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Occasional Paper No. 8 The definition of written artefact, its context and its limits The suggested definition is the result of exchanges, reflections, and discussions in the...

Occasional Paper 11 Patterns and the Visual Organisation of Written Artefacts The production and use of written artefacts are subject to many conventions, which are often...

Occasional Paper No 10 Towards the Investigation of Material Choices in Written Artefacts: Methodological Reflections This Occasional Paper is the result of the discussion...

The research project on a witness to one of the earliest translations of the Qurʾān, preserved in the Vat. gr. 681, is directed by Manolis Ulbricht within the framework of the...

PAThs – Tracking Papyrus and Parchment Paths: An Archaeological Atlas of Coptic Literature. Literary Texts in their Geographical Context. Production, Copying, Usage,...

The project Beta maṣāḥǝft: Manuscripts of Ethiopia and Eritrea creates a portal that manages the entry, presentation, and analysis of data related to the manuscript tradition of...

Project summary: Corpus dei Manoscritti Copti Letterari

SYRAB is a project funded by the Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR) in France for four years (2009-2013).

The Shepherd of Hermas is a document of considerable significance for the history of the early Christianism, and the Ethiopic version (Gǝʿǝz Herma näbiy), translated from a...

Project summary: MANUMED

The manuscript tradition of the Betä Ǝsraʾel, the Jews of Ethiopia, has not been studied before. This article aims to provide a first tentative analysis of a number of...

A finely illuminated Ethiopic Psalter dating to the fifteenth-sixteenth century, sold on auction in 1983 and still in the possession of an unknown private collector, was made...

The aims of my long-term research project are to identify, explore, and analyse all Greek manuscripts that were brought to Europe by Constantin Tischendorf, a nineteenth-century...

It is known that, in the Middle Ages, both the Orient and the Occident employed the roll, in particularly in liturgical context, with the text nearly always arranged parallel to...

Conference Report: New Light on Old Manuscripts: Recent Advances in Palimpsest Studies, Vienna, 25–27 April 2018

The European Research Council (ERC) recently awarded an ERC Starting Grant for the project New Contexts for Old Texts: Unorthodox Texts and Monastic Manuscript Culture in...

‘Alchemy in the Making: From Ancient Babylonia via Graeco-Roman Egypt into the Byzantine, Syriac and Arabic Traditions (1500 Bce–1000 AD)’ (AlchemEast) is a...

A new project for Christian Sogdian corpus is going ahead at the Institute of Iranian Studies, Austrian Academy of Sciences, thanks to funding from The Austrian Science Fund...

On 1 November 2016, the project ‘PAThs: Tracking Papyrus and Parchment Paths: An Archaeological Atlas of Coptic Literature. Literary Texts in their Geographical Context....

The essay explores the pricking and ruling in Ethiopic manuscripts. A few variations exist in the relative arrangement of the constituent elements defining the page layout:...