Peter Tarras

Inside The Secret Market for Ancient Bible Manuscripts YouTube video by Bible & Archaeology

(675) Inside The Secret Market for Ancient Bible Manuscripts - YouTube
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Keine Fake News, sondern die reine Wahrheit: Der aktuelle Band der Reihe "Das Mittelalter. Beihefte" ist online! Die Autoren gehen der Frage nach, inwieweit es Fake News bereits im Mittelalter gab. Zum kostenlosen E-Book: doi.org/10.17885/hei..., #openaccess, #Fakenews, #Mittelalter, #Mediävistik

Endings by Heleen Murre-van den Berg Spaces These days I’m going through my books. I’ve transitioned from a heavy admin role to the regular life of an academic, with the accompanying change of offices, fro…

Last weeks I worked on a piece for Collecting Religion, edited by @matthew-hayes.bsky.social and @secondhandsacred.bsky.social - a great way to think about project endings and the sorting out of material and digital collections that come with it
collectingreligion.wordpress.com/2026/03/12/e...

Silver Gospel Book Cover (Aachen, Germany) Originating from the upper Rhine region about 1170/80, this silver gospel book cover incorporates Byzantine ivories of four saints (the evangelists) from the late 10th century. The evangelists Matthew...

Silver gospel book cover from the upper Rhine region, late 10th century. Housed in the Treasury of the Cathedral of Aachen, #Germany.

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#photography
#Medieval
#museums
#art

Arabic #WOTD:

بهت
bahita (bahuta and buhita)
"be amazaed, startled, bewildered"

as in anon. Ar. Enc. for Mt Sinai (Sin. ar. 513 f. 128r):

وسمع ايضا ابونا يعقوب ما بهت منه واعجبه وارعبه
"and also our father Jacob heard something that startled him and amazad and scared him"

This btw is a great text/story that was transmitted in various Jewish, Christian, and Muslim versions well into the 20th century. Some basic bibliographical information can be found in Magdalen Connolly's ed. of an Arabic fragment from the Cairo Genizah:
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#Coptic
#DigitizedManuscripts
"This selection from the Michaelides Collection provides digital access to the Coptic manuscripts, comprising legal texts, accounts, literary, magical and medical texts, recipes, amulets and other documents including “protocols”."

The Story of Arsânîs : Hall, Isaac H. : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive The Story of Arsânîs is an article from Hebraica, Volume 6. View more articles from Hebraica.View this article on JSTOR.View this article's JSTOR...

Syriac #WOTD:

ܩܪܩܦܬܐ
qarqap̄tå
"head, skull"

as in "Story of Arsânîs", ed. Hall, p. 82:

ܗܝܕܝܢ ܦܬܚܬ ܦܘܡܗ ܩܪܩܦܬܐ ܗܝ ܘܐܡܪܬ ܠܡܪܗ ܘܠܓܒܘܠܗ ܫܠܡ ܠܟ
"Then the skull opened its mouth and said to its lord and maker: Heyya!"

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17th March is the feast of St Patrick who appears here in the margin of the Theodore Psalter.
#StPatricksDay2026 ☘️
BL Add MS 19352; Theodore Psalter; 1066 CE; Eastern Mediterranean (Constantinople); f.76v
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Handwritings of great scholars:
1. Sanskrit-devanāgarī: David Pingree (ed.), Yavanajātaka
2. Arabic & Greek: Manfred Ullmann, Wörterbuch zu den griechisch-arabischen Übersetzungen des 9. Jahrhunderts
3. Tangut: К. Б. Кепинг, Тангутский язык: морфология

Among the highlights: a 4th-century papyrus codex (shelfmark: Ms. or. fol. 3065; image above) with the Epistle of Clement to the Corinthians (acquired 1886), and a Proverbs codex with its rare original binding (shelfmark: Ms. or. oct. 978, image below).
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@stabiberlin.bsky.social preserves an important collection of 111 Coptic and 2 Old Nubian manuscripts. The collection began as early as 1677–1679, when the widow of orientalist Theodor Petraeus sold Coptic texts—mainly copies of biblical books and scholarly treatises—to the library.

NEW BOOK | Ottoman-Era Documents from the Cairo Genizah by Jane Hathaway

The latest book in the Cambridge Semitic Languages & Cultures series, this groundbreaking volume makes a transformative contribution to studies of the Cairo Genizah.

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#OAbooks

Arabic #WOTD:

دمع ج دموع
damʕ, pl. dumūʕ
"tears"

as in anon. Ar. Enc. for Mt Sinai (Sin. ar. 508, f. 6r)

ولنا تجديد اخر منجل المسيح صار لنا برحمته الذي هي الدموع والبكا والتوبه
"We have another renewal for Christ's sake, which is granted to us through His grace: tears, weeping, and repentance."

Arabic #WOTD:

عطر
ʕiṭr
"perfume, oil"

cf. Syr. ܥܛܪܐ ʕeṭrِå and ܥܛܪܢܐ ʕeṭrِånå
"incense" and "cedar oil"

this one haunted me since yesterday, what looks like a ن is actually a ر and a dot that's used as a textual divider

Deadline coming up in two weeks! Don't forget to submit your proposal! You know what? Better do it right now!

📚Now published!: Han Hsien Liew's book on preaching and emotions in medieval Islamic political thought, and Uriel Simonsohn & Luke Yarbrough's edited volume on cultural brokerage in premodern Islamic societies📚
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The first paper in our 2025 seminar was offered by the author. Congrats! Recording here:

Congrats to Marianna Cerno for publishing a new ps. Clementine text she identified recently, for which she suggests a date of composition in the fourth century!

Basically, new apocryphon just dropped.

You can find a discussion of her book here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmQe...

Digitization & cataloging is complete for the collection of the Armenian Church, Diocese of Aleppo: 174 manuscripts relocated from the Armenian Holy Forty Martyr’s Church in Aleppo. A rare survival from one of the most volatile centers of #Armenian Christianity.

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Newly Discovered Document Confirms a ‘Legendary’ African King - Medievalists.net Newly discovered Arabic document confirms the existence of a ‘legendary’ African king and reveals how rulers governed in Nubia.

Newly Discovered Document Confirms a ‘Legendary’ African King www.medievalists.net/2026/03/newl... #history #AfricanHistory #Nubia

Arabic #WOTD:

لحية
liḥya
"beard"

as in anonym. Ar. Encomium for the Summit of Mt Sinai, quoting Psalm 133:2 (Sin. ar. 513, f. 127r:16):

شبه ذلك العطن السايل من الراس وعلى اللحيه لحيه هرون

"this is like the oil (?) running down from the head and onto the beard, the beard of Aaron"

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