A new study uses digital tools to analyze nearly 1,000 Syriac manuscripts from the British Library, focusing on how scribes and editors selected and rearranged parts of texts—a practice known as ...

The hidden text is a fragment of the Old Syriac version of the Gospels, dating back to approximately the sixth century. This makes it one of only four known manuscripts containing parts of the Old ...

An image of a folio (a page) from a 9th century CE Syriac manuscript from the British Library, providing a good example of the practice of excerpting, one of the non-authorial literary practices ...