Friday, August 15, 2014

Virgil's Garden: Hortus Virgilianus

Virgil's Garden: Hortus Virgilianus
Holt Parker
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Vergil's Garden
Hortus Vergilianus
Le Jardin de Vergile
Il Giardino virgiliano
Die Planzenwelt Vergils
Vergil's Garden is an illustrated guide to the plants in Vergil's Georgics. I plan to expand the site later to include the Eclogues and Aeneid.
You can enter and navigate in any number of ways.
Click on one of the link below to go to the text of the Georgics.
GEORGICA  I GEORGICA  II GEORGICA  III GEORGICA  IV
Each book is linked to the Latin text as broken up into segments at Perseus (with dictionary and parsing aids). You can set either Latin or English translation as your default there. The names of the plants are highlighted and a click will take you to a page with pictures of the plants, their scientific names (genus and species), and the common names in English, French, German, and Italian. Clicking the Latin name will take you to the entry in Lewis and Short. Almost all links open in a new page, so you can have the text, the pretty pictures, etc., all open on your desktop. At the bottom of each page is a set of navigation links to return you to the main pages in that same window.

Traditio Classicorum (English Version) : The Fortuna of the Classical Authors to the Year 1650

Traditio Classicorum (English Version)
Charles H. Lohr
The Fortuna of the Classical Authors to the Year 1650

The following pages contain a bibliography of secondary literature concerning the fortuna of classical authors to the year 1650.
The bibliography is arrarranged alphabetically according to the common form, in Latin, of the names of the authors. The Latin form is followed also for Greek and Arabic authors.
The term "classical" has in a few cases understood in a broad sense, so that some references are included to medieval and Renaissance "classics", but the choice has been rather arbitrary.
For the bibliography concrning the fortuna of biblical works, the following lists contain for the most par references only to books, periodical articles being omitted.
The entries for the individual authors have been divided into general works (situated immediately after the name of the author concerned) and specific titles (arranged chronologically).

Virgil in Late Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and the Renaissance: An Online Bibliography

Virgil in Late Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and the Renaissance: An Online Bibliography
By David Scott Wilson-Okamura
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This is the eighth edition (2010) of "Virgil in Late Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and the Renaissance: An Online Bibliography." It is not exhaustive. It contains, moreover, many items that I have not handled in person. As a result, there are some entries that are incomplete (lacking, for instance, the name of a series or publisher). There are also, in all likelihood, some simple errors of transcription. If you find errors or lacunae, please send them to david@virgil.org. Other good sources for information include the Mantovano mailing list (an online discussion group devoted to Virgil's works and their reception), my own virgil.org collection of Virgil resources, as well as Vergil's Home Page. In print, see the excellent bibliographies by Suerbaum et al. in Aufstieg und Niedergang der römischen Welt 2:31.1,2 (1981), as well as the bibliographies that appear annually in Vergilius. (Some of these last are also online.) Online, see also Shirley Werner's Bibliographical Guide to Vergil's Aeneid.

Introduction

Textual Criticism
Late Antiquity
  Vitae
  Servius

Middle Ages
  Commentaries
  Adaptations
  Dante

Renaissance
  Printing History
  Illustrations
  Translations
  Imitations
  (Criticism)
  Commentaries
  Petrarch
  Landino
  Spenser
  Education

 


Thursday, August 14, 2014

New Finding Aids and Inventories from ICFA

New Finding Aids and Inventories from ICFA
The Image Collections and Fieldwork Archives (ICFA), Dumbarton Oaks.
The Image Collections and Fieldwork Archives (ICFA) is pleased to announce the publication of several new finding aids. Check under the “Finding Aids” field in the following collection-level records in our online inventory, AtoM@DO:
Additionally, ICFA has created preliminary inventories for:
These collections document various fieldwork and research projects, primarily relating to Byzantine and Pre-Columbian art and architecture, but also related to prehistoric sites in eastern Turkey and gardens in the United Kingdom. They range from the detailed architectural survey of Hagia Sophia conducted by Robert Van Nice and his fieldwork assistants between 1937 and 1980s; the documentation of architectural capitals in the city of Istanbul by William Betsch for his dissertation; the photographic and fineline drawing documentation of Moche art created and assembled by Christopher Donnan and Donna McClelland; and correspondence detailing the financial support provided by Mildred and Robert Bliss to scholarly publications and archaeological expeditions undertaken by Kirsopp and Silva Lake. Additionally, other collections illustrate Dumbarton Oaks’ early fellowship and institutional projects starting in the early 1940s, including systematic efforts to document Early Christian and Byzantine monuments, manuscripts, and silver objects. There are also photo albums detailing Donald Egbert and Andrew Keck’s 1937 travels in Europe and the Middle East, as well as Franklin Biebel’s efforts to document mosaic pavements in Byzantium and the West.
Since our last announcement of published finding aids in April 2013, ICFA staff has continued to work on processing our collections and providing detailed information in our finding aids, in order to make our holdings more accessible to our users. As collections are processed, we develop finding aids to describe them more thoroughly and at more granular levels in the archival hierarchy. In the interim, the AtoM@DO collection-level descriptions and preliminary inventories serve to provide researchers with summary information about unprocessed collections.

Museos y Centros Arqueológicos de Romanidad Hispana

Museos y Centros Arqueológicos de Romanidad Hispana

Wednesday, August 13, 2014

Museo Nacional de Arte Romano (Merida, Spain)

Museo Nacional de Arte Romano
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El origen de las colecciones del Museo Nacional de Arte Romano se sitúa en el siglo XVI cuando don Fernando de Vera y Vargas, señor de Don Tello y Sierra Brava comenzó a formar, en su palacio, una importante colección epigráfica. A partir de estas primeras colecciones y de otros hallazgos arqueológicos en la ciudad de Mérida, habidos entre los siglos XVI y XIX, se crea un primer museo en 1838, institución que radicaría en la iglesia del Convento de Santa Clara. Las siguientes excavaciones arqueológicas conllevarán al incremento de las colecciones del museo y desembocarán, finalmente, en la creación, en 1975, del Museo Nacional de Arte Romano. 

En la actualidad las colecciones del museo recogen más de 37000 fondos. De ellos sobresalen los comprendidos en la sección de escultura, mosaicos y numismática. Asimismo existe una buena representación de objetos de cerámica y vidrio. El catálogo en línea del museo muestra, en una primera fase, más de 6000 piezas y 10500 imágenes. El museo se propone ampliar los fondos visibles incorporando, progresivamente, destacadas piezas del resto de sus colecciones. 

Condiciones de uso
Acceso al Catálogo

DOMUS es un sistema integrado de documentación y gestión museográfica desarrollado por el Ministerio de Cultura (Subdirección General de Museos Estatales y Subdirección General de Tecnologías y Sistemas de la Información). Se trata de una aplicación informática para el catálogo y gestión de los bienes culturales custodiados por los museos. 

La información de catálogo e imágenes digitales de las colecciones del museo se muestran al público a través de esta página web, y forman parte ya de la Red Digital de Colecciones de Museos de España.

Coptic Bibliographies

Coptic Bibliographies
The bibliographies listed below are the result of teaching Coptic history and language here at Macquarie. Their aim is to introduce students to an area of study.