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

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

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

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

🧵(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/...

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

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 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

At the center of the personal seal of Zawditu, Empress of Ethiopia, is the Conquering Lion of Judah (see EMML 524): https://bit.ly/4lBgg93 Learn more about Empress Zawditu and her impact on the church libraries of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, in a story by Dr. Jeremy R. Brown: https://bit.ly/4bPiHl8

The German artist Albrecht #Dürer was born 555 years ago, on May 21, 1471. There are 27 prints of Dürer's work in HMML Museum, viewable online (vhmml.org/museum) or in-person by visiting HMML in Collegeville, Minnesota. Pictured: Dürer's "Agony in the Garden" (AAP2200): vhmml.org/museum/view/144

A fragment of a history of the Hausa region by Bello, Sultan of Sokoto (SAV BMH 14522, page 26). Learn more in a story about Banned Books, authored by Dr. Paul Naylor, cataloger of West African manuscripts at HMML: hmml.org/stories/series-books-unreliable-books

Today, join us to celebrate HMML’s 60 years of preserving and sharing handwritten heritage! This free event is happening in-person in Minnesota, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. (CT). Details: https://bit.ly/3PDcmAY Livestream is available from 11 a.m.–12 p.m. (CT): https://bit.ly/4d9iWbq

HMML is hiring a "Cataloger, West African Manuscripts," a full-time, benefits-eligible, remote position. Details: https://bit.ly/4njwcgW The Cataloger will participate in HMML's effort to catalog Islamic manuscripts recently digitized in Mali. This is a one-year, grant-funded position. #LibraryJobs

"Il serait si doux d'aimer!" (To love would be so sweet!), a 1923 print in the series "Miserere et Guerre" by Georges Rouault (1871–1958). View this (AAP2309) and other works by Rouault in HMML Museum: vhmml.org/museum/view/1536 Collection of Saint John's University in Collegeville, Minnesota.

A fāʼidah to catch many fish! Collection of the Aboubacar Ben Said Library, Timbuktu, Mali (SAV ABS 04736). Learn about the extensive genre of fawāʼid (texts to bring benefit) in a story by Dr. Ali Diakite & Dr. Paul Naylor, catalogers of West African manuscripts at HMML: https://bit.ly/4dA3kwP

This manuscript (SAV CIA 00016) captures a very important period in the history of the Muslim theocracies in the 19th century—it's a detailed justification of the military campaign against the rulers of the Hausa States, which led to the creation of the Sokoto Caliphate: https://bit.ly/4v5iKRm

The story of Joseph & Zulaykhā is a popular subject for poetic romances in Persianate literature. KKMA 00065 is the first copy of the story in Punjabi to enter HMML's online Reading Room, through the poetry of Ḥāfiz̤ Bark̲h̲vurdār (1658-1707): https://bit.ly/4dXLfu9 Repository: https://bit.ly/3OcsGIg

For International Workers Day, "Island Hay," a 1945 lithograph by Thomas Hart Benton (1889–1975). Collection of Saint John's University, Collegeville, Minnesota. View this and other works by Benton in HMML Museum (AAP0998): vhmml.org/museum/view/79

Microfilm of the complete Archives of the Inquisition of Malta is now digitized & available online in HMML Reading Room (vhmml.org). Public access to this archive was achieved in partnership with the Cathedral Archives in Mdina, Malta, and HMML's Malta Study Center: hmml.org/collections/malta