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The Rock Inscriptions and Graffiti project at the Institute of Asian and African Studies of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem is approaching the end of an extended process of...

Däbrä Maʿṣo is an ancient church in northern Ethiopia, known to scholars, until recently, exclusively from references in old sources. It was explored in a series...

The identification of the type of ink should be among the primary goals of manuscript description. Several techniques of instrumental analysis are available, and new tools have...

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...

Reflections on statistics compiled from the Matenadaran Manuscript Repository (Erevan) summary catalogues, vol. I (mss 1-5,000, 1965), vol. II (mss 5,001-10,408, 1970). vol. III...

The concept of formality in palaeographic analysis is often ill-defined and understood in conflicting ways by the scholars who utilize it. In this article, I attempt to clarify...

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...

Comparative Oriental Manuscript Studies Newsletter 5 (January 2013)

Of all Hebrew miscellanies on Greek geometry, MS Madrid, BNE 5474 is the only one containing a set of works which includes Euclid’s Elements, Data and Optics, besides On...

Comparative Oriental Manuscript Studies Newsletter 6 (July 2013)

The paper illustrates the choices made by the Ethiopian Manuscript Archives collaborative project when defining the TEI-XML schema and architecture for the encoding of charters...

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...

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...

The brief article offers some remarks about the devotional requirement, the main formal features, and the historical relevance of the colophons often preserved by Coptic...

The present article continues the introduction to Armenian codicology which appeared in COMSt Newsletter 4, 2012, pp. 18–23.

The use of chemical reagents for text enhancement was quite common in the nineteenth century. Their application resulted in permanent damage, irreversibly obscuring the writing....

This article is a presentation of the work on the two-volume Опис на ръкописите, старопечатните, редките и ценните издания в Националния Исторически Музей (‘Catalogue of...

Dismembered manuscripts are a particular challenge for book conservators, cataloguers, and philologists. The article describes the process and the result of an international...

Project summary: Futūḥ al-buldān

The Serruys Collection at CSMC During a visit to the University of Washington in May 2015, Professor William G. Boltz gave a box filled mainly with Chinese manuscripts to the...