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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 #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

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