The article presents the results from the project of the thematic Digital Library of Polish and Poland-related Ephemeral Prints from the 16th, 17th and 18th Centuries, intending to preserve the unique multilingual material, make it available for education and extend it with the joint efforts of historians, philologists, librarians and computer scientists. The paper also puts forward the idea of...

the muslim scholars, philologists and rhetoricians are unanimous that the eloquence of the holy prophet, peace be upon him and his household, is unparalleled and there is nothing like his style and discourse. to put it in other words, the speech of the prophet is beneath the speech of god but above that of people in that it gathers the most comprehensive discourses and wonders of eloquence and ...

Philologists reconstructing ancient texts from variously miscopied manuscripts anticipated information theorists by centuries in conceptualizing information in terms of probability. An example is the editorial principle difficilior lectio potior (DLP): in choosing between otherwise acceptable alternative wordings in different manuscripts, "the more difficult reading [is] preferable." As philolo...

The author briefly presents the life and work of André Motte (who died 28 November 2021), who was a professor ancient philology philosophy at University Liège, details his longtime cooperation with philologists philosophers Adam Mickiewicz in Poznań.