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Margins speak

This blog is dedicated to Arabic marginal notes in Christian Arabic manuscripts as well as in manuscripts written in other languages—traces left over the centuries by scribes, readers, owners, and others whose hidden voices still speak from the margins

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Reversing a Curse, Blessing a Thief

In the quiet library of Saint Catherine’s Monastery at Sinai, Egypt rests a manuscript known as MS Sinai Arabic 441, which contains a collection of saints’ lives, homilies, and apocryphal works copied centuries…
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