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Philippe Bobichon, Bibliothèque nationale de France. Hébreu 704 à 733. Manuscrits de théologie, Manuscrits en caractères hébreux...

Project summary: Development of the methodology for the characterization of the Dead Sea Scrolls

If one thinks about mediaeval collections of recipes and properties—medical and non-medical—in Arabic, it is likely that the image of a chaotic and hopelessly...

In this article, we provide an update on the progress of the AHRC-funded Syriac Galen Palimpsest Project, which is directed by Peter E. Pormann at the University of Manchester....

The project IslHornAfr deals with the Islamic manuscript and literary heritage from the Horn of Africa, primarily Ethiopia, but also Eritrea, Somalia/Somaliland, and Djibouti....

At the end of the summer of 2013, the project ParaTexBib: Paratexts of the Bible: Analysis and Edition of the Greek Textual Transmission, an initiative called into life in 2012...

This publication is the second instalment of the article devoted to the West African manuscript heritage. The first part, published in the previous issue of the Comparative...

Conference report: Florilegia Syriaca. Mapping a Knowledge-Organizing Practice in the Syriac World, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, 30 January‒1 February 2020

Coptic biblical titles have not received much attention until now. This article represents a preliminary study of them, dealing with their history and structural evolution. The...

The Hill Museum & Manuscript Library not long ago purchased a single Georgian leaf in nusxuri script, perhaps of the eleventh century, the exact contents of which were...

Book art, including calligraphy, illuminations, and illustrations, embellishes the great manuscripts of the Islamicate world and comprises one of the finest artistic traditions...

Comparative Oriental Manuscript Studies Newsletter 4 (July 2012)

Project summary: Manuscript@CSIC: A new portal for Oriental manuscripts

After a two year period of labour-intensive preliminaries, the Berlin State Library (Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin Preußischer Kulturbesitz) launched the comprehensive and...

My doctoral thesis, completed at Royal Holloway, University of London in 2009 and conducted under the supervision of the late Professor Julian Chrysostomides (d.2008), explores...

Within the framework of my Ph.D. research on the Episcopal Social Networks and Patronage in Late Antique Egypt, which focuses on the social involvement of Abraham of Hermonthis...

Project summary: Islamic Manuscript Database

A new cataloguing project for Greek manuscripts is going ahead at Uppsala University Library thanks to funding from The Central Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Foundation.

It is very gratifying to find that my ideas have found an echo, and to see them well applied in a very useful and interesting article, such as that by Ronny Vollandt on...

Project summary: MaGI. Manoscritti greci d’Italia