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Vevian Zaki @vevianzaki.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Imagine opening old torn book only to discover that someone once repaired it using strips of paper. These strips are pieces of correspondence bearing interesting stories. Read more about them in Eng. and Ar. vevianzaki.com/hidden-corre... 𝐒𝐔𝐁𝐒𝐂𝐑𝐈𝐁𝐄 and 𝐒𝐇𝐀𝐑𝐄 #mobasc #MSCA #MSCActions #Mariecurious

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Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures (CSMC) @csmc-hamburg.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

According to popular history, when the Crusaders invaded Tripoli in 1109, they burned all the books in the city's famous library. Our Artefact of the Month, a fragile leaf recently discovered in the Turkish and Islamic Arts Museum in Istanbul, calls this account into question uhh.de/csmc-aom-36

The recto (left) shows faint traces of the title and a user’s note, as well as the crucial endowment note. Damage and repaired stitching are visible at the upper right. The thread passes across inked areas – proof that the folio was damaged and mended after the endowment note was written. The verso (right) is entirely blank, highlighting the materiality and physical wear of the parchment. Image: Türk ve İslam Eserleri Müzesi Müdürlüğü/Ministry of Culture and Tourism

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HMML @visithmml.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

🧵(1) Digitization & cataloging is complete for 41 manuscripts in the collection of the Fondation Georges et Mathilde Salem in Aleppo, Syria. The collection includes texts by a variety of Christian, Muslim, and Jewish authors on topics ranging from medicine to grammar to poetry and literature.

Opening pages of a commentary on Islamic law, copied in 1611 CE. (GAMS 01147)

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IxTheo @ixtheo.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Das Archiv von Oriens christianus (1901-2014) wurde komplett digitalisiert und steht nun in #OpenAccess zur Verfügung orienschristianus.de Alle einzelnen Beiträge können im IxTheo recherchiert werden unter ixtheo.de/Record/19421...

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Kristian Heal @kristianheal.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Next week in Rome!! www.unigre.it/en/events-an...

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International conference on Syriac Manuscripts

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Grigory Kessel @grigory-kessel.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Reading palimpsests with three layers of writing is tough

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Grigory Kessel @grigory-kessel.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

A study on a palimpsest witness attesting to the complete Syriac version of the so-called middle recension of Ignatius of Antioch’s Letters is ready.

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R. B. Toth Associates @rbtoth.com · 16/10/2025

Great opportunity for scholars to carry on Will Noel's legacy at Princeton University Library with the Will Noel Innovative Cultural Heritage Research Grant library.princeton.edu/services/spe...

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Friends of Princeton University Library Research Grants

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Adam Bremer-McCollum @acbm.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

If you're a learner or new reader of Greek or Syriac, or if you teach Greek or Syriac, try out the Pearlsong! In Greek, there's both a late ancient prose text and a Byzantine paraphrase (in a homily); in Syriac, it's a 105-line poem. Glossaries for both languages are included. Open-access PDF:

cswr.hds.harvard.edu

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Dan Batovici @danbatovici.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Four-year postdoc in Syriac studies in Vienna. Join my team in the FWF START Project "Generative Authority: The Followers of the Apostles as Literary Characters," genaut.univie.ac.at/ Deadline June 1st. Happy to respond to any inquiries! @fwf-at.bsky.social @univie.ac.at

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Adam Bremer-McCollum @acbm.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

inaugurating a new series, out next summer in hard copy + open-access PDF: on the so-called hymn of the pearl, with Syriac & Greek texts + English translations, Syriac & Greek glossaries, and commentary (incl. a lot of Manichaean texts) 🐍 www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...

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The Pearlsong — Harvard University Press

The Pearlsong is an ancient poem that recounts the story of a Parthian prince sent by his parents on a mission to Egypt to retrieve a pearl from the clutches of a giant serpent. Along the way, the pri...

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Fragmentarium @fragmentarium.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

Fragmentology #7 has now been published: www.fragmentology.ms/issue/view/729 #Fragmentology #OpenAccess

Table of Contents for Fragmentology VII. Well, the first page. The second page has a conference report by Eleonora Celora and the index. This page has on it:
Editorial
Articles
Jennifer Bain, Anna de Bakker, "Traces of Liturgy: Analysing Manuscript Fragments from the Binding of the Riesencodex"
Pieter Beullens, "Iter Helveticum Numericum: Foraging for Fragments in Swiss Digital Collections"
Research Notes
Maristella Feustle, "A Fragment from a Twelfth-Century Notated Breviary in the University of North Texas Music Library"
Monica Brînzei, "Recycling or Rubbishing Ockham's Sentences?"
Pieter Beullens, "A Fragmentary Witness of William of Ockham's Brevis Summa Libri Physicorum"
Project Reports
Thijs Porck, Iris van Kuijk, "Medieval Fragments Revealed with FragmEndoscopy"
Marina Bernasconi Reusser, Renzo Iacobucci, Laura Luraschi: "Challenges in the Description of in situ Fragments: host volume, shelfmarks, and images"
Book Review
Giuseppe De Gregorio, Marta Luigina Mangini, Maddalena Modesti, eds., Documenti scartati, documenti reimpiegati. Forme, linguaggi, metodi per nuove prospettive di ricerca, reviewed by William Duba
Conference Report
Fragmenta liturgica. Colloque internationale, Paris (France), 6–7 November 2024, Eleonora Celora
Index of Shelfmarks

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Grigory Kessel @grigory-kessel.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

If you have questions about Syriac palimpsests, this new article of mine may provide the answers you're looking for. doi.org/10.1515/9783...

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Grigory Kessel @grigory-kessel.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

These two new pieces of mine will bring something new about Aphrahat and Ephrem. I can only hope they will be published before too long!

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Grigory Kessel @grigory-kessel.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

If you are interested in medieval autographs (holographs), I invite you to take a look at a newly published article of mine that examines the Syriac autographs of one of the most prominent Christian Syriac writers, ʿAbdishoʿ bar Brikha (d. 1318).

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