This thesis deals with the origins and subsequent historical development of the Congregation of the Evangelical Church of Czech Brethren in Jablůnka, particularly from the eighteenth through the twentieth centuries. The first part describes the period before the issuing of the Patent of Toleration and its announcement and implementation, particularly in the context of Protestants in Jablůnka. The second part focuses on the nineteenth century; the transformation of a filial church in Jablůnka into an independent Parish church is also discussed. Another event mentioned is the founding of a confessional school and its transformation into a state-run primary school. The third part is devoted to the twentieth century, the pastors of the church and the specific spiritual trends that have influenced the functioning of the community. Future prospects of the congregation are outlined in interviews with its members.

Constamment habité au cours des siècles, le territoire de l’Attique comporte des couches denses et pleines de trouvailles qui furent conservées ou réintégrées dans les nouvelles réalités naissantes d’une époque à l’autre. On risque toutefois de ne pas pouvoir discerner les étapes en raison de la procédure complexe et longue par laquelle l’espace se structure, une ville se construit et une cité prend sa forme. L’espace athénien s’articule à l’époque où la ville se transforme en centre civique pour le territoire de l’Attique. Nous nous appuyons sur l’examen des dispositifs rituels des VIIe et VIe s. non seulement les temples et les sanctuaires, mais aussi tout aménagement voué aux cultes et aux rites. L’histoire de la topographie cultuelle d’Athènes et de l’Attique nous permet d’étudier l’urbanisation de la ville. Nous proposons ainsi de répondre à de nombreuses questions ayant trait à la localisation, la datation et l’identification des sites comme le Pelargikon, l’Agora archaïque, le Brauronion de l’Acropole, etc. Les indices archéologiques nous amènent à formuler l’hypothèse que l’ensemble du territoire consiste en des unités géographiques secondaires, qui se développent d’une manière indépendante – comme Éleusis et Sounion – et qui se rattachent progressivement à l’espace athénien selon une volonté politique de centralisation, mise en œuvre seulement à partir de l’époque de Clisthène. Enfin, l’étude des sources littéraires permet de déconstruire les représentations spatiales et les revendications ethniques, comme on le constate à propos d’Éleuthère et des confins nord de l’Attique./<p>Attica offers a variety of significant archaeological findings in dense layers that were preserved or reused from one generation to the next, which contributed to form new social realities. However, we may not be able to discern these successive stages because they have been obscured by the complex and lengthy process, both in the physical and political senses, through which the territory and its city center have been built. The Athenian control over Attica took form at a time when the city was becoming a civic urban center for the whole region; this evolution is the result of a long process. This study examines the religious patterns of the archaic period, temples, shrines and any place dedicated to cults and rituals. The history of the cult topography of Athens and Attica in the seventh and sixth century gives us the key to an interpretation of the urban structure. We propose to review several topographical questions of localization and the identification of sites, such as the Pelargikon, the archaic agora, the Brauronion on the Acropolis, and so on. The archaeological evidence leads us to argue that the territory as a whole consisted in secondary geographical units, like Eleusis and Sounion, and was gradually connected to Athens, following the politically motivated centralization, that took place at the time of Cleisthenes. The study of literary sources, mythology and iconography finally leads us to carry out a deconstruction of the spatial and ethnic representations, as we show, concerning Eleutherai and the Northern frontiers of Attica. / Doctorat en Histoire, art et archéologie / info:eu-repo/semantics/nonPublished

Ce travail porte sur le champ poétique dans les premières décennies de l’époque abbasside, en se concentrant non pas sur les trajectoires individuelles des poètes, mais sur les contraintes et les logiques collectives auxquelles ils sont soumis. Il s’appuie sur l’analyse de près de 70 notices du Livre des chansons d’al-Iṣbahānī (m. ca. 360/970). La première partie porte sur la contrainte la plus évidente et la plus étudiée : le rapport du poète au prince. Elle postule que la force du verbe poétique dérive d’un lien plus vaste, celui du walā’, qui implique des devoirs réciproques, inscrits dans le temps. La parole poétique n’est dès lors qu’une modalité particulière de la négociation de la distance entre le patron et son protégé. Cette négociation permanente influe sur les déplacements et les modes d’expression du poète.La seconde partie examine comment les poètes se positionnent face à la multitude d’acteurs qui prétendent dire ce que la poésie doit être. Elle analyse comment les rapports des poètes avec leurs pairs ou avec les savants sont déterminés par l’histoire cumulée du champ. L’accent est ensuite mis sur les modalités de ces multiples positionnements : comportements précodés, mise en scène et en texte de l’être social et charnel du poète, autant de coups dont le Livre des chansons est non seulement le témoin mais aussi le théâtre. / This study deals with the poetic field in the first decades of the Abbassid era. It does not focus on the poets’ individual biographies but on the logics they obey and the constraints that weigh on them as a group. It is based on the analysis of about 70 chapters taken from the Book of Songs by al-Iṣbahānī (d. ca 360/970). The first part examines the most conspicuous and most studied constraint: the connection between the poet and the prince. It assumes that the strength of the poetic word derives from a wider relation: the walā’, which implies enduring mutual obligations. Poetic speech is therefore just a particular aspect of a negotiation of the distance between the patron and his protégé. This negotiation affects the poets’ moves and modes of expression.The second part investigates how poets position themselves when interacting with the multitude of protagonists that claim the right to say what poetry should be. It analyses how the poets’ relations with their peers or with scholars are determined by the cumulated history of the field. Emphasis is then laid on how poets position themselves in the field by playing precoded roles, by “staging” their personae and giving the episodes of their lives a textual expression. As a result, the Book of Songs cannot be seen as a neutral record of these struggles ; it is also the battlefield where they take place.

La doctrine leibnizienne de la science repose-t-elle sur une théorie de la connaissance? Après avoir montré, dans des travaux préalables, qu’une telle dépendance ne se rencontre pas dans l’œuvre de la maturité, nous nous intéressons ici aux premiers écrits de Leibniz. La Nova Methodus discendae docendaeque Jurisprudentiae (1667) dresse, suivant l’exemple de Bacon, un inventaire raisonné des disciplines que doit réunir la nouvelle encyclopédie. Comme dans les projets leibniziens ultérieurs, cet inventaire est précédé de la distinction entre types de savoir en fonction des critères logiques selon lesquels les propositions se répartissent entre histoires, observations et théorèmes. Nous nous attachons en particulier à la définition de ceux-ci comme propositions « démontrables ex terminis ». Cette norme de la science étant posée, quels fondements in re Leibniz entend-t-il donner au savoir démonstratif ? Prenant pour fil conducteur sa polémique avec l’humaniste Marius Nizolius, nous étudions sa tentative pour fonder la validité des propositions de vérité éternelle sur des universaux subsistant indépendamment de l’existence des individus. Ce n’est cependant que dans les premiers écrits parisiens (1672-1673) que se dégage sa réponse définitive à ce problème : apparue d’abord comme un autre nom de la signification qu’« exprime » une définition, la notion d’idée y prend consistance en tant qu’archétype subsistant en Dieu. Les principaux traits de la théorie leibnizienne de la science sont ainsi fixés, indépendamment de toute « doctrine de l’entendement ». / Does Leibniz’s doctrine of demonstrative knowledge rest upon a theory of cognition? Having shown in previous articles that such was not the case in his mature works, we now turn to his early writings. The Nova Methodus discendae docendaeque Jurisprudentiae (1667) contains a reasoned inventory of the disciplines that should constitute the new encyclopaedia. As in later projects, Leibniz precedes this inventory with a classification of the types of knowledge based on the logical criteria according to which propositions are divided in histories, observations and theorems. Particular attention is given to the definition of the latter as propositions « demonstrable ex terminis ».This norm of scientific necessity once defined, what real (in re) foundation does Leibniz give to demonstrative knowledge? Following the various threads offered by his polemic against the Italian humanist Marius Nizolius, we study Leibniz’s attempt to ground the validity of propositions of eternal truth on universals subsisting independently of the existence of individuals. But one has to wait until the first Paris writings (1672-1673) to see the emergence of his mature answer to that problem: first conceived after the model of the significatio which a definition « expresses », the notion of idea reaches its latter ontological status as an archetype subsisting in God’s mind. The principal features of Leibniz’s theory of demonstrative knowledge are thus in place, prior to and independently of what he will later call his « doctrine of the understanding ».

Au XVIe siècle, nous assistons à deux types de récits criminels : dans la presse, les faits divers, produits sous la forme de « canards », et dans la littérature, les histoires tragiques, forme narrative brève essentiellement véridique et à tonalité pathétique. Lorsque Pierre Boaistuau, appelé aussi Launay, publie Les Histoires tragiques, il sélectionne six récits parmi les Novelle de Matteo Bandello. Le travail de Boaistuau ne se limite pas à la traduction de ces textes mais également à la fondation d’un genre qu’est l’histoire tragique. François de Belleforest, son ami, en poursuit la traduction et en varie les sources ; il publie entre 1559 et 1582 sept volumes d’histoires tragiques. Notre étude porte sur la justice, un thème clé pour comprendre les textes de ces deux auteurs. En effet, leurs récits révèlent un intérêt particulier pour les différentes formes de justice (humaine, naturelle et divine), pour le procès judiciaire et ses protagonistes. Nous analysons tous ces points ainsi que le thème de la transgression à travers différents crimes, principalement les crimes de paillardise (« macquerellage », rapt, viol et adultère). Notre réflexion porte également sur le châtiment et ses fonctions ainsi que sur le comportement du condamné au moment de son exécution. Enfin, nous nous intéressons aux stratégies discursives déployées par nos auteurs notamment à la rhétorique judiciaire et à la rhétorique délibérative. Les enjeux soulevés à travers l’étude du discours rhétorique permettent d’explorer les liens entre le discours judiciaire et le discours politique et donc entre justice et politique. Somme toute, la dernière partie de notre travail permet de cerner les rapports entre rhétorique, justice et politique. / In the sixteenth century, two types of criminal narratives predominate: short news items in the press, printed separately as canards, and brief narrative literary forms that constitute the tragic story genre, combining truth with a tone of pathos. When Pierre Boaistuau, also called Launay, publishes Les Histoires tragiques, he selects six stories from Matteo Bandello’s Novelle. Boaistuau's work is not limited to the translation of these texts but also establishes the tragic story genre. His friend François de Belleforest continues the translation and varies the sources; between 1559 and 1582 he published seven volumes of tragic stories. My thesis focuses on justice, a key theme for understanding the texts of these two authors. Indeed, their stories reveal a particular interest in the different forms of justice (human, natural and divine), in the judicial process and in its protagonists. I analyze all these points as well as the theme of transgression through an examination of various crimes, mainly crimes of debauchery ("macquerellage" –sex trafficking–, abduction, rape and adultery). I also consider the different functions of punishment as well as the behavior of the convicted person at the time of execution. Finally, I am interested in the discursive strategies deployed by these authors, including judicial rhetoric and deliberative rhetoric. The issues raised through the study of rhetoric make it possible to explore the links between judicial discourse and political discourse and therefore between justice and politics. The summative, final part of our work further elucidates the relationships between rhetoric, justice and politics.

La tesi si occupa di verificare l’influenza che i classici greci e latini hanno esercitato su i padri fondatori americani e più in particolare su Thomas Jefferson. La prima sezione tratteggia il contesto universitario e lo studio delle lingue classiche tra seicento e settecento, comprendendo non solo le università inglesi (Oxford e Cambridge) e scozzesi, ma anche i nuovi college nati nelle colonie americane. Tale analisi dei modelli e delle pratiche educative ha permesso, in effetti, di comprendere meglio l’influenza dei classici sui rivoluzionari americani. Nello specifico viene scandagliata a fondo l’educazione ricevuta da Jefferson. Tra i numerosi spunti di studio aperti da codesto argomento, il lavoro si concentra sulle modalità con cui i classici gli furono insegnati, sul suo Commonplace Book (una raccolta di brani tratti in parte da autori antichi letti in giovinezza) e su documentazione epistolare. Quest’ultima è oggetto particolare di studio, allo scopo di scoprire quali opere antiche Jefferson, in età adulta e durante la vecchiaia, lesse e apprezzò. Essendo un collezionista di libri, comprò moltissimi testi classici come dimostrano alcuni suoi manoscritti. Nonostante manchino dati precisi a riguardo, risulta inoltre che Jefferson, benché facesse largo uso di traduzioni, preferiva leggere in originale e che probabilmente abbia letto la maggior parte di questi libri durante il ritiro dalla vita politica. La seconda parte della tesi si concentra, invece, a indagare quanto la sua educazione classica abbia contributo alla formazione della sua personalità e delle sue idee, nonché alla forma stessa del suo pensiero in merito ad alcune tematiche. Lo studio è di conseguenza dedicato all’esperienza umana di Jefferson, in particolare alla sua riflessione sulla morte e sull’eternità, temi fortemente legati alla sua ricezione di idee epicuree e stoiche. Epicureismo e Stoicismo rappresentano, in definitiva, i due sistemi filosofici antichi che hanno maggiormente influenzato la sua personalità e il suo pensiero. / The aim of the present work is to evaluate the impact of the ancient classics on the American Founding Fathers, with a particular focus on Thomas Jefferson. The first section gives a wide portrait of the academic context in which the Founders were educated, comprising not only of Oxford, Cambridge, and the Scottish universities, but also the colonial colleges. The evaluation of the educational practices in use at the time makes it possible to understand better the classical impact on revolutionary Americans. In particular, this analysis studies in depth Jefferson's education. Of the many possible perspectives and approaches to this topic, the present work focuses on the way ancient classics were taught to him, his Commonplace Book, which reports part of the ancient classics he read during his youth, and his correspondence. The latter has been studied especially to understand which other ancient writers he read, valued, and esteemed in his adulthood and old age. As book collector, Jefferson bought an incredible number of ancient classics, as attested by a few manuscripts of his book lists. Despite the dearth of sure evidence, it is very likely that he read the ancient works largely during his retirement. He loved reading them in the original, though he made great use of translations. The second part of this work is dedicated to investigating how Jefferson's classical education contributed to the building of his personality and ideas, as well as how he elaborated specific classical themes in his own life. The study is thus focused on Jefferson's personal human experience, specifically on his reflection on human mortality and the afterlife. These themes, indeed, are strictly linked to his reception of Epicurean and Stoic tenets, the two ancient philosophical systems which had the greatest and most profound impact on Jefferson's personality and thought.

Dans l’Amérique et les Caraïbes des XIXe et XXe siècles, l’œuvre du poète national est au cœur d’un trafic d’images qui nourrit un lien social fragile dans un temps où les collectivités reposent moins sur un lien direct entre leurs membres que sur un lien imaginé. Prenant ses distances vis-à-vis des représentations en circulation à son époque, comme les représentations exotiques de la nature, le poète offre une vision démocratique ambitieuse pour l’avenir de la communauté à travers des images nouvelles du territoire, du peuple, de l’esclavage et de l’histoire. L’ethos auctorial encourage l’appropriation de ce discours par le lecteur en désignant le poète comme figure de référence. Mais c’est surtout à travers son procédé d’écriture qui met à mal les normes littéraires de son temps que celui-ci est à même d’influer sur la société. Plutôt qu’ils ne parviennent à saisir l’esprit de leur peuple, Whitman, Martí et Césaire participent par leur travail sur le fragment, les formes populaires ou le tremblement du sens à la création d’un devenir collectif. / In 19th and 20th centuries America and West Indies, the national poet’s works lay at the centre of a traffic of images. This traffic feeds the fragile social ties of young collectivities, at a time when communities are bound by imagination rather than by direct contact between their members. Distancing themselves from the representations of the community circulating at that time, like the exotic images of the New World’s nature, the poet offers an ambitious democratic vision for the future which is channeled through images of the territory, the people, slavery and history. The poet’s ethos encourages the reader to appropriate this discourse by presenting the author as a role model. However, it is mainly thanks to his style, at odds with the literary norms of his time, that the poet is able to act upon society. Whitman, Martí and Césaire do not so much contrive to capture their people’s spirit, as they participate through their work on the fragment, on popular poetical forms or on the destabilizing of meaning, in the creation of a common devenir.

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Bis auf wenige, kurze Zeitabschnitte gehört die Dresdner Hof- (heute Staats-)kapelle seit Jahrhunderten zur Spitzengruppe bezüglich der europäischen Orchesterentwicklung. Ihr Repertoire und dessen Überlieferung sind somit von musikhistorischer Relevanz, dabei aber bislang nicht vollständig erschlossen und infolgedessen von Forschung und Praxis unzureichend wahrgenommen. Hier Lücken zu schließen, ist das Ziel der vorliegenden Publikation. Die als „Drei Studien“ bezeichneten Arbeiten widmen sich der Entstehungs- und Sammlungsgeschichte einer Auswahl von historischem Musiziergut der Kapelle, das sich in der heutigen SLUB befindet. Da mit zeitlichem Abstand entstanden, repräsentieren sie unterschiedliche Erkenntnisphasen der Autorin. Die 1999 bzw. 2002 als Begleittexte zu zwei als Sondereditionen von RISM/A/II veröffentlichten CD-ROM-Katalogen im Druck erschienenen Studien I und II sind im Handel nicht mehr greifbar, so daß ihre digitale Herausgabe wünschenswert war, zumal diese auch die Möglichkeit bot, Korrekturen und Ergänzungen einzuarbeiten. Der Text der der Dresdner Hasse-Sammlung gewidmeten Studie I wird z.B. erweitert durch ein Kapitel zu den originalen Einbänden dieser Sammlung. Zum Text der das Dresdner Opernarchiv behandelnden Studie II wurden vor allem fehlende Register hinzugefügt. Ein Zentralthema beider Arbeiten bilden die Untersuchungen zu den Schreibern der Musikalien. Diese Untersuchungen werden in Studie III erheblich erweitert und zu neuen Ergebnissen geführt. Erstmals liegt nun für die Zeit von 1720 bis 1850 der Umriß einer Geschichte des Dresdner Hofnotistenamtes vor, wobei diesbezügliche Forschungsergebnisse anderer Autoren eingearbeitet sind. Neue Einblicke in die Dresdner höfische Musikgeschichte ließen sich für zwei ihrer repräsentativsten Überlieferungskomplexe gewinnen: die Hasse-Sammlung umfaßt Werke aller Gattungen, die während Hasses 30jährigem Wirken (ab 1731/34) und noch danach für die Musikpflege Bedeutung hatten; das Opern-Archiv schließt auf dem Gebiet der italienischen und später der deutschsprachigen Oper zeitlich an und umfaßt den Fundus von 1765 bis nach 1900. Zu beiden Komplexen sind die Titelaufnahmen in der Datenbank RISM/A/II mit dem Fundortsigel „D Dl“ sowie eine kleine Titelzahl mit Sigel „D Ds“ vorhanden und ergänzend zu den Studien I und II zu benutzen. Hinsichtlich der Schreiber-Bestimmungen sei aber generell auf Studie III mit ihren Abbildungen verwiesen: sie repräsentieren den aktuellen Erkenntnisstand, der in den älteren Arbeiten, ausgenommen die Abbildungen zu ihnen, nicht nachgebessert wurde. Die Abbildungen in ihrer Gesamtheit, nicht zuletzt jene, die den am Dresdner Hof verwendeten Einbänden gelten, sind über die spezielle Dresdner Thematik hinaus interessant für viele europäische Bibliotheken, die seit dem 18. oder 19. Jahrhundert Musikhandschriften Dresdner Ursprungs besitzen, diesen Ursprung aber nicht mehr oder nur ungenau kennen. Der Überlieferungswert der Musikalien, deren Dresdner Herkunft anhand der Abbildungen deutlich wird, dürfte sich in den meisten Fällen gegenüber bisheriger Einschätzung erhöhen. / Except for short lapses of time, the Dresden Court Orchestra (today’s Saechsische Staatskapelle Dresden) has for centuries belonged to the elite regarding the European orchestral development. As a result its repertoire and the written tradition of this repertoire are relevant to music history, but so far not completely recorded, and thus inadequately considered in research and practice. The intent of this publication is to close respective gaps. The individual contributions, designated as “Three Studies,” are dedicated to the history of a selection of the orchestra’s early music material kept by the present Saxon State and University Library (SLUB) in Dresden. As the author conceived the articles in different time periods, they represent differing phases of perception. Studies I and II, which were published in 1999 and 2002 as accompanying texts to two CD-ROM catalogs released as special editions to RISM’s catalog series A/II “Music Manuscripts after 1600,” are no longer available on the market. Therefore a digital edition was desirable, especially as it offered the possibility of integrating corrections and supplements. Study I, dedicated to the Dresden Hasse Collection, is for example supplemented by a chapter on the original bindings of the music manuscripts. The study II treating the Dresden Opera Archive was mainly complemented by additional indexes. Scribal research is a central theme of both studies. Considerably augmented in Study III, this research leads to new conclusions. For the first time the history of the Dresden court office of music scribe (to be precise: the period from 1720 to 1850) has been outlined, thereby integrating pertinent research results of other authors. New perceptions of the Dresden court music history have been achieved relating to two of its most representative aggregations of music material: The Hasse Collection comprises works of all genres significant for the practice of music during Hasse’s thirty year term of office (from 1731/34 on) and afterwards; the Opera Archive joins in the area of Italian and later German opera and includes the specific music from 1765 to after 1900. Supplementing Studies I and II, the catalog entries for both collections – library siglum “D Dl” – as well as a small number of entries with siglum “D Ds” are available in the RISM A/II database. In regard to the identification of scribes, Study III with its illustrations is pertinent: they represent the current level of perception, whereas the state of knowledge in the two older studies was not corrected, illustrations excepted. The illustrations in their entirety, not least those relating to the Dresden court bindings, are of interest beyond their Dresden-specific aspects for many European libraries which have acquired music manuscripts since the 18th or 19th centuries but are no longer or only imperfectly aware of their origin. The source value of the music manuscripts whose Dresden provenance is revealed by the illustrations should increase in most cases beyond their former evaluation.

Bis auf wenige, kurze Zeitabschnitte gehört die Dresdner Hof- (heute Staats-)kapelle seit Jahrhunderten zur Spitzengruppe bezüglich der europäischen Orchesterentwicklung. Ihr Repertoire und dessen Überlieferung sind somit von musikhistorischer Relevanz, dabei aber bislang nicht vollständig erschlossen und infolgedessen von Forschung und Praxis unzureichend wahrgenommen. Hier Lücken zu schließen, ist das Ziel der vorliegenden Publikation. Die als „Drei Studien“ bezeichneten Arbeiten widmen sich der Entstehungs- und Sammlungsgeschichte einer Auswahl von historischem Musiziergut der Kapelle, das sich in der heutigen SLUB befindet. Da mit zeitlichem Abstand entstanden, repräsentieren sie unterschiedliche Erkenntnisphasen der Autorin. Die 1999 bzw. 2002 als Begleittexte zu zwei als Sondereditionen von RISM/A/II veröffentlichten CD-ROM-Katalogen im Druck erschienenen Studien I und II sind im Handel nicht mehr greifbar, so daß ihre digitale Herausgabe wünschenswert war, zumal diese auch die Möglichkeit bot, Korrekturen und Ergänzungen einzuarbeiten. Der Text der der Dresdner Hasse-Sammlung gewidmeten Studie I wird z.B. erweitert durch ein Kapitel zu den originalen Einbänden dieser Sammlung. Zum Text der das Dresdner Opernarchiv behandelnden Studie II wurden vor allem fehlende Register hinzugefügt. Ein Zentralthema beider Arbeiten bilden die Untersuchungen zu den Schreibern der Musikalien. Diese Untersuchungen werden in Studie III erheblich erweitert und zu neuen Ergebnissen geführt. Erstmals liegt nun für die Zeit von 1720 bis 1850 der Umriß einer Geschichte des Dresdner Hofnotistenamtes vor, wobei diesbezügliche Forschungsergebnisse anderer Autoren eingearbeitet sind. Neue Einblicke in die Dresdner höfische Musikgeschichte ließen sich für zwei ihrer repräsentativsten Überlieferungskomplexe gewinnen: die Hasse-Sammlung umfaßt Werke aller Gattungen, die während Hasses 30jährigem Wirken (ab 1731/34) und noch danach für die Musikpflege Bedeutung hatten; das Opern-Archiv schließt auf dem Gebiet der italienischen und später der deutschsprachigen Oper zeitlich an und umfaßt den Fundus von 1765 bis nach 1900. Zu beiden Komplexen sind die Titelaufnahmen in der Datenbank RISM/A/II mit dem Fundortsigel „D Dl“ sowie eine kleine Titelzahl mit Sigel „D Ds“ vorhanden und ergänzend zu den Studien I und II zu benutzen. Hinsichtlich der Schreiber-Bestimmungen sei aber generell auf Studie III mit ihren Abbildungen verwiesen: sie repräsentieren den aktuellen Erkenntnisstand, der in den älteren Arbeiten, ausgenommen die Abbildungen zu ihnen, nicht nachgebessert wurde. Die Abbildungen in ihrer Gesamtheit, nicht zuletzt jene, die den am Dresdner Hof verwendeten Einbänden gelten, sind über die spezielle Dresdner Thematik hinaus interessant für viele europäische Bibliotheken, die seit dem 18. oder 19. Jahrhundert Musikhandschriften Dresdner Ursprungs besitzen, diesen Ursprung aber nicht mehr oder nur ungenau kennen. Der Überlieferungswert der Musikalien, deren Dresdner Herkunft anhand der Abbildungen deutlich wird, dürfte sich in den meisten Fällen gegenüber bisheriger Einschätzung erhöhen. / Except for short lapses of time, the Dresden Court Orchestra (today’s Saechsische Staatskapelle Dresden) has for centuries belonged to the elite regarding the European orchestral development. As a result its repertoire and the written tradition of this repertoire are relevant to music history, but so far not completely recorded, and thus inadequately considered in research and practice. The intent of this publication is to close respective gaps. The individual contributions, designated as “Three Studies,” are dedicated to the history of a selection of the orchestra’s early music material kept by the present Saxon State and University Library (SLUB) in Dresden. As the author conceived the articles in different time periods, they represent differing phases of perception. Studies I and II, which were published in 1999 and 2002 as accompanying texts to two CD-ROM catalogs released as special editions to RISM’s catalog series A/II “Music Manuscripts after 1600,” are no longer available on the market. Therefore a digital edition was desirable, especially as it offered the possibility of integrating corrections and supplements. Study I, dedicated to the Dresden Hasse Collection, is for example supplemented by a chapter on the original bindings of the music manuscripts. The study II treating the Dresden Opera Archive was mainly complemented by additional indexes. Scribal research is a central theme of both studies. Considerably augmented in Study III, this research leads to new conclusions. For the first time the history of the Dresden court office of music scribe (to be precise: the period from 1720 to 1850) has been outlined, thereby integrating pertinent research results of other authors. New perceptions of the Dresden court music history have been achieved relating to two of its most representative aggregations of music material: The Hasse Collection comprises works of all genres significant for the practice of music during Hasse’s thirty year term of office (from 1731/34 on) and afterwards; the Opera Archive joins in the area of Italian and later German opera and includes the specific music from 1765 to after 1900. Supplementing Studies I and II, the catalog entries for both collections – library siglum “D Dl” – as well as a small number of entries with siglum “D Ds” are available in the RISM A/II database. In regard to the identification of scribes, Study III with its illustrations is pertinent: they represent the current level of perception, whereas the state of knowledge in the two older studies was not corrected, illustrations excepted. The illustrations in their entirety, not least those relating to the Dresden court bindings, are of interest beyond their Dresden-specific aspects for many European libraries which have acquired music manuscripts since the 18th or 19th centuries but are no longer or only imperfectly aware of their origin. The source value of the music manuscripts whose Dresden provenance is revealed by the illustrations should increase in most cases beyond their former evaluation.