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Project summary: Khartasia: Online Database on Asian Papers

Codicology, like other disciplines, is a two-way process: out of the observation of single objects it builds a treasure-store of knowledge about the whole class of objects; and...

In the last two years, we have been working on a Graeco-Arabic edition of Book IX of Galen’s On Simple Drugs, which also takes into account an abridged Syriac version. The...

The text below is the second instalment of a series devoted to the various “Märchen-Typen” in the Turkic ʿİsà corpus. While in the first part, which...

This paper summarises the results of a survey conducted on the Oriental Collection of the Biblioteca dell’Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei e Corsiniana, in Rome.

Project summary of the LIGATUS project

Cailah Jackson's PhD dissertation is the first book-length study to analyse the production and patronage of Islamic illuminated manuscripts in late medieval Rūm in their...

PAVONe, the Platform of the Arabic Versions of the New Testament, is a database dedicated to the Arabic manuscripts of the Gospels copied between the ninth and nineteenth...

The present essay continues the series of articles dedicated to the study of the “Golden Gospel” of the church Däbrä Maʿṣo Yoḥannәs (Gulo Mäḵäda,...

Project summary: Turgama: Computer-Assisted Analysis of the Peshitta and the Targum: Text, Language and Interpretation

The Serruys Collection at CSMC During a visit to the University of Washington in May 2015, Professor William G. Boltz gave a box filled mainly with Chinese manuscripts to the...

Dismembered manuscripts are a particular challenge for book conservators, cataloguers, and philologists. The article describes the process and the result of an international...

Project summary: Futūḥ al-buldān

This article is a presentation of the work on the two-volume Опис на ръкописите, старопечатните, редките и ценните издания в Националния Исторически Музей (‘Catalogue of...

The use of chemical reagents for text enhancement was quite common in the nineteenth century. Their application resulted in permanent damage, irreversibly obscuring the writing....

The present article continues the introduction to Armenian codicology which appeared in COMSt Newsletter 4, 2012, pp. 18–23.

The brief article offers some remarks about the devotional requirement, the main formal features, and the historical relevance of the colophons often preserved by Coptic...

Within the framework of my doctoral thesis in Syriac studies (Institute of Oriental Manuscripts, Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, 2007), I focused on the study of...

Within the framework of my doctoral research I have been exploring the ways of in-depth computer-assisted analysis of biographical records in Arabic historical sources. The...

The paper illustrates the choices made by the Ethiopian Manuscript Archives collaborative project when defining the TEI-XML schema and architecture for the encoding of charters...