1. This is the third post in a series in which I document identifications associated with the work of early Christian Arabic scribes (you can find the first two posts here and here). This post is about a fragment of the early Arabic translation of the so-called Six-Books Dormition of the Virgin (CANT 140), an… Continue reading Miscellaneous Identifications III: A New Early Arabic Six-Books Dormition Fragment
Month: February 2025
‘Don’t Feed the Antiquities Market!’ – An Interview with Roberta Mazza
1. Manuscripts have biographies, right up to the present day. And they still offer projection surfaces for the attribution of both material and immaterial values. Anyone working with manuscripts today cannot ignore these issues. We have also seen in recent years how the boundaries between those with scholarly and those with monetary interests in manuscripts… Continue reading ‘Don’t Feed the Antiquities Market!’ – An Interview with Roberta Mazza