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Josh Mugler @jmugs.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Today I finished cataloging 36 Arabic manuscripts from Eyes on Heritage, a cultural institution in Gaza. These manuscripts were photographed before the Israeli invasion in 2023, but the team was only recently able to send these digital images to @visithmml.bsky.social's partners in Jerusalem

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Josh Mugler @jmugs.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

I recently finished cataloging the Arabic-script manuscripts of the National Library of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Over 750 manuscripts in Arabic, Turkish, Persian, and Bosnian, free to view in the HMML Reading Room w3id.org/vhmml/readin...

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Josh Mugler @jmugs.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

This Syriac manuscript was copied in Alqūsh, Iraq, in 1925. The scribe gives the date as year 2236 of the Greeks (Seleucid Era), year 1925 from the ascension (!) of Our Lord, year 76 of my life, and year 7 since the English conquered these lands of ours

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HMML @visithmml.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Accepting applications for Introduction to Classical Armenian, a language and paleography course held from July 7 to August 1, 2025, at HMML in Collegeville, Minnesota. Application deadline: February 24, 2025 Learn more: hmml.org/programs/int...

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Josh Mugler @jmugs.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

First time seeing Polish in Arabic script

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Josh Mugler @jmugs.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

Congratulations to the people of Gaza. Freedom in our time!

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Josh Mugler @jmugs.bsky.social · 08/11/2024

Jesus told me dragons keep eating his monks so I asked how many monks he has and he said he just goes to the desert and gets a new monk afterwards so I said it sounds like he’s just feeding monks to dragons and then Jesus wept.

Drawing of monks going up a ladder to heaven and other monks going down the other side into the mouth of a dragon

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Josh Mugler @jmugs.bsky.social · 13/03/2024

Manuscript 3799 at the Imam Essayouti library in Timbuktu is a firsthand West African Arabic account of the 1755 earthquake that devastated Lisbon and reshaped the thought of European philosophers like Voltaire and Kant w3id.org/vhmml/readin...

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Josh Mugler @jmugs.bsky.social · 14/01/2024

Moving to Philadelphia at the beginning of February

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Josh Mugler @jmugs.bsky.social · 16/09/2023

I really think we've said the name of that musical quite enough tonight

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Josh Mugler @jmugs.bsky.social · 16/09/2023

New illustrated copy of Barlaam and Joasaph just dropped w3id.org/vhmml/readin...

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Josh Mugler @jmugs.bsky.social · 22/08/2023

I recently finished cataloging the previously uncataloged portions of the Bibliothèque Orientale manuscript collection at the Université Saint-Joseph in Beirut. Part of this collection is well-known from existing print catalogs, but there's a lot more w3id.org/vhmml/readingRoom/view/505…

Manuscript title page in Arabic with calligraphy and decoration in deep red and blue

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Josh Mugler @jmugs.bsky.social · 31/07/2023

First cat pic on the newsite is also my first ever pic of Helena king kongin' it

Helena the cat hanging from the top of a tall scratch tower

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Josh Mugler @jmugs.bsky.social · 23/07/2023

From my Lake Superior trip

Deep blue water surrounding a rocky island and tree-covered coasts under a blue sky

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