142 datasets found

The Christianisation of large parts of central and south-central Asia goes back to the latter part of the fourth century reaching – at the latest from the beginning of the...

This article is a first outcome of a long-term research project, aiming to gather and classify those Osmanlı narrative texts, both prose and verse, which deal with the...

Among the Gǝʿǝz translations which, according to the Ethiopian Christian tradition, were produced and promoted by the fourteenth-century Metropolitan ʾAbbā Salāmā, there is also...

Comparative Oriental Manuscript Studies Newsletter 8 (July 2014)

One of the few items of Qäqäma (Ethiopia) collection which predate the time of Gäbrä Giyorgis is a manuscript (QDGM-010) containing New Testament books: the...

This paper proposes a codicological analysis of two Coptic manuscripts, illustrating how the accurate protocol of codicological description developed within the ERC Advanced...

Project summary: Trismegistos

Famously – and contrary to the usual habit of biblical manuscripts in Arabic – the sixteenth-century manuscript Paris, BNF Arabe 1 embraces an almost complete set of...

Project presentation: Bardaisan’s Book of the Laws of the Countries: A Computer-Assisted Linguistic Analysis

The Ethiopian native lexicographic corpus (the so-called sawāsǝw) and the traditional commentaries (the ʾandəmtā corpus) are intended to explain, with different strategies and...

A preliminary assessment of the manuscript collection of Däbrä Maʿṣo Qəddus Yoḥannəs Məṭmaq, a lesser known historical site in East Tǝgray (Gulo Mäḵäda)...

MS Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana Vat. copt. 57, a collection of homilies attributed to John Chrysostom in Bohairic Coptic, poses a number of challenges to...

The Aksimaros is an Ethiopic translation of the Arabic Aksīmārīs, itself translated from the Greek Hexaemeron ascribed to Ephiphanius of Salamis. The Ethiopic version was most...

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...

The exceptional climatic conditions of the Egyptian desert and the Nile valley have resulted in the preservation and possible recovery of a huge quantity of documents and...

Conference Report: Neo-Paleography: Analysing Ancient Handwritings in the Digital Age, Basel, 27–29 January 2020

The project dedicated to the first systematic critical study of Talmudic medical information has been called into life by Markham Geller, who is responsible for several research...

Book Review: Lambertus Willem Cornelis van Lit, Among Digitized Manuscripts. Philology, Codicology, Paleography in a Digital World, Handbook of Oriental Studies, Section 1: The...

The aim of the project Manuscripta Bibliae Hebraicae. Hebrew Bible Manuscripts in Western Europe in the 12th and 13th Centuries: A Material, Cultural and Social Approach...

The COMSt programme officially opened with a meeting of the representatives of the nine originally funding European countries on 3 June 2009 at the ESF headquarters in...