Mobile Lab2 July 2025|Mobile LabHow Archaeometric Philology Illuminates Early Qur’anic FragmentsPhoto: SUB HamburgBy integrating archaeometry and philology, four CSMC researchers are unlocking new possibilities in Qur’anic studies. In a recent publication, they...25 June 2025|Mobile LabCharting History: Documentary Follows the Mobile Lab to VeniceWhat untold stories lie within the very fabric of one of the world’s most famous maps? In early 2025, researchers from the Mobile Lab travelled to the...21 May 2025|Logbook: The CSMC BlogHamburg’s Red City Book in the Artefact LabPhoto: CSMCIt is an important piece of local Hamburg history: the Red City Book from the late 13th century is one of the key sources for understanding the city’s...16 April 2025|Mobile LabTracing the Provenance of Tibetan Bon ManuscriptsPhoto: CSMCThe Mobile Lab has returned from a measurement campaign at the University of Oslo Library. To open up new avenues for research into the materiality of...28 February 2025|Mobile LabCSMC Researchers Analyse Early Qur’anic Manuscripts in GothaPhoto: CSMCA 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...30 January 2025|Mobile LabThe Materiality of ForgeryPhoto: CSMCIn 2022, a plagiarism scandal involving the forensic scientist Matthias Graw caused a stir. Graw was accused of plagiarising his doctoral thesis from...16 January 2025|UHHTV Documentary Shows Investigations into the ‘Mummy Book’Photo: ORFA TV documentary spotlights the spectacular case of the ‘Mummy Book’ – the supposedly oldest codex fragment in the world, found in Graz in 2023. It...13 January 2025|Mobile LabMobile Lab Team Back from Italian JourneyPhoto: CSMCFor our Mobile Lab, the turn of the year 2024/2025 was marked by a tour de force through northern Italy. In changing formation, the team spent several...8 January 2025|UHHMysterious Damage: Valuable Manuscripts from Kairouan, Tunisia Analysed in HamburgPhoto: CSMCNumerous artefacts from one of the world’s most important collections of Islamic manuscripts are affected by an unusual form of degradation. In late...3 December 2024|Logbook: The CSMC BlogResearchers from Bangalore Visit the CSMCPhoto: CSMCTo clarify the provenance of historical palm-leaf manuscripts in India, CSMC researchers are working with the National Institute for Advanced Studies...Show all news
