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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

A Greek-Arabic Liturgical Manuscript in Princeton’s Scheide Library

1. The largest batch of Sinaitic diaspora manuscripts ever to circulate on the European antiquities market was probably the one offered by the Leipzig-based antiquarian, book dealer, and publisher Karl Wilhelm Hiersemann (1854-1924). His Katalog 500, with the thematic title Orientalische Manuskripte, offered 54 manuscripts in 8 languages. The majority of these is probably of… Continue reading A Greek-Arabic Liturgical Manuscript in Princeton’s Scheide Library