Our colleagues arrive in Puducherry French Institute of Pondicherry (IFP) and EFEO today to start examining historical palm-leaf #manuscripts in our Container Lab. Our local partners have built a superb palm roof over it to protect it from the heat: It's now all set and stays there until late 2025

Our new #ArtefactoftheMonth is one of the numerous inscriptions that have survived in #Palmyra: a funerary relief that shows two prematurely deceased children. What were their names, and what do the inscriptions reveal about their lives? csmc.uni-hamburg.de/publications/a…

One of the most dangerous enemies of #manuscripts is dust: It provides nesting material for insects and is an incubator for mould spores. The new episode of our video series on #Nepalese manuscripts deals with appropriate cleaning measures. Full version: csmc.uni-hamburg.de/news/2024-07-2…

Wars are as old as mankind itself. But how old are #peace treaties? In the new episodes of her blog ‘#Mesopotamian Bulletins’, Cécile Michel looks, among others, at the earliest known documentes declaring peace, maps, and architectural plans in clay: csmc.uni-hamburg.de/news/2024-07-2…

From 2012-2019, our ‘Manuscript of the Month’ series (precursor of the #ArtefactoftheMonth) presented 72 unique, curious, sometimes puzzling, and always instructive written artefacts. The full MoM archive is now finally back online: csmc.uni-hamburg.de/publications/a… #ManuscriptMonday

The first part of our online edition of the Etymologicum Gudianum (a preliminary version covering the letter zeta) has just been released. 🚀 You’ll find a brief introduction with direct links to the desktop and mobile versions here: etymologika.uni-hamburg.de/en/resources/w….

Every written artefact is unique, but only some are ‘#originals’. The new #openaccess volume of ‘manuscript cultures’ introduces the concept of ‘originators’ to capture the diverse ways in which people transform these artefacts into something special: csmc.uni-hamburg.de/publications/m…

We are dedicated to the FAIR and CARE principles for #research #data. Where possible, we make this data available #openaccess, like this dataset of an enveloped cuneiform tablet (2nd millennium BCE), analysed with our mobile CT scanner ENCI Musée du Louvre: fdr.uni-hamburg.de/record/14776

In the new volume of our ‘Studies in Manuscript Cultures’ series, Jean-Pierre Drège tells the story of more than 2,000 years of #Chinese #Paper, from its myth-enshrouded beginnings to the present day: csmc.uni-hamburg.de/news/2024-08-1… #OpenAccess

Excited to announce the relaunch of our journal ‘manuscript cultures’ as peer-reviewed Diamond #OpenAccess journal, hosted by Hamburg University Press Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Hamburg! The first issue in the new format is now available and submissions of articles are welcome: journals.sub.uni-hamburg.de/hup4/mc/index

In our video series on #Nepalese #manuscripts, we explain the basics of how to protect and preserve these valuable objects. This new video shows how to wrap them in traditional lokta paper: csmc.uni-hamburg.de/news/2024-08-1…

Introducing our Artefact Profiling Guide, a tool for researchers who want to harness the potential of cutting-edge analytical methods for their work on #manuscripts. It compiles many years of experience of our #lab team in one resource for the first time: uhh.de/csmc-profiling…