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‘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

If You Have Some Millions to Spare …: The Sale of Codex Sinaiticus Zosimi Rescriptus

1. “If you have some millions to spare, the bidding starts in less than an hour!” In this and similar ways, many colleagues drew attention on social media to Christie’s Live Auction 23056 on 11 June, which was entitled: “Manuscript Masterpieces from the Schøyen Collection”. This auction comprised 62 lots. Among them were enormously important… Continue reading If You Have Some Millions to Spare …: The Sale of Codex Sinaiticus Zosimi Rescriptus

New Research #7

This installment of “New Research” draws attention to two contributions in the latest issue of Le Muséon, an open access anthology and a contribution therein on early Christian Arabic colophons, as well as an interesting upcoming conference. The latest issue (136/1-2) of Le Muséon contains a contribution by Christa Müller-Kessler entitled “The Early Jerusalem Lectionary… Continue reading New Research #7

New Research #1

Christa Müller-Kessler (Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena) uploaded on her academia.edu page the preprint version of “The Missing Quire of Codex Climaci rescriptus Containing 1-2 Corinthians in Christian Palestinian Aramaic (Sinai, Syriac NF 38)“. Here’s the abstract from Müller-Kessler’s article: “The eighteenth quire of Codex Climaci rescriptus, which had been missing from the manuscript since its first publication,… Continue reading New Research #1