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This book examines the transmission processes of the Aristotelian Mechanics. It does so to enable readers to appreciate the value of the treatise based on solid knowledge of the principles of the text. In addition, the book’s critical examination helps clear up many of the current misunderstandings about the transmission of the text and the diagrams. The first part of the book sets out the Greek manuscript tradition of the Mechanics, resulting in a newly established stemma codicum that illustrates the affiliations of the manuscripts. This research has led to new insights into the transmission of the treatise, most importantly, it also demonstrates an urgent need for a new text. A first critical edition of the diagrams contained in the Greek manuscripts of the treatise is also presented. These diagrams are not only significant for a reconstruction of the text but can also be considered as a commentary on the text. Diagrams are thus revealed to be a powerful tool in studying processes of the transfer and transformation of knowledge. This becomes especially relevant when the manuscript diagrams are compared with those in the printed editions and in commentaries from the early modern period. The final part of the book shows that these early modern diagrams and images reflect the altered scope of the mechanical discipline in the sixteenth century.

Philosophy of science --- Manuscripts. Epigraphy. Paleography --- Aristotle

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Music --- Manuscripts. Epigraphy. Paleography --- illuminated manuscripts --- muziekschrift --- polyfonie --- handschriften --- Vansteenkiste, Jonas --- Alamire, Petrus --- Gruuthusemuseum [Brugge]

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For our entire history, humans have always searched for new ways to share information. This innate compulsion led to the origin of writing on the rock walls of caves and coffin lids or carving on tablets. But it was with the advent of papyrus paper when the ability to record and transmit information exploded, allowing for an exchanging of ideas from the banks of the Nile throughout the Mediterranean--and the civilized world--for the first time in human history. In The Pharaoh's Treasure, John Gaudet looks at this pivotal transition to papyrus paper, which would become the most commonly used information medium in the world for more than 4,000 years. Far from fragile, papyrus paper is an especially durable writing surface; papyrus books and documents in ancient and medieval times had a usable life of hundreds of years, and this durability has allowed items like the famous Nag Hammadi codices from the third and fourth century to survive. The story of this material that was prized by both scholars and kings reveals how papyrus paper is more than a relic of our ancient past, but a key to understanding how ideas and information shaped humanity in the ancient and early modern world.

Paper --- Papermaking --- Manuscripts (Papyri) --- Papyri, Egyptian --- Papyrus manuscripts --- Paleography --- Writing materials and instruments --- History --- Manufacturing technologies --- books --- manuscripts [documents] --- papermaking --- paper [fiber product] --- Egypt

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Painting --- Manuscripts. Epigraphy. Paleography --- miniatures [paintings] --- miniaturen --- Iran

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La 4e de couv. indique : "Cet ouvrage a été publié à l'occasion de l'exposition "Le papyrus dans tous ses états, de Cléopâtre à Clovis", consacrée à l'histoire du papyrus de l'Antiquité à sa disparition au Moyen-Âge."

Papyrologie. --- Papyrus (manuscrits) --- Manuscripts (Papyri) --- Book history --- typography --- book history --- papyrus [fiber product] --- Manuscripts (Papyri) - Exhibitions --- Writing materials and instruments - History - To 1500 - Exhibitions --- boekdrukkunst