isl mss cat et al http://mblog.lib.umich.edu/~ekropf/ أهلا بكم في بلوج فهرسة المخطوطات الاسلامية en Copyright 2009 Thu, 16 Jul 2009 15:43:10 -0500 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.17 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss a lithograph among the mss! 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...

]]> http://mblog.lib.umich.edu/~ekropf/archives/2009/07/a_lithograph_am.html http://mblog.lib.umich.edu/~ekropf/archives/2009/07/a_lithograph_am.html Thu, 16 Jul 2009 15:43:10 -0500 a bit on...watermarks! 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.


]]> http://mblog.lib.umich.edu/~ekropf/archives/2009/06/watermarks.html http://mblog.lib.umich.edu/~ekropf/archives/2009/06/watermarks.html Fri, 12 Jun 2009 13:16:30 -0500 much ado about islamicate codicology and paleography 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.

]]> http://mblog.lib.umich.edu/~ekropf/archives/2009/05/much_ado_about.html http://mblog.lib.umich.edu/~ekropf/archives/2009/05/much_ado_about.html Sun, 10 May 2009 19:01:25 -0500 Digitized card-format handlist 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

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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.

]]> http://mblog.lib.umich.edu/~ekropf/archives/2009/03/isl_mss_cat_res.html http://mblog.lib.umich.edu/~ekropf/archives/2009/03/isl_mss_cat_res.html Mon, 30 Mar 2009 08:27:36 -0500 For posting on matters of interest to Isl MSS Cat More to come!


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

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