#Manuscripts

Indu Makkal Katchi (Offl)

UVS Iyer sold his family property to fund his collection of ancient Tamil manuscripts as he walked door to door from village to village to collect them. His work for

I completely agree with Martin Schøyen (and others): anything written by hand is a manuscript, regardless of the medium. So all cuneiform tablets, all ostraca, all Mayan codex vases, all

Curious about what’s going on in submission/peer review/publication of SARS-CoV-2 studies? Me too! TL;DR, it’s NUTS. (1/7) In the past month or so, as an editor and reviewing editor at

Grip, the Raven (and the FLP Rare Book Dept)

Thanks to @CLIRHC we are in Year 3 of @MmwProject uncovering hidden manuscripts in our collections. But we're especially excited by Islamic Manuscript Basics: https://kislakcenter.github.io/islamicmss/ a great introduction to thei

Mateusz Fafinski

Ok, time to @steak_umm historians to showcase that nuanced explanations can be communicated expertly!@LitteraCarolina manuscripts/science @monicaMedHist history of medicine@Pseudo_Isidore medieval West@j_t_palmer medieval science@FlintDibble archaeol

East Syriac scribe ʿAṭaya b. Faraj (ca. 1520-1596) was one of the most prolific and illustrious Syriac scribes. Born in Alqosh, ʿAṭaya spent his life in Gazarta (Cizre). #Syriac #manuscripts

A Maundy scene from an Anglo-Saxon manuscript: monks washing feet and a king giving alms, in an 11th-century Psalter (BL Harley 603, f.66v) #MaundyThursday Maundy Thursday was also once known

Why? Christies failed to adhere to a non-legally binding, non- enforceable 50 year old UNESCO resolution ignored by almost all museums in the Middle East and Asia & often, for

A thread on manuscript dating. Early Qurans can be dated in many ways using codicology, paleography, orthography, art history, and radiocarbon dating. Here I wanted to provide a peek at

I do hope all these strenuous efforts from publishers like SpringerNature to deter authors from using RRS and immediate self-archiving of the accepted manuscript upon acceptance, result in a Streisand

🌿🕊Carminda B🕊🌿

carmindabrendel

The original manuscripts of the New Testament books are not known to have survived. The autographs are believed to have been lost or destroyed a long time ago. What survives

The Goal of the Sage (Ghayat al-Hakim)

Bibliomancy: @amila295 II.7"As for the line, it is [necessary] for [understanding] the collinearity that exists between the planets and the talisman, and the collinearity between the talisman and the purpose

Stephanie J. Lahey

Today is #InternationalLegalHistoryDay and I will be tweeting some medieval legal #manuscripts … [thread] #LegalHistory #HistLaw #MedievalTwitter Let’s start with some common law: the opening of Magna Carta from a

It's that time of the year again! Changing leaves, pumpkin spice, and another Christie's sale of Islamic objects with dubious provenance records! https://www.christies.com/lotfinder/books-manuscripts/a-kufic-quran-section-probably-k

No one is more uniquely qualified to take on these weird times than novelists, whose unedited manuscripts often claim that it is both Monday and Thursday and one day ago

Marijn "i before j" van Putten

So let's talk some more Classical Arabic orthography! Vocalisation. People who learn to read Arabic today generally learn there are three vowel signs: fatḥah, ḍammah, kasra. Write them twice for