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Why so Many Fragments? Incomplete Manuscripts in the Timbuktu Collections.
March 16, 2023
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Woodcut Fragments of the 16th Century
March 2, 2023
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Postscript — Luqmān the Sage
February 23, 2023
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Johann Wetzstein and the Qurʼan Fragments of Tübingen
February 16, 2023
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Medieval Fragments in the Palazzo Falson
February 2, 2023
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Reversal of Fates: Access Through Photographs can be a Counterbalance
January 27, 2023
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Poetry and Agriculture, a Fragmentary Scrapbook
January 19, 2023
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Identifying Syriac Fragments in the Digital Age
January 5, 2023
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Where We’re Working: L’viv, Ukraine
December 29, 2022
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Poetic fragments at the Great ʿUmarī Mosque in Gaza
December 22, 2022
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The Next Stop was Kremsmünster Abbey
December 20, 2022
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Hiding in the Binding — Fragments in Rare Book Collections at HMML
December 8, 2022
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Jacques Hnizdovsky in Minnesota
December 1, 2022
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Identifying Prohibited Books in Early Modern Malta
November 24, 2022
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“This Book is Free From Banned Content” — Ottoman Censorship of al-Yāzijī’s Arabic Lexicon
November 10, 2022
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Ḫeruy Walda Śellāsē’s “History of Ethiopia”
October 27, 2022
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Censorship Without Censorship
October 13, 2022
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A Book You Would Love to Read...
September 29, 2022
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Sandwiching a Forbidden Text
September 15, 2022
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ʻUmar al-Turūdī’s List of Unreliable Books
September 1, 2022
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Books that Survived the Ban — Syriac Manuscripts in India
August 18, 2022
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Malta Parish Archives Project Completed
August 11, 2022
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Lifted on Wings
August 4, 2022
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Microfilm Milestones
July 28, 2022
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Feeling the Heavens
July 21, 2022
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Where We’re Working: Mali
July 16, 2022
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Khwājahʹzādah’s Treatise on the Rainbow
July 7, 2022
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Postscript — King Solomon the Gynecologist, a Forgotten Tale From the Syriac Book of Medicines
June 30, 2022
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The Stars of Ben-Zion
June 23, 2022
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Between the Sun and Moon
June 9, 2022
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Astronomical Technology and Religious Practice in Islam
May 26, 2022
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Signs in the Heavens — Astrological Books of Daniel in Eastern Christianity
May 12, 2022
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A Tale of Two Bears — Astronomy in Austrian Libraries
April 28, 2022
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A Tribute to Getatchew Haile (1931–2021)
April 19, 2022
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Why was Esau so Hungry? Genesis 25 in Arabic Manuscripts
April 14, 2022
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Creating Relationships — Sharing the Past to Build Toward Future Scholarship
April 7, 2022
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Smoking in the Desert — Between Supporters and Opponents of Tobacco
March 31, 2022
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Postscript — A Sister’s Vows
March 21, 2022
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Soup, with a Side of Reform
March 17, 2022
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Where We’re Working: The Monastery of Santa Ursula
March 8, 2022
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The Hard Work of a Market Inspector in Preventing Food Frauds at the Market of Tinnīs, Egypt
March 3, 2022
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The Gouda Life
February 17, 2022
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A Syriac Poem on Wine
February 3, 2022
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A Man for All Seasonings
January 20, 2022
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New Scanner is a Quantum Leap for Digitizing Microfilm at HMML
January 10, 2022
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The Case of the Mysterious Pie and the Amsterdam Theater
January 6, 2022
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Hill Museum & Manuscript Library (HMML) Announces Second Season of its Virtual Series, “To Listen: A Global Journey”
January 4, 2022
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The Travels of the Ebony Horse
December 23, 2021
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Arabian Nights of the Christian East
December 20, 2021
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Want to Marry the Princess? Know thy Bible!
December 9, 2021
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Icon Collection Finds a New Home at HMML
December 2, 2021
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The Story of the Talking Camel and the Exploits of Ali Genre in West Africa
November 25, 2021
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Parabiblical Literature in the Horn of Africa
November 11, 2021
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Tracing Folktales in Magic Texts — The Story of Umm al-Ṣibyān
October 28, 2021
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Postscript — Syriac Apocalypse of Daniel
October 21, 2021
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Grave Tales, Engraved (and Etched)
October 14, 2021
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Ottoman Soap Operas and Other Stories
September 30, 2021
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Hill Museum & Manuscript Library (HMML) Creates New Database to Assist Scholars of Understudied Manuscript Traditions
October 4, 2021
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The Book of Laughable Stories — A Medieval Joke Book
September 16, 2021
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The Emperor’s Manuscript
September 11, 2021
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Four Family Libraries in Jerusalem
September 9, 2021
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Malta Envisioned by an English Clergyman
September 2, 2021
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Where We’re Working: The Balkans
August 26, 2021
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Multispectral Imaging Tests at HMML
August 23, 2021
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Travelers and Texts Crossing the Sahara
August 19, 2021
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Migration, Digitization, and Preservation - A Case Study of a Somali Manuscript
August 12, 2021
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The Journey of One Armenian Manuscript
August 5, 2021
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Hill Museum & Manuscript Library (HMML) Receives $5 Million Grant From Arcadia
August 3, 2021
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When in Rome...
July 22, 2021
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Protecting Travelers and Maritime Contacts in the Eighteenth-Century Mediterranean
July 8, 2021
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From Cairo to Mardin, Manuscripts on Camelback
June 24, 2021
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Prof. Getatchew Haile — A Giant in His Field and in the Hearts of All Who Knew Him
June 21, 2021
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Prof. Getatchew Haile, FBA, 1931–2021
June 11, 2021
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Traveling to France on Paper
June 10, 2021
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Crossing the Red Sea in the 1640s
May 27, 2021
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Medicine, Ritual, and Magic in Ethiopia
May 13, 2021
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Quarantine in Malta, a Print of the Lazaretto from the Mużew Nazzjonali tal-Arti
April 29, 2021
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HMML Presents Third Program in “To Listen” Series on May 20, 2021
April 21, 2021
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Medical Texts From Timbuktu — Local Pharmacological Remedies with Qur’anic Verses
April 15, 2021
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Early Miniatures of Ethiopians
April 9, 2021
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An Anonymous Syriac Medical Compendium
March 31, 2021
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A Tale of Two Herbals, From Medicine to Food in the 16th Century
March 17, 2021
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Accounts on Plague and Infectious Diseases from Three Arabic Manuscripts
March 4, 2021
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HMML Presents the Second Program in the “To Listen” Series on March 18, 2021
March 1, 2021
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Yeɗi Sanba Ɓooyi, a Fulani Scholar and Poet
February 25, 2021
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Remedies in the Margins of Syriac Manuscripts
February 18, 2021
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Creating Cataloging Standards for Regional Names
February 11, 2021
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Medical Care for the Enslaved Mustafa Osmon in 18th-Century Valletta, Malta
February 4, 2021
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Where We’re Working — Dayr Anbā Maqār, Egypt
January 22, 2021
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HMML Presents New Program, “To Listen: A Global Journey”
January 8, 2021
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Postscript — A Fāʼidah
January 3, 2021
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The Power of a Name
December 26, 2020
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Getatchew Haile, Ethiopic scholar
December 13, 2020
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Database Partnership Expands Access to West African Manuscripts
December 10, 2020
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The Gift of Knowing One Another
December 1, 2020
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Hill Museum & Manuscript Library names Rachel McGarry and Nick Swenson to Board of Overseers
October 22, 2020
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Digitization of the Lettere consolari fonds at the Cathedral Archives, Mdina, Now Completed
October 13, 2020
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Refresh of HMML brand identity and website
October 5, 2020
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Hill Museum & Manuscript Library completes digital cataloging of Khalidi Library’s manuscript collection
August 24, 2020
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Digitization of the Archives of the Archconfraternity of Our Lady of Mount Carmel Completed
June 30, 2020
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Advanced Imaging Data for HMML Palimpsest Project Hosted on OPenn
June 4, 2020
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HMML Stands with a Nation and World in Pain
June 2, 2020
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New Preservation Projects — HMML Looks to the Future
May 22, 2020
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Why Cultural Heritage Matters Program and Resources
May 11, 2020
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“HMML@Home” — A New Way to Stay Connected
April 27, 2020
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HMML Launches New Series — HMML@Home
April 3, 2020
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BBC Radio Airs Story on HMML and Fr. Columba
February 25, 2020
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Ancient Writing Revealed During HMML Palimpsest Imaging at Stanford's SLAC Lab
February 21, 2020
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HMML Fieldwork — Fr. Columba Travels to Mali, Renews Agreement
January 31, 2020
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HMML Receives $1.4 Million NEH Grant to Preserve and Share Manuscript Heritage
January 21, 2020
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New Faces at HMML
January 8, 2020
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Updates From the World of Metadata
December 26, 2019
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Where We're Working: The Pontificio Collegio Armeno, Rome
December 1, 2019
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Governor Walz to Headline Event Honoring Minnesota's “Monument Man” of Endangered manuscripts
October 30, 2019
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HMML Staff Make Scholarly Impact
November 1, 2019
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Cultural Heritage Present and Future — A Benedictine Monk’s Long View
October 7, 2019
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National Endowment for the Humanities names Fr. Columba Stewart, OSB, the 2019 Jeffereson Lecturer
July 22, 2019
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Where We're Working: Missionary Society of Saint Paul, Harissa, Lebanon
July 15, 2019
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Seeing the Invisible — Multispectral Imaging of Ancient and Medieval Manuscripts
July 1, 2019
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vHMML Reading Room Surpasses Milestone
May 18, 2019
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vHMML Museum Goes Live
May 5, 2019
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Hill Museum & Manuscript Library Mentioned in December 2018 National Geographic Magazine
November 30, 2018
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HMML Opens New Exhibition “Starting Over — From Death Comes New Life”
October 30, 2018
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HMML is Gifted a Rare Copy of William Shakespeare's Second Folio
July 9, 2018
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HMML opens new exhibition “Mediterranean Travel — People, Places, Encounters”
June 29, 2018
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Hill Museum & Manuscript Library's Malta Study Center Completes Digitization Project at MUŻA — Mużew Nazzjonali tal-Arti
May 18, 2018
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Manuscripts Meet the World — Handwritten Books from Around the World
March 22, 2018
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HMML opens new exhibition “Living Prayer — Prayer Brought to Life, Living Through Prayer”
March 7, 2018
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Digital copies of the Rossi, Ansaldi and Caetani Yemeni manuscript collections now available in vHMML Reading Room
February 27, 2018
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HMML Featured on CBS News’ Program 60 Minutes
December 21, 2017
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Harvard Magazine Profiles HMML's Father Columba
December 19, 2017
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Permanent gallery for The Saint John’s Bible opens at Saint John’s University
November 13, 2017
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NEH funds 2018 Summer Institute in Mediterranean Studies at HMML
August 14, 2017
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HMML awarded a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities for vHMML 3.0
August 2, 2017
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New Exhibition in HMML’s Reading Room — Fragmented Beauty
June 1, 2017
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Festschrift for Getatchew Haile
May 1, 2017
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HMML Partners with the Institute for Advanced Study to Share Threatened Manuscript Heritage from Yemen and Neighboring Countries
April 11, 2017
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New Exhibition at HMML Terra Incognita Tracing Western Understanding of the Earth Through Maps
February 9, 2017
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HMML’S Malta Study Center Completes Digitization of Malta Collection at the Catholic University of America Rare Books and Special Collections
October 11, 2016
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Innovative Manuscript Research Tool on vHMML Now Available
August 29, 2016
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HMML & Syriac Manuscripts — New Exhibition in HMML's Reading Room
August 3, 2016
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Artistic Director and Scribe of The Saint John's Bible Receives Apostolic Knighthood
June 16, 2016
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HMML’S Malta Study Center and the James Ford Bell Library Open Exhibition on the Great Siege of Malta
May 26, 2016
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Father Columba Stewart Awarded 2016 Guggenheim Fellowship
April 7, 2016
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Ethiopia, Europe, and Collegeville — New Exhibition in our Reading Room
April 5, 2016
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HMML’S Malta Study Center Begins Digitization Partnership with the Fondazzjoni Patrimonju Malti
February 18, 2016
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The Hill Museum & Manuscript Library Launches vHMML
October 16, 2015
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Hill Museum & Manuscript Library Awarded $4 Million Grant from Arcadia Fund
September 21, 2015
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HMML Receives Major Grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
April 14, 2015
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HMML Digitizes Timbuktu's Historic Manuscript Collections
March 31, 2015
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HMML Urgently Working to Save Manuscripts in Iraq, Hopes for Safety of Collections in Syria
March 17, 2015
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Hill Museum & Manuscript Library Joins the Renaissance Society of America
December 23, 2014
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HMML’S Malta Study Center Begins New Digitization Project at the National Archives of Malta
December 10, 2014
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HMML Awarded $500,000 Grant From Henry Luce Foundation to Support Development of an Online Reading Room for vHMML
December 1, 2014
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Malta Study Center Partners with the Mediterranean Seminar
June 2, 2014
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New Curator Hired for HMML's Malta Study Center
April 23, 2014
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HMML Receives International SUCCEED Award
April 23, 2014
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HMML Receives Grant from Prince Claus Fund to Digitize Timbuktu Manuscripts
February 17, 2014
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HMML Returns to Mali to Digitize Manuscripts from Timbuktu Library
December 23, 2013
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Council of the British Academy Bestows Edward Ullendorff Medal Upon Getatchew Haile
July 22, 2013
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HMML Awarded Grant to Develop Virtual HMML
September 4, 2012
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HMML Completes Armenian Manuscript Project in Aleppo, Syria
May 3, 2012
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HMML Awarded National Medal of Honor
October 25, 2011
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HMML Awarded $3 Million Grant from Arcadia Fund
September 6, 2011
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HMML Begins First Manuscript Preservation Project in Jerusalem
February 1, 2011
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Researcher Identifies Second-Oldest Ethiopian Manuscript in Existence in HMML’s Archives
July 13, 2010
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Where We’re Working: L’viv, Ukraine
December 12, 2009
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HMML acquires two landmark titles for its Rare Book Collection
October 12, 2007
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