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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...

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...

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

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...

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....

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....

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...

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

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

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...

A photograph taken in the early 1930s during a swift reconnaissance of the Byzantine sector of Tebtynis (Coptic Toutōn) is the only witness of a now lost dipinto mentioning a...

Conference Report: African Voices in Islamic Manuscripts from Mali, Hamburg, 31 October–1 November 2018

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

Project summary: Corana. Production and Transmission of the Qur'ān in the Western Islamic World

Encoding places in a text and producing annotations offers scholars several ways to investigate new questions and support their research work. In this paper we present the work...

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 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.

The Shepherd of Hermas, an early Christian apocalyptic book written in Greek in Rome of the second century, has been translated in both Akhmimic and Sahidic Coptic. This...

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...