Duke Papyrus Collection – Provenance Statement and Report
Andrew Armacost, Nicholas Wagner, William Johnson, Jennifer Knust In a 2007 resolution the American Society of Papyrologists (ASP) placed into ...
ReJoyce 2022
To celebrate the 100-year anniversary of James Joyce’s Ulysses, MML Co-Director J. Andrew Armacost and recent Core Faculty Affiliate Helen Solterer have ...
Investigating the Kenneth Willis Clark Collection of Greek Manuscripts
Elizabeth Schrader will be investigating Greek MS 065, a New Testament Byzantine Gospel lectionary dated to the eleventh century. This ...
Humanities Unbounded: The “Invisible Lives” of Ethiopic (Ge’ez) Manuscripts
Professor Byron will examine the Rubenstein Library’s uncatalogued Ge’ez collection for Humanities Unbounded. She will be comparing the Rubenstein’s collection ...
MS 013: Leaf from a Commentary-Masora Hybrid Bible (Late Medieval Ashkenaz, 1 Sam 13.18–14.21)
Emerson researches the provenance and historical significance of biblical material in Duke’s Hebrew manuscripts collection (with Noam Sienna and Jonathan Homrighausen) ...
Investigating Duke’s Arabic Papyri
To this day, the Arabic language, and by extension, Arabic sources are often not given the same attention as their ...
Exploring Duke University and the University of Cologne’s Papyrus Collections
Sinja Küppers is studying the Duke Papyrus Collection and the Papyrus Collection of the University of Cologne, both of which ...
The Paper Chase: A Legal and Ethical Analysis of Manuscript Fragment Collecting in the United States
In 1995 Anthony Melnikas, a retired art history professor from the University of Ohio, pled guilty to criminal charges stemming ...
Re-used Papyrus, “On the flip side”
Michael Freeman’s project explores the use of re-used papyrus for Greek scribal training in Roman Egypt. He is studying several ...
The Motley Migrations of Duke’s Hebrew Manuscripts
In this project, Jonathan Homrighausen and Noam Sienna investigate the provenance and migration of Duke’s Hebrew manuscripts collection. We aim ...
Arabic MS 45: “Islamic Devotional Book”
Arif Erbil intends to follow the traces of the Arabic MS 45 entitled “Islamic devotional book.” In fact, at first ...
Bibliophilia, Orientalism, and the Making of Liberal Protestantism in the Manuscripts of George Ehlhardt at Duke University
Nathan Tilley, the head of this project, will examine the shifting meaning of George Brinkmann Ehlhardt’s manuscripts in the context ...