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As it clearly appears, the problems posed and the considerations suggested by the Abba Gärima Gospels are many and manifold. Leaving aside the problem of C 14 radiocarbon...

The research and restoration of manuscript Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei e Corsiniana, Conti Rossini Et. 70 (Psalter, 18th-19th century) was conducted, within the framework of...

This article presents a new case of a Qumran fragment,11Q22 fragment 6, employing red ink, a very rare feature so far. While the word is fragmentary, the red ink was plausibly...

This paper proposes a codicological analysis of two Coptic manuscripts, illustrating how the accurate protocol of codicological description developed within the ERC Advanced...

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...

MS Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana Vat. copt. 57, a collection of homilies attributed to John Chrysostom in Bohairic Coptic, poses a number of challenges to...

The exceptional climatic conditions of the Egyptian desert and the Nile valley have resulted in the preservation and possible recovery of a huge quantity of documents and...

Project summary: Manuscript Cultures in Asia and Africa

This essay focuses on the analysis of an Armenian illuminated manuscript, discovered in 2014 in the Museo Cappuccini in Reggio Emilia and now property of the Library of the same...

Structural codicology sees the codex as a complex book-object which needs to be understood both from a genetic constitutive perspective (which in our book we analyse on the...

The manuscript known as the Aksumite Collection (Sinodos of Qǝfrǝyā, MS C3-IV-71/C3-IV-73, Ethio-SPaRe UM-039) is one of the most important—if not the most...

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

It is very gratifying to find that my ideas have found an echo, and to see them well applied in a very useful and interesting article, such as that by Ronny Vollandt on...

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...

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...

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...

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 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.

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