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
Month: July 2023
An Arabic Medical Manuscript with Greek Maculatur
1. When I started studying the history of the fragmentary Sinai manuscripts kept at the Bavarian State Library in Munich, the digitized acquisition list of Oriental manuscripts (fig. 1) proofed very helpful. In 1921, the library bought six Christian Arabic fragments of Sinaitic provenance from the collector Friedrich Grote (1861-1922).1 Interestingly, the library’s acquisition list… Continue reading An Arabic Medical Manuscript with Greek Maculatur