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Most of the Old Uighur texts are Buddhist, and almost all are translations from Indian languages, Chinese, Tocharian, Tibetan or Middle Iranian. Two particularly important and extensive texts from the pre-Classical period are Maitrisimit and Daśakarmapathāvadānamālā. The first deals with the life and work of the future Buddha Maitreya, the other – unique in Buddhist literary history – is ordered...

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Our international Winter School on Cuneiform Culture and the Akkadian language is taught by Cécile Michel, a renowned French assyriologist and principle investigator in research field E Archiving Artefacts. Cécile Michel became an honorary professor at UHH’s Faculty of Humanities in 2016 and received an honorary doctorate from Copenhagen University in 2017. This 1-week intensive introductory...

Organisers: Prof. Dr. Felix Heinzer, Prof. Dr. Andreas Haug

The late antique transmission and ‘translation’ (in the broadest sense) of ancient Greek intellectual heritage into the Latin West, further consolidated in the Carolingian period, played a seminal role in the constitution of European culture.

The goal of the interdisciplinary Hamburg workshop, hosted by Andreas Haug and Felix Heinzer...

Organisers: Prof. Dr. Jürgen Paul, Dr. David Durand-Guédy

Some autograph manuscripts were and are produced for the writer’s own use. Some of them stay in the personal sphere and were never meant to be perused by other people at all, others may also have a public life. Some of them were made according to the highly personal tastes of the writer and produced exactly to meet them, others responded...

Organiser: Dr. Iris Farkhondeh

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Organisers: Prof. Dr. Michael Friedrich, Dr. Agnieszka Helman-Ważny

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Assuming that ‘codicological units’ exist in whatever manuscript cultures and that they are composed of discrete elements, the issue of cohesion of these elements is a general and even universal one. Every manuscript culture has therefore developed physical devices to keep writing surfaces together and these devices can be generally categorized under binding. Like other features of manuscript...

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A workshop by the Cluster of Excellence "Understanding Written Artefacts"

In this workshop we will examine and interpret the traces of archives and archival practices that survive in extant documentary corpora from the pre-modern Islamicate world. We will bring together scholars working with original documents in various languages and scripts (Persian, Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic, Judaeo-Persian) to...