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- Paleogenomic Studies of Written Artefacts of Different Origin
- Similarity Measurement of Visual Patterns in Written Artefacts
- History of Paper of Ethnic Groups in Southwest China and Mainland Southeast Asia
- Towards a Comprehensive Approach to the Study of South Indian Palm-Leaf Manuscripts
- Reading Closed Cuneiform Tablets Using High-Resolution Computed Tomography
- Mass Spectrometric Proteome Analysis of Written Artefacts
- A Mobile Container Laboratory for Worldwide Use
- Multiscale materials characterisation as a function of processing methods for novel and ancient writing surfaces
- Painting the Ancient World
- Measurements of Paper Components
- Recovery of Writing in Large Collections
- Generative AI for Revealing Palimpsests
- Inscribing Spaces
- Image, Script, and Death
- Bronze, Text, and State
- The Materiality of Ancient Curse Inscriptions
- Textual Negotiations of Sacred Power on Medieval Liturgical Artefacts
- Perception and perceptibility of dedicatory building inscriptions in Hellenistic and early imperial Asia Minor
- The Long Journey to the Underworld
- Creating Originals
- Valuating Handwriting in East Asia in the Digital Age
- Creating Music Albums as Originals Made of Originals
- The Power of Originals
- Flowers for Tamil Gods
- Books as Social Artefacts in Early 19th-Century Damascus
- Sheep’s Liver as Written Artifact and the Oracle Lore
- Material Mediums of Cultural Exchange: The Transfer of Books by Iranian Migrants in India to Safavid Iran through Endowment
- (Re-)Shaping Written Artefacts
- Multilayered Manuscripts in the Transmission of Aristotle’s Organon
- Multilayered Writing in Hamburg Prompt Books and Playbooks since the 18th Century
- The Origins and Development of the English Queen’s Household and Wardrobe
- Performance Practice of Viennese Modernism
- Studying the Middle Persian/Pahlavi Documents from the Late Sasanian and Early Islamic Periods
- Archiving Artefacts
- Personal Record-Keeping Among Medieval Islamic Scholars
- Archiving Colonialism
- Hebrew Manuscripts in a Late Medieval Monastic Setting
- Reading the Scholarly Archive in the Pre-Ottoman Arabic Middle East
- Local Archives and Administrative Practices of Eastern Han China
- Traces of Polycentric Archival Practices in the Ḥaram al-Sharīf Corpus
- Archival Practices and Preservation Methods in Ethiopian Manuscript Tradition
- Copies as Mediation Devices
- Reconstructing the Library of Dabra Ḥayq ʾƎsṭifānos
- Archival Practices in Ancient Iraq
- Visualising Digitised German-Jewish Archives
- Data Linking
- Keeping Note(book)s
- Exploring Multilingual Written Artefacts
- The Cultural History of Uyghur Literacy in Light of Multilingual and Multiscriptual Manuscripts
- The Use of Grantha Script in Classical Tamil Manuscripts
- Textual History of the Bilingual Legal Phrasebook ki-ulutin-bi-šè | ana ittīšu | in time
- Prayer, Protection and Plant Medicine: West African Composite Manuscripts from the Wellcome Library
- Arabic Music Theory and Music in Manuscripts of the Latin Middle Ages
- Colophons in Lao Manuscripts from Luang Prabang
- Formatting Multigraphic Artefacts
- Situating Graffiti
- Selecting Materials
- Writing Supports in Arabic Documents of the Early Islamic Centuries
- From carbon to iron: Evolution of Greek inks from Hellenistic times to Late Antiquity
- Magical Written Artefacts in Late-Medieval German Instructional Literature
- What is in a Scribe’s Mind and Inkwell
- On the Path of Ioannes Rhosos’ Quill
- The Use of Parchment in Arabic Manuscripts of the Early Islamic Centuries
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- What is my Written Artefact made of?
- How does my WA change through time?
- Where does my WA come from?
- Can the damaged or hidden writing be made visible again?
- How can different writing initiatives be distinguished?
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