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The Hill Museum & Manuscript Library (HMML) photographs, catalogs, & provides access to manuscripts—partnering with more than 1,500 libraries worldwide to preserve & share handwritten history. Learn more: hmml.org
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Manuscripts tell stories of borders, upheaval, and resilience. On February 25 (11am CT), Dr. Josh Mugler shares ways that manuscripts bear witness to the consequences of partition and how we can reconnect what was thought to be lost.
RSVP for this free, virtual program: hmml.org/events
RSVP for this free, virtual program: hmml.org/events
The most famous #Weather event in Maltese history occurred in the first century CE, when a Mediterranean tempest sundered a ship carrying the Apostle Paul from Lebanon to Rome. The location of the shipwreck has been frequently contested. Learn more in a story by Dr. Daniel K. Gullo: bit.ly/48HtomX
Contesting Saint Paul’s Shipwreck
“The most famous weather event in Maltese history occurred in the first century CE when...”
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February 10, 2026 at 5:19 PM
The most famous #Weather event in Maltese history occurred in the first century CE, when a Mediterranean tempest sundered a ship carrying the Apostle Paul from Lebanon to Rome. The location of the shipwreck has been frequently contested. Learn more in a story by Dr. Daniel K. Gullo: bit.ly/48HtomX
February 23 is the deadline to apply for Intermediate Classical Armenian, a language and paleography course held from July 5–25, 2026, at HMML in Collegeville, Minnesota. All course fees, meals, and lodging are sponsored by @dumbartonoaks.bsky.social.
Apply: hmml.org/programs/intermediate-armenian
Apply: hmml.org/programs/intermediate-armenian
February 8, 2026 at 3:23 PM
February 23 is the deadline to apply for Intermediate Classical Armenian, a language and paleography course held from July 5–25, 2026, at HMML in Collegeville, Minnesota. All course fees, meals, and lodging are sponsored by @dumbartonoaks.bsky.social.
Apply: hmml.org/programs/intermediate-armenian
Apply: hmml.org/programs/intermediate-armenian
Dr. Ani Shahinian, cataloger of #Armenian manuscripts at HMML, generously answered five questions to share insights into her experiences working with Armenian manuscript collections.
Learn more: hmml.org/stories/meet-dr-ani-shahinian
Learn more: hmml.org/stories/meet-dr-ani-shahinian
February 6, 2026 at 3:29 PM
Dr. Ani Shahinian, cataloger of #Armenian manuscripts at HMML, generously answered five questions to share insights into her experiences working with Armenian manuscript collections.
Learn more: hmml.org/stories/meet-dr-ani-shahinian
Learn more: hmml.org/stories/meet-dr-ani-shahinian
Manuscripts tell stories of borders, upheaval, and resilience. On February 25 (11am CT), Dr. Josh Mugler shares ways that manuscripts bear witness to the consequences of partition and how we can reconnect what was thought to be lost.
RSVP for this free, virtual program: hmml.org/events
RSVP for this free, virtual program: hmml.org/events
February 3, 2026 at 3:37 PM
Manuscripts tell stories of borders, upheaval, and resilience. On February 25 (11am CT), Dr. Josh Mugler shares ways that manuscripts bear witness to the consequences of partition and how we can reconnect what was thought to be lost.
RSVP for this free, virtual program: hmml.org/events
RSVP for this free, virtual program: hmml.org/events
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Here's the @visithmml.bsky.social webinar from yesterday. It was especially interesting on the process of moving digital images from the field to tagged, backed up, and usable MS facsimiles, and on details of the photographic process in the question period at the end. youtu.be/CXR18p1M1sc?...
Winter Lecture Series: Building a Digital Library
YouTube video by Hill Museum & Manuscript Library
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January 29, 2026 at 9:16 PM
Here's the @visithmml.bsky.social webinar from yesterday. It was especially interesting on the process of moving digital images from the field to tagged, backed up, and usable MS facsimiles, and on details of the photographic process in the question period at the end. youtu.be/CXR18p1M1sc?...
We often think of book censorship as denying access to texts. Dr. Matthew Z. Heintzelman consider cases where censorship of information was used as a way to preserve access to books, altered to hide their affiliation with Martin Luther: hmml.org/stories/series-books-sandwiching-a-forbidden-text
Sandwiching a Forbidden Text
“The advent of the Protestant Reformation in the 16th century led to...”
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February 1, 2026 at 2:44 PM
We often think of book censorship as denying access to texts. Dr. Matthew Z. Heintzelman consider cases where censorship of information was used as a way to preserve access to books, altered to hide their affiliation with Martin Luther: hmml.org/stories/series-books-sandwiching-a-forbidden-text
Digitization & cataloging is complete for six manuscripts in the collection of the Naqshbandī Sufi lodge of Husni Numanagić (1853–1931) in Visoko, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Learn more: https://bit.ly/4sDva1A
#Libraries #Books #Manuscripts #History #BookSky #Reading
Learn more: https://bit.ly/4sDva1A
#Libraries #Books #Manuscripts #History #BookSky #Reading
January 30, 2026 at 2:55 PM
Digitization & cataloging is complete for six manuscripts in the collection of the Naqshbandī Sufi lodge of Husni Numanagić (1853–1931) in Visoko, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Learn more: https://bit.ly/4sDva1A
#Libraries #Books #Manuscripts #History #BookSky #Reading
Learn more: https://bit.ly/4sDva1A
#Libraries #Books #Manuscripts #History #BookSky #Reading
March 6 is the deadline to apply for Introduction to #Arabic #Manuscript Studies—a virtual, one-week intensive course held from June 22 to 26, 2026.
Apply today: hmml.org/programs/arabic-mss-studies
Apply today: hmml.org/programs/arabic-mss-studies
January 28, 2026 at 3:36 PM
March 6 is the deadline to apply for Introduction to #Arabic #Manuscript Studies—a virtual, one-week intensive course held from June 22 to 26, 2026.
Apply today: hmml.org/programs/arabic-mss-studies
Apply today: hmml.org/programs/arabic-mss-studies
Free, virtual program happening today at 11am (CT)! Registration: secure.hmml.org/a/winter-lec...
January 28, 2026 at 1:41 PM
Free, virtual program happening today at 11am (CT)! Registration: secure.hmml.org/a/winter-lec...
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Tomorrow, noon EST, @visithmml.bsky.social: "How do you preserve and share MSS? How do you start with a...physical book, transform it into carefully maintained digital images, and then provide free, round-the-clock access to it for anyone, anywhere in the world?"
secure.hmml.org/a/winter-lec...
secure.hmml.org/a/winter-lec...
Winter Lecture Series - "The Extraordinary, Ordinary Work of Building a Digital Library"
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January 27, 2026 at 7:07 PM
Tomorrow, noon EST, @visithmml.bsky.social: "How do you preserve and share MSS? How do you start with a...physical book, transform it into carefully maintained digital images, and then provide free, round-the-clock access to it for anyone, anywhere in the world?"
secure.hmml.org/a/winter-lec...
secure.hmml.org/a/winter-lec...
Digitization & cataloging is complete for one manuscript (CAB 00001) in the collection of the Chaldean Catholic Archdiocese of Baṣrah, Iraq: a book of funeral liturgies in Syriac, copied in 1883 CE.
Learn more: https://bit.ly/4hWpyL3
Learn more: https://bit.ly/4hWpyL3
January 26, 2026 at 3:05 PM
Digitization & cataloging is complete for one manuscript (CAB 00001) in the collection of the Chaldean Catholic Archdiocese of Baṣrah, Iraq: a book of funeral liturgies in Syriac, copied in 1883 CE.
Learn more: https://bit.ly/4hWpyL3
Learn more: https://bit.ly/4hWpyL3
From 1973 to 1994, the Ethiopian Manuscript Microfilm Library (EMML) project photographed 9,000+ manuscripts in Ethiopia. The microfilm copies sent to HMML are now fully available online—digitized over the past 20 years. Wayne Torborg tells the story behind this milestone: https://bit.ly/4bslCAH
January 23, 2026 at 2:54 PM
From 1973 to 1994, the Ethiopian Manuscript Microfilm Library (EMML) project photographed 9,000+ manuscripts in Ethiopia. The microfilm copies sent to HMML are now fully available online—digitized over the past 20 years. Wayne Torborg tells the story behind this milestone: https://bit.ly/4bslCAH
How do you transform a fragile book into carefully maintained digital images & provide free, round-the-clock access for anyone, anywhere in the world?
On January 28 at 11am (CT), join us for “The Extraordinary, Ordinary Work of Building a Digital Library,” a free, virtual program: hmml.org/events
On January 28 at 11am (CT), join us for “The Extraordinary, Ordinary Work of Building a Digital Library,” a free, virtual program: hmml.org/events
January 21, 2026 at 4:35 PM
How do you transform a fragile book into carefully maintained digital images & provide free, round-the-clock access for anyone, anywhere in the world?
On January 28 at 11am (CT), join us for “The Extraordinary, Ordinary Work of Building a Digital Library,” a free, virtual program: hmml.org/events
On January 28 at 11am (CT), join us for “The Extraordinary, Ordinary Work of Building a Digital Library,” a free, virtual program: hmml.org/events
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For those who don't already know, @visithmml.bsky.social has 168 digitized and freely accessible sixteenth-century registers from the Notarial Archives of Malta online! hmml.org/collections/... #earlymodern #skystorians
Notarial Archives of Malta: HMML Repository
Notarial Archives of Malta: HMML Repository
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January 15, 2026 at 9:15 PM
For those who don't already know, @visithmml.bsky.social has 168 digitized and freely accessible sixteenth-century registers from the Notarial Archives of Malta online! hmml.org/collections/... #earlymodern #skystorians
In most Bambara-speaking regions of West Africa, large-scale conversion to Islam occurred in the 19th century. Pharmacological traditions became fused with the Qur’anic medicine and a new genre of Qur’anic medical writings emerged: hmml.org/stories/series-medicine-medical-texts-from-timbuktu
Medical Texts From Timbuktu -- Local Pharmacological Remedies with Qur'anic Verses
“In West Africa knowledge of the Qur'an was often combined with local pharmacological traditions to...”
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January 19, 2026 at 2:32 PM
In most Bambara-speaking regions of West Africa, large-scale conversion to Islam occurred in the 19th century. Pharmacological traditions became fused with the Qur’anic medicine and a new genre of Qur’anic medical writings emerged: hmml.org/stories/series-medicine-medical-texts-from-timbuktu
Opening pages to a text for al-Isrāʼ wa-al-Miʻrāj, on the Prophet Muḥammad's night journey to Jerusalem & ascent into heaven. One of 1,307 manuscripts at Āl Budayrī Library in Jerusalem that are digitized, cataloged, & available in HMML Reading Room (vhmml.org).
(ABLJ 00498): https://bit.ly/4aFxBKP
(ABLJ 00498): https://bit.ly/4aFxBKP
January 16, 2026 at 3:27 PM
Opening pages to a text for al-Isrāʼ wa-al-Miʻrāj, on the Prophet Muḥammad's night journey to Jerusalem & ascent into heaven. One of 1,307 manuscripts at Āl Budayrī Library in Jerusalem that are digitized, cataloged, & available in HMML Reading Room (vhmml.org).
(ABLJ 00498): https://bit.ly/4aFxBKP
(ABLJ 00498): https://bit.ly/4aFxBKP
#Armenian manuscripts and #textiles share a visual and material grammar governing pattern and form, as the techniques of craftsmanship in each medium adapt to specific materials, traditions, and trade networks.
Learn more with Dr. Ani Shahinian: hmml.org/stories/series-textiles-woven-worlds
Learn more with Dr. Ani Shahinian: hmml.org/stories/series-textiles-woven-worlds
Woven Worlds: Patterns in Textiles, Manuscripts, and Monuments in Armenian Visual and Material Culture
“Armenian visual culture is represented in diverse materials that carry pattern, repetition, and memory...”
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January 14, 2026 at 3:05 PM
#Armenian manuscripts and #textiles share a visual and material grammar governing pattern and form, as the techniques of craftsmanship in each medium adapt to specific materials, traditions, and trade networks.
Learn more with Dr. Ani Shahinian: hmml.org/stories/series-textiles-woven-worlds
Learn more with Dr. Ani Shahinian: hmml.org/stories/series-textiles-woven-worlds
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If I didn't have an absolutely solid gold reason that means I can't, I would absolutely be applying for this (fully funded!) Introduction to Ge'ez course at the HMML in Minnesota this summer.
Happy “Learn a New Language” month! Sign up for Introduction to Ge’ez, a #Language and #Paleography course held in partnership with @dumbartonoaks.bsky.social, from July 5 to August 1, 2026, at HMML in Collegeville, Minnesota.
Deadline is February 23. Learn more: hmml.org/programs/intro-ge-ez
Deadline is February 23. Learn more: hmml.org/programs/intro-ge-ez
January 13, 2026 at 9:33 PM
If I didn't have an absolutely solid gold reason that means I can't, I would absolutely be applying for this (fully funded!) Introduction to Ge'ez course at the HMML in Minnesota this summer.
Many records of the Priory of England of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem were destroyed during the English Reformation, but several medieval parchments at the Museum of the Order of St. John in London are currently being digitized by HMML's Malta Study Center. Learn more: https://bit.ly/4qf7kHp
January 11, 2026 at 1:40 PM
Many records of the Priory of England of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem were destroyed during the English Reformation, but several medieval parchments at the Museum of the Order of St. John in London are currently being digitized by HMML's Malta Study Center. Learn more: https://bit.ly/4qf7kHp
February 23 is the deadline to apply for Introduction to Ge’ez, a #language and #paleography course held from July 5–August 1, 2026, at HMML in Collegeville, Minnesota. Course fees, meals, and lodging are generously sponsored by @dumbartonoaks.bsky.social.
Apply today: hmml.org/programs/intro-ge-ez
Apply today: hmml.org/programs/intro-ge-ez
January 9, 2026 at 2:34 PM
February 23 is the deadline to apply for Introduction to Ge’ez, a #language and #paleography course held from July 5–August 1, 2026, at HMML in Collegeville, Minnesota. Course fees, meals, and lodging are generously sponsored by @dumbartonoaks.bsky.social.
Apply today: hmml.org/programs/intro-ge-ez
Apply today: hmml.org/programs/intro-ge-ez
174 #Manuscripts in the #Library of the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Antioch in Damascus, Syria, are digitized, cataloged, and available online in HMML Reading Room (vhmml.org). Learn more: https://bit.ly/3MESnjD
Pictured (MARI 00024): https://bit.ly/4ahAtx9
Pictured (MARI 00024): https://bit.ly/4ahAtx9
January 7, 2026 at 2:54 PM
174 #Manuscripts in the #Library of the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Antioch in Damascus, Syria, are digitized, cataloged, and available online in HMML Reading Room (vhmml.org). Learn more: https://bit.ly/3MESnjD
Pictured (MARI 00024): https://bit.ly/4ahAtx9
Pictured (MARI 00024): https://bit.ly/4ahAtx9
#BookSky: this year’s Winter Lecture Series begins on January 28 at 11 a.m. (CT). Join HMML staff Wayne Torborg, Dr. Catherine Walsh, and John Meyerhofer as they discuss “The Extraordinary, Ordinary Work of Building a Digital Library.”
Register for this free, virtual program at hmml.org/events.
Register for this free, virtual program at hmml.org/events.
January 5, 2026 at 5:30 PM
#BookSky: this year’s Winter Lecture Series begins on January 28 at 11 a.m. (CT). Join HMML staff Wayne Torborg, Dr. Catherine Walsh, and John Meyerhofer as they discuss “The Extraordinary, Ordinary Work of Building a Digital Library.”
Register for this free, virtual program at hmml.org/events.
Register for this free, virtual program at hmml.org/events.
The winter issue of HMML Magazine is now available! Read a digital copy or sign up for a free subscription to the print edition: hmml.org/about/publications
Three covers celebrate the online availability (vhmml.org) of all Ethiopian Manuscript Microfilm Library (EMML) microfilms located at HMML .
Three covers celebrate the online availability (vhmml.org) of all Ethiopian Manuscript Microfilm Library (EMML) microfilms located at HMML .
January 2, 2026 at 1:53 PM
The winter issue of HMML Magazine is now available! Read a digital copy or sign up for a free subscription to the print edition: hmml.org/about/publications
Three covers celebrate the online availability (vhmml.org) of all Ethiopian Manuscript Microfilm Library (EMML) microfilms located at HMML .
Three covers celebrate the online availability (vhmml.org) of all Ethiopian Manuscript Microfilm Library (EMML) microfilms located at HMML .
There’s still time!
Celebrate 60 years of preserving and sharing manuscripts—join the $75,000 match. Every first-time or increased gift is matched, up to $25,000 for new donors and up to $50,000 for increases from existing donors.
Make your gift before midnight (December 31): hmml.org/give
Celebrate 60 years of preserving and sharing manuscripts—join the $75,000 match. Every first-time or increased gift is matched, up to $25,000 for new donors and up to $50,000 for increases from existing donors.
Make your gift before midnight (December 31): hmml.org/give
December 31, 2025 at 4:24 PM
There’s still time!
Celebrate 60 years of preserving and sharing manuscripts—join the $75,000 match. Every first-time or increased gift is matched, up to $25,000 for new donors and up to $50,000 for increases from existing donors.
Make your gift before midnight (December 31): hmml.org/give
Celebrate 60 years of preserving and sharing manuscripts—join the $75,000 match. Every first-time or increased gift is matched, up to $25,000 for new donors and up to $50,000 for increases from existing donors.
Make your gift before midnight (December 31): hmml.org/give
Applications are open for HMML’s Introduction to #Arabic Manuscript Studies.
This one-week intensive course will take place virtually, from June 22 to 26, 2026. Deadline is March 6.
Learn more: hmml.org/programs/arabic-mss-studies
This one-week intensive course will take place virtually, from June 22 to 26, 2026. Deadline is March 6.
Learn more: hmml.org/programs/arabic-mss-studies
December 30, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Applications are open for HMML’s Introduction to #Arabic Manuscript Studies.
This one-week intensive course will take place virtually, from June 22 to 26, 2026. Deadline is March 6.
Learn more: hmml.org/programs/arabic-mss-studies
This one-week intensive course will take place virtually, from June 22 to 26, 2026. Deadline is March 6.
Learn more: hmml.org/programs/arabic-mss-studies