Dr. Josh Mugler, curator of Eastern Christian & Islamic manuscripts at HMML, presents this week at the World Congress of Syriac Studies / Conference of Christian Arabic Studies in Romania. Details: https://bit.ly/3PuXLHS Josh's topic: "Manuscript Witnesses to the Assyrian and Armenian Genocides."

Dr. Columba Stewart, ED of HMML, presents this week at the World Congress of Syriac Studies / Conference of Christian Arabic Studies in Bucharest, Romania: https://bit.ly/3PuXLHS Pictured: a Syriac evangelion, Church of the Forty Martyrs, Mardin, Turkey (CFMM 00037): https://bit.ly/4bixVyp

Join HMML and Mahibere Kidusan at the Highland Park Public Library in St. Paul, Minnesota, on Saturday, August 8 12–5 p.m. (CT) for a hands-on celebration of Ethiopian culture through manuscripts, storytelling, food, and music: https://bit.ly/3Mmurg8 Pictured: GG 00043 (https://bit.ly/4yJP51X)

HMML is hiring a "Chief Advancement Officer," a full-time, benefits-eligible, partially-remote position. Details: https://bit.ly/4yQrBZ7 Pictured: a manuscript in the collection of Ledatā Māryām Church, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. (EMML 421, fol. 21r) #JobOpening #Job #Hiring #LibraryJobs #Philanthropy

"The Story of the Judge & the Thief," a story about a trickster, was evidently very popular in West Africa: HMML preserves digital copies of 40+ manuscripts containing this story, located across 11 libraries in #Mali. Read a translation by Dr. Ali Diakite & Dr. Paul Naylor: https://bit.ly/4y2dBLo

Arabian Nights in Timbuktu: The Story of the Judge and the Thief

“The Story of the Judge and the Thief, a story about a trickster, was evidently very popular...”

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Digitization & cataloging are complete for 10 private collections located in central Kerala, India. The contents of these manuscripts include Vedic ritualism, Vedic literature, Sanskrit and Prakrit grammar, Malayalam literature, astrology, Sanskrit drama, & more. Details: https://bit.ly/4eMMRqV

Join HMML at the Minnesota Center for Book Arts in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on Saturday, August 15 at 9 a.m. (CT) for a look at contemporary and historical Ethiopian book bindings with special guest Islam Aly, a visiting artist at the Minnesota Center for Book Arts. RSVP: hmml.org/programs/events

Digitization & cataloging are complete for the #Armenian manuscripts at the Pontificio Collegio Armeno in Rome, Italy. These #Manuscripts represent an important witness to the history of Armenian religious, intellectual, & communal life in #Rome. Learn more: https://bit.ly/4eEMDlz

Digitization & cataloging are complete for 243 Islamic manuscripts in the Franciscan Library in Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Dated objects range from an Arabic manuscript on law and logic, copied in Ankara in 1387 CE to an Arabic legal text copied in 1873 CE. Learn more: https://bit.ly/4oL8rzl

Dr. Audrey Thorstad, director of programming at HMML, shares highlights from exhibitions, lectures, and special events over the year of celebrating HMML's six decades of preserving handwritten cultural heritage: hmml.org/stories/celebrating-60-years-of-preserving-the-world-s-handwritten-heritage/

Celebrating 60 Years of Preserving the World's Handwritten Heritage

“For six decades, HMML has worked to preserve and share...”

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Digitization & cataloging are complete for 51 palm-leaf manuscripts in the collection of Tantra Vidyā Pīṭham, a residential educational institution dedicated to training students in the ritual practices of Kerala temple worship, located in Aluva, India. Learn more: https://bit.ly/4wckCYv

Digitization & cataloging are complete for the Patenti di Partenze series of the Gran Corte della Valletta, containing chronological registers of passengers departing from Malta—passengers' names & ages, together with the vessel's name, captain, crew numbers, & destination: https://bit.ly/43TvUEY

HMML is pleased to announce Dr. Jeremy R. Brown’s promotion to Curator of Eastern Christian Manuscripts: hmml.org/stories/dr-jeremy-r-brown-new-curator-of-eastern-christian-manuscripts

Dr. Jeremy R. Brown, HMML's New Curator of Eastern Christian Manuscripts

“HMML is pleased to announce Dr. Jeremy R. Brown's promotion to Curator of Eastern Christian Manuscripts...”

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HMML is pleased to welcome three new members to its Board of Directors: Donald J. Waters, Christian Y. Dupont, and Steven E. Helland. Learn more: https://hmml.org/stories/hmml-welcomes-three-new-directors-to-its-board-of-directors/

HMML Welcomes Three New Directors to Its Board of Directors

“HMML is pleased to welcome three new members to its Board of Directors: Donald J. Waters, Christian Y. Dupont, and Steven E. Helland...”

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Digitization & cataloging are complete for 26 manuscripts in private collections located in Armenia and Georgia, accessible online (vhmml.org) and by visiting HMML in Minnesota. The manuscripts were digitized by Dr. Konrad Siekierski for the "Home Saints" project. Details: https://bit.ly/4uXYoIO

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16th Century Greeks in Malta Reveal a Mediterranean Built on Commerce, Not Mere Conflict - tovima.com

Newly digitized Maltese archives reveal how Greek merchants, sailors and civic leaders flourished after the Order of St. John relocated from Ottoman-ruled Rhodes, challenging a traditional narrative o...

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🧵(1) Digitization & cataloging is complete for 36 Arabic manuscripts in the collection of Eyes on Heritage (al-ʻUyūn ʻalá al-Turāth, project code EOH), a cultural institution in Gaza. Learn more: hmml.org/collections/...

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An entire Herculaneum scroll has been read for the first time

PHerc. 1667, sealed since the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD, has been virtually unwrapped and read from beginning to end — without ever being opened.

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All current HMML catalogers and curators contributed to a new exhibition, “Lost & Found in Translation." Co-curated by Dr. Jennifer Carnell and Rylie Owen, the exhibition explores the challenges of translation and the connections it fosters. View in-person and online: hmml.org/programs/exhibitions.

Sr. Marie-Thérèse Elia, who cataloged Maronite manuscripts at HMML, described the colophon of this manuscript as exemplary: it has the scribe's name, date & location of copying, & a humble plea regarding any mistakes in the work. Lebanese Maronite Order in Kaslik (OLM 00987): https://bit.ly/4wnk5DH

In an editorial on #Plants, Dr. Ani Shahinian (cataloger of Armenian manuscripts at HMML) considers ways that #Armenian #Manuscripts reveal the intricate and interdependent relationship between nature and humanity: hmml.org/stories/series-plants-in-armenian-manuscripts-beauty-and-healing

Plants in Armenian Manuscripts: Beauty and Healing

“Plants and flowers in Armenian manuscripts are not merely decorative ornaments...”

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“Little by little, the sky darkened with clouds. Then a storm arrived, and the rain fell.” Dr. Jeremy R. Brown looks at two Ethiopian manuscripts in which droughts, rain, and hailstorms become the focus of human communication with the divine: hmml.org/stories/series-weather-let-it-fall-as-rain

Let it Fall as Rain

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

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The summer issue of HMML Magazine is now available! Read a digital copy or receive the free, print subscription: hmml.org/about/publications This issue includes articles by Matthew Z. Heintzelman, Josh Mugler, Jennifer Carnell, Ali Diakite, Paul Naylor, Amanda Hannoosh Steinberg, & Daniel K. Gullo.

HMML is hiring a "Cataloger of South Asian Manuscripts," a full-time, benefits-eligible, remote position. Details: https://bit.ly/4uGD6PE The Cataloger will be working on Islamic manuscripts recently digitized in India and Pakistan. This is a two-year, grant-funded position. #LibraryJobs #Hiring

The archive of the Casa Buonarroti in Florence, Italy, is a treasure room of early modern Italian poetry—including the famed poems of Renaissance artist Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475–1564). Take a look at a sonnet by an unidentified poet in this story by Dr. Daniel K. Gullo: https://bit.ly/49WaFFN

Postscript -- Fortune's Wheel in 17th-Century Florence

“The archive of the Casa Buonarroti in Florence, Italy, is a veritable treasure room of early modern Italian poetry...”

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Thanks to all who joined HMML on May 16 to celebrate 60 years of preservation, partnerships, and community. The event included reflections by Dr. Columba Stewart, on why preserving at-risk manuscripts matters now more than ever. Watch the recording: youtube.com/live/qUFcEbGpV64?si=im2smR9znfEUwrfB

Celebrating 60 Years with the Hill Museum & Manuscript Library

Join the Hill Museum & Manuscript Library (HMML) as we celebrate 60 years of preserving the world's handwritten heritage. This special public event features a curator conversation, a keynote presentation by Executive Director Dr. Columba Stewart, and a ...

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The Ethiopian Manuscript Microfilm Library (EMML) has photographs of 9,000+ manuscripts microfilmed in Ethiopia from 1973–1994. Manuscript descriptions from the complete 10-volume EMML print catalog are now represented and expanded upon online in HMML Reading Room. Details: https://bit.ly/3PBBIPM

For #InternationalArchivesWeek, consider how digitized copies of manuscripts can preserve access to a manuscript's contents, provide a record of ownership if the object is removed, and provide access to cultural heritage if a community is displaced. Learn more: hmml.org/stories/reversal-of-fates

Meet Mary Hoppe, digital projects assistant at HMML since 2011: hmml.org/stories/meet-mary-hoppe "It’s extraordinary how digitization allows the ability to enhance the image and see the fine detail not easily viewed in the original piece. There are constant surprises and connections.”

Dr. Josh Mugler, curator of Eastern Christian & Islamic manuscripts at HMML, presents today at a workshop in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Details: https://bit.ly/4nHQst1. Learn more about HMML's projects to preserve manuscripts located in Bosnia and Herzegovina: https://bit.ly/4wAxM2t