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A Seventeenth-Century Maltese Quran and the ‘Friday mosque of the Muslims’

Michael Cooperson

Michael Cooperson investigates the Arabic text and English translation of the colophon of a Quran codex, copied by a Muslim slave in Malta in 1654

The Steeples and Domes of Floriana’s Major Churches (Part I): The Parish Church of St Publius

Kenneth Cauchi

In this two-part feature, Kenneth Cauchi reviews the turbulent history of the main ecclesiastical edifices that have shaped and characterised the skyline of Valletta’s suburb

Beryl A. Chapple: A British Artist in 1960s Malta

Theresa Vella

Theresa Vella pays homage to a remarkable artist whose work and time in Malta has largely been overlooked in local publications surveying the island’s modern and contemporary art scene

A Painting Brought from Rhodes:

The Conservation Journey of the Panel Painting of St Anthony of Padua at the Church of Our Lady of Victory, in Valletta

Lydia Pavia Dimech and Amy Sciberras

Carmelo Felice: The People’s Photographer

Kevin Casha

Photography historian Kevin Casha uncovers the story of a promising photographer at Paola and
Ħamrun from the early twentieth century onwards

The Abstracted Star:

Cremona’s Christmas Designs from the Collection of the Malta Postal Museum

Lara Bugeja

My Favourite Object

Albert S. Grech

From Our Digitisation Studio

Antonia Critien

In Memoriam: Albert Ganado (1924–2025)

Joseph Schirò

Mabel Strickland (1899–1988): Her Lasting Legacy

Victor Aquilina

The Cover

Charles Farrugia

Bookshelf

Mark-Anthony Falzon;
Matthew Robert Shirfield

Cultural Review

Cecilia Xuereb

Calendar Highlights

Antonia Critien

A subject index to the illustrations in Treasures of Malta, Vol. XXXI

Paul Xuereb and Antonia Critien

Index: Treasures of Malta, Vol. XXXI