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Project: Turgama: Computer-Assisted Analysis of the Peshitta and the Targum: ...
Project summary: Turgama: Computer-Assisted Analysis of the Peshitta and the Targum: Text, Language and Interpretation -
The Four Gospel Book of Däbrä Maʿṣo and its Marginal Notes. Part 2. An Exerci...
The present essay continues the series of articles dedicated to the study of the “Golden Gospel” of the church Däbrä Maʿṣo Yoḥannәs (Gulo Mäḵäda,... -
PAVONe: Platform of the Arabic Versions of the New Testament
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... -
Patrons and Artists at the Crossroads: The Islamic Arts of the Book in the La...
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... -
Project: LIGATUS
Project summary of the LIGATUS project -
Decoration Techniques Observed in the Oriental Manuscripts of the Biblioteca ...
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. -
ʿİsà the Prophet: some Turkish anecdotes not found in the Arabic tradition. P...
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... -
Stone by Stone: Building the Graeco-Arabic Edition of Galen's On Simple Drugs...
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... -
Our common codicology (and some notes on the West)
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... -
Project: Khartasia: Online Database on Asian Papers
Project summary: Khartasia: Online Database on Asian Papers -
Pricking and Ruling in Ethiopic Manuscripts: an Aid for Dating?
The essay explores the pricking and ruling in Ethiopic manuscripts. A few variations exist in the relative arrangement of the constituent elements defining the page layout:... -
Tracking Papyrus and Parchment Paths: An Archaeological Atlas of Coptic Liter...
On 1 November 2016, the project ‘PAThs: Tracking Papyrus and Parchment Paths: An Archaeological Atlas of Coptic Literature. Literary Texts in their Geographical Context.... -
Project: Christian Sogdian Book Culture during Late Antiquity and the Early M...
A new project for Christian Sogdian corpus is going ahead at the Institute of Iranian Studies, Austrian Academy of Sciences, thanks to funding from The Austrian Science Fund... -
Alchemy in the Making: From Ancient Babylonia via Graeco-Roman Egypt into the...
‘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... -
Project: New Contexts for Old Texts: Unorthodox Texts and Monastic Manuscript...
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... -
Conference Report: New Light on Old Manuscripts: Recent Advances in Palimpses...
Conference Report: New Light on Old Manuscripts: Recent Advances in Palimpsest Studies, Vienna, 25–27 April 2018 -
The liturgical scroll between Orient and Occident: ideas for a comparative study
It is known that, in the Middle Ages, both the Orient and the Occident employed the roll, in particularly in liturgical context, with the text nearly always arranged parallel to... -
Constantin Tischendorf and his Greek Manuscripts
The aims of my long-term research project are to identify, explore, and analyse all Greek manuscripts that were brought to Europe by Constantin Tischendorf, a nineteenth-century... -
The Manuscript Tradition of the Betä Ǝsraʾel (Ethiopian Jews): Form and Conte...
The manuscript tradition of the Betä Ǝsraʾel, the Jews of Ethiopia, has not been studied before. This article aims to provide a first tentative analysis of a number of... -
The Accidents of Transmission: On a Surprising Multilingual Manuscript Leaf
A finely illuminated Ethiopic Psalter dating to the fifteenth-sixteenth century, sold on auction in 1983 and still in the possession of an unknown private collector, was made...