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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
Dr. Jeremy R. Brown, cataloger of Ethiopic manuscripts at HMML, will be presenting at the Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting in Boston, Massachusetts, on Monday, November 24, 9:30-10:00am.

#AARSBL25 #EthiopicBible #Ethiopic #Manuscripts #Presentations #History #Literature #Bibles
November 24, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Digitization & cataloging is complete for the manuscript collection of the #Armenian Catholicossate of Great House of Cilicia in Anṭilyās, #Lebanon. These 239 books form a comprehensive record of Armenian intellectual, artistic, & liturgical life from the 9th–19th centuries: https://bit.ly/4hSzPrA
November 21, 2025 at 3:33 PM
For 60 years, HMML has protected the world’s handwritten memory and made it freely accessible to all. Celebrate this milestone by joining HMML's 60th giving match: new donations and the increased portion of renewed gifts will be matched—up to $25,000.

Make a gift today: hmml.org/give
November 20, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Digitization & cataloging is complete for the #manuscript collection of the #Syriac Catholic Church, Archdiocese of Mosul, #Iraq, including the archive of the archdiocese from 1859 to 1922 CE (ASCM 00001) and a decree of Sultan Mahmud II (ASCM 00002, pictured).

Learn more: https://bit.ly/3LGUOBz
November 16, 2025 at 3:08 PM
HMML is seeking applicants for the position of "Advancement Data Manager," a full-time, benefits-eligible position. The location is hybrid, requiring three days per week on-site at HMML in Collegeville, Minnesota.

More information: https://bit.ly/43pTU2o

#NowHiring #LibraryJobs #LISjobs #GLAMjobs
November 11, 2025 at 7:55 PM
HMML is pleased to welcome Whitney Buccicone as our first-ever chief operating officer and to celebrate Dr. Audrey Thorstad's promotion to director of programming.

Learn more: hmml.org/stories/hmml-welcomes-new-coo-congratulates-promoted-director-of-programming/
November 10, 2025 at 5:00 PM
🧵(4) Creative photography solutions are key when digitizing such surprises.

Learn more about the manuscripts and artwork digitized by the Malta Study Center: hmml.org/collections/malta
November 4, 2025 at 3:09 PM
🧵(3) On another day, Daniel K. Gullo (director of HMML's Malta Study Center) and field staff were considering how to photograph of a volume of loose papers. They began to unfold a document that did not seem to have an end...and found a remarkable printed genealogy composed of multiple sheets.
November 4, 2025 at 3:08 PM
🧵(2) In the archives of the Priory of Pisa of the Order of Saint John of Jerusalem, the 19th-century inventory says "one volume," and when you see it in person, you notice that one becomes many.
November 4, 2025 at 3:07 PM
🧵(1) It's one thing to read an inventory and another to see the objects in person.

A few surprises were uncovered in a recent site visit to the digitization studio operated by HMML's Malta Study Center at the State Archive of Florence, Italy.
November 4, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Detail of an early 14th-century Dominican gradual with music for "Gaudeamus omnes in Domino," an introit for All Saints' Day. Learn more: vhmml.org/readingRoom/view/75505

A contemporary recording of the music can be heard from École grégorienne: youtu.be/LY_mUWD3xsA?si=hB32k0IpdvoqqOPY
November 1, 2025 at 1:25 PM
For National Cat Day in the U.S., we share the enthusiasm of Stanley Morison (pictured), the British typographer, scholar, & historian well known for his design of Times New Roman.

The photographer was Beatrice Warde, a scholar of #typography, teacher, & writer.

(AAP1224): https://bit.ly/3WEyScR
October 29, 2025 at 2:36 PM
"Still Life," a #lithograph by Wanda Gág (1893–1946).

Collection of Saint John's University, Collegeville, Minnesota. View this and other works by #Gág in HMML Museum (AAP0715): vhmml.org/museum/view/57
October 28, 2025 at 2:40 PM
On November 2, Dr. Sheila Barker takes us to Baroque Italy, where Artemisia Gentileschi—one of the most celebrated women painters of 17th-century Europe—measured her genius against the towering legacy of Michelangelo.

This free, in-person lecture will be recorded. RSVP: hmml.org/programs/events
October 26, 2025 at 1:20 PM
HMML is seeking applicants for the position of "Advancement Data Manager," a full-time, benefits-eligible position. The location is hybrid, requiring three days per week on-site at HMML in Collegeville, Minnesota.

More information: https://bit.ly/43pTU2o

#NowHiring #LibraryJobs #LISjobs #GLAMjobs
October 24, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Dr. Jeremy R. Brown, cataloger of Ethiopic #manuscripts at HMML, generously answered five questions to share insights into his experiences working with #Ethiopian manuscript collections: hmml.org/stories/meet-dr-jeremy-r-brown
October 22, 2025 at 8:00 PM
🧵(2) In 2004, HMML formed a partnership with the 84th Patriarch of Istanbul, Mesrob II Mutafyan (1956–2019), to preserve and share these manuscripts in digital form. HMML’s digitization studio operated from March 2005 to June 2009, completing the project with photographs of nearly 800 manuscripts.
October 15, 2025 at 3:09 PM
🧵(1) The extraordinary manuscripts held at the Armenian Patriarchate of Istanbul are a poignant testament to the survival of Armenian cultural & spiritual heritage in the aftermath of the Genocide in Ottoman Turkey during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Learn more: hmml.org/stories/witn...
October 15, 2025 at 3:08 PM
A collection of Urdu poems by Muṣḥafī (1750–1824), including a portrait of the author, is preserved in a manuscript digitized last year in the collection of Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed Research Library, New Delhi, India.

View each page in HMML Reading Room (FAARL 00032): vhmml.org/readingRoom/view/869605
October 12, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Step into the dramatic world of Baroque Italy, where Artemisia Gentileschi—one of the most celebrated women painters of 17th-century Europe—measured her genius against the towering legacy of Michelangelo.

This free, in-person lecture will be recorded. RSVP: https://hmml.org/programs/events/
October 7, 2025 at 1:30 PM
By October 15, apply for a fellowship to fund your visit to HMML in Collegeville, Minnesota, for research residencies to be completed between January 1 and June 30, 2026.

Learn more: hmml.org/research/fellowships
Application deadline: October 15
October 5, 2025 at 1:48 PM
🧵(6) The Arabic versions use the name Zayd, a common figure in Islamic tradition. For example, in OLM 00011, folio 38r (pictured): www.vhmml.org/readingRoom/...

Collection of the Lebanese Maronite Order in Kaslik, Lebanon.
September 29, 2025 at 2:17 PM
🧵(5) In place of philosophers’ names like Socrates, Plato, or Cicero, which appear at the roots of the Latin version of the tree, the Arabic Garshuni versions feature Christian names such as Peter, Paul, and John (OLM 00346, folios 11r–10v, pictured): www.vhmml.org/readingRoom/...
September 29, 2025 at 2:15 PM
🧵(4) OLM 01367 contains two different works on logic, each featuring its own depiction of the tree (for example, folios 18r–17v, pictured): www.vhmml.org/readingRoom/...
September 29, 2025 at 2:14 PM
🧵(2) By the Middle Ages, the Porphyrian Tree had become a part of philosophical and religious education (which is why it appears in many works on logic) and its influence extended to Arabic manuscripts.

Pictured (OLM 01367, folios 89r–88v): www.vhmml.org/readingRoom/...
September 29, 2025 at 2:11 PM