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This is Vai, a Mande language spoken in Liberia and Sierra Leone. The Vai syllabary - arguably the most successful of all indigenous West African script systems - was created in th...
There were no Ukrainian troops establishing bases or operating weapons systems in residential areas of Bucha, how did that work out? https://t.co/nGDsO3un36
I've just accessed & read this @Morgenbladet article - it's another crude anti-Schøyen hatchet job by Håkon Roland. Not a shred of actual evidence is produced to justify overriding...
Just finished reading @DrJaninaRamirez's new "Femina" - I've no doubt its destined to become - deservedly - a modern classic. A model for what a work of popular history should be:...
A LETTER-LOCK CHARTER Letterlocking is the act of folding and securing a written message (such as a letter) on parchment or paper, without requiring it to be contained in an envelo...
One of the great 'might have beens' of Anglo-Saxon scholarship: this was intended as the 29th & last volume of Rosenkilde & Bagger's great series Early English Manuscripts in Facsi...
"From Arachnophobia to Arachnophilia" is a new artist's book by the Berlin-based conceptual artist and theorist Tomás Saraceno, focused on the environmental impact of spiders and t...
This is the world's first commercially produced typewriter, the Malling-Hansen "Writing Ball", produced in Copenhagen, Denmark in 1867. https://t.co/pcoEUGQyUK
An exceptionally early Armenian Four Gospels manuscript, in Bolorgir & Erkat'agir scripts, written by the scribe Filip-Toros in 1224 AD. In the colophon, Filip Toros mentions ruler...
A wonderfully illuminated Armenian manuscript of the works of Pseudo-Dionysius, copied by the scribe Yohannes Baghishets’i, and illuminated by the brothers Barsegh and Yakob Sebast...
This story has received surprisingly little coverage so far. Glenn Horowitz, a very well known rare book & archives dealer, has appeared in court along with two others, accused of...
No they haven't thwarted anything, they have demonstrated their staggering unprofessionalism and inability to recognize the crudest of fakes. "Two more suspects were arrested in Ba...