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For the first time, this paper systematises the medieval preparation of black writing inks found ... more For the first time, this paper systematises the medieval preparation of black writing inks found in the important thirteenth century Andalusian technical treatise written by Muhammad ibn Idrīs ibn al-Qalalūsī (1210-1308). We present the Arabic version of this extraordinary text ('The gifts of the wise men on the curiosities of the substances'), and its first English translation, as well as discuss key aspects of the processes that remain missing or are unclear indications. In this work, we studied the iron gall inks based on galls, where no other phenolic source is present. In this pedagogical treatise, the recipes for these black iron-gall inks are organised and classified by the gallnuts extraction method used: boiling (decoction), squeezing and infusion, with water being the only solvent used. The inks selected were reproduced and characterised through a multi-analytical approach. Quantification was performed by HPLC-DAD (high performance liquid chromatography with diode array detectors in the UV-VIS), showing that gallic acid is a minor compound in the gall extracts prepared following al-Qalalūsī instructions. In all the recipes, the higher concentration compounds in the gall extracts are the gallotannins pentagalloylglucose and hexagalloylglucose, ranging from 79 to 50% of the phenolic compounds. This supports the results of Raman and infrared spectroscopies. A comparison with medieval Iberian recipes was also done, which served to reinforce our previous results that show water as the sole solvent extracts with much lower yields than mixed solvents (water plus white wine or vinegar).
Documenter et décrire les langues d’Asie : histoire et épistémologie Actes du colloque de la Société d’histoire et d’épistémologie des sciences du langage Paris, 26-28 janvier 2022, edited by Émilie Aussant and Fabien Simon, Jan 26, 2025
The scientic activity of the orientalist Giovanni Battista Raimondi is inextricably
connected t... more The scientic activity of the orientalist Giovanni Battista Raimondi is inextricably
connected to the editorial projects of the Roman Typographia
Medicea , which he directed from 1584 until his death. The present contribution
focuses on unpublished grammars, lexica and other didactic materials
of Syriac, Arabic, Persian and Turkish that were either produced or projected
by Raimondi between the end of the 16th and the first decade of the
17th cent. A great number of grammatical and lexicographical notes, together
with drafts and printing proofs are preserved in Florentine libraries as well
as at the Vatican Library, witness of Raimondi’s approach in learning as
well as teaching and describing Oriental languages. Such documents, with
very few exceptions, have not been studied so far; we examine here this
material from two different perspectives: the method for learning and
self-teaching languages, on the one hand, and the organization and presentation
of information in the didactic tools that he published (or prepared
for publication) on the other.
An Inventory of Manuscripts and Typographic Materials in the Typographia Medicea Drafted during Raimondi’s Lifetime
HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe), Dec 22, 2022
The Authors Related to Harar and Their Writings
Arabic Literature of Africa Online
The Authors Related to the ʿAfar Area and Their Writings
Arabic Literature of Africa Online
Le vie delle lettere. La Tipografia Medicea tra Roma e l'Oriente
HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe), 2012
A recent cataloguing project of the Arabic manuscripts preserved in the Biblioteca<br> Ricc... more A recent cataloguing project of the Arabic manuscripts preserved in the Biblioteca<br> Riccardiana of Florence allowed to reconstruct the history of 20 codices which had<br> arrived in the library before 1736. A close analysis of the material, and of the information<br> contained in the letters exchanged between Alessandro Pini and Francesco<br> Redi, two physicians at the Medici court in Florence, has shown that they were part<br> of goods, shipped by Pini from Cairo in 1681, which were believed to have been lost<br> in a shipwreck. In the paper I identify the manuscript according to a list of lading<br> made by Pini and their actual content. I also outline the phases of their cataloguing<br> and description and provide a tentative reconstruction of their history before their<br> acquisition by Gabriello Riccardi.
The present study is based on the analysis of manuscript collections of two regions of Ethiopia i... more The present study is based on the analysis of manuscript collections of two regions of Ethiopia in part collected during two field missions and in part already known. Gibe and Harär areas were chosen both for the interesting history of their Islamisation and for their location directed towards West and North Africa from the one side, and East Africa and the Arabian peninsula from the other. Among the different fields of Islamic education, Arabic grammar has been identified as a subject not specific to certain collections or areas, being Arabic learning at the base of every Islamic curriculum studiorum. The traditional core curriculum for Arabic learning has been determined according to the presence of traditional grammar works together with their comments, abridgements, glosses etc. in order to highlight possible specificities or common traditions between the two areas and between these and the surrounding regions through implicit intellectual networks along the historical trade rou...
This paper focuses on Arabic scribal practices in a corpus of Ethiopian Islamic manuscripts from ... more This paper focuses on Arabic scribal practices in a corpus of Ethiopian Islamic manuscripts from the region of Harar ascribed to the period from the eighteenth to the early nineteenth century. Two different aspects will be considered, namely the characteristic realization of specific graphemes and the methods for the justification of the text. The observations take into account the perceived sacred dimension of the texts, from copies of the Qurʾān to ʿAjamī works, and the different level of standardization of their written manifestations. This approach is intended to highlight the results of the cultural interplay between the scribal models acquired and their local reinterpretation in order to identify reference models and determine the criteria at the base of the processes of ʿAjamization of these scribal practices. I hope that the characteristics described in this article will represent the starting point for comparative studies of scribal practices between different Ethiopian reg...
Manuali Arabi Sulle Tecniche DI Legatura Dei Libri (Sec. XI-XVII)
Quaderni di Studi Arabi, 2008
... Abu al-cAbbas Ahmad b. Muhammad al-Sufyani e autore della Sinacat tasfir al kutub wa-hall al-... more ... Abu al-cAbbas Ahmad b. Muhammad al-Sufyani e autore della Sinacat tasfir al kutub wa-hall al-dahab ('L'arte della rilegatura e ... II filo veniva incrociato sulla faccia esterna di una delle due assi e vi veniva intrecciato un bastoncino flessibile (mirwan), che il rilegatore giravasu se ...
This is an open access chapter distributed under the terms of the CC BY-NC 4.0 license. * The las... more This is an open access chapter distributed under the terms of the CC BY-NC 4.0 license. * The last reviews of this contribution occurred after a change of academic affiliation to the University of Naples "L'Orientale," for the EuQu ERC project (The European Qur'an. Islamic Scripture in European Culture and Religion 1150-1850).
Data is maintained here https://github.com/BetaMasaheft This dump is provided as additional secur... more Data is maintained here https://github.com/BetaMasaheft This dump is provided as additional security and to facilitate reuse. Includes the Ethio-SPaRe data and the IslHornAfr data. Each file contains specific attribution and is visible in the online application https://betamasaheft.eu accessing it XML, RDF or HTML.
One of the main aspects observed in manuscripts retrieved within the framework of the project Isl... more One of the main aspects observed in manuscripts retrieved within the framework of the project Islam in the Horn of Africa1—and possibly the most challenging to deal with during the conception of the descriptive database of the project—is the codicological and textual complexity of this manuscript heritage. Most of the codices were non-homogeneous, and their complex textual and codicological stratigraphy had to be duly reflected in the relational database. Needless to say, such complexity is a feature not limited to the manuscripts in Arabic script produced or circulated in the Horn of Africa, nor to the manuscripts in Arabic script in general. In fact, fruitful reflections on multiple-text manuscripts and composite manuscripts have developed in the last years, and important contributions on the subject have been published extending concepts and terminology previously used for western manuscripts also to different cultural contexts.2 As in other spheres, manuscripts in Arabic script ...
The present issue of AETHIOPICA, like the preceding one, is partly monographic, with a section co... more The present issue of AETHIOPICA, like the preceding one, is partly monographic, with a section containing the proceedings of the Panel on Islamic Literature in Ethiopia: New Perspectives of Research, from the '19 th International Conference of Ethiopian Studies', held in Warsaw, Poland, on 24-28 August 2015. Starting from this issue, the annual bibliography on Ethiopian Semitic and Cushitic linguistics held from its inception in 1998 for eighteen years by Rainer Voigt is handed over, on Voigt's own will, to a pool of younger scholars, with the substantial support of the AETHIOPICA editorial team. I would like on this occasion to express the deep gratitude of the editorial board of AETHIOPICA and of all scholars in Ethiopian Semitic and Cushitic linguistics to Rainer Voigt for his fundamental and valuable contribution.
Review: Rediscovering the Islamic Classics: How Editors and Print Culture Transformed an Intellectual Tradition by Ahmed El Shamsy (Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press, 2020)
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connected to the editorial projects of the Roman Typographia
Medicea , which he directed from 1584 until his death. The present contribution
focuses on unpublished grammars, lexica and other didactic materials
of Syriac, Arabic, Persian and Turkish that were either produced or projected
by Raimondi between the end of the 16th and the first decade of the
17th cent. A great number of grammatical and lexicographical notes, together
with drafts and printing proofs are preserved in Florentine libraries as well
as at the Vatican Library, witness of Raimondi’s approach in learning as
well as teaching and describing Oriental languages. Such documents, with
very few exceptions, have not been studied so far; we examine here this
material from two different perspectives: the method for learning and
self-teaching languages, on the one hand, and the organization and presentation
of information in the didactic tools that he published (or prepared
for publication) on the other.