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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

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 #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 #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

A Blog Dedicated to the Dispersed Manuscript Heritage of Saint Catherine’s Monastery

  1. “The history of the Sinai library till the second half of the nineteenth century is mostly a history of its despoiling”.1 The Byzantinist Vladimir Beneshevich (1874-1938) made this statement as early as 1911. At that point, scholars were only just beginning to get an idea of the extent of this “despoiling”. Moreover, the… Continue reading A Blog Dedicated to the Dispersed Manuscript Heritage of Saint Catherine’s Monastery