To facilitate communication between researchers East and West, a team of experts at the CSMC and partner institutions has published a glossary providing Chinese translations of terms used in manuscriptology and related fields.

A team from the Mobile Lab returns today from a two-week field trip at the Gotha Research Library where they examined early Qur’anic manuscripts in the collection to shed new light on the history of these objects.

This spring, the Gotha Manuscript Talks, a series organised by the Gotha Research Library in cooperation with Konrad Hirschler at the CSMC, returns with lectures on four Wednesday evenings from 5 March to 7 May.