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The Calligrapher Clément Perret April 13, 2023 Read
Learning to Write: Practical Aspects of Handwriting March 30, 2023 Read
Why so Many Fragments? Incomplete Manuscripts in the Timbuktu Collections. March 16, 2023 Read
Woodcut Fragments of the 16th Century March 2, 2023 Read
Postscript — Luqmān the Sage February 23, 2023 Read
Johann Wetzstein and the Qurʼan Fragments of Tübingen February 16, 2023 Read
Medieval Fragments in the Palazzo Falson February 2, 2023 Read
Reversal of Fates: Access Through Photographs can be a Counterbalance January 27, 2023 Read
Poetry and Agriculture, a Fragmentary Scrapbook January 19, 2023 Read
Identifying Syriac Fragments in the Digital Age January 5, 2023 Read
Where We’re Working: L’viv, Ukraine December 29, 2022 Read
Poetic fragments at the Great ʿUmarī Mosque in Gaza December 22, 2022 Read
The Next Stop was Kremsmünster Abbey December 20, 2022 Read
Hiding in the Binding — Fragments in Rare Book Collections at HMML December 8, 2022 Read
Jacques Hnizdovsky in Minnesota December 1, 2022 Read
Identifying Prohibited Books in Early Modern Malta November 24, 2022 Read
“This Book is Free From Banned Content” — Ottoman Censorship of al-Yāzijī’s Arabic Lexicon November 10, 2022 Read
Ḫeruy Walda Śellāsē’s “History of Ethiopia” October 27, 2022 Read
Censorship Without Censorship October 13, 2022 Read
A Book You Would Love to Read... September 29, 2022 Read
Sandwiching a Forbidden Text September 15, 2022 Read
ʻUmar al-Turūdī’s List of Unreliable Books September 1, 2022 Read
Books that Survived the Ban — Syriac Manuscripts in India August 18, 2022 Read
Lifted on Wings August 4, 2022 Read
Microfilm Milestones July 28, 2022 Read
Feeling the Heavens July 21, 2022 Read
Khwājahʹzādah’s Treatise on the Rainbow July 7, 2022 Read
Postscript — King Solomon the Gynecologist, a Forgotten Tale From the Syriac Book of Medicines June 30, 2022 Read
The Stars of Ben-Zion June 23, 2022 Read
Between the Sun and Moon June 9, 2022 Read
Astronomical Technology and Religious Practice in Islam May 26, 2022 Read
Signs in the Heavens — Astrological Books of Daniel in Eastern Christianity May 12, 2022 Read
A Tale of Two Bears — Astronomy in Austrian Libraries April 28, 2022 Read
Why was Esau so Hungry? Genesis 25 in Arabic Manuscripts April 14, 2022 Read
Smoking in the Desert — Between Supporters and Opponents of Tobacco March 31, 2022 Read
Postscript — A Sister’s Vows March 21, 2022 Read
Soup, with a Side of Reform March 17, 2022 Read
Where We’re Working: The Monastery of Santa Ursula March 8, 2022 Read
The Hard Work of a Market Inspector in Preventing Food Frauds at the Market of Tinnīs, Egypt March 3, 2022 Read
The Gouda Life February 17, 2022 Read
A Syriac Poem on Wine February 3, 2022 Read
A Man for All Seasonings January 20, 2022 Read
The Case of the Mysterious Pie and the Amsterdam Theater January 6, 2022 Read
The Travels of the Ebony Horse December 23, 2021 Read
Arabian Nights of the Christian East December 20, 2021 Read
Want to Marry the Princess? Know thy Bible! December 9, 2021 Read
Icon Collection Finds a New Home at HMML December 2, 2021 Read
The Story of the Talking Camel and the Exploits of Ali Genre in West Africa November 25, 2021 Read
Parabiblical Literature in the Horn of Africa November 11, 2021 Read
Tracing Folktales in Magic Texts — The Story of Umm al-Ṣibyān October 28, 2021 Read
Postscript — Syriac Apocalypse of Daniel October 21, 2021 Read
Grave Tales, Engraved (and Etched) October 14, 2021 Read
Ottoman Soap Operas and Other Stories September 30, 2021 Read
The Book of Laughable Stories — A Medieval Joke Book September 16, 2021 Read
The Emperor’s Manuscript September 11, 2021 Read
Four Family Libraries in Jerusalem September 9, 2021 Read
Malta Envisioned by an English Clergyman September 2, 2021 Read
Where We’re Working: The Balkans August 26, 2021 Read
Travelers and Texts Crossing the Sahara August 19, 2021 Read
The Journey of One Armenian Manuscript August 5, 2021 Read
When in Rome... July 22, 2021 Read
Protecting Travelers and Maritime Contacts in the Eighteenth-Century Mediterranean July 8, 2021 Read
From Cairo to Mardin, Manuscripts on Camelback June 24, 2021 Read
Traveling to France on Paper June 10, 2021 Read
Crossing the Red Sea in the 1640s May 27, 2021 Read
Medicine, Ritual, and Magic in Ethiopia May 13, 2021 Read
Quarantine in Malta, a Print of the Lazaretto from the Mużew Nazzjonali tal-Arti April 29, 2021 Read
Medical Texts From Timbuktu — Local Pharmacological Remedies with Qur’anic Verses April 15, 2021 Read
Early Miniatures of Ethiopians April 9, 2021 Read
An Anonymous Syriac Medical Compendium March 31, 2021 Read
A Tale of Two Herbals, From Medicine to Food in the 16th Century March 17, 2021 Read
Accounts on Plague and Infectious Diseases from Three Arabic Manuscripts March 4, 2021 Read
Yeɗi Sanba Ɓooyi, a Fulani Scholar and Poet February 25, 2021 Read
Remedies in the Margins of Syriac Manuscripts February 18, 2021 Read
Creating Cataloging Standards for Regional Names February 11, 2021 Read
Medical Care for the Enslaved Mustafa Osmon in 18th-Century Valletta, Malta February 4, 2021 Read
Where We’re Working — Dayr Anbā Maqār, Egypt January 22, 2021 Read
Postscript — A Fāʼidah January 3, 2021 Read
The Power of a Name December 26, 2020 Read
Database Partnership Expands Access to West African Manuscripts December 10, 2020 Read
Digitization of the Lettere consolari fonds at the Cathedral Archives, Mdina, Now Completed October 13, 2020 Read
Hill Museum & Manuscript Library completes digital cataloging of Khalidi Library’s manuscript collection August 24, 2020 Read
Digitization of the Archives of the Archconfraternity of Our Lady of Mount Carmel Completed June 30, 2020 Read
HMML Fieldwork — Fr. Columba Travels to Mali, Renews Agreement January 31, 2020 Read
Where We're Working: The Pontificio Collegio Armeno, Rome December 1, 2019 Read
Where We're Working: Missionary Society of Saint Paul, Harissa, Lebanon July 15, 2019 Read
vHMML Museum Goes Live May 5, 2019 Read
HMML is Gifted a Rare Copy of William Shakespeare's Second Folio July 9, 2018 Read
Hill Museum & Manuscript Library's Malta Study Center Completes Digitization Project at MUŻA — Mużew Nazzjonali tal-Arti May 18, 2018 Read
Digital copies of the Rossi, Ansaldi and Caetani Yemeni manuscript collections now available in vHMML Reading Room February 27, 2018 Read
HMML Partners with the Institute for Advanced Study to Share Threatened Manuscript Heritage from Yemen and Neighboring Countries April 11, 2017 Read
HMML’S Malta Study Center Completes Digitization of Malta Collection at the Catholic University of America Rare Books and Special Collections October 11, 2016 Read
HMML’S Malta Study Center Begins New Digitization Project at the National Archives of Malta December 10, 2014 Read
HMML Receives Grant from Prince Claus Fund to Digitize Timbuktu Manuscripts February 17, 2014 Read
HMML Returns to Mali to Digitize Manuscripts from Timbuktu Library December 23, 2013 Read
HMML Completes Armenian Manuscript Project in Aleppo, Syria May 3, 2012 Read
Researcher Identifies Second-Oldest Ethiopian Manuscript in Existence in HMML’s Archives July 13, 2010 Read
Where We’re Working: L’viv, Ukraine December 12, 2009 Read
HMML acquires two landmark titles for its Rare Book Collection October 12, 2007 Read

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