TeTra | Michael Erdman "Copies of a 19th c. Silk Production Manual in Ottoman and Armeno-Turkish" YouTube video by TeTra | Text and Transmission Research Seminar

If you missed Michael Erdman's paper last week, here is the recording!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvBg...

This wonderful conference in Rome starts Wednesday!

Looking forward to present some glimpses of my favourite biblical manuscript(s)!

Hegseth channels his inner Tarantino with fake Bible verse from Pulp Fiction The defense secretary said his prayer drew on Ezekiel, but wording closely matches Quentin Tarantino dialogue

20 euros says that someone used AI to write that speech for him and then didn't bother to check.

Preparations for a conference next week, for which I will delve into the topic of Harklean biblical manuscripts, albeit from an angle that is too often ignored: the late medieval and early modern period, and the explosion in paratextual material, which can be traced back to two scribes in Qartmin.

Tomorrow!!!

Coptic in Manchester .

We've launched the website for our 'Coptic in Manchester: Connecting Manuscripts and Communities' UKRI-funded project ('26–28) with @thejohnrylands.bsky.social !

Please share!

sites.google.com/view/coptici...

Good luck, Hungary. 🤞

Only a few more days left for the early bird discount!

I don’t think Pete Hegseth’s henchman yelling at the papal ambassador to the US is going to intimidate this Pope.

Next week!!!!

Tomorrow!

A Medieval Coptic translator was confronted with a dilemma: the Pericope Adulterae (John 7:53-8:11) is not attested in his exemplar. He visited archives in Cairo & Damascus to collect its versions in Coptic, Syriac, Greek, &Arabic. what did he find? Join his facinating journey in this new article

TeTra | Julia Schwarzer "A Mischievous Manuscript or Infidel Rule: Julian in Coptic Sources" bun YouTube video by TeTra | Text and Transmission Research Seminar

If you missed Thursday's paper by Julia Schwarzer, here is the recording!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ptg...

Ever wanted to learn ancient Armenian but never had the opportunity? Here is your chance! I will be teaching a course for beginners (in English) at ABELAO summer school in Louvain-la-Neuve this summer (4-14 Aug). Registrations are open (early bird discount until 15 April)
abelao.be/cours/ancien...

Come join us on Wednesday 8 April 10 AM (note the different time from usual) for a paper on corrections in Greek and Latin literature by @dareiadareia.bsky.social (KULeuven).
If you are not yet on our mailing list, please register w/
@andyhilkens.bsky.social to receive the Zoom link!

For Late Antiquity: Hagith Sivan

Tomorrow!

Register – Seminar #15 - Eleonora Matarrese: Edible Wild Plants in the Middle Ages – From Ethnobotany to Philology Seminar #15 - Eleonora Matarrese: Edible Wild Plants in the Middle Ages – From Ethnobotany to Philology, Wed 25 Mar 2026 - Dear Colleagues and Friends, We are delighted to invite you to the 15th sessi...

Free Online seminar tomorrow: 🌿

“Edible Wild Plants: From Medieval Manuscripts to Modern Sustainability”
By Eleonora Matarrese (she’s known as La Cuoca Selvatica" = the wild Cook") & is a leading expert in Ethnobotany and Germanic Philology”
🔗 Register here: www.tickettailor.com/events/entan...

Tomorrow ! GenAut online seminar | Philipp Pilhofer (Vienna), "The Circle of Barnabas. Generative Authority in Cypriot Hagiography"

Tuesday, 24 March (10 AM CET). See you there!
•Followers of the Apostles in Cultic Contexts•
genaut.univie.ac.at

Next week! Very much looking forward to this!!!

Part of a page of a medieval manuscript that had a hole cut into it. Underneath it is a restoration of a large decorated B, which would have been in this place, and which was restored by Eliza. The letter emulates the medieval style of script, but the image inside it is in a late 18th century style, showing a verdant tree standing against a green bucolic landscape.

In the 1790s a London woman named Eliza Denyer developed a modest reputation as a restorer of medieval manuscripts. She was forgotten by scholars and, in one case, her restorations were deliberately replaced by a man’s. I recovered her story & tracked all her known work here: tinyurl.com/2ktztx2e

Join us next Thursday, 12 March at 10 AM CET for the paper:

Gabrielle Russo (Ghent University)
•Regional Panegyric and the Tulunid Dynasty•

If you are not yet on our mailing list, please register w/
@andyhilkens.bsky.social

Day one is behind us - it was of course amazing. Today we move on to the Arabic, North African, Syriac and Western Iberian worlds.
There is a Zoom link to follow the conference online: oeaw-ac-at.zoom.us/.../reg.../s...

Later next week Lewis Read and I will be speaking about our work on the Armenian Synaxarion of Yovsep' at the conference on Sanctity and Ritual Remembrance!convened by Adrian Pirtea, Claudia Rapp and myself.
Two exciting days with fascinating talks lie ahead!

Animals and multi‐species considerations of well‐being 500–1100 Much of the scholarship on early medieval English medicinal ingredients has focussed on herbal remedies and the role of plants in healing activities. This approach detracts from the significance of a...

New in Early Medieval Europe: what role did animals play in early medieval medicinal and well-being practices? A study by Holly Miller and Christina Lee (£)
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Idem in NO Belgisch Limburg in de betekenis van "vuil maken."

Catholic Library, Muslim Books In the 1950s and 1960s, the Dominicans in Cairo collected rare printed books in Arabic, particularly Muslim devotional works rarely found in other libraries.

"In the 1950s and 1960s, the Dominicans collected rare printed books in Arabic, particularly Muslim devotional works . . . These books are slim and ephemeral . . . Most other repositories of rare books in the Muslim world don’t think they’re worth collecting."

TeTra | Maria S. Thomas "Publishing in a Twelfth-Century Syriac Monastery" YouTube video by TeTra | Text and Transmission Research Seminar

If you missed yesterday's paper by @dekayra.bsky.social, the recording is now available on our YouTube channel
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TonM...

Un panneau extérieur rouge de l’Université d’Ottawa se dresse parmi des arbustes verts et des fleurs rouges. Le panneau présente le logo de l’université—un bâtiment stylisé avec des colonnes—ainsi que le texte « Université d’Ottawa » et « uOttawa ».

Antiquité grecque et romaine à l'UOttawa est le SEUL programme en Ontario où l'on peut étudier le grec ancien et le latin en français. L'université l'a re-suspendu. Les franco-ontarien·ne·s n'ont plus AUCUN accès aux langues classiques en français. #SOSÉtudesAnciennes #ONfr #uOttawa buff.ly/UtgW0vq