Guest blog post by Pranav Prakash on Rylands Persian MS 961: rylandscollections.com/2025/08/16/c...

#Fustat #papyri #conservation blogs.loc.gov/preservation...

#Papuan tribes refuse return of ritual skulls from a Netherlands museum. culturalpropertynews.org/papuan-tribe...

Our art trip this weekend was to Dulwich Picture Gallery for the “Beyond Ravillious” exhibition of the work of Tirzah Garwood. It is excellent and rightly popular. Garwood was a painter, did wood engraving, embroidery, marbled paper and wallpaper design, and collage before and after WW2.

My latest cartoon for @newscientist.bsky.social

RIP Jagdish Mittal (1925–2025). Thank you for all that you shared. www.thehindu.com/entertainmen...

#OpenAcess #NewRelease Eighteenth-Century Indian Muraqqaʿs: Audiences – Artists – Patrons and Collectors Edited by Friederike Weis. With a contribution by yours truly on #Rylands Persian MS 10, an album commissioned by Swiss mercenary Antoine Polier for Sir William Jones. brill.com/display/titl...

#Rylands Persian MS 797, four books of ‘Attar in five volumes bound together. Unsigned and undated, but it bears seal impressions of Sultan Muhammad #Qutbshah with his tughra emblems.

This Thursday (with apologies to those of you in North America): www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/20...