A guest post by Habib Ibrahim* 1. While working on the Arabic dossier of James Intercisus,1 a Syrian-Persian saint of the 5th century, I came across a fragment in the Mingana Collection in Birmingham that belongs to an Arabic manuscript from Sinai. The single leaf preserved under the shelfmark Birmingham, Cadbury Research Library, Mingana Collection,… Continue reading Reuniting James Intercisus: A Mingana Leaf Rejoins Sinai Ar. 369
Category: New Research
Initial Funding from LMU Munich
1. Today I got news that I will receive initial funding from my faculty at LMU Munich. I’m very grateful for this. It’s a comparatively small sum (around EUR 9,000). But it can already achieve quite a bit. I will use this funding to carry out preliminary work for a larger project dedicated to the… Continue reading Initial Funding from LMU Munich
New Research #7
This installment of “New Research” draws attention to two contributions in the latest issue of Le Muséon, an open access anthology and a contribution therein on early Christian Arabic colophons, as well as an interesting upcoming conference. The latest issue (136/1-2) of Le Muséon contains a contribution by Christa Müller-Kessler entitled “The Early Jerusalem Lectionary… Continue reading New Research #7
New Research #6
The latest issue (2/1) of The Vatican Library Review, a journal that was newly founded last year, contains two contributions dealing with some of the undertexts of the palimpsest MS Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Vat. Sir. 623. Here are the titles and abstracts of the two contributions (both are open access and linked below):… Continue reading New Research #6
New Research #5
Over at the Biblia Arabica blog, I had the pleasure of contributing a post entitled “Tracing a Lost Sinaitic Manuscript through a Bible Quotation“.1 The post is based on a part of a forthcoming article entitled “The Legacy of a Failed Amateur Enthusiast: Friedrich Grote’s Sinaitic Manuscript ‘Discoveries’ and Their Post-Sinaitic Fate”. In the Biblia… Continue reading New Research #5
New Research #4
The Italian publishing group RCS MediaGroup (Milan) has just issued a small booklet by Giulia Rossetto (Austrian Academy of the Sciences) entitled La biblioteca/βιβλιοθήκη. It appeared as no. 33 in a series called “Il Greco“, which is published weekly together with the newspaper Corriere della Sera. The text, which is aimed at a wider readership,… Continue reading New Research #4
New Research #3
Yesterday, the latest issue of Hugoye: Journal of Syriac Studies (vol. 26/1) dropped. The journal contains two contributions that are potentially relevant to the study of manuscripts from St Catherine’s Monastery. The first is the latest installment of Sergey Minov’s and Grigory Kessel’s bibliography: “Recent Publications on Syriac Topics: 2022” (pp. 189-283). The bibliography lists… Continue reading New Research #3
New Research #2
Proofs came in for Variant Scholarship. A book about ancient texts in modern contexts. With @mokersel and @JjosseMunch. More info at https://t.co/Qbex6Oogxo pic.twitter.com/ecUhgEcpOj — Sidestone Press (@sidestonepress) February 20, 2023 Today, Neil Brodie, Morag M. Kersel, and Josephine Munch Rasmussen have published a fantastic-looking edited volume entitled Variant Scholarship: Ancient texts in modern contexts (Leiden:… Continue reading New Research #2
New Research #1
Christa Müller-Kessler (Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena) uploaded on her academia.edu page the preprint version of “The Missing Quire of Codex Climaci rescriptus Containing 1-2 Corinthians in Christian Palestinian Aramaic (Sinai, Syriac NF 38)“. Here’s the abstract from Müller-Kessler’s article: “The eighteenth quire of Codex Climaci rescriptus, which had been missing from the manuscript since its first publication,… Continue reading New Research #1