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Il "Libro degli animali" dalla "Crema della sapienza" di Barhebraeus. Edizione critica dei primi due capitoli e indagine sulle fonti
Get PDFIl progetto di ricerca prende avvio dall'esame della trasmissione del sapere zoologico dal corpus aristotelico al più ampio quadro filosofico medievale di matrice arabo-islamica e arabo-cristiana, sino a giungere alla produzione scientifica di carattere zoologico in ambito siriaco. In tale contesto la più importante e completa opera zoologica, il "Libro degli animali" è frutto del mafriano e poligrafo Barhebraeus (m. 1286) e parte dell'ampia opera enciclopedica intitolata "Crema della sapienza".
La tesi si compone di due parti. Nella prima parte, la quale consta di quattro capitoli, vengono ripercorse le principali linee di trasmissione del sapere aristotelico e in particolare zoologico nel bacino filosofico arabo e siriaco. In questa prima sezione, inoltre, viene esaminato più da vicino il "Libro degli animali" di Barhebraeus e viene identificato il Kitāb al-Ḥayawān di Avicenna come principale fonte dell’opera in esame.
All'edizione dei primi due capitoli del "Libro degli animali" di Barhebraeus e alla loro traduzione è, invece, riservata la seconda parte della tesi.
L'edizione critica si basa su quattro codici: Firenze, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Orientale 83 (1340); London, British Library, Oriental 4079 (1808-9); University of Birmingham, Mingana, 310 (1825); Città del Vaticano, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, sir. 613-615 (1887)
The Syriac Script at Turfan. First Soundings
No full textThis is the first book dedicated to a palaeographic study of about a thousand fragments in Syriac and Sogdian languages discovered between 1902 and 1914 in the Turfan area, a site on the ancient Northern Silk Road.
The unearthing of this manuscript material, probably dating between the late 8th and 13th /14th centuries, is extremely relevant from several points of view. This was, in fact, a crossroads region of different communities, languages and religions, which was also reached by the spread of the East-Syriac Christian community.
Palaeographic factors such as form, modulus, ductus, contrast, spaces between letters and ligatures have been here examined. Particularly notable is a peculiar ligature of the letters ṣādē and nūn.
Among other important considerations emerged from this work, we find the almost total absence of a monumental script in favour of mostly cursive forms, most of them East-Syriac cursive forms. These can represent a valuable source for the study of the history of the East-Syriac script because of the paucity of earlier and contemporary East-Syriac manuscript evidence from Middle East, at least until the twelfth century.
Moreover, this research sheds light on some scribal uses that can be extremely relevant for a better comprehension of the Sogdian and Syriac-speaking Christian communities, for the history of writing between Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages and for a greater understanding of the social context and in which these and other communities in the same area read, wrote, and shared handwritten texts.
This study is part of the FWF-Stand-alone project ‘Scribal Habits. A case study from Christian Medieval Central Asia’ (PI Dr. Chiara Barbati)
Il primo capitolo del Libro degli animali nella "Crema della Scienza" di Barhebraeus. Edizione e traduzione del testo siriaco e studio delle glosse arabe.
No full textL'elaborato finale intende tracciare le linee principali dello studio zoologico e biologico in ambito classico e mediorientale, ma soprattutto concentrarsi su un'opera in lingua siriaca del dotto siro Mar Gregorius Bar Hebraeus, ossia la "Crema della Scienza", e in particolare sul Libro degli Animali in esso contenuto. Verranno inoltre forniti, per la prima volta, traduzione e commento del primo capitolo del Libro degli Animali della Crema della Sapienza di Mar Gregorius Bar Hebraeus. Per la trascrizione e traduzione si è preso come riferimento il manoscritto Laur. Or. 83.
Infine, si cercherà di analizzare alcune glosse in lingua e grafia araba presenti nei margini del manoscritto in questione per tentare di stabilire un legame con la celebre opera di Avicenna, ossia il "Libro della guarigione"
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
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
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
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