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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
Johann Wetzstein and the Qurʼan Fragments of Tübingen February 16, 2023 Read
Medieval Fragments in the Palazzo Falson February 2, 2023 Read
Poetry and Agriculture, a Fragmentary Scrapbook January 19, 2023 Read
Identifying Syriac Fragments in the Digital Age January 5, 2023 Read
Poetic fragments at the Great ʿUmarī Mosque in Gaza December 22, 2022 Read
Hiding in the Binding — Fragments in Rare Book Collections at HMML December 8, 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
Feeling the Heavens July 21, 2022 Read
Khwājahʹzādah’s Treatise on the Rainbow July 7, 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
Soup, with a Side of Reform March 17, 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
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
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
Malta Envisioned by an English Clergyman September 2, 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
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
Remedies in the Margins of Syriac Manuscripts February 18, 2021 Read
Medical Care for the Enslaved Mustafa Osmon in 18th-Century Valletta, Malta February 4, 2021 Read

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