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Andrea Scandar’s Manuscripts in the Vatican Library

1. Over the last few days, I have started preparing a presentation on the Maronite scholar Andrea Scandar of Cyprus (Indrāwus Skandar al-Qubrusī, d. 1748)1 for an upcoming conference in Munich organised by my colleague Dr Vevian Zaki and entitled ‘Once We Were Here: Traces of Mobility across the Ottoman Empire‘ (8-10 July 2025). Scandar… Continue reading Andrea Scandar’s Manuscripts in the Vatican Library

Annual Report #2

1. This is the second annual report of the project Membra Dispersa Sinaitica (the first one can be found here). I mainly use these annual reports to reflect on what I have achieved with the project in the past year, what went well and what didn’t, and where the journey should go in the coming… Continue reading Annual Report #2