{"title":"The period of studies of the artist M. Kh. Alajalov at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture","authors":"Svetlana Evgen’evna Tyutina","doi":"10.30853/mns20230040","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.30853/mns20230040","url":null,"abstract":"The research aims to provide insight into the period of studies of the artist Manuel Khristoforovich Alajalov at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture. The paper is novel in that it is the first to pay attention to the life and creative work of the artist, to consider in detail the entire period of his studies at the Moscow School of Painting. As a result, the work describes all the events of the school time, the artist’s success, his creative development and personal life. The years of the artist’s studies, the names of his teachers, the titles of his study works, the places where he worked during the summer holidays, his awards, the beginning of participation in exhibitions, works, reviews and buyers, the places at which he stayed are revealed. On the basis of the dated works, an analysis of painting was made, the individuality of the master was highlighted and the connection with the art characteristic of this educational institution was determined.","PeriodicalId":40527,"journal":{"name":"Manuscript Studies-A Journal of the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-08-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86926833","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":"Renaissance chests from the collection of the Pskov Museum-Reserve: Artistic features and attribution issues","authors":"G. Pudov","doi":"10.30853/mns20230039","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.30853/mns20230039","url":null,"abstract":"The aim of the study is to determine the artistic features of two Renaissance chests from the collection of the Pskov Museum-Reserve, as well as the time and place of their production. The paper considers two works from the collection of the Pskov State Historical, Architectural and Art Museum-Reserve, i.e. a cassone decorated in the techniques of carving and intarsia and a small chest decorated with flat carvings. The items are considered against a broad historical background, numerous analogies are drawn. The scientific novelty of the study lies in the fact that the author was able to establish that the cassone chest and the small chest decorated with flat carvings had been made in the XV-XVI centuries in Northern Italy. As a result of the study, the two artistic works were added to the number of attributed Italian Renaissance chests, which are currently located in Russian museums.","PeriodicalId":40527,"journal":{"name":"Manuscript Studies-A Journal of the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-08-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84027125","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":"Hidden Harmonies: Manuscript and Print on the North Atlantic Fringe, 1500–1900 ed. by Matthew James Driscoll and Nioclás Mac Cathmhaoil (review)","authors":"Aileen Douglas","doi":"10.1353/mns.2023.0014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mns.2023.0014","url":null,"abstract":"The project nevertheless represents a powerful, precious, openaccess resource for specialists of the Commedia’s early manuscript transmission, for researchers working at the intersection of medieval manuscript studies and digital textual scholarship, and for teachers and students of paleography, codicology, or manuscript studies. It boasts a rich treasury of information and tools for further research, features extensive documentation of its own development that provides a map for digital humanists to come, and represents a magisterial example of the possibilities afforded by digital methods in the study of manuscript transmission.","PeriodicalId":40527,"journal":{"name":"Manuscript Studies-A Journal of the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80211402","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":"\"Only Connect\": Linking Up Data in the Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts","authors":"Natalia Fantetti","doi":"10.1353/mns.2023.0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mns.2023.0003","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Using a recent placement at the University of Pennsylvania as its basis, this Annotation explains the processes used to create and edit Name Authorities in the Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts of a particular, underrepresented group within the database: women. The data available at present in the SDBM is skewed towards male collectors and dealers, in part due to the biases implicit in the sources used to create manuscript entries and Name Authorities. Therefore, it is necessary to work on specific highlighted groups such as women in order to combat these biases.The essay will then move to discuss the process of creating and editing Wikidata entries for these women so that the two entries, the SDBM one and the Wikidata one, can be linked. It also argues that given the information about the candidates was usually already digitally present in some way, the data is in essence out there somewhere, it simply needs to be pulled together. In doing so, this paper highlights the importance of linked data and invites further targeted action to be taken for other similarly marginalised groups in the database in addition to women.","PeriodicalId":40527,"journal":{"name":"Manuscript Studies-A Journal of the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81733091","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 Ayelet Even-Ezra","authors":"Megan C. McNamee","doi":"10.1353/mns.2023.0015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mns.2023.0015","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40527,"journal":{"name":"Manuscript Studies-A Journal of the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88355279","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":"Commedia: A Digital Edition ed. by Prue Shaw (review)","authors":"E. Coggeshall","doi":"10.1353/mns.2023.0013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mns.2023.0013","url":null,"abstract":"the catalog, Trinita Kennedy has done an outstanding job of balancing rigorous scholarship on a specialized topic with accessibility and appeal to nonspecialist audiences. The catalog’s outstanding essays are consistent in quality of writing and scope of inquiry, the fruit of a careful editor’s work as well as the highlevel research of the contributors. It is a shame that the emergence of the omicron variant in the fall of 2021 diminished the number of visitors to Medieval Bologna and forced a related symposium, the Andrew Ladis Memorial Trecento Conference, online. Nonetheless, Trinita Kennedy and the Frist are to be commended for mounting this extraordinary exhibition despite these singular challenges and for taking on a highly specialized topic in a smaller city like Nashville. They wisely produced a wonderful catalog that will ensure the exhibition’s afterlife, bringing scholarship on medieval Bologna to new audiences in the United States and elsewhere.","PeriodicalId":40527,"journal":{"name":"Manuscript Studies-A Journal of the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78085985","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":"Books of the Medieval Parish Church: Elucidating Parish Book Culture in Medieval Sweden by Analysis of the Collections of Recycled Manuscript Fragments","authors":"Emilia Henderson-Roche, J. Tahkokallio","doi":"10.1353/mns.2023.0004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mns.2023.0004","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:The Books of the Parish Church-project is an ERC-funded project that launched in January 2021 and is hosted by the Finnish National Library. The project seeks to shed new light on the book provision of the parish churches, in the Swedish realm and in Europe overall, c. 1150–c. 1500. To do this, it utilizes the exceptionally rich collections of fragments of liturgical books from medieval Sweden that were systematically recycled and preserved by the royal tax administration in the early modern period. Here we offer a history of this unique source material and the objectives of the project.","PeriodicalId":40527,"journal":{"name":"Manuscript Studies-A Journal of the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90776432","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":"A Handbook of Persian Calligraphy and Related Arts by Hamid Reza Ghelichkhani (review)","authors":"M. Simpson","doi":"10.1353/mns.2023.0010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mns.2023.0010","url":null,"abstract":"This is a detailed encyclopedia of Persian terms and their English equivalents for the arts of the book—first and foremost calligraphy but also illumination, painting, and binding—as these arts developed historically and continue to be practiced today in Iran. Originally published in 1994 and revised in 2009, the manual is based on thirty Persian treatises dating from the twelfth to twentieth centuries and on a number of recent studies in English and French that treat the paleography of Arabic script and codicology of Islamicate manuscripts. In addition—and perhaps most notably—the Handbook draws on the considerable experience of both the author and editor as trained calligraphers and artists. Thus, it melds past and present traditions, making it a complementary resource for scholars and practitioners alike. Altogether the publication contains hundreds of individual entries arranged in Persian alphabetical order, so ا (alef) through ى (ya). Each lemma gives its Persian transcription and correct pronunciation in transliterated form. Next comes the English translation in bold, sometimes in multiple versions and preceded by abbreviations such as “sc.” for script, “to.” for tool, and “lit.” for literally. This preliminary data is then followed by the term’s definition or explanation in English, often in a few words or succinct sentences. For example, sajāvandī, under the letter س, is defined as “the placing of diacritical marks in a text. This is usually done with a different pen after the text itself has been written” (180). Many lemmas are much more extensive, with multiple bullet points, and constitute richly documented essays, as in the entry for nastà līq, under the letter ن. From the initial definition as the “predominant script in Iranian calligraphy,” the entry continues in considerable detail about the script’s history and development, with quotations from a number of the treatises that form the Handbook’s primary source material.","PeriodicalId":40527,"journal":{"name":"Manuscript Studies-A Journal of the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87248898","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":"List of Manuscripts Cited","authors":"","doi":"10.1353/mns.2023.0016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mns.2023.0016","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40527,"journal":{"name":"Manuscript Studies-A Journal of the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134996142","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":"Vernacular Religious Miscellanies of Exempla: The Case of UPenn MS Codex 331","authors":"Mario Sassi","doi":"10.1353/mns.2023.0000","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mns.2023.0000","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Originally used for preaching, exempla, short stories with a religious educational goal, rapidly spread in private manuscript collections and miscellanies, thanks to their wealth of characters, events, and situations. They moved easily from one manuscript collection to another, allowing the often-anonymous copyists and authors to personalize them according to their interests and the needs of their audience. This course was made possible by the spread of the vernacular languages, especially in Tuscany, that allowed for a larger audience; this also meant stories were able to not only share a religious message but also plots and tropes that could keep readers engaged. To better understand the main features of these vernacular religious miscellanies of exempla, this essay will consider Ms. Codex 331, a collection of religious texts, housed in the Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books, and Manuscripts at the Van Pelt Library of the University of Pennsylvania. The miscellany lacks a well-defined provenance and colophon, is a relic of an obscure past, an assortment of diverse materials. By discussing the exempla of this miscellany and underlining the connections that it has with other similar manuscripts, the paper argue that the change of audience brought about a new understanding of religious literature and culture, in search of a better balance between the educational purpose of preaching and the entertaining value of literature.","PeriodicalId":40527,"journal":{"name":"Manuscript Studies-A Journal of the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91301791","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}