Over the course of the last year the Hill Museum and Manuscript Library
(HMML) and the Roshan Institute for Persian Studies at the University of
Maryland, College Park (Roshan Institute-UMD) have begun collaborating
with the Raja of Mahmudabad family on the preservation of their important
manuscript collection. The project will help protect…[Read more]

This is a study of the Quranic manuscript Arabe 334a held at the Bibliothèque nationale de France. It is a vocalized manuscript representing a Quranic reading tradition that falls outside the canonical ten reading traditions known to us today. It is shown that this manuscript, on the basis of verse division, is a Hijazi (probably Medinan)…[Read more]

This article edits a Judaeo-Arabic letter written in the early phonetic Judaeo-Arabic spelling from the Taylor-Slechter Collection with the siglum T-S 13J8.7. This letter, which is a personal letter on paper from a merchant whose goods have been stolen from his shop adds to the small corpus of letters in this early orthography. Besides this…[Read more]