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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...

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 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...

‘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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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 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...

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 paper surveys the concept and practice of correction (διόρθωσις, emendatio) in classical and mediaeval times as evidence for the...

The TITUS project (“Thesaurus Indo-germanischer Text- und Sprachmaterialien”) was founded in 1987 with the aim of co-ordinating the efforts to establish databases of...

Byzantine literature, like that of Antiquity, was written mostly for listening, hardly ever for silent reading. Given this highly aural character, taking account of rhythm...

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...

My doctoral research (Durham University, Department of Theology and Religion) mainly focuses on the doublets which one reads in the Greek version of the Book of Proverbs.

Project summary: Syriac Corpus Project

Project presentation: Syriac Monastic Anthologies

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

For decades paleoslavists from around the world have known the inconspicuous, relatively small codex kept in the Ghent University Library in Belgium – the codex...