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Publication Floods, Community Infrastructure, and Children's Heterogeneous Learning Losses in Rural India(2025-02-03) Hannum, Emily; Khalid, Nazar; Behrman, Jere R.; Thapa, AmritIndia has the world’s largest number of school-aged children. The majority live in rural areas, many of which are highly flood-prone. Previous studies document that in such areas, floods are associated with lower enrollments, attendance, and learning, in some cases with differentiation by gender, caste/religion, and family SES. Previous literature suggests that components of community infrastructure have positive associations with children’s learning. However, previous literature has not addressed whether better community physical and social infrastructures are associated with (1) smaller flood-related learning losses on average, (2) different learning for marginalized versus other children in the absence of floods, and (3) different vulnerabilities to floods for marginalized versus other children. This paper finds that (1) most aspects of community physical and social infrastructure are not associated with lower flood-related learning losses on average, but proximity to towns and several components of social infrastructure are associated with lower flood-related learning losses on average, (2) community physical and social infrastructure components have heterogeneous associations, in some cases increasing, in most cases not affecting, and in other cases reducing disparities in learning between marginalized and other children in the absence of floods, and (3) community physical and social infrastructure components have heterogeneous effects, in some cases increasing, in most cases not affecting, and in other cases reducing disparities in learning between marginalized and other children in the presence of floods.Publication Collation Model for Ms. Codex 363: Triumpho de la morte contra li magni [et] valenti homini de Italia : cum le additione de li capitani moderni : novamente composte [et] correcta la prima hystoria.(2025-03-19) Porter, DotPoetic work in 91 eight-line stanzas. Mentioned in the poems are Sforza, Galeazo, Contarini, Gonzaga, Malatesta, Spinola, Brandolini, etc.Publication Collation Model for Ms. Codex 290: La legenda di s[an]ct[i]ss[im]i Thebey soto Dioclitiano & Maximiano i[m]p[er]ato[r]i.(2025-03-19) Porter, DotAn Italian version of the extremely popular legend of the martyrdom of the Theban Legion, supposedly decimated in the reign of Diocletian and Maximian because so many of its officers and men adhered to the Christian faith. The massacre is supposed to have taken place at St. Maurice-en-Valais (now in Switzerland). The commander of the legion (which was composed entirely of men from the Thebaid in Egypt) was Maritius, later canonized.Publication Collation Model for Ms. Codex 197: [Contemplations of the dread and love of God] ... [etc.](2025-03-19) Porter, DotManuscript copy of the text, Contemplations of the dread and love of God, sometimes erroneously attributed to Richard Rolle. This text covers f. 1-131 of the manuscript; it begins in the middle of the early section, What ys charite; how and whi thou schalt love God, and lacks the final leaf where this text ends and the next begins. Followed by additional prayers, poems, and homilies. These include prayers to Jesus, the Blessed Virgin, St. John the Baptist, St. Katherine and others. Also includes texts on virtues and on the seven gifts of the Holy Ghost.Publication Collation Model for Ms. Codex 1881: [Astronomical treatises and tables].(2025-03-19) Porter, DotLate 15th-century collection of Latin astronomical treatises and tables of the 12th through 14th centuries, illustrated with six volvelles and numerous diagrams. The Alphonsine tables have calculations added in the bottom margins for various cities, mostly in Germany, including Erfurt, Magdeburg, Leipzig, Mainz, Nuremberg, Paris, Prague, Regensburg, and Worms (f. 45v-51v), and a colophon dated 30 December 1481 (f. 61v). A leaf at the end of the volume has the Hebrew alphabet and a few Hebrew transliterations, including Magdeburg, carefully written parallel to the spine (f. 95v).Publication Collation Model for Ms. Codex 1604: [Hymns and prayers].(2025-03-19) Porter, DotManuscript collection of texts of hymns and prayers bound with slightly later printed pastoral works appropriate for a priest. The first 6 gatherings of the manuscript section (f. 1-72) contain 86 hymns and prayers in Latin with interlinear German, each followed by a German translation, including Conditor alme siderum (f. 1r), Veni redemptor genitum (f. 1v), Criste redemptor omnium (f. 7r), Ave maris stella (f. 14v), Veni creator spiritus (f. 38r). The first gathering has an added leaf (f. 5) with the abecedarian poem A solis ortus cardine by the 5th-century poet Sedulius, written in a different 15th-century Gothic cursive hand. Some of the Latin texts in this section have numerical notations above words. The sequence Ave praeclara maris stella, with Latin and German text intermingled, has been added by another hand on the last leaves of this section (f. 70v-72r). The last gathering of the manuscript section (f. 73-86), in a different hand and slightly different format, contains 30 hymns in Latin all with numerical notation above words in the text and with marginal commentary. Notes by later hands are dated 1556 (f. 86r) and 1553 (last flyleaf). Printed works precede and follow the manuscript section. An edition of the Liber florum beati Bernardi abbatis Clarevallensis printed in Augsburg in 1519 comprises the first half of the volume. Editions published in 1515 in Leipzig by Melchior Lotter of the Stella clericorum, an anonymous 13th-century pastoral handbook, and the Secreta sacerdotum by Heinrich von Langenstein, follow the manuscript section.Publication Collation Model for Ms. Codex 1084: Moralia sunt figuris utriusque testamenti ... [etc.].(2025-03-19) Porter, DotA moralizing commentary on Biblical figures from both the Old and New Testaments as well as a sermon presented at the Council of Basel in 1433.Publication Collation Model for Ms. Codex 1042: [Bellum Catilinae ; Bellum Jugurthinum](2025-03-19) Porter, DotSallust's historical accounts of the Catlinian conspiracy against and of the Battle of Jugurthine, preceded by a brief biography of Sallust and followed by a distich of Martial and dueling invectives attributed to Sallust and Cicero.Publication Collation Model for Ms. Codex 113: [La chimie, couleurs, parfumerie].(2025-03-19) Porter, DotCollection of recipes and instructions for making colors, perfumes, soap, dyes, engraving, illuminating, making marble paper, making mirrors, preserving wine, etc. Contains over 200 different recipes and instructions.Publication Collation Model for Ms. Codex 105: [Privilegia et libertates](2025-03-12) Porter, DotConsists of papal bulls and documents concerning privileges granted to the Order of Teutonic Knights. Includes 82 bulls of Honorius III; 2 of Gregory IX, 3 of Innocent IV; 18 of Alexander IV; 1 each of Innocent III and Urban IV; also, 5 privileges of Emperor Frederick II. Folio 49v contains two notes that appear to date later than the rest of the manuscript: Nonne cor nostrum ardens in nobis (Luke 24:32) in red, and a passage concerning the observance of octaves on feast days.