The treatise on musica plana and musica mensurabilis written by Lambertus Aristoteles is our main witness to thirteenth-century musical thought in the decades between the treatises of Johannes de Garlandia and Franco of Cologne. This treatise presents both the rudiments... Lees meer.

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Ali ibn Abi Talib was an acknowledged master of Arabic eloquence and a renowned sage of Islamic wisdom. This is a collection of sayings sermons and teachings attributed to Ali ibn Abi Talib d 40H 661AD cousin and son-in-law of the Prophet Muhammad first Shi a Imam... Lees meer.

The Sepher Yetzirah or Book of Formation although very short is probably the most important of the Kabalistic texts. Its secrets were passed on in the Hebrew oral tradition until it was written down in the 2nd century b.c.e. It lays out the principles of Kabalistic c... Lees meer.

Western drama having all but disappeared during the Dark Ages reemerged spontaneously in the liturgy and life of the medieval church. Vernacular miracle plays of England s Middle Ages were performed by lay people many by trade guilds unschooled in church Latin bu... Lees meer.

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In Did Jesus Really Say. . author Louis Sefer invites readers on a journey of discovery through a comprehensive collection of early Christian texts. From the well-known Gospel of Thomas and the Gospel of Mary Magdalene to lesser-known works like the Gospel of the Na... Lees meer.

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The Book of Baruch is a Bible pseudepigrapha a deuterocanonical work attributed to Baruch ben Neriah the scribe of the prophet Jeremiah. The Assumption of Moses is a Jewish apocryphal work concerning hidden prophecies that Moses revealed to Joshua prior to the latter... Lees meer.

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I.B. Tauris in association with the Institute of Ismaili Studies.The Kitab al-Kashf is one of the earliest Ismaili texts to have reached the present day. Transmitted by the Tayybi Ismaili tradition it is composed of six treatises most of which as this open access stu... Lees meer.

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Ptolemy considered a proto-Humanist by some combined the principles of Northern Italian republicanism with Aristotelian theory in his De Regimine Principum a book that influenced much of the political thought of the later Middle Ages the Renaissance and the early m... Lees meer.

This edition of Books IV to VII of Diophantus Arithmetica which are extant only in a recently discovered Arabic translation is the outgrowth of a doctoral dissertation submitted to the Brown University Department of the History of Mathematics in May 1975.... Lees meer.

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