25 datasets found

‘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...

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...

Biblia Arabica is a joint research project directed by Camilla Adang, Meira Polliack (Tel Aviv University) and Sabine Schmidtke (Freie Universität Berlin) with a German...

Project summary: Futūḥ al-buldān

Within the framework of my doctoral research I have been exploring the ways of in-depth computer-assisted analysis of biographical records in Arabic historical sources. The...

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...

The literary tradition of the Zaydi community, a branch of Shiʿi Islam that originated in Kufa and later developed in Northern Iran and Yemen, is among the richest and most...

In 1921, the Bavarian State Library acquired six Christian Arabic manuscript fragments from the notorious collector Friedrich Grote. All fragments, just like a yet to be...

The article discusses a case of fake "Kufi" fragments offered on sale on the Ebay platform, where Arabic passages were written on top of erased Ethiopic texts.

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...

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...

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....

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

Project summary: Forms and Functions of the Layout in Arabic Manuscripts

The Arabic Martyrion of Arethas and his companions in Naǧrān is attested in at least three different versions or redactions.

This paper discusses patterns of manuscript sharing among European scholars during the second half of the nineteenth century, particularly in connection with Martin Schreiner...

Project summary: Digital Averroes Research Environment

This contribution summarises the results of the conservation of selected Arabic, Persian and Turkic manuscripts from the Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, funded by the Heydar...

The census is the result of the final stage project of a post-University Master course in Conservation and Restoration of Book Heritage held in Spoleto, Italy, in 2009. It was...

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...