The Readers of 17th-Century English Manuscript Commonplace Book Hesperides, or the Muses’ Garden

Hesperides, or the Muses’ Garden is a 17th-century manuscript commonplace book known primarily for its Shakespearean connections. The readers of Hesperides generally combine reading and thinking, or reading and writing. Though few, Hesperides is not without its “fit audience.” In addition to the few modern scholars who have examined the manuscripts, the actual known readers of Hesperides include Humphrey Moseley the 17th-century publisher, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps in the Victorian period, and a late-18th-century anonymous reader. The last of this group copies Shakespearean and dramatic extracts into the commonplace book and is identified through internal evidence based on paleography. The intended readers of Hesperides, including the Courtier, would make use of it as a linguistic aid, to learn how to speak and write well from literary models. They take the commonplace book as a reference library.

Hyperglycemia Induced by COVID-19 with and without Present Diabetes: A Systematic Review

Abstract—COVID-19 is a major emerging disease that affects any certain condition. However, a recent report suggests the occurrence of hyperglycemia without any present diabetes in COVID-19 patients. This study aimed to systematically review recent evidence on hyperglycemia in COVID-19 patients. Literature research was done using four search engines, consist of Google Scholar, PubMed, ScienceDirect, and ProQuest, and limited to English manuscript only and published from February 2020 to September 2020. SARS-CoV-2 could damage the pancreas by causing the destruction of the β-cell structure that leads to impairment of glucose metabolism and worsen pre-existing diabetes or determine the appearance of hyperglycemia in non-diabetes. Inflammation also plays a major important role in hyperglycemia related to COVID-19. Hyperglycemia increased the vulnerability of the lung, by promoting and facilitating the entry of the SARS-CoV-2 into the host cells, and decreasing lung function. Moreover, the mortality and morbidity rate conceivable increased due to hyperglycemia. The presence of high glucose levels is linked with the progression of COVID-19 severity. Thus, the glucose level should be concerned, either in a patient with present diabetes or without any presence of diabetes. Examination and monitoring of glucose levels might be a useful tool to prevent the seriousness of COVID-19 Keywords: diabetes mellitus, SARS-CoV-2, high glucose level, pulmonary infection Abstrak—COVID-19 adalah penyakit yang muncul yang mempengaruhi kondisi tertentu.Namun, sebuah laporan baru-baru ini menunjukkan terjadinya hiperglikemia tanpa adanya diabetes pada pasien COVID-19. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk meninjau secara sistematis bukti terbaru tentang hiperglikemia pada pasien COVID-19. Penelitian literatur dilakukan dengan menggunakan empat mesin pencari, yaitu Google Scholar, PubMed, ScienceDirect, dan ProQuest, dan terbatas hanya pada manuskrip berbahasa Inggris dan diterbitkan dari Februari 2020 hingga September 2020. SARS-CoV-2 dapat merusak pankreas dengan menyebabkan kerusakan pada pankreas. struktur sel β yang menyebabkan gangguan metabolisme glukosa dan memperburuk diabetes yang sudah ada sebelumnya atau menentukan munculnya hiperglikemia pada kelompok non-diabetes. Peradangan juga memainkan peran penting utama dalam hiperglikemia terkait COVID-19. Hiperglikemia meningkatkan kerentanan paru-paru, dengan mendorong dan memfasilitasi masuknya SARS-CoV-2 ke dalam sel inang, dan menurunkan fungsi paru-paru. Selain itu, angka mortalitas dan morbiditas yang diperkirakan meningkat karena hiperglikemia. Adanya kadar glukosa yang tinggi dikaitkan dengan perkembangan keparahan COVID-19. Dengan demikian, kadar glukosa harus diperhatikan, baik pada pasien dengan diabetes saat ini atau tanpa adanya diabetes. Pemeriksaan dan pemantauan kadar glukosa mungkin menjadi alat yang berguna untuk mencegah derajat keparahan COVID-19. Kata kunci: diabetes mellitus, SARS-CoV-2, peningkatan kadar glukosa, infeksi paru

Holy Land Pilgrimage and Geography in Fifteenth-Century England

This article discusses a single late-fifteenth-century English manuscript as evidence for an understudied form of “virtual” pilgrimage. Bringing together the techniques of codicological, textual, and cartographic-historical research, the article shows how Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 426 presents a vision of the world profoundly inflected by Holy Land pilgrimage, in which scholarly, mathematical geography is placed in the service of knowledge and understanding of the Holy Land. Indeed, within MS 426, the process of gaining understanding of the world’s geography and of the place of the Holy Land within it becomes a kind of virtual pilgrimage: a form of vicarious wandering that prompts religious contemplation and devotion. The article, which includes discussion of the manuscript’s unique and previously unstudied Jerusalem map, thus reminds us to keep in mind the inadequacy of modern taxonomies for dealing with the messy materialities of medieval texts.

Transparently Hierarchical

The three scribes of a mid-seventeenth-century collection of medical recipes resemble each other in how they have punctuated the recipes, although they did not work simultaneously. They draw on similar repertoires of marks and they mark similar functions, but they do not use the same marks for the same functions. The principal function is the global one of indicating where the constitutive elements of the recipes begin and end. This function of indicating a text’s structural hierarchy goes back centuries and can seem old-fashioned for an Early Modern English manuscript produced when grammarians had started to discuss whether punctuation should mark syntactic units. A key observation is that recipes stand out among text-types by having a fixed, transparently hierarchical structure. This feature of them facilitates the researcher’s appreciation of how the punctuation functions and dismisses any impression of the scribes having deployed the marks haphazardly.

Thomas Dawes in Aleppo

Chapter 8 discusses the chaplain Thomas Dawes’s letters from Aleppo in the 1760s. It uses Dawes’s career to reflect again on the book’s central themes. The first section describes Dawes’s work on behalf of the English Hebraist Benjamin Kennicott, and his attempt to view the renowned ‘Aleppo Codex’. It then sets out a series of arguments explaining why English manuscript collecting in Aleppo had tailed off since the days of Pococke and Huntington in the 1630s and 1670s. The shift of British commercial and imperial interests to the Indian subcontinent had been mirrored by a reorientation of scholarly concerns. The chapter then describes Dawes’s meeting with the German traveller Carsten Niebuhr, and explains what had happened to the interest in antiquities since Maundrell was in Aleppo at the end of the seventeenth century. The emergence of professional, state-sponsored antiquarian travellers, such as Niebuhr, had displaced the older more ad hoc collaboration between the chaplain and scholars at home. Although individual erudite travellers would continue to pass through Aleppo, the commerce of knowledge had come to an end.

Analogy, reanalysis and exaptation in Early Middle English: the emergence of a new inflectional system

From Old English to Middle English inflection is gradually lost. It is assumed that this is mainly due to phonological and syntactic changes. This article, however, argues that the loss of inflection is not a linear process but new systems can emerge, and that morphological changes play an important role. The nominal inflection of the Lambeth Homilies – an Early Middle English manuscript from the southwest Midlands and dated around 1200 – is investigated in detail. It will be shown that analogical changes within and across inflection classes do not simply lead towards a reduction of inflection. The increase in syncretism and decrease in allomorphy result in a new inflectional system. This new system distinguishes singular from plural, feminine from non-feminine (in the singular and plural), and possessive from non-possessive (in the singular and plural). Additionally, the original inflection classes related to different stems are almost lost, except the weak inflection classes. The inflection classes are instead related to gender; that is, gender is the information that best predicts how a noun is inflected.

Early Modern English Scientific Manuscripts in the Hunterian Collection: A Physical Description of Gul, MS Hunter 135

RESUMEN: El presente artículo ofrece un análisis codicológico y paleográfi co del manuscrito Hunter 135, un volumen del siglo XVI que contiene cinco tratados de los cuales el segundo y la mitad del tercero son objeto de estudio (chirvrgia libri, ff. 34r-73v; y medica qvaedam, ff. 74r-121v). La descripción física no solo ha permitido aportar la posible fecha de composición del manuscrito sino que también ha hecho posible el análisis de las técnicas en la producción de manuscritos en el Periodo moderno temprano (1500-1700).ABSTRACT: The present article provides a codicological and palaeographic analysis of MS Hunter 135, a sixteenth-century volume containing fi ve treatises, the second and approximately half the third being the object of study (chirvrgia libri, ff. 34r-73v; and medica qvaedam, ff. 74r-121v). The physical description has not only shed light on the likely date of composition of the witness but also on the different practices in early Modern English manuscript production.

Merchants and Miscellany Making

This chapter examines mercantile miscellanies. Although the connections between merchants, writing-masters, and scriveners have long been known, surprisingly little attention has been paid to merchants as owners or compilers of manuscript miscellanies. This chapter fills that gap by examining a number of mercantile manuscripts that possess a distinct generic miscellaneity, including those compiled by Robert Williams (who traded in Livorno), William Hill, and the Leche family of Chester. In discussing these manuscripts, it adds to current conversations about the influence on English manuscript culture of the Italian zibaldone and Luca Pacioli’s double-entry system, as well as revealing hitherto unknown continuities between humanist and mercantile culture. Central to the chapter is a discussion of early modern ‘knowledge transfer’, which is illustrated through a series of account books belonging to the scrivener Robert Glover and then by reference to Nicolas Maes’s painting The Account Keeper.