25 datasets found

The new project Document Reuse in Medieval Arabic Manuscripts aims at creating a new corpus of documents from Syria. For this end it explores and digitally reconstructs the...

The paper shows, on the example of manuscripts from Ethiopia containing the Kitāb al-farāʾiḍ which were surveyed by the IslHornAfr project, how a relational database can manage...

Project presentation, New critical edition of the primitive recension of the Arabic text of the “History of the Patriarchs of Alexandria” (Lives 17 to 26),...

My doctoral dissertation, completed in 2012 in the University of Naples “L’Orientale”, was dedicated to one of the earliest examples of Arabic medical...

Famously – and contrary to the usual habit of biblical manuscripts in Arabic – the sixteenth-century manuscript Paris, BNF Arabe 1 embraces an almost complete set of...

The article is an outline of the findings by the author while working on the identification and classification of early Genizah fragments of Saʿadyah Gaon’s Judaeo-Arabic...

The census is the result of the final stage project of a post-University Master course in Conservation and Restoration of Book Heritage held in Spoleto, Italy, in 2009. It was...

This contribution summarises the results of the conservation of selected Arabic, Persian and Turkic manuscripts from the Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, funded by the Heydar...

Project summary: Digital Averroes Research Environment

This paper discusses patterns of manuscript sharing among European scholars during the second half of the nineteenth century, particularly in connection with Martin Schreiner...

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

Project summary: Forms and Functions of the Layout in Arabic Manuscripts

Book art, including calligraphy, illuminations, and illustrations, embellishes the great manuscripts of the Islamicate world and comprises one of the finest artistic traditions...

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....

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...

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.

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...

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...

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...