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Comparative Oriental Manuscript Studies Bulletin 11, 2025

Comparative Oriental Manuscript Studies Bulletin 11/1-2, 2025

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Table of Contents

Section 1.

Monastic Literature in Early Islamic Palestine and Sinai: Manuscripts, Scribes, Translators, Authors, and Later Readers
ed. Adrian C. Pirtea

  • pp. 7-14: Monastic Literature in Early Islamic Palestine and Sinai: Studies on Manuscripts, Scribes, Translators, Authors, and Later Readers. An Introduction (Adrian C. Pirtea)
    DOI: 10.25592/uhhfdm.18346
  • pp. 15-57: Building a Christian Arabic Library at Mount Sinai: The Scribe Thomas of Fusṭāṭ and the Manuscripts of His Workshop (Peter Tarras)
    DOI:  10.25592/uhhfdm.18348
  • pp. 59-89: Scribes, Owners, and their Multilingual Annotations in the Byzantine Euchologia of Saint Catherine’s Monastery (Giulia Rossetto)
    DOI:  10.25592/uhhfdm.18350
  • pp. 91-115: ‘Inhabiting the Word of the Other’: Linguistic Hospitality, Early Christian Arabic Psalters, and the Functions of Bilingual Manuscripts (Miriam L. Hjälm)
    DOI: 10.25592/uhhfdm.18352
  • pp. 117-139: From Greek into Arabic through a Syriac Intermediary: New Evidence from Palestinian Hagiography (André Binggeli)
    DOI: 10.25592/uhhfdm.18354
  • pp. 141-171: St Macarius the Great at Mar Saba: Melkite Syriac, Arabic and Georgian Translations of the Corpus Macarianum in Early Islamic Palestine and Sinai (Adrian C. Pirtea)
    DOI: 10.25592/uhhfdm.18356
  • pp. 173-208: A Ninth-Century Arabic Christian Refutation of the ‘Eternalists’: David of Damascus’ Homily on Palm Sunday (Alexander Treiger)
    DOI: 10.25592/uhhfdm.18358

Section 2.

Regular Issue

Articles and notes

  • pp. 211-230: Moses bar Kepha’s Book of Homilies: Manuscripts and Contents (J. F. Coakley)
    DOI: 10.25592/uhhfdm.18360
  • pp. 231-241: The Lamentation of the Flesh (Saqoqāwa Śǝgā): An Ethiopic Penitential Hymn and Companion Text to the Lamentation of the Soul (Saqoqāwa Nafs) (Augustine Dickinson)
    DOI: 10.25592/uhhfdm.18362
  • pp. 243-264: The Qôf Dĕḇûqâ: The Origins and Original Meaning of the Joined Qôf (Marc Michaels)
    DOI: 10.25592/uhhfdm.18364
  • pp. 265-288: Tools, Tricks, and Techniques: Managing the Manuscripts of Chrysostom’s Homilies on Romans (Peter Montoro and Robert Turnbull)
    DOI: 10.25592/uhhfdm.18366

Conference reports

  • pp. 289-291: Ethiopic Hagiographic Literature: Manuscript Tradition, Textual Transmission, Motifs and Use (University of Hamburg, 8–9 October 2024) (Vitagrazia Pisani)
    DOI: 10.25592/uhhfdm.18368
  • pp. 291-293: The Visual Scribe: Tables and Diagrams in Middle Eastern Manuscripts (Berlin, 10–11 April 2025) (Red.)
    DOI: 10.25592/uhhfdm.18370
  • pp. 293-294: Legal Texts on the Move: Normative Texts Crossing Boundaries in the Medieval World (4–5 September 2025, Vienna) (Red.)
    DOI: 10.25592/uhhfdm.18372
  • pp. 295: Scribes and Hands. Old and New Methods of Scribal Identification (800–1550) (Vienna, 17–19 September 2025) (Red.)
    DOI: 10.25592/uhhfdm.18374
  • pp. 295-297: Lire et commenter les Pères de l’Eglise, de l’Antiquité tardive à la Renaissance (Université de Fribourg, 15–18 October 2025) (Red.)
    DOI: 10.25592/uhhfdm.18376
  • pp. 297-298: Interpreting the Ancients (Philadelphia, 20–22 November 2025) (Red.)
    DOI: 10.25592/uhhfdm.18380