The following study traces the production and history of the talismanic scroll as a medium through a Fatimid, Ayyubid, and Mamluk historical periods. My dissertation understands the protocol of manufacturing and utilizing talismanic scrolls. The dissertation is a study of the Qur'an, prayers and illustrations of these talismanic works. I begin by investigating a theory of the occult the medieval primary sources of the Neo-platonic tenth century Ikhwān al-Safa and al-Bunī (d.1225). I establish that talismans are generally categorized as science (`ilm). Next, a dynastic spotlight of talismanic scrolls creates a chronological framework for the dissertation. The Fatimid talismanic scrolls and the Ayyubid pilgrimage scrolls are both block-printed and are placed within the larger conceptual framework of pilgrimage and devotion. The two unpublished Mamluk scrolls from Dar Al-Athar Al-Islamiyyah are long beautiful handwritten scrolls that provide a perspective on how the occult is part of the daily life of the practitioner in the medieval Islamic culture. Through an in depth analysis of the written word and images, I establish that textually and visually there is a template for the creation of these sophisticated scrolls. Lastly, I discuss the efficacy of these scrolls, I use theories of linguistic anthropology and return to the Islamic primary sources to establish that there is a language of the occult and there are people that practiced the occult. The word of God and the Qur'ān empower the scrolls I studied. As for the people who practiced the occult, I turn to the tenth century Ibn al-Nadim and Ibn al-Khaldun (d.1406), the people of the occult are understood. Yet, keeping in mind, that there is always a tension with the theologians that condoned practices of Islamic magic. / History of Art and Architecture

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Byzantine religious manuscripts were commissioned by people from many levels of society. Several contain portraits of their commissioners, represented together with a holy figure. An analysis of these scenes, examining features such as the holy figures represented and their specific iconographic meaning, and the relation of mortal to divine, reveals many facets of Byzantine art, religion and society. This analysis indicates a major distinction between portraits representing the emperor, and those depicting all other patrons. Non-imperial portraits show deep personal devotion and piety. The manuscripts in which they occur were commissioned to honour the holy figure, and many request salvation in return. Imperial commissions, on the other hand, were not votive gifts. Their portraits stress the public, political, and occasionally religious role of the emperor as the elected of God upon earth, and head of state. These portraits are thus highly informative of several aspects of Byzantine life.

Disertacija skirta svarbiausio XIX a. lietuvių poeto Antano Baranausko rankraštinių tekstų (dienoraščio, Baranauskų silva rerum bei eilių rinkinio Wiersze) tyrimui. Darbe aprašomas šių lenkiškai rašytų rankraščių kultūrinis kontekstas, komunikacinis pobūdis. Pasitelkus rašymo istorijos koncepciją, nagrinėjamas rankraščių rašymo kelias ir aptariamas rašančiojo asmens, tekstinės bendruomenės bei kūrybinės savimonės formavimasis, funkcionavimas ir kaita. Paskutiniame disertacijos skyriuje aptariami lietuviškai rašyti Baranausko tekstai, jų dainavimo tradicija bei santykis su vieta. Disertacijoje poeto kūrybinis kelias neskirstomas į lenkišką ir lietuvišką. Jo kūrinių kalbos ir poetikos permainos siejamos su socialinių statusų kaita – taip kuriamas vientisas pasakojimas apie Baranausko rašymo istoriją. / The thesis analyses the manuscripts of the most famous Lithuanian poet of the 19th century Antanas Baranauskas, including his diary, the family book (silva rerum) of the Baranauskas family and the collection of poems Wiersze. The thesis exposes the cultural context of manuscripts written in Polish and their communicative nature. Through the conception of the history of writing, the author of the thesis examines the process of writing the manuscripts and scrutinises the formation, functioning and transformation of the writer, the portrayed community and creative self-consciousness. The final section of the thesis deals with Baranauskas’s poems in Lithuanian, the tradition of turning them into songs and their relationship with an environment. The poet’s creative biography is reviewed without splitting it into Polish and Lithuanian. His turn from one language to another and shifts in his poetics are associated with a change in social status and thus represents an integral narrative of the history of Baranauskas’s writing.

Disertacija skirta svarbiausio XIX a. lietuvių poeto Antano Baranausko rankraštinių tekstų (dienoraščio, Baranauskų silva rerum bei eilių rinkinio Wiersze) tyrimui. Darbe aprašomas šių lenkiškai rašytų rankraščių kultūrinis kontekstas, komunikacinis pobūdis. Pasitelkus rašymo istorijos koncepciją, nagrinėjamas rankraščių rašymo kelias ir aptariamas rašančiojo asmens, tekstinės bendruomenės bei kūrybinės savimonės formavimasis, funkcionavimas ir kaita. Paskutiniame disertacijos skyriuje aptariami lietuviškai rašyti Baranausko tekstai, jų dainavimo tradicija bei santykis su vieta. Disertacijoje poeto kūrybinis kelias neskirstomas į lenkišką ir lietuvišką. Jo kūrinių kalbos ir poetikos permainos siejamos su socialinių statusų kaita – taip kuriamas vientisas pasakojimas apie Baranausko rašymo istoriją. / The thesis analyses the manuscripts of the most famous Lithuanian poet of the 19th century Antanas Baranauskas, including his diary, the family book (silva rerum) of the Baranauskas family and the collection of poems Wiersze. The thesis exposes the cultural context of manuscripts written in Polish and their communicative nature. Through the conception of the history of writing, the author of the thesis examines the process of writing the manuscripts and scrutinises the formation, functioning and transformation of the writer, the portrayed community and creative self-consciousness. The final section of the thesis deals with Baranauskas’s poems in Lithuanian, the tradition of turning them into songs and their relationship with an environment. The poet’s creative biography is reviewed without splitting it into Polish and Lithuanian. His turn from one language to another and shifts in his poetics are associated with a change in social status and thus represents an integral narrative of the history of Baranauskas’s writing.

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This thesis describes a new line segmentation method that is optimized for medieval manuscripts. Using a thinned version of the binarized document image, the segmentation algorithm extracts two types of salient features from the handwritten patterns: nodes, whose distribution allows for the detection of line axes; segments, which are labeled according to the nodes they connect. This method obtains very good results on manuscripts that are usually considered hard to segment because of the numerous overlapping and touching lines. By contrast with many existing segmentation algorithms, this method does not rely on user-entered parameters and is not overly sensitive to the quality of the preprocessing treatments. Although more work is required to make it resistant to fluctuating lines, this line separation technique can already handle a large set of medieval documents and provides a useful input to a character segmentation program. / Line segmentation techniques in off-line handwriting recognition -- Line segmentation with the profile method -- Feature-based line segmentation -- Tests and conclusions. / Department of Computer Science

The thesis consists of a detailed examination of the contents of Oxford, Trinity College, MS 86, (Trinity), with particular attention being given to several lengthy English confessional items which it contains. This is complemented by a more general consideration of late Middle English prose forms of confession and the manuscripts in which they occur. Part One consists of a survey of all surviving independent prose forms of confession preserved in late Middle English manuscripts. I divide the texts into groups according to their probable audience and readership, assessed from both internal and external evidence. This is preceded by a brief introductory section on the background to late Middle English guides to preparation for confession. In three appendices, I provide: a full description of London, British Library, MS Sloane 1584, with transcriptions of three confessional texts; a transcription of a form of confession from London, British Library, MS Harley 2383, with variants from all known manuscripts; a transcription of a form of confession from Yale, University Library, MS Beinecke 317. Part Two consists of a close study of Trinity: a full description of the manuscript, supplementing existing catalogues; editions of four confessional texts from the manuscript, accompanied by detailed discussions of their form and probable function; an analysis of a series of short devotional texts which, taken together, constitute an elementary manual of religious instruction. I include full critical editions, with variants from all known manuscripts, of two of these texts, The Sixteen Conditions of Charity and The Eight Blessings of God, both of which originate in passages extracted from the Wycliffite Bible, and which survive, in varying versions, in thirty-four and nine manuscripts respectively. The thesis concludes with a summary of the probable origin and function of this manuscript collection.