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  • Thumbnail for Colophon (publishing)
    the 2nd century A.D., preserved in humanistic manuscripts. He cites the colophon from Poggio's manuscript, a humanist from the 15th century: Statili(us)...
    18 KB (2,083 words) - 07:43, 16 September 2024
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    text proper. Other older books may have bibliographic information on the colophon at the end of the book. The Bulla Cruciatae contra Turcos (1463) is the...
    8 KB (817 words) - 00:09, 29 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Scroll of the Parwanaya
    describes the rituals of the five-day Parwanaya festival. Excluding the colophon, the text consists of 931 lines. Copies of the scroll include Manuscript...
    5 KB (442 words) - 22:21, 30 October 2024
  • description of the manuscript or book in which it is written or printed The Colophon, A Book Collectors' Quarterly, published 1929–1950 Rosin, also called...
    539 bytes (115 words) - 14:14, 4 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Book curse
    Generally located in the first or last page of a volume as part of the colophon, these curses were often considered the only defense in protection of...
    18 KB (2,385 words) - 19:59, 16 August 2024
  • chapters. Usually the colophon is abbreviated in subsequent mentions in the same manuscript. The texts of the manuscripts that share the colophon are not necessarily...
    4 KB (387 words) - 15:28, 6 May 2021
  • Thumbnail for Beunans Meriasek
    was completed in 1504 by Dominus Radulphus Ton (known from a note in the colophon), who was probably a canon of Glasney College. It is now held in the...
    3 KB (341 words) - 21:37, 4 March 2024
  • Glak. John is not known from any source other than his History, and in the colophon self-identifies as the 35th bishop of Glak after Zenob. trans. Robert...
    931 bytes (76 words) - 20:40, 23 April 2022
  • The Colophon, subtitled A Book Collectors' Quarterly or A quarterly for booklovers, was a limited edition quarterly periodical begun late in 1929 and continuing...
    6 KB (874 words) - 01:01, 29 April 2024
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    ancient and venerated rishi, along with the other Saptarishis, listed in the colophon verse in the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad. Kashyapa is an ancient name, referring...
    26 KB (2,847 words) - 17:40, 6 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Book of Mulling
    Gospels, a liturgical service which includes the "Apostles' Creed", and in the colophon, a supposed plan of St. Moling's monastery enclosed by two concentric...
    6 KB (766 words) - 11:57, 25 July 2022
  • Thumbnail for Codex Vaticanus 354
    which can be dated to a specific year instead of an estimated range. The colophon of the codex lists the date as 949 (on folio 234 verso). This manuscript...
    8 KB (788 words) - 09:43, 27 April 2024
  • considered to be the first female typographer to inscribe her name in the colophon of a book, in the 15th century. In 1484, Rügerin printed two books in...
    6 KB (476 words) - 12:04, 22 April 2024
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    himself by a slow process of hand printing (the mountains appeared on the colophon). An early work was his own A Practical Guide to French Wines (1922)...
    4 KB (308 words) - 00:03, 20 February 2024
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    (280–322). However, in 2019 Dutch scholar Lennert Gesterkamp argued that the colophon attached to the painting and mentioning Xie Youyu is a forgery, and that...
    10 KB (983 words) - 02:00, 17 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Boundary Stelae of Akhenaten
    Akhenaten's reign. The latest addition to stelae A and B was termed theColophon” by Davies. A partial translation of the stelae had also appeared in...
    13 KB (1,997 words) - 18:14, 8 July 2023
  • minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. According to the colophon it was written in 1167 which is confirmed palaeographically as belonging...
    8 KB (729 words) - 22:05, 1 March 2023
  • Testament, on parchment, illuminated, and elegantly written. It is dated by the colophon to 1160. In the 15th century the manuscript was prepared for liturgical...
    18 KB (1,909 words) - 10:25, 29 August 2023
  • Thumbnail for Secret History of the Mongols
    language using Mongolian script. The date of the text is uncertain, as the colophon to the text describes the book as having been finished in the Year of...
    22 KB (2,591 words) - 10:04, 26 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Mainz Psalter
    printed decorative initials, and the first to be printed in three colours. The colophon also contains the first example of a printer's mark. It was the first...
    9 KB (921 words) - 12:42, 8 April 2024
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