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In place of an Editorial, Comparative Oriental Manuscript Studies Newsletter 5 (2013)

Project presentation, New critical edition of the primitive recension of the Arabic text of the “History of the Patriarchs of Alexandria” (Lives 17 to 26),...

Comparative Oriental Manuscript Studies Newsletter 3 (January 2012)

For my M.S. thesis at the Faculty of Library and Information Science at Tehran University I conducted a survey of standards used in the databases of Islamic manuscripts...

My doctoral dissertation, completed in 2012 in the University of Naples “L’Orientale”, was dedicated to one of the earliest examples of Arabic medical...

The Christianisation of large parts of central and south-central Asia goes back to the latter part of the fourth century reaching – at the latest from the beginning of the...

This article is a first outcome of a long-term research project, aiming to gather and classify those Osmanlı narrative texts, both prose and verse, which deal with the...

Among the Gǝʿǝz translations which, according to the Ethiopian Christian tradition, were produced and promoted by the fourteenth-century Metropolitan ʾAbbā Salāmā, there is also...

Comparative Oriental Manuscript Studies Newsletter 8 (July 2014)

One of the few items of Qäqäma (Ethiopia) collection which predate the time of Gäbrä Giyorgis is a manuscript (QDGM-010) containing New Testament books: the...

This paper proposes a codicological analysis of two Coptic manuscripts, illustrating how the accurate protocol of codicological description developed within the ERC Advanced...

Project summary: Trismegistos

Famously – and contrary to the usual habit of biblical manuscripts in Arabic – the sixteenth-century manuscript Paris, BNF Arabe 1 embraces an almost complete set of...

Project presentation: Bardaisan’s Book of the Laws of the Countries: A Computer-Assisted Linguistic Analysis

The Ethiopian native lexicographic corpus (the so-called sawāsǝw) and the traditional commentaries (the ʾandəmtā corpus) are intended to explain, with different strategies and...

A preliminary assessment of the manuscript collection of Däbrä Maʿṣo Qəddus Yoḥannəs Məṭmaq, a lesser known historical site in East Tǝgray (Gulo Mäḵäda)...

MS Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana Vat. copt. 57, a collection of homilies attributed to John Chrysostom in Bohairic Coptic, poses a number of challenges to...

The Aksimaros is an Ethiopic translation of the Arabic Aksīmārīs, itself translated from the Greek Hexaemeron ascribed to Ephiphanius of Salamis. The Ethiopic version was most...

The article is an outline of the findings by the author while working on the identification and classification of early Genizah fragments of Saʿadyah Gaon’s Judaeo-Arabic...

The exceptional climatic conditions of the Egyptian desert and the Nile valley have resulted in the preservation and possible recovery of a huge quantity of documents and...