I recently finished cataloging the Arabic-script manuscripts of the National Library of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Over 750 manuscripts in Arabic, Turkish, Persian, and Bosnian, free to view in the HMML Reading Room
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This Syriac manuscript was copied in Alqūsh, Iraq, in 1925. The scribe gives the date as year 2236 of the Greeks (Seleucid Era), year 1925 from the ascension (!) of Our Lord, year 76 of my life, and year 7 since the English conquered these lands of ours

First time seeing Polish in Arabic script

A place for everyone

Jesus told me dragons keep eating his monks so I asked how many monks he has and he said he just goes to the desert and gets a new monk afterwards so I said it sounds like he’s just feeding monks to dragons and then Jesus wept.

Manuscript 3799 at the Imam Essayouti library in Timbuktu is a firsthand West African Arabic account of the 1755 earthquake that devastated Lisbon and reshaped the thought of European philosophers like Voltaire and Kant w3id.org/vhmml/readin...

Moving to Philadelphia at the beginning of February

Swan family

Delivery

We're having a good time

It's at the Balamand monastery near Tripoli, Lebanon, copied in the 1640s along with a few other Christian Arabic texts. It includes a portrait of John of Damascus (labeled in Greek and Arabic), alleged author of the Barlaam and Joasaph story, which is actually based on the life of the Buddha

New illustrated copy of Barlaam and Joasaph just dropped w3id.org/vhmml/readin...

I recently finished cataloging the previously uncataloged portions of the Bibliothèque Orientale manuscript collection at the Université Saint-Joseph in Beirut. Part of this collection is well-known from existing print catalogs, but there's a lot more https://w3id.org/vhmml/readingRoom/view/505328

First cat pic on the newsite is also my first ever pic of Helena king kongin' it

From my Lake Superior trip

They saw the vacuum

Bluesky