‘Xuéshìláng’ in Dúnhuáng Manuscripts

Medieval medicine in illuminated manuscripts

interesting comments by earlier owners and readers. There are two appendices, one of documents, the other an up-to-date catalogue of Giovanni's manuscripts that supersedes those by Zazzeri and by Baader. Detailed attention is given to matters codicological, although information on Giovanni's scribes is not always easy to locate in the dense entries. Splendid photographs, of the library, of Giov...

Spotting Words in Medieval Manuscripts

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Medical Illustrations in Medieval Manuscripts

Medical Illustrations in Medieval Manuscripts, by LOREN MACKINNEY, London, Wellcome Historical Medical Library, 1965, pp. xvii, 263, 104 plates, 105s. It is a pity that Loren MacKinney did not live to see the publication of this beautifully produced book, which represents to some extent the culminating point of his thirty years' search for medical illustrations in medieval manuscripts. He had i...

Maintaining Cross References in Manuscripts

Authors face the tedious bookkeeping problem of maintaining the consistency of references to figures, citations, and other numbered entities in successive drafts of a manuscript. If a figure is added to or deleted from the manuscript, the numbers of all subsequent figures must be adjusted, along with the references to these figures. In this note, we show how the UNIX commands grep, awk, and sed...

Guide to Preparing Manuscripts