Hilandar Research Library

Hilandar Research Library The Hilandar Research Library (HRL) has the largest collection of medieval Slavic manuscripts on microform in the world.

The Hilandar Research Library (HRL) is a Special Collection of The Ohio State University Libraries (Columbus, Ohio). The HRL's millions of pages of manuscript material on microform from more than 100 different private, museum, and library collections in dozens of countries are utilized by scholars from all over the world. The collection includes several thousand Cyrillic manuscripts on microform,

with over 1200 from several monasteries on Mount Athos, Greece, including the entire Slavic manuscript collection of Hilandar Monastery. The Hilandar Research Library also contains a large specialized reference collection, in print and in microform, as well as a growing collection of original manuscripts and artifacts from the medieval Slavic world. Located in the OSU Thompson Library, the HRL shares its space with the Resource Center for Medieval Slavic Studies (RCMSS). a center of the OSU College of Arts and Sciences.

The Early Slavic Studies Association (ESSA) is launching its lecture series!The inaugural speaker will be Valerie Kivels...
06/19/2026

The Early Slavic Studies Association (ESSA) is launching its lecture series!
The inaugural speaker will be Valerie Kivelson, professor emerita of history from the University of Michigan, who will deliver a talk titled "Rethinking 'the Political' in Muscovy: A Historiographic Provocation" on June 22 at 11:00am EST.

If you are interested, please register at https://essa-kivelson.eventbrite.com/
Lecture Series Host: Dr. Václav Algirdas Zheng (Johns Hopkins University)

https://www.athosfriends.org/the-2026-path-clearing-pilgrimage/
06/19/2026

https://www.athosfriends.org/the-2026-path-clearing-pilgrimage/

FoMA’s 2026 Path-Clearing Pilgrimage from 3 to 17 May was truly a “pilgrimage of superlatives.” It was the largest in FoMA’s history, with 48 participants total, 32 of which came for only the first or second week, and 16 staying both weeks. It was also the most diverse in terms of the nation...

06/10/2026

Manuscript descriptions from the complete 10-volume EMML print catalog are now represented and expanded upon in HMML Reading Room (vhmml.org), alongside digital images of the manuscripts.

The Ethiopian Manuscript Microfilm Library (EMML) contains photographs of more than 9,000 manuscripts microfilmed in Ethiopia from 1973 to 1994.

Cataloging of this collection began in Ethiopia under the direction of Dr. Sergew Hable Selassie and was continued at HMML by Dr. Getatchew Haile and Dr. William F. Macomber, who published a 10-volume print catalog describing 5,000 EMML manuscripts. In recent years, Ted Erho, Dr. Ralph Lee, and Dr. Jeremy R. Brown brought this catalog into the digital era.

Learn more: hmml.org/collections/news/new-update-cataloging-progress-on-the-ethiopian-manuscript-microfilm-library-emml

Pictured: a manuscript in the collection of Dabra Ṣeyon Māryām Monastery in Arsi Province, Ethiopia. View the full microfilm in HMML Reading Room (EMML 7602): vhmml.org/readingRoom/view/201129

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