Name the gap before naming the task.
An English catalogue description is not an English translation of a manuscript. A translation of a work is not automatically a translation of this witness.
What this selection actually establishes
All 36 selected entries identify catalogue leads and retain their source access labels. Their selected contents and relevant notes are visible here. We have not completed an English edition concordance for these 36 witnesses. The appropriate status is “not assessed,” rather than “untranslated.” A bibliography search and passage check must precede an absence claim.
A translation layer we can point to
HMML 00649 explicitly describes an interlinear Persian translation of the selected Qur’an passage, 83:32–85:8. SAV BMH 34118 describes Arabic and Persian glossing in a commentary. These are different kinds of evidence, and neither establishes a complete modern English edition of the object.
A passage-level translation check
- Identify the witness
Keep repository, shelfmark, HMML project number and permanent link together.
- Identify the surviving passage
Record the content title, folio or page, column and line where possible. Mark loss, damage and uncertain reading.
- Find the edition
Search the catalogue bibliography and specialist literature. Record the editor, year, language and exact witness used.
- Compare the coverage
Check whether the target passage is transcribed, translated, summarized, omitted or reconstructed. A book-level title cannot settle that coverage.
- Choose the remaining task
The need may be imaging, transcription, decipherment, collation, translation, rights clearance or access to an existing edition. Assign the actual task to the right specialist.
A bounded view of the access questions
These are counts of catalogue labels in our selected records, not a measurement of HMML’s entire collection or of untranslated works.
English translation coverage: not assessed at witness level for all 36 records. No worldwide translation percentage is calculated.
Choose urgent work by a demonstrable need
A strong candidate has a stable identifier, surviving readable text, lawful access and a documented missing target-language edition for a specified passage. Ask a qualified language specialist to confirm that need and review the work. A striking title or a search-engine miss is insufficient to establish an urgent untranslated discovery.
Catalogue credit and scope
Catalogue metadata from Hill Museum & Manuscript Library (HMML), vHMML Reading Room, CC BY 4.0. Babylon selected 36 records, selected relevant content items, removed formatting and reduced the fields. Original images are not included.
Six manuscript leads in each of six subjects. These are examples, not all HMML holdings or a ranked list. Source identifiers and access labels are retained. Translation coverage has not been reviewed at witness level. Babylon is independent of HMML and the repositories named here. The selection is reviewed on 5 November 2026; current conditions must be checked at the source.
Learning in the Light
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Read the learning principle ↗Follow the manuscript into its translation
Compare 58 witness assessments, named editions, surviving passages and the precise work still needed.
Follow the manuscript into its translation ↗