“When we think of medieval manuscripts in general, we may imagine male monastic scribes...”

“Church libraries in Ethiopia have often depended upon wealthy and powerful patrons...”

“In the middle of the 19th century, Arabic-speaking immigrants began to appear among the waves of newcomers arriving in the United States...”

“Animals in scripts as symbols of meaning and the art of communicating a message...”

“The refrain “The Lord works in mysterious ways” is rarely truer than it is in the Ethiopic Miracles of Mary...”

“Bird watching is typically an activity that...”

“Interwoven tapestry of the natural and spiritual worlds as observed through the Armenian liturgical calendar...”

“Few things can impact daily life in quite the way that weather does...”

“An answer to the question of what it means to be human...”

“Dr. Arthur Voobus was many things—a scholar, pastor, teacher, and refugee in exile...”

“The organ is not the first musical instrument that comes to mind when...”

“The Arabic manuscript tradition is rich in medical works discussing remedies and...”

“The book of vows contained one manuscript...”

“Stories about saints, much like their relics, rarely remain tied to...”

“Khalīl ibn Jirjis Janāwī was a scribe, a collector of manuscripts, and an artist who was...”

“If you want to establish a new church, you’re likely going to need some books...”

“The act of hand-copying a manuscript requires specialized skills that...”

“Cultural losses continue to beset communities around the world, especially in areas subject to armed conflict...”

“What would you do if someone handed you a page that had clearly been torn out of a book...”

“A book you would love to read is lost, altered, destroyed, buried, hidden, left unpublished, unwritten, banned.”

“Christianity has a long, rich history in India. Some even trace the origins of Christian communities in India to...”

“Angels occupy an important place in monotheistic religions. They are mainly presented as celestial beings...”

“The Syriac Book of Medicines is a fascinating compendium of medical lore from the...”

“In Syriac Christian communities, astrological texts were sometimes appended to medical books and...”

“Who doesn’t love a good glass of wine? White, red, or something in between, authors throughout history...”

“Who hasn’t heard a fairy tale about a princess whose beauty moves the richest and...”

“Biblical narratives often leave the audience wanting to know a bit more.”

“Despite having been contested in Islamic history by powerful groups rejecting them as illegitimate practices, magic and...”

“We live in a world ravaged by a pandemic, by wars, by all manner of catastrophic and...”

“HMML’s digital collections include entertaining stories from a wide range of linguistic and...”

“Have you ever heard a great joke, but then later when you tried to recount it for someone else, you couldn’t remember it?”

“When people ask how we find new projects for HMML, I admit that sometimes they just come to us.”

“In 1945, a pharmacist living in Lebanon—Manaseh Kaprielian—presented a 17th-century Armenian manuscript to...”

“Towards the middle of the 15th century, the Ethiopian Emperor Zar’a Yā‘eqob, a prominent theologian and scholar, faced...”

“On this day seventy-five years ago, an early-14th century illuminated gospel book arrived at the...”

“Many medical works from antiquity were translated into Syriac and transmitted through the...”

“People in past centuries would sometimes use the blank flyleaves and margins of manuscripts to...”

“The Monastery of Saint Macarius is one of the oldest active Coptic monasteries in Egypt.”

“Lebanon is one of the most religiously variegated countries in the Middle East.”