Cooperations

The Centre for the Studies of Manuscript Cultures (CSMC) at Hamburg University is engaged in fundamental research, investigating from both a historical and comparative perspective, based on material artifacts, the empirical diversity of manuscript cultures.

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The IslHornAfr project (ERC Advanced Grant, Alessandro Gori, Copenhagen) aims to provide a pilot study of the Islamic history in Africa as it is reflected in the literary traditions of the Horn of Africa (Ethiopia, Eritrea, Djibouti, Somalia).

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The ERC Advanced Grant PAThs (2016-2021, Paola Buzi, Rome) aims to provide an in-depth diachronical understanding and effective representation of the geography of Coptic literary production, which is the corpus of writings, almost exclusively of religious contents, produced in Egypt between the 3rd and the 11th centuries in the Coptic language.

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