“The extraordinary manuscripts held at the Armenian Patriarchate of Istanbul are a poignant testament to the survival...”

“In many Muslim communities, the annual celebration of the Prophet Muḥammad’s birthday is one of the most festive occasions of the year...”

“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...”

“The manuscripts of Ethiopia and Eritrea come in all shapes and sizes...”

“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...”

“In the New Testament, Acts of the Apostles (17:34), Luke describes the ‘marketplace of ideas’ in Athens...”

“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...”

“In the days before social media, how did people share a noteworthy weather phenomena...”

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

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

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

“Ephrem is perhaps the most widely known of all Syriac authors...”

“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...”

“In the early decades of HMML, the region beyond the proverbial Iron Curtain was out of reach.”

“Printing reached Ethiopia rather late. In Europe, texts were occasionally printed in Ethiopic characters from...”

“A book you would love to read is lost, altered, destroyed, buried, hidden, left unpublished, unwritten, banned.”

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

“Today, depending on what communities you are a part of, your concept of a year may follow a calendar that is...”

“Among the well-known biblical narratives is that of the twins Jacob and Esau, and...”

“In 1744, the French Order of the Visitation of Holy Mary established a convent in ʻAynṭūrah, Lebanon, known in Arabic as...”

“On a shelf in the Syriac Orthodox Church of Saint George in Aleppo is a manuscript copied in Arabic Garshuni...”

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

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

“Towards the end of Getatchew Haile’s first published catalog of Ethiopic manuscripts...”

“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...”

“Much has been said about the scholarly achievements of Prof. Getatchew Haile...”

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

“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.”