“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...”

“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.”

“The Lebanese poet, journalist, and linguist Ibrāhīm al-Yāzijī (1847–1906) has gained fame as a...”

“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...”

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

“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...”

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

“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.”

“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...”

“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...”

“This note is the sole testament to the manuscript’s remarkable journey from Egypt to Mardin, a city in...”

“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...”

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