JOSEPH L. BLACK (ed.), The Martin Marprelate Tracts: A Modernized and Annotated Edition.

Abstract Eugenio Griffini (1878-1925), the Italian Arabist, was the person who first realized the relevance and cultural significance of the Zaydi manuscript sources, who conveyed the largest Western collection of Zaydi manuscripts (the Caprotti collection) to the Ambrosiana Library in Milan in 1908, and who first immersed himself in this unique and virgin collection of manuscripts of Yemeni origin. Through his exploration of a treasure of nearly 2,000 manuscripts, he became experienced and acknowledged in the practice of reporting extended notes excerpted from the manuscript texts he examined. This outstanding experience over the course of twenty years of study and first-hand research at the Ambrosiana allowed him to unveil the existence and identify hundreds of unknown texts, opening up unexplored fields of interest and investigations into Zaydi literary production. With an extremely collaborative spirit, he lavished on many Orientalist scholars the insights that he had gleaned from the manuscripts he had come across, providing them with partial transcriptions and readings, sometimes upon request and other times even going beyond the requests. This article focusses on Griffini’s life and scholarly activity, particularly his involvement with Zaydi works, in the light of his correspondence with Ignaz Goldziher (1850-1921), of which an annotated edition is provided. The correspondence spans the period from 1908 to 1920 and reveals Griffini’s attitude towards his main projects: the cataloguing of the first three series of the Caprotti collection and his magnum opus, the edition of the Majmūʿ al-fiqh attributed to Zayd b. ʿAlī, on the basis of the Ambrosiana’s exemplars.

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Noël Golvers and Efthymios Nicolaidis, Ferdinand Verbiest and Jesuit Science in 17th Century China: An Annotated Edition and Translation of the Constantinople Manuscript (1676), Athens, Leuven: Ferdinand Verbiest Institute, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Leuven Chinese Studies; 19), 2009, 382 pp.

East Asian Science, Technology, and Medicine ◽

10.1163/26669323-03501009 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 35 (1) ◽

pp. 154-156

Author(s):

Claudia von Collani

Keyword(s):

17Th Century ◽

Annotated Edition ◽

Chinese Studies

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An Annotated Edition of Chaucer Belonging to Stephan Batman

The Library ◽

10.1093/library/22.2.217 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 22 (2) ◽

pp. 217-224

Author(s):

Conor Leahy

Keyword(s):

Sixteenth Century ◽

Reading Practices ◽

Line Drawings ◽

Annotated Edition ◽

Medieval Chronicles ◽

Fresh Insight ◽

Insight Into

Abstract This article introduces a copy of The Woorkes of Geffrey Chaucer (1561) formerly belonging to the writer, cleric, limner, and book-collector Stephan Batman (c. 1542–1584). The volume is currently held at the Guildhall Library (SR 2.3.3), and contains Batman’s annotations and manicules throughout the text. It also features a 28-line poem in Batman’s hand, a short booklist of medieval chronicles, and five line drawings. The book thus offers a fresh insight into the reading practices of one of the most industrious English antiquaries of the sixteenth century, and sheds new light on Chaucer’s sixteenth-century reception.

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