when it was bel ieved that this religious foundation was already long culturally moribund – a certain amount of teaching, which would seem to be attested also through the figure of another hieromonk and scribe somewhat later in date, viz. Nektarios (third quarter of the XV cent.). It is possible that the transcription made by Thomas of the lost manuscript whose small surviving fragments have been preserved in the Vatican Library amongst the papers of Giovanni Mercati for the last one hundred years – and which have now been assigned the call-number Vaticanus graecus 2672 fol. 2 – was also intended for this same activity of teaching
Su alcuni manoscritti d'interesse mechitaristico in fondi non armeni della Biblioteca Vaticana
No full textRassegna di testimonianze d'interesse armenistico, relative alla storia dell'Ordine Mechitarista, nei fondi manoscritti della Biblioteca Vaticana
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
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