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I am carrying out a precise codicological analysis of each of the thirteen manuscripts of Zotenberg's Egyptian Recension of 1001 Nights still existing, whether complete or...

The text below is the third instalment of a series of research notes concerning the Turkic ʿİsà corpus. The first two parts (published in the COMSt Newsletter issues 2...

Thinking of the stemma one should try to avoid thinking of a tree and its branches. The few disparate textual witnesses that we do have are often nothing more than a small pile...

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...

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...

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

Both traditional and digital editing essentially consist of the inputting of text. When the source is a manuscript, this is still a very labour-intensive process, unlikely to be...

‘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...

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...

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...

The Coptic text of the Acta Phileae matches closely the Ethiopic text, that probably goes back directly to a Greek Vorlage and is therefore decisive for a correct...