https://byzantinephilly.lcdss.reclaim.hosting/files/original/42d003d055a4e48b9ad98cedcd2ea949.jpg a410b967933ccf1b905ec41e08353fbf Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Academic Texts Description An account of the resource These academic and educational works are texts that relate to the understanding and teaching of scientific knowledge. This includes subjects such as medicine, timekeeping, and healing. Many of these texts are books, while others are tablets or single manuscript leaves. Some of these works had the purpose of instructing and directing others on how to perform medicine and provide healing, while others are detailed calendars. The recording of text in the Byzantine era was very different from the current understanding of writing. Each of these pieces took a great deal of time, effort, and craftsmanship. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Grace Luzcando Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Pros mathēmatikous (Against The Professors) Subject The topic of the resource A manuscript covering the subject of education and state of learning Description An account of the resource The Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Russia, Isidore of Kiev, copied the second century Pros mathēmatikous (Against the Professors) originally written by the Pyrrhonist and Empiric philosopher Sextus Empiricus. The manuscript critiques learning at the time and all of its standard curriculum such as rhetoric, geometry, music, physics, logic, and ethics, etc.. Pros mathēmatikous is written in a Greek minuscule script and has a twenty-seven long lined layout upon 269 folios. In its critique of standardized knowledge acquisition. This manuscript embodies Sextus Empiricus' Pyrrhonian skepticism and suspension of judgment surrounding the degree of whether anything is truly knowable. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Isidore of Kiev, (1385-1463 CE) ; Sextus Empiricus, (ca.160 - ca.210 BCE) Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, University of Pennsylvania Libraries Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1438-1445 CE Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Jules Olszewski Language A language of the resource Greek Type The nature or genre of the resource Manuscript Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Ink, Parchment Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, University of Pennsylvania Libraries Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context LJS 380