“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...”

“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 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...”

“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...”

“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...”

“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...”

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

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

“The history of Arabian Nights stories in Christian communities is still imperfectly understood.”

“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?”

“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.”

“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...”

“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.”

“The work of Dr. Getatchew Haile, long-time curator of the HMML Ethiopia Study Center...”

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