isl mss cat et al 2009-07-16T23:05:44Z أهلا بكم في بلوج فهرسة المخطوطات الاسلامية tag:mblog.lib.umich.edu,2009:/~ekropf/6937 Movable Type Copyright (c) 2009, ekropf a lithograph among the mss! 2009-07-16T23:05:44Z 2009-07-16T20:43:10Z tag:mblog.lib.umich.edu,2009:/~ekropf/6937.51551 2009-07-16T20:43:10Z Last week i discovered a lithograph in our Islamic Manuscripts Collection! This book likely hails from Iran and the date in the colophon reads "الاربعاء تاسع شهر ذي الحجة الحرام سنة 1314" i.e., 11 May 1897. it's been a delight... ekropf web page ekropf@umich.edu Last week i discovered a lithograph in our Islamic Manuscripts Collection! This book likely hails from Iran and the date in the colophon reads "الاربعاء تاسع شهر ذي الحجة الحرام سنة 1314" i.e., 11 May 1897. it's been a delight to better acquaint myself with the ragingly successful lithographic printing work that coexisted alongside traditional manuscript production in Iran and India during the 19th century and early 20th century. Shcheglova's paper is an excellent introduction:

O.P. Scheglova, 'Lithograph versions of Persian manuscripts of Indian manufacture in the nineteenth century', in Manuscripta Orientalia 5/1 (1999), pp. 12-22

a digital copy is conveniently available for download from the Islamic manuscripts reference library on the Islamic manuscripts site which Dr. Jan Just Witkam moderates...

]]> a bit on...watermarks! 2009-08-22T19:49:36Z 2009-06-12T18:16:30Z tag:mblog.lib.umich.edu,2009:/~ekropf/6937.51069 2009-06-12T18:16:30Z digitally revealed online: Piccard watermark collection (Wasserzeichen of Gerhard Piccard) The Thomas L. Gravell Watermark Archive Les filigranes des papiers contenus dans les incunables strasbourgeois de la Bibliothèque impériale de Strasbourg. Par Paul Heitz. Strasbourg : J. H. E. Heitz,... ekropf web page ekropf@umich.edu digitally revealed online:

Piccard watermark collection
(Wasserzeichen of Gerhard Piccard)

The Thomas L. Gravell Watermark Archive

Les filigranes des papiers contenus dans les incunables strasbourgeois de la Bibliothèque impériale de Strasbourg.
Par Paul Heitz. Strasbourg : J. H. E. Heitz, 1903. "Un dernier fascicule donnera les filigranes contenant l’écu de Bâle."
also available via Hathi Trust Digital Library and Google books

Along with Charles-Moïse Briquet's album Les Filigranes and others.

And of course additional (and requisite) paper history excitement:

Bernstein: The memory of paper

and the International Association of Paper Historians, welcoming you to "fibre space"... ;)

Image from the aforementioned Heitz.


]]> much ado about islamicate codicology and paleography 2009-05-11T00:33:00Z 2009-05-11T00:01:25Z tag:mblog.lib.umich.edu,2009:/~ekropf/6937.50534 2009-05-11T00:01:25Z with excitement over next week's workshop: “Of making many books there was no end in medieval Islam” An Introduction to Manuscript Studies A five day workshop with Dr. Adam Gacek at the University of Michigan, May 11th-15th, 9:00am-4:30pm Sponsored by:... ekropf web page ekropf@umich.edu with excitement over next week's workshop:

“Of making many books there was no end in medieval Islam”
An Introduction to Manuscript Studies
A five day workshop with Dr. Adam Gacek at the University of Michigan, May 11th-15th, 9:00am-4:30pm

Sponsored by:
The Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies, the Department of the History of Art, the International Institute, and the Islamic Studies Initiative

With additional support from:
The Department of Near Eastern Studies, the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies, and the Middle Eastern and North African Studies Rackham Interactive Workshop

cheers and appreciations to Noah Gardner for his efforts coordinating the workshop.

]]> Digitized card-format handlist 2009-04-08T17:38:02Z 2009-04-08T17:22:33Z tag:mblog.lib.umich.edu,2009:/~ekropf/6937.50082 2009-04-08T17:22:33Z Maxim Romanov has created a digital copy of our card-format handlist, which should be accessible via the link below: Card-Format Handlist (pdf) شاكرين لطفك يا مكسيم :) شكراً جزيلاً... ekropf web page ekropf@umich.edu Maxim Romanov has created a digital copy of our card-format handlist, which should be accessible via the link below:

Card-Format Handlist (pdf)

شاكرين لطفك يا مكسيم :) شكراً جزيلاً

]]> Isl MSS Cat Resources 2009-05-28T20:39:08Z 2009-03-30T13:27:36Z tag:mblog.lib.umich.edu,2009:/~ekropf/6937.49882 2009-03-30T13:27:36Z Islamic Manuscripts Collection at UM Library Mirlyn Princeton Digital Library of Islamic Manuscripts Princeton University Library Main Catalog OCLC Bibliographic Formats and Standards Library of Congress Authorities Date conversion Arabic Cataloguing Manual - Romanization Sources Persian Cataloguing Manual - Guidelines... ekropf web page ekropf@umich.edu Islamic Manuscripts Collection at UM Library

Mirlyn

Princeton Digital Library of Islamic Manuscripts

Princeton University Library Main Catalog

OCLC Bibliographic Formats and Standards

Library of Congress Authorities

Date conversion

Arabic Cataloguing Manual - Romanization Sources

Persian Cataloguing Manual - Guidelines

ALA-LC Romanization Table, Arabic

ALA-LC Romanization Table, Persian

ALA-LC Romanization Table, Ottoman


Fragment from Isl. Ms. 162, Kufic (الخط الكوفي) Qurʾān fragments of 8-10th cent. with excerpt from Sūrat al-Nisāʾ, 87-88 ; Cataloging by Roberta Dougherty, et al, is available here.

]]> For posting on matters of interest to Isl MSS Cat 2009-04-08T18:10:31Z 2009-03-30T13:20:49Z tag:mblog.lib.umich.edu,2009:/~ekropf/6937.49881 2009-03-30T13:20:49Z More to come! Persian miniature, MSS source unknown, posted recently to the Adabiyat list for Middle Eastern Literary Traditions... ekropf web page ekropf@umich.edu More to come!


Persian miniature, MSS source unknown, posted recently to the Adabiyat list for Middle Eastern Literary Traditions

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