Doodles by nineteenth-century students of Arabic at the École des jeunes de langues in Paris, added to the school's copy of Jacob Golius’s 1653 Lexicon Arabico-Latinum . BULAC, RES MON FOL 1

The essays of the special issue (edited by Asaph Ben-Tov, Jan Loop, and myself) are all open access, with contributions by Laura Hinrichsen, Chiara Petrolini, Asaph Ben-Tov, and Simon Mills brill.com/view/journal...

Looting and Learning: my essay with Jan Loop on the role of looted manuscripts & Muslim captives in the history of European Qur’anic studies, for a special issue of Erudition and the Republic of Letters, “The Turkish Wars and the Study of Islam in Early Modern Europe” brill.com/view/journal...

Consult a manuscript in the Augustinerlesesaal at the ÖNB, visit the Prunksaal next door, see the Vermeyen cartoons on the top floor of the KHM (easy to miss). Also, the collection of the Akademie der bildenden Künste.