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Publications of DeLiCaTe members since 2022

Bonfiglio, Emilio (2023): review of Daniel King (ed.), The Syriac World. Abingdon: Routledge, 2019. In Journal of Byzantine Studies / Jahrbuch der Österreichischen Byzantinistik 73, 324-327. https://doi.org/10.1553/joeb73s317.

Bonfiglio, Emilio (2023), review of: Voicu, Sever J., ‘Le traduzioni patristiche dal greco in armeno: il caso di Severiano di Gabala’, Adamantius 25 (2019), 206-213, in Revue d’études augustiniennes et patristiques 69/1, 240-241. https://doi.org/10.1484/J.REA.5.137029

Bonfiglio, Emilio & Claudia Rapp (eds.) (2023): Armenia & Byzantium Without Borders. Mobility, Interactions, Responses, Armenian Texts and Studies 7. Leiden / Boston: Brill.https://brill.com/edcollbook/title/68168; https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004679313

Bonfiglio, Emilio (2023): “Armeno-Byzantine Studies in the 21st Century. Between Tradition and Turning Points”. In Emilio Bonfiglio, Claudia Rapp (eds.), Armenia and Byzantium without Borders. Mobility, Interaction, Responses, Armenian Texts and Studies 7. Leiden / Boston: Brill, 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004679313_002

Bonfiglio, Emilio (2023): “Representations of Armenia(s) and the Armenians in Late Antiquity: Theory and Praxis in the Writings of John Chrysostom”. In Emilio Bonfiglio, Claudia Rapp (eds.), Armenia and Byzantium without Borders. Mobility, Interaction, Responses, Armenian Texts and Studies 7. Leiden / Boston: Brill, 255-288. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004679313_011

Bonfiglio, Emilio (2022): “Theo Maarten van Lint: A Tetragonal Scholar”. In Federico Alpi, Robin Meyer, Irene Tinti, and David Zakarian (eds.), with the collaboration of Emilio Bonfiglio, Armenia through the Lens of Time: Multidisciplinary Studies in Honour of Theo Maarten van Lint, Armenian Texts and Studies 6. Leiden / Boston: Brill, xx-xlvi. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004527607_001

Bonfiglio, Emilio and Jonathan Stutz (2022): “The Arabic Translations of John Chrysostom: State of the Art and Methodology”. In Le Muséon 135/3–4, 417-450. https://doi.org/10.2143/MUS.135.3.3291202

Bonfiglio, Emilio (2025): “Uncovering Lost Armenian Texts: Schøyen Collection MS 575 and the Armenian Translation of John Chrysostom’s Commentary on the Psalms.” In Jost Gippert, José Maksimczuk, Hasmik Sargsyan (eds): Palimpsests and Related Phenomena across Languages and Cultures. Berlin / Boston: de Gruyter (Studies in Manuscript Cultures, 42), 351-380. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111552170-013.

Bonfiglio, Emilio (forthc.): ‘New Finds from Vienna: An Unknown Armenian Translation of John Chrysostom’s De Macabeis (hom. 1) [CPG 4354.1] Preserved in the Library of the Mekhitarist Fathers’. To appear in: Anahit Avagyan, Uta Koschmieder, Bálint Kovács, and Meliné Pehlivanian (eds), Festschrift Armenuhi Drost-Abgaryan, Internationale Werkstücke, Deutsch-Armenische Studien 3 (Halle: Universitätsverlag Halle-Wittenberg, forthcoming).

Dorfmann-Lazarev, Igor (2023): “The Udis’ Petition to Tsar Peter”. In Jost Gippert, Jasmine Dum-Tragut (eds.), Caucasian Albania. An International Handbook. Berlin / Boston: de Gruyter, 261-263. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110794687-006

Dorfmann-Lazarev, Igor (2023): “Between the Planes and the Mountains: the Albanian-Armenian Marches in the 12th Century and David of Gandzak (c. 1065–1140)”. In Jost Gippert, Jasmine Dum-Tragut (eds.), Caucasian Albania. An International Handbook. Berlin / Boston: de Gruyter, 537-570. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110794687-017

Dum-Tragut, Jasmine & Jost Gippert (2023): “Caucasian Albania in Medieval Armenian Sources (5th-13th Centuries)”. In Jost Gippert, Jasmine Dum-Tragut (eds.), Caucasian Albania. An International Handbook. Berlin / Boston: de Gruyter, 33-94. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110794687-002

Gippert, Jost (2022): “Old Georgian ‘Suffixaufnahme’ Revisited”. In Digital Kartvelology. The Bilingual Scientific Online Journal of the Academy for Digital Humanities 1, 120-142. https://adh.ge/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/9-Gippert_DiKa_V1.pdf

Gippert, Jost (2022): “Foreword / წინასიტყვაობა”. In Digital Kartvelology. The Bilingual Scientific Online Journal of the Academy for Digital Humanities 1, 5-6. https://adh.ge/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/kartvelologia-2022.pdf.

Gippert, Jost (2022): “Exploring Armenian Palimpsests with Multispectral and Transmissive Light Imaging”. In : Magaghat. https://www.magaghat.ai/articles/exploring-armenian-palimpsests-with-multispectral-and-transmissive-light-imaging 

Gippert, Jost (2023): “Another Khanmeti Palimpsest from Mount Sinai”. Mravaltavi 28, 20-35. https://doi.org/10.25592/uhhfdm.17333

Gippert, Jost & Jasmine Dum-Tragut (eds.) (2023): Caucasian Albania. An International Handbook. Berlin / Boston: de Gruyter (de Gruyter Reference). https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110794687

Gippert, Jost & Jasmine Dum-Tragut (2023): “Preface”. In Jost Gippert, Jasmine Dum-Tragut (eds.), Caucasian Albania. An International Handbook. Berlin / Boston: de Gruyter, v-ix. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110794687-201

Gippert, Jost (2023): “The Textual heritage of Caucasian Albanian”. In Jost Gippert, Jasmine Dum-Tragut (eds.), Caucasian Albania. An International Handbook. Berlin / Boston: de Gruyter, 95-166. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110794687-003

Gippert, Jost & Wolfgang Schulze (2023): “The Language of the Caucasian Albanians”. In Jost Gippert, Jasmine Dum-Tragut (eds.), Caucasian Albania. An International Handbook. Berlin / Boston: de Gruyter, 167-230. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110794687-004

Gippert, Jost (2023): “The Gate of Ganja”. In Jost Gippert, Jasmine Dum-Tragut (eds.), Caucasian Albania. An International Handbook. Berlin / Boston: de Gruyter, 571-580. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110794687-018

Gippert, Jost (2023): “General References”. In Jost Gippert, Jasmine Dum-Tragut (eds.), Caucasian Albania. An International Handbook. Berlin / Boston: de Gruyter, 611-674. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110794687-020

Gippert, Jost (2023): “Indexes”. In Jost Gippert, Jasmine Dum-Tragut (eds.), Caucasian Albania. An International Handbook. Berlin / Boston: de Gruyter, 675-735. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110794687-021

Gippert, Jost (2023): “New Light on the Caucasian Albanian Palimpsests of St. Catherine’s Monastery”. In Claudia Rapp, Giulia Rossetto, Jana Grusková, Grigory Kessel (eds), New Light on Old Manuscripts: Recent Advances in Palimpsest Studies. Vienna: Austrian Academy of Sciences Press, 187-215. https://doi.org/10.1553/978OEAW91575s187 

Gippert, Jost (2023): “Tracing Translation Models: the Case of Caucasian Albanian”. In Vladimir Agrigoroaei, Ileana Sasu (eds), Translation Automatisms in the Vernacular Texts of the Middle Ages and Early Modern Period (Biblia Vernacula, 1). Turnhout: Brepols, 97-107. https://doi.org/10.1484/M.BIBVER-EB.5.135176. 

Gippert, Jost (2023): “Hadrian the Coward. A Misunderstanding and Some Automatisms in the Translation from Greek into Georgian”. In Vladimir Agrigoroaei, Ileana Sasu (eds), Translation Automatisms in the Vernacular Texts of the Middle Ages and Early Modern Period  (Biblia Vernacula, 1). Turnhout: Brepols, 191-199. https://doi.org/10.1484/M.BIBVER-EB.5.135188.

Gippert, Jost (2023): "Iranian Lexical Material in the Caucasus. Part I. Albanian afre-pesown". Iran and the Caucasus 27, 435-448. https://brill.com/downloadpdf/view/journals/ic/27/4-5/article-p435_12.pdf; https://doi.org/10.1163/1573384X-02704012. 

Gippert, Jost (2023): "Old Georgian ‘Suffixaufnahme’ Revisited II.". In Digital Kartvelology. The Bilingual Scientific Online Journal of the Academy for Digital Humanities 2, 29-56. https://adh.ge/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Gippert_DiKa2.pdf; https://doi.org/10.62235/dk.2.2023.7466. 

Tandashvili, Manana & Gippert, Jost (2023): “Preface / წინასიტყვაობა”. In Digital Kartvelology. The Bilingual Scientific Online Journal of the Academy for Digital Humanities 2, V-XV. https://adh.ge/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Preface_DiKa2023.pdf.

Gippert, Jost (2024): “Iranian Lexical Material in the Caucasus. Part II. Armenian gerezman and Albanian garazman”. Iran and the Caucasus 28, 61-71. https://brill.com/downloadpdf/view/journals/ic/28/1/article-p61_5.pdf;  https://doi.org/10.1163/1573384x-02801005.

Gippert, Jost (2024): “A zoological riddle from Medieval Georgia”. In Florian Mühlfried (ed.), Languages and Cultures of the Caucasus. A Festschrift for Kevin Tuite (Folia Caucasica, 6). Wiesbaden: Reichert, 85-103.

Gippert, Jost (2024): “Written Artefacts from the Maldives: 1,500 Years of Mixing Languages and Scripts”. In Szilvia Szövegjártó, Marton Vér (eds), Exploring Multilingualism and Multiscriptism in Written Artefacts (Studies in Manuscript Cultures, 38). Berlin: de Gruyter, 13-40. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111380544-002.

Gippert, Jost (2024): “Ephrem the Minor’s Preface Revisited”. In Caroline Macé (ed.), Organising a Literary Corpus in the Middle Ages: The Corpus Nazianzenum and the Corpus Dionysiacum (Instrumenta Patristica et Mediaevalia, 96). Turnhout: Brepols, 585-597. https://doi.org/10.1484/M.IPM-EB.5.137803.

Gippert, Jost (2024): “Recovering Hidden Texts: Palimpsests of the Matenadaran and Their Disclosure”. Matenadaran. Medieval and Early Modern Armenian Studies (MEMAS) 1, 11-33. https://doi.org/10.1484/J.MEMAS.5.142259.

Gippert, Jost & Daniel Stökl Ben Ezra (2024): “Reading Georgian Manuscripts Automatically on the eScriptorium Platform”. Digital Kartvelology 3, 5-24. https://doi.org/10.62235/dk.3.2024.8508.

Gippert, Jost; José Maksimczuk & Hasmik Sargsyan (eds) (2025), Palimpsests and Related Phenomena across Languages and Cultures. Berlin / Boston: de Gruyter (Studies in Manuscript Cultures, 42).
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111552170.

Gippert, Jost (2025), “Removed and Rewritten: Palimpsests and related phenomena from a cross-cultural perspective”. In Jost Gippert, José Maksimczuk, Hasmik Sargsyan (eds): Palimpsests and Related Phenomena across Languages and Cultures. Berlin / Boston: de Gruyter (Studies in Manuscript Cultures, 42), 1-20. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111552170-001.

Gippert, Jost (2025): “Palimpsests from the Caucasus: Two Case Studies”. In Jost Gippert, José Maksimczuk, Hasmik Sargsyan (eds): Palimpsests and Related Phenomena across Languages and Cultures. Berlin / Boston: de Gruyter (Studies in Manuscript Cultures, 42), 253-281. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111552170-009.

Gippert, Jost (2025): “The role of Iran in the Islamicization of the Maldives”. In Andrew C. S. Peacock (ed.): Iran and Persianate Culture in the Indian Ocean World. London: Bloomsbury (BIPS - Studies in the History and Culture of the Persianate World), 137-151.

Gippert, Jost (forthc.): “Epigraphy of the Maldives (c. 6th-19th century CE)”. To appear in Kaja Harter-Uibopuu, Jochen Vennebusch, Ondřej Skrabal (eds.), Handbook of Comparative Epigraphy. Berlin / Boston: de Gruyter.

Gippert, Jost (forthc.): “Epigraphy of Caucasia”. To appear in Kaja Harter-Uibopuu, Jochen Vennebusch, Ondřej Skrabal (eds.), Handbook of Comparative Epigraphy. Berlin / Boston: de Gruyter.

Gippert, Jost (forthc.): “Copyists Coping with their Models. A Case Study from Mt Athos”. To appear in Eva Wilden (ed.), Criticism of the Variant. Hamburg: Academy of Sciences.

Gippert, Jost (forthc.): “A Georgian Double Palimpsest from Mount Athos”. To appear in the Proceedings of the 2nd international scientific conference “Georgian manuscript heritage”, Tbilisi, June 28–30, 2023. Tbilisi: National Centre of Manuscripts, 2025

Gippert, Jost (forthc.): “Towards Holistic Cataloguing: The Graz Collection of Georgian Manuscripts”. To appear in Mravaltavi 29, 2025.

Gippert, Jost (forthc.): “Between Hittite and Zazaki – the Case of Armenian vaš”. To appear in an-tu-uh-ši. In memoriam Heiner Eichner. Wiesbaden: Reichert.

Gippert, Jost (forthc.): “Textual Heritage Hidden and Obscured: Palimpsests from the Caucasus”. To appear in the Proceedings of the colloquium “Lost Texts”, Leuven, 24 September 2024.

Jampour, Mahdi; Mohammed, Hussein; Gippert, Jost (2024): “Enhancing the Readability of Palimpsests Using Generative Image Inpainting”, in: Modesto Castrillon-Santana, Maria De Marsico, Ana Fred (eds), Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Pattern Recognition Applications and Methods ICPRAM (February 24-26, 2024, in Rome, Italy), Volume 1, 687-694, Setúbal: Science and Technology Publications (Scitepress). https://www.scitepress.org/PublicationsDetail.aspx?ID=YO0UFKvpiRU=&t=1http://doi.org/10.5220/0012347100003654.

Kamarauli, Mariam (2022): “A Diachronic Analysis of Definiteness in Georgian Based on the GNC”. In: Proceedings of the international conference "LMT - Language and Modern Technologies 2022", Tbilisi, Georgia. https://www.uni-frankfurt.de/136031597; https://www.academia.edu/86403570; https://doi.org/10.25592/uhhfdm.16930.

Kamarauli, Mariam (2022): “Deciphering methods in the project ‘DeLiCaTe – the Development of Literacy in Caucasian Territories’”, in: Proceedings of the international conference “Humanities in digital societies - IV 2022”, Batumi, Georgia. https://www.uni-frankfurt.de/136031262; https://www.academia.edu/98830086; https://doi.org/10.25592/uhhfdm.16056.

Kamarauli, Mariam (2024): “Digital Methods of Comparative Manuscript Research: the Martyrdom of St Febronia”. Millennium. The Bilingual Scientific Online Journal of the Academy for Digital Humanities for young researchers 2, 44-65. https://doi.org/10.62235/mln.2.2024.7992.

Kamarauli, Mariam (2024): “The Oldest Georgian Witness of the Martyrdom of St Febronia”. In Jost Gippert, José Maksimczuk, Hasmik Sargsyan (eds): Palimpsests and Related Phenomena across Languages and Cultures. Berlin / Boston: de Gruyter (Studies in manuscript cultures, 42), 284-308. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111552170-010.

Kamarauli, Mariam (forthc.): “Towards a critical edition of the Martyrdom of St Febronia”. To appear in Mravaltavi, Vol. 30, Tbilisi, Georgia.

Kvirkvelia, Eka; Kamarauli, Mariam (forthc.): “A Preliminary Analysis of the Georgian Palimpsest Paris, BnF, géorg. 5 with Multispectral Imaging”. To appear in Mravaltavi 29. Tbilisi: Korneli Kekelidze Georgian National Center of Manuscripts.

Kvirkvelia, Eka; Kamarauli, Mariam (forthc.): “Further Insights into New Witnesses of the Jerusalem-Rite Lectionary Preserved in Georgian Palimpsests”. To appear in Proceedings of the 2nd international scientific conference “Georgian manuscript heritage”, Tbilisi, June 28-30, 2023. Tbilisi: Korneli Kekelidze Georgian National Center of Manuscripts.

Kvirkvelia, Eka (2024): “Kartuli ṗalimpsesṭebis ḳvlevis isṭoria: c̣arsuli da ac̣mq̇o / The History of Georgian Palimpsest Research: Past and Present”, Ivane Ǯavaxišvilis saxelobis Tbilisis Saxelmc̣ipo Universiṭeṭis Sakartvelos Isṭoriis Insṭiṭuṭis Šromebi / TSU Faculty of Humanities, Institute of Georgian History, Proceedings, 20, 373-394. https://doi.org/10.25592/uhhfdm.16936.

Kvirkvelia, Eka (2025): “New Witnesses of the Jerusalem-Rite Lectionary: Georgian Palimpsests Ivir. georg. 47 and Ivir. georg. 59”. In Jost Gippert, José Maksimczuk, Hasmik Sargsyan (eds): Palimpsests and Related Phenomena across Languages and Cultures. Berlin / Boston: de Gruyter (Studies in Manuscript Cultures, 42), 309-329. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111552170-011.

Kvirkvelia, Eka (forthc.): “Palimpsested Homiletics: New Witnesses of the Georgian Mravaltavi Tradition”. To appear in Mravaltavi 30, Tbilisi: Korneli Kekelidze Georgian National Center of Manuscripts.

Mohammed, Hussein, Mahdi Jampour & Jost Gippert (2025): “Inpainting with Generative AI: A Significant Step towards Automatically Deciphering Palimpsests”. In Palimpsests and Related Phenomena across Languages and Cultures. Berlin / Boston: de Gruyter (Studies in Manuscript Cultures, 42), 535-545. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111552170-019.

Sargsyan, Hasmik (2022): “The Forms of the Indefinite Article in Eastern Armenian: Pre-modern, Early and Colloquial Eastern Armenian Sources”. Armeniaca 1, 151–170. https://doi.org/10.30687/arm/9372-8175/2022/01/009.

Sargsyan, Hasmik (2025): “Linguistic Divergence in Armenian Bible and Lectionary Palimpsests”. In Jost Gippert, José Maksimczuk, Hasmik Sargsyan (eds.): Palimpsests and Related Phenomena across Languages and Cultures. Berlin / Boston: de Gruyter (Studies in Manuscript Cultures, 42), 331-350. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111552170-012.

Schulze, Wolfgang & Jost Gippert (2023): “Caucasian Albanian and Modern Udi”. In Jost Gippert, Jasmine Dum-Tragut (eds.), Caucasian Albania. An International Handbook. Berlin / Boston: de Gruyter, 231-260. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110794687-005