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Conference report: Scribal Identity and Agency: Scribes at Ugarit and Ancient Rome, Medieval Christianity and Islam, Monasticism in Ethiopia and Tibet, Oxford (online),...

Conference report: Illuminating the Eastern Christian World: Manuscripts, Illuminators and Scribes, Hamburg, 30 June–1 July 2022

Conference report: Identifying Models and Copies on the Basis of Material Evidence: At the Intersection Between Manuscript Studies and Philology, Hamburg, 10–11 November 2022

The present paper is a study of the verses of Mark 16 in the Persian Harmony (PH) of the four canonical gospels. Considering that the lesser-known manuscripts of this text have...

Numerous digitization efforts by individuals and organizations over the last fifty years have exponentially expanded the number of Gǝʿǝz manuscripts available online for study....

In this contribution, we present Mark 16:9–20 as we read it in Arabic manuscripts of the library of the monastery of St Catherine (Sinai). The pericope is present in all...

The present paper is a study of the verses of Mark 16 in the Persian Harmony (PH) of the four canonical gospels. Considering that the lesser-known manuscripts of this text have...

The history of the text of Mark 16 in Georgian is presented: the Short Ending (Mark 16:8) is the only one known up to the tenth century and is found up to the eleventh century;...

It is widely recognized that the ending of Mark in the Codex Sinaiticus, Vaticanus and Alexandrinus presents some physical peculiarities in terms of the layout, quire structure...

This article aims to clarify the issue of the endings of Mark in the Coptic versions. It endeavors to show that the endings of Mark fit within the general context of the textual...

Four main Syriac versions of the Greek gospels survive, and some copies of these versions were later revised against further Greek gospel manuscripts. Many of these Syriac...

Comparative Oriental Manuscript Studies Bulletin 8/1 (2022) Front Matter

This article revisits the definition of paratextuality as a relationship between two pieces of content (understood in a broad sense) in a manuscript. It also discusses whether,...

Conference report: Recipes and Recipe Books Across Manuscript Culture, Hamburg (online), 12–13 April 2021

After presenting in schematic format the structural elements that are typical of an Armenian colophon, this article seeks to perform a simple operation: verify their actual...

The article aims to define the usual structure of Coptic colophons by identifying the main sections into which these texts are divided. It also proposes the identification of...

Beta maṣāḥǝft working papers 2: After Ethio-SPaRe: Beta maṣāḥǝft Field Research Part 2: Lǝggat Qirqos and its Bookmaking

In the context of Christian Orient and Sub-Saharan Africa, Ethiopic hagiography represents a remarkable literary and cultural phenomenon which merits close attention. The...

The contribution provides an analysis of calendric and astronomical data in the Ethiopic colophon of the Chronicle of John of Nikiu. This analysis demonstrates the application...

In 1905, Alphonse Mingana published a two-volume edition of metrical homilies, or mēmrē, of the important East-Syriac theologian and poet Narsai (d. c.500). This edition remains...