{"title":"The Greek Fragments of the Apophthegmata Patrum in Vat. iber. 4","authors":"A. Németh","doi":"10.1163/27728641-00102008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/27728641-00102008","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This contribution presents and analyses a new discovery of three passages from the Greek Apophthegmata Patrum (Pambo 7–8, Sisoes 14) as the middle layer of a double palimpsest (Vat. iber. 4). These passages seem to have been brought together for this manuscript (ff. 1 + 5, middle layer) in either Palestine or Egypt in a multilingual environment between the sixth and eighth centuries. The variant readings demonstrate a close affinity with the old Greek alphabetical collection. At the same time, the association of Pambo 8 and Sisoes 14 shows an attempt to group the apophthegms thematically. The script evinces some peculiar palaeographic features worthy of attention.","PeriodicalId":315666,"journal":{"name":"The Vatican Library Review","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127885999","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Note sulla circolazione continentale di testi scientifici oxoniensi attribuiti a Nicola Oresme ed Enrico di Langenstein","authors":"Aurora Panzica","doi":"10.1163/27728641-00102012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/27728641-00102012","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":315666,"journal":{"name":"The Vatican Library Review","volume":"138 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123257143","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Membra disjecta sinaitica III","authors":"G.J.T. Kessel","doi":"10.1163/27728641-00102003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/27728641-00102003","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 The tenth-century, Georgian manuscript geo. 49 preserved at the monastery of St. Catherine on Sinai is not a regular codex. What distinguishes this manuscript is that the Georgian scribe Iovane Zosime made use of a large number of reused parchment material that originally belonged to other manuscripts copied in a variety of languages. Some of these manuscripts, in turn, were made from the folios of other manuscripts that had been similarly reused before. As it is often the case with Sinai manuscripts, the codex Sin. geo. 49 is not complete and many of its leaves are missing. This article examines four Syriac undertexts in two previously unexplored membra disjecta—Vat. iber. 4 and HMML Ms. Frag. 32—and demonstrates that the recycled manuscript copies are rare and unique witnesses for the texts they originally contained.","PeriodicalId":315666,"journal":{"name":"The Vatican Library Review","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121853896","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Lines of Thought: Branching Diagrams and the Medieval Mind , by Even-Ezra, Ayelet","authors":"S. Metzger","doi":"10.1163/27728641-00102013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/27728641-00102013","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":315666,"journal":{"name":"The Vatican Library Review","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121800219","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Irene Altamura, Emanuele Angelini, Roberta Massino, Irmgard Schuler
{"title":"History of Palimpsest Photography in the Vatican Library","authors":"Irene Altamura, Emanuele Angelini, Roberta Massino, Irmgard Schuler","doi":"10.1163/27728641-00102010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/27728641-00102010","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This paper focuses on the nearly 200-year history of reproduction and imaging of the famous correspondence of Fronto, transmitted in a palimpsest from the Abbey of Bobbio the pages of which are now kept in the Biblioteca Ambrosiana (Milan) and in the Vatican Library. In addition to the general difficulty in accessing an undertext, these pages present different problems that compromise the reading of Fronto. The application of chemical reagents and gelatin has left organic and inorganic material on the parchment. Together with the effects of humidity and changes in temperature, these make photographic recovery a special challenge. The ways and means for creating and processing reproductions and images of this palimpsest text, from the time of Angelo Mai to modern photography and digital images, will be illustrated.","PeriodicalId":315666,"journal":{"name":"The Vatican Library Review","volume":"36 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134352653","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"From the House of Wisdom to Expo 2020 Dubai","authors":"Simone Olini","doi":"10.1163/27728641-00102011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/27728641-00102011","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This short note recounts the challenges and processes followed to display the oldest surviving Arabic scientific text at Expo 2020 Dubai in the Holy See Pavilion. This palimpsest manuscript, Vat. sir. 623. pt. 2, contains a translation from the Greek of Theon of Alexandria’s introduction to Ptolemy’s Handy Tables, undertaken in the 8th/9th century at the so-called “House of Wisdom” in Baghdad.","PeriodicalId":315666,"journal":{"name":"The Vatican Library Review","volume":"16 2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126068811","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Hoku—A Multispectral Software Tool to Recover Erased Writing on Palimpsests","authors":"K. Knox","doi":"10.1163/27728641-00102007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/27728641-00102007","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 An image processing software package called Hoku is available to the public, free-of-charge, for use in recovering erased text from multispectral images of palimpsests. This software was developed by the author for his own use in recovering text, but has been built with an intuitive user interface that makes it suitable for non-technical users. It is written in Java and runs on both Windows and macOS computers. In this article, examples will be given of Hoku image processing results on data sets from three imaging systems—MegaVision, Phase One, and Lumiere Technology.","PeriodicalId":315666,"journal":{"name":"The Vatican Library Review","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130956032","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Multispectral Imaging of Vat. gr. 73","authors":"M. Toth, W. Christens-Barry","doi":"10.1163/27728641-00102001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/27728641-00102001","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 The multispectral imaging of the sample from BAV, Vat. gr. 73 in 2016 resulted in the discovery of important texts by Dexippus and Polybius. Imaging with a then state-of-technology integrated multispectral imaging system helped reveal texts in the manuscript that were no longer visible to the unaided eye due to interventions by earlier librarians. The resulting images were processed with several techniques that produced remarkable results for researchers. Collaboration between the scientific team, the BAV staff and other investigators provided new information and large amounts of data for further research.","PeriodicalId":315666,"journal":{"name":"The Vatican Library Review","volume":"41 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115520898","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}