Publications
Articles in Journals and Chapters of Books
‘Digital Humanities and Qur’ānic Manuscript Studies: New Perspectives and Challenges for Collaborative Spaces and Plural Views’, Journal of College of Sharia & Islamic Studies, 38, 1 (2020), pp. 147-158.
‘The Qur’ānic Text from Manuscript to Digital Form: Metalinguistic Markup of Scribes and Editors’, in Bradford A. Anderson (ed.), From Scrolls to Scrolling. Sacred Texts, Materiality, and Dynamic Media Cultures. De Gruyter 2020, pp. 213-245.
‘Isolated Qurʾānic Fragments: The Case of the Three Papyri from the Mingana Collection’, in A. Hilali and S. R. Burge (eds.), The Making of Religious Texts in Islam: The Fragment and the Whole (Berlin 2019), pp. 174-198.
‘Manuscript Acquisitions and Their Later Movements. A Further Note about the Case of the Lewis Qur’ānic Manuscript’, in B. Liebrenz and Ch. Rauch (eds.), Manuscripts, Politics and Oriental Studies. Life and Collections of Johann Gottfried Wetzstein (1815-1905) in Context (Leiden 2019), pp. 228-247.
‘Early Qur’ānic manuscripts, caption of MS John Rylands Arabic 11’, in J.R. Hodgson (ed.), Riches of the Rylands: The Special Collections of the University of Manchester Library (Manchester 2015), p. 171.
‘The Kufic collection of the Prussian consul Wetzstein: The 1100 leaves of the Universitätsbibliothek in Tübingen and their importance for palaeography and Koranic criticism’, in R.M. Kerr and T. Milo (eds.), Writings and Writing. Investigations in Islamic Text and Script in honour of Januarius Justus Witkam. (Cambridge 2013), pp. 117-142.
‘Variants and substantiated qirā’āt: a few notes exploring their fluidity in the oldest Qur’ānic manuscripts’, in M. Groß and K.H. Ohlig (eds.), Die Entstehung einer Weltreligion II (Berlin 2012), pp. 403-440.
‘The provenance of the manuscript Mingana Islamic Arabic 1572: dispersed folios from a few Qur’ānic quires’, Manuscripta Orientalia, 17,1 (2011), pp. 45-56.
‘The digitization project of the Qur’ānic palimpsest, MS Cambridge University Library Or. 1287, and the verification of the Mingana-Lewis edition: where is salām?’, Journal of Islamic Manuscripts, 2,1 (2011), pp. 100-117.
Review of ‘François Déroche, La transmission écrite du Coran dans les débuts de l’Islam. Le codex Parisino-petropolitanus. Leiden-Boston: Brill, 2009’, Bulletin d’Études Orientales, 59 (2010), pp. 149-157.
‘Relevance of the oldest qur’ānic manuscripts for the readings mentioned by commentaries. A note on sura Ṭā-Hā’, Manuscripta Orientalia, 15,1 (2009), pp. 3-10.
‘I manoscritti di Sanaa: fogli sparsi che diventano Corani’ [i.e. Sana’a manuscripts: scattered leaves that become Qur’āns], in F. Aspesi, V. Brugnatelli, A.L. Callow and C. Rosenzweig (eds.), Il mio cuore è a Oriente. Studi di linguistica storica, filologica e cultura ebraica dedicati a Maria Luisa Mayer Modena. Milano: Cisalpino, Quaderni di Acme, 101 (2008), pp. 25-48.
‘Lingua e scrittura del Corano: gli inizi’ [i.e. Language and script of the Qur’ān: the beginnings], J. Guardi (ed.), Vedi alla voce: lingua araba. Elementi di linguistica per lo studio e la conoscenza dell’arabo (Milano 2007), pp. 17-53.
‘Mingana and the manuscript of Mrs. Agnes Smith Lewis, one century later’, Manuscripta Orientalia, 11,3 (2005), pp. 3-7.
‘Early evidences of variant readings in Qur’ānic manuscripts’, in K.H. Ohlig and G.R. Puin (eds.), Die dunklen Anfänge. Neue Forschungen zur Entstehung und frühen Geschichte des Islam (Berlin 2005), pp.293-316. Republished in K.H. Ohlig and G.R. Puin (eds.), The Hidden Origins of Islam. New Research into its early History (New York 2010), pp. 311-334.
‘A.Perg.2: a non palimpsest and its corrections’, Manuscripta Orientalia, 11,1 (2005), pp. 20-27.
Manuscript Editions, Monographs and Edited Volumes
‘Digital Edition of the Qur’anic leaves from the palimpsest Manuscript of Cambridge University Library Or. 1287’, processed images showing hypothetical retracement of the scriptio inferior of the palimpsest and digital edition of its Qur’ānic text furnished of editorial notes: large leaves and small leaves, Cambridge Digital Library 2016.
Digital Edition of Qur’anic Manuscripts and Papyri from the Mingana Collection, University of Birmingham Repository 2015-2020.
‘Early Qur’ānic manuscripts, their text, and the Alphonse Mingana papers held in the Department of Special Collections of the University of Birmingham’, PhD thesis, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK.
A. Fedeli, R.B. Finazzi, C. Milani, C. E. Morrison, P. Nicelli, (eds.), Gli studi di storiografia. Tradizione, memoria e modernità. Accademia Ambrosiana Classe di Studi sul Vicino Oriente, Orientalia Ambrosiana 6, Biblioteca Ambrosiana - Centro Ambrosiano (Milano 2019).